Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1926, Page 66

CHOOSE TROUBLE EXITS ; NOW. MOTORIST IS URGED Sermon in 'l‘ln(*ut;%; Vl’l"ro-grmu for Autoi All Car Difficulties Should Be lade Object Lessons. "Select tiie nearest exit, new,” Pheater patron is advised by his pro- | it W gram, which adds: “In case of fire walk, don't run to it.” Briefly, there's a sermon f6r the car ®wner. To make it cl it might Pe paraphrused to r “Ralact the e ent of motor come. When know the It is engin experienced motorist The form may not vo osen the proper ex but By th driver knows undou wer, i siest and quicke: troubles before they arrive you obvious less tin case knows that form of m Many Go After Trouble Tt is car owne: sake of that when some One motorist as to disco Just to see engine so hanc stick b and the starter him to ope carburetor cranked the of cord to t ment the Jease the s 10 its gears The car « Hme periment of this rect the how he een started and prevent find the way lav should h b of chang very facing tl v way o In most #dble to An owne dam the starter g the car 50 times in that would be waste would run down the bat ot of gasoline and po: starter in event of an un backfire. All he has to do is to t other motorists” word it etarter gears sometimes L succes effc y that thati Let the owr stepped on the 1o find that t is no Not a feeble attempt of ne that r bu e ha oniy | ere sponse n-down the | oline. t way | v { the vacu i1t well the day garage, there could sught into Lk lkelihood that anything it with the ignition the spark plugs, the coil or B s points, however, troub! the starting | gine can be flooded | b too much choking. | rburetor can go dry overnight; nk, too, for that matte » engine has not been run for sev: 1 months the may be 1gh riir she ) to de the 'n_choke drippix 1soline the is i ha switch, the wiring first their proce The thr 1 er nple enou condition of engi has be carburetor no 1 the carburetor s excessively it is carburetor asoline a the is | and the choke 'AUTOMATIC GEARS battery power the et but simply the sensation of jammed | mears. Where the owner obliged | 1o press a starter pedal he will find | that the pedal does not el way down in the custom nner. | AIl this is simple enou yarticularly if it has happened in past and tor mem- orles tha forgotten. | are not Jars the Starter Loose. Now for the remedy. P car in h ith #witch “off, cends to rock forward. the v he steps back into | it ready to start in| the usual way. He has found the | roper exit. If one can get to it and | nows exuctly where it is, v small exit will do just as well as a large omobile horns these ¢ to blow, yet the rem atter of giving the tralized contr of the the driver n cnough contact. Most squeaks in sprines : he ends between the master the one next to it. Too ofte ri owners will go to the trouble of having | the springs taken apart or the sp wovers removed just to get at al uble that could be reached with | ort. ! thes, to throy Havin, .C verience in tro he r sta downgr: placed the high, switched on the ignitior oressed out the clutc 1 oasting. 1alf way down the hill s et in the clutch and pressed on accelerator. The engine started But she was not entirely out trouble. A little later she was obliged 1o stop the car to avold a colli When she stepped or wgain there was mno was there any when starter, shooting, howe she Cause Easily Found. A passing motorist was not ior “nding the simple yet entirel Yective way out. IHe raised the hood and “ound th: the throttle closed be- wond the idling point when the ac- celerator was not beingz used. The remedy was a matter of adjusting a et screw so that even when the ha gasoline control was all the way the throttle was still open far enough 10 keep the engine runni Many of the most perplexing trou- come to the motorist while he ess of backing the garage but the rather cramped qu engine, being coid. does mot permit of any “fine” driving. The opera s taken by surprise when a sluggish engine suddenly takes the gas and glves the car an unexpected lurch. Giving the motor a chance to warm up one's exit is better than one ac- eompanied by a loss of fenders. If the engine gives trouble In start- fng the safest exit is to be less per- sistent in the effort. There are very few cases where owners have suc eded in starting engines by sticl er-motor and _crankin: else usu ine becom indefinitely. g before the en When an engine wiil not start there | fs always some simple cause. Chief | a light one, : e {tive in bad weather depends to a in | ameng _these are such possihilities as dirty broaker points, flooding with Igapolins, Jack o gasoling or stale gas- tor float is s dry can be the carbure > prot It no gasoline | at is held « ank is dry cart m tank icklin uck tor. TH YE etor has lea ker Points. i t the up they are wrbure then is breaker as to appear to actually to adjust we for the t the f right, the ex motc ning them itacts if t be essing an It will pitted led. points it ne | excessive choking is | Wait and the u of matter of patience, engine will wait upon y | seconds with button pus the s | therefc )n and cor motor non sense, Select your FOR CAR TRIED OUT| Swedish Inventor’s Device Proves Successful—Self-Recording Speedometer Under Test. GOTHENBURG | Swede = yposed e two | inventions | The first contrivance is the per- sonal invention of Dr. Sven G. Wing quist. ctly how it i till a ¢ ts granted has been has hee spee of t is , i) device util- wd hy Alx':aulI"; bLox has losed motor mak ted out in traffic and 1z condition: shown to motor er where it has attracted great tion. By automatically throwing into | gear nore wheels ¢ > re | sistar ses and cor ; them out as the “load” g ves the driver free to w @ onty | ttle and | k of ac- pre teh | | under | cently been in kinds of veh senger bus, taxicab, freight truck and nd a pr > automobile. regular intervals the records of these five motor cars will be inspected by the police wear as well as hility offic determined. Chief "olice Haarleman of Stockhol nally interested maintain 11 in t utmost CLEANLINESS SIMPLE. Car Can Be Kept Looking Well if This Tip Is Followed. Keeping the car clean and attr extent upon keeping th equipment clean. A will scrateh the body. will leave streaks on the windows. Since grit and oll are bound to be picked up by the chamofs, it should be cleaned frequently. The be to let it soak in a bucket filled with soapy water. After it goes through the wringer it will be clean again. cleaning y chamois No betier indication of highway progress may be seen than the above view train. The photograph on the left shows Ute Pass, near Colorado Springs, Colo., as Ocean highw. traveled by th le, Colo., 200 mil STERDAY’S MOUNTAIN ¥ SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. ©. (Underwood & 1 housands of automobiles daily. Ou les away. t is to HEADLIGHT CONTROL NEEDED IN MOTORING Accurately Made Lamp Equipment Having Light Source or Filament Among Deteymining Factors. ing factors in the proper headlights consist of ac lamp equipment hav source or filament, and iwcement of the reflector in exactly the corre one another. This n drawn from ibed the rec the Soci ers in Detroit by L. C. Lamp Works the Gener at deaux of Indicate that the lamp must be located with a pre- plus or minus two milli- neters with respect to the focal point of the reflector and must be main- tained with that precision to secure e 1 ind illumination. This 1 not only of t anu p bulbs, but of the man- ss lamps in produ devices and re tests while that of the lens m ru »d maintain them so will produce accurate re- aker. from compared the flow utomobila ibution of one ving thot the lght ntrated into a mnarrow | corresponds to pouring deep vessel of small | 1 out as | shal- | eter, or it as e water wer ‘ AT Only tity of emitted a it minate and the intensity of the on that area are controllable great difference in the bheam of at produced by & very small acement of the light = source, either because of poorly constracted diar £ t 1 | greater for Product With L or tonation troubles in sion engines may find a remedv in cracked gasoline, according to J. B. Hill, chief research engineer of the Atlantic Refining Cc who re. cently delivered an address on non detonation fuels at the annual meet. of the Society of Automotive gineers in Detroft. It has been shown conclusively, he said, that cracked gasol ent cracking processe better from than uncracked gasoline from the same crude ofl and should have a is appreciably pounds before knocking occurs in the engine. - The petroleum industry has devoted considerable research and production effort toward solution of the knocking problem and is looking toward cracking as a possible means of producing fuels with a compres sion limit of 150 pounds. Owing to engine efficiency and fuel economy, there has been a growing Gemand for higher engine compres sions, said Mr. Hill, and several American cars are now being market- ed with a compression ratio of 5 to 1 and higher. But these higher com- pressions result in hard starting, rough running and other difficulties, which may be overcome, however, nd lead to a maximum economical compression ratio as high as 7 to 1. The real difficulfy is the tendency of motor fuel to detonate and the main problem is to produce a fuel that wilt CRACKED GAS SE FOR HIGH-COMPRESSION KNOCKS| ne from pres- | a detonation standpoint | corapression limit of about 85 to 90| the recent demand for | not detonate at the desired compres- | | sions. EN AS REMEDY New Process Motor Fuel Better From Detonation Standpoint, Research Engineer Says—Looking imit of 150 Pound So far as known, every miotor f { will detonate at some maximum com: jpression, but this maximum varies with the fuels. Benzol and alcohol will stand very high compression | without detonating and are blende with motor gasoline to increase the compression limit of the gasoline, but the supply of them is wholly inkde-| te and they are relatively high ced. It has been proved that the propos tions of the various classes of com- pounds produced by cracking depend upon the temperatures used in the process and other conditions, such pressure, hence it should be possibie to work out a process by which a maximum of these non-detonating compounds could be produced. 700,000,000 gallons 0,000,000 gallons, pou per cent, o cracked compression 000 gallons, a ed gasoline from Calif Gulf Coast crudes and had compression lmit. The remainder, constituting 48 per cent, was un- cracked gasoline from other crudes and had a compression limit of about 70 pounds. | The production of eracked gasoline is increasing much more rapidly | total production, and benzol produ {tion is also increasing very fast. If,| | therefore, cracking processes can & |improved to raise anti-knock property, engines of still higher com- { pression and efliciency can be us lamps or lack of proper adjustment AUTO 6EATHS INCREASE. | Fleven Killed in Baltimore Last Month—8 in January Last Year. continue to in- | 3 ording to orn of the acci- u e killed by auto- s in the city last month, two by ind four by railroads. In st year there were eight from automobile accidents, m a trolley car accident and two persons were killed by railro: Gy tective bureau anno mobile fatalities n B Joseph ventic en person b 160 we ) cars were stolen in Js 3 were recovered. CHANGING EXHAUST. Adjustment Alter Motor’s “Tune.” Whether an engine makes 2 pleas- Ing sound or is an annoyance depends largely on the shape and size of the exhatst pipe, particularly at the end. pipe, round to the end, makes aust sound ke a gatline-sun. pleasant is the exhaust wat is pinched at the end. It boat effect and a sound of of End of Pipe Willl (3hosts past must have Washington A Washington At »n held show there Many ol ew models fn the 1926 displays, but they were just so many reminders that many of tle pioneers had fallen by the wayside. The list of the cars that have passed on is impressive. Gone, but not forgotten, are: Apperson, American, Abbott-Detroit, Allen, Bergdoll, Briscoe Biddle, Co- lumbia, Cartercar, Chalmers, Duryea, CAUSE OF OVERHEATING. oreign Matter in Cooling System Likely to Clog Valve. automobiles of the stalked through the nditoriun when the of the ixth annual automobile any foreign matter, such as a piece of be avoided in cars that are equipped with thermostats. If anything of this sort lodges in the thermostat valve, the water mayv not circulate to the radiator when the engine reaches the proper temperature, thus causing the system to overheat. rushing gases. The best arrangement Is obtained by pinching the end of the exhaust pipe just a little. Try listen- Ing to exhausts and noting the sound resul‘ing from different shapes. STEERING MADE EASIER. Holding Wheel at Top Helps in Making Turn. | I} i i —and in | sping the 2 top. With the hands in this position a quicker, | sharper and easier turn can be made in either direction. A full right or left | turn can be made with one dn\\‘nwdrd| pull on the wheel by the hand on the | respective side. For ordinary driving it may be more comfortable to keep the hands on the bottom of the steer- ing wheel rim, but when tackling traf- fic or.a winding road the top of the wheel is best for top-notch steering. Boston Plans Wide Highways. Boston s planning an extensive sys. | tem to relieve tr congestion in the | busy downtown district. The plan is | to construct several main highways, 100 feet wide, to take care of the prin. cipal automobile traffic. Such a plan would cusy the W $50,000,000 ASEBONITE StrngS oaSick SoitWinds.&— Around the Gears M. Ebonite is so much better. It lasts longer, lubricates at all times, and costs no more. At dealers in five-pound cans, and service ststions from the Checkerboard pump only. ; } (ITS SHREDDED OIL ) another through courte: the leadership. dealing all these qualities The ? that if all Washington kn 1627-1629 14th St. N.W. AMERICAN BOSCH PRO IONS ¢REAR AXLES NOIL w.onns 8 1S BAYERSOI orotive Trade Assoct | Sediment in the cooling system or cork, rubber or rag, is particularly to Ghosts of Many Departed Automobiles Stalk Through Auditorium During how Dort, Durant, : ders, Fox, Grant, Ha |H. A. L., Handley-Knight, Tut ackson, Jeffrey, Knox, King Kelsey, Lozier, Libert Mitcheil, xwell Marion, Nutional, netic, Pope-Hartford, mer-Singer, Pullman, Pilot, Pathfinder, Rambler, Royal Tourist, Rubay, Roliin, R. & V. Knight, Stanley Steamer, Stoddard- Dayton, Selden, Sayers, 8. G. V Saxon, Scripps-Booth, Standard Eight, Simplex, Thomas, Templar, -Winton, Westcott, White end many, many others. GAS LINE CLOGGING. Running Dry on Road Often Leaves M. ¥, Flan- Hatfleld, Dregs in Vacuum Tank. After running out of gasoline and reaching home on an emergency sup- ply purchased along the road it is im portant to clean the strainer of the vacuum tank and the one at the hot- tom of the carburetor. In_ draining the main tank to the dregs the strain. ers are quite likely to become clogged. This means additional trouble if not attended to » In each industry some concerns naturally lead. One perhaps through honest dealings, sy, a third through good prices or service and so forth, but in order to lead, they must combine the above qualities in some degree. The greater the degree the bigger The Potomac Battery & Electric Company has striven with might and main to incorporate in all its and will continue to do so. ublic has responded nobly and we are sure ew what our regular custo- mers know, they would have all their battery and electrical needs attended to here. Potomac Battery and Electric Company Potomac 1809 OFFICIAL SERVICE: PRESTO-LITE BATTERIES, DUCTS, EISEMANN MAG- NETO, DELCO-KLAXON-REMY, DE’ JON EA HORN FEBRUARY 14, 1926—PART 8 TRAIL IS TODAY’S MOTCR ROAD showing side by side the diffcrence wrought by the years in one mountain is today, n_modern highway and part of the Pike's Peak Ocean-to- the right is the old trial in 1896, with a wagon train | uling silver boullion from the PASSENGER TRAFFIC BELIEVED STABLE Toads in 1925 Believed Indicative That Balance Has Been Found. The period of marked fluctuation of motor and railway passenger trans- port appears to have been replaced by one of stability, according to A. B. Barber, manager of the department of transportation and communication of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Pointing out that there was a marked decline in rallroad passenger traffic from 1920 to 1924, Mr. Barber states that the figures for 1925 show han a fraction of 1 per cent de- “The loss in passenger business due to motor competition, chiefly in_the short-haul business,” says Mr. Bar- ber, “appears to have almost reached an equilibrium with the long-haul service. = s growing recognition of ion of the tield between transportation. Many are gladly giving up le short-haul passen- #er busine: to the motor carriers or are installing bus service of their ow: or in some cases paral < have met the short 11 or branch line passenger traffic problem by the use of gasoline rail cars or mixed freight and passenger ns for local service In light traffic as. ey R PARKING ON HILLSIDE. Emergency Brake Should Be Used. Gears Won't Always Hold. Leaving ar in gear when park ing on a hill is not sufficlent protec- tion against having it coast away. Low compression in the cylinders will allow the weight of the car to turn over the engine. This occasional Jerking of the machine may be suffi- clent to force the shift lever into “neutral” Alwaye use the emergency brake, too, and point the wheels in | toward the curb. Great Highway Planued. ans being made for the com- uction a “three-fingered” na- tional highway te be known as the Great Southway. The highway would have sources at Detroit, Minneapolis and Omaha, passing through Chicugo and converging at Terre Haute, Ind., thence through Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama and Florida to its southern terminus at Key West. Less Than 1 Per Cent Loss by Rail- | SAFETY PARLEY TO WEIGH MANY TRAFFIC PROBLEMS Representatives From All Interested Bodies to Attend Meeting Here March 23 to 25—Governors Coming. “I'raftic problems of a farreaching nature will be considered at se of the Naticnal Conference on & and_Highway Safety, called to mee in Washington March 23, 24 and 2 according to announcement by secre tary of Commerce Hoover. | of a model reg Governors of States wera invited of title ac by President Coolidge to send delega- | ers act an tions rcpresenting their common-|and r wealths, and, in addition to these State | highw delegations, the conference Wil in-|prepar clude Federal, State and city officials, | representatives of railroad rallways, insurance companies, mobile menufacturers, wholesale retalers, organized labor, com and trade organization: torists, safety councils, women's and | rules welfare organizations, éngineers, edu- | plished cators and the public The first session of the confer was held in Washington December 15 emen and 16, 1924. At this confercnce there | motor vek were presented the reports of |1ts report special committees appointed b m and 1 retary Hoover to make a preliminary | gested fo survey of the vorlous phases of tions. traffic problem. The conference itself | 3 x resulted in a report dealing with leg Studies of Aecident islative, administrative and regula- | tt tory princlples, suggestions for co operative work and u program of fu- | ture activities neces to any na tional program for accident reduction Six Committees Named. ey Immediately after the conference ! te the Secretary of Commerce appointed | imp: six committees to carry on the work. | wh These are the committees on statis. | cidents tics, the committee on uniformity of | nec laws and regulations, the committee | mental on enforcement, the committes o causes of accidents, the committee metropolitan traffic facilitics and the committee on public relations. Thes committees have announced that they are now prepared to make their re | ports, which will come before the | coming national conference | The comn laws and re model miotor | Causes | zantz |© are lea Thie ‘The committee on statistics will pre-| preser | sent a picture of the situation s it is|co-c today, bringing its 1924 report up to! for copir date as of January 1, 1 It will] Rep state among other things that, while | made the rate of increase in street and high-| way accidents has been declining dur-| the ing the past two or three years, there | ben. has been a steady increase in total fu- | cism talities resulting from traffic accidents | and con and that only six cities in the United|in prepari COLOR HARMONIES IN CARS DEMANDED! Automobile Manufacturers Ad- | vised to Follow Trend of Cus- tomers’ Preferences. av 'AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERS SELECT FRENCH LICK Semi-Anr Springs June 1 to 4—More Than 1,000 to Att Automobile manufacturers who de sire to act on public demand should | follow the trend of c lor harmontes that have resulted In the finishing of automobile bodies tn bright colors in stead of the solid black and dark b finishes that have prevalled for many | years, H. Ledyard Towle of the E. L | american s du Pont de Nemours & Co. told|gineers, wi members of the Soclety of Automotive | “N&in Fngineers at its recent annual meet- | 25 ax | ing. | vtdea “Of all the thousands of colors and | tones to be had,” sald Mr. Towle, “the | Lion : color that is popular at the time should | | be used in plannine the color sc | | for new cars. What this color should | o be can be determined in plenty of tin for the manufacturer to reproduce the | THINKING SAVES TIRES. | Spri; meet m, more The soc most beautiful and fitting colors his cars by making a study of the| fashions in silks and other textile ma- | terials that come to the importing ien o " 3n houses in this ceuntry six months in :EXP'““’ ed Driver Finds Man advance of their being shown to the ! public. 3 “The sales appeal of color in automo-| 1 biles depends upon the relation of the | Uation colors to the body lines of the car and | Ing tF to the fashions and moods of the mo- |1zed ment. The juxtaposition of ona color {to another is of utmost impor By proper com and lines, which a | i should Le approached most it is possible to riake longer, lower or larger ti “An analysis of the types of buvers for the various car models is also im- portant. The brougham calls for additional touch of style that is not demanded In the business coupe. The | roadster is suitably finished in dashing | colors, while the family touring car, | coach and sedan may be more sedate.” %7707 Small Economies. ind the the tires keeping the pedal for f 7277, ht foot on The Traffic Signal Sets the Pace for Motor Traveling— Swift and Safe MOTOR FUEL SETS THE PACE FOR Quick Starting, Quick Getaway More Power, Greater Mileage Fill Your Tank Today PENN OIL COMPANY Rosslyn, Va. West 166 ‘.