Evening Star Newspaper, February 21, 1926, Page 57

MOTORIZED WORLD CAMPAIGN OBJECT Dnited States Body Invited to | Send Representative to § Congress in Australia. Motorization of the world, hitherto Wezarded as something of a dream, #ow has become the objective of an international campalgn sponsored by the world motor transport congress and in which the National Automo- bile Chamber of Commerce will have ax active part. The first definite step in this pro- @ram Is the invitation by the Aus trilla Motor Convention asking the Uliited States to send a representa- tive to the International Automobi’e Bhow in Melbourne, opening April 28. The question of car for every fumily,” the slogan of the present oampaign, will be discussed at this convention. Walton Schmidt, fleld Tepresentative of the Automobile Chamber of Commerce, has been ap- pointed as delegate. Other Countries Ask. Other countries which have usked representatives of the automobile in- dustry in the United States to join with them in this movement include C'uba, Austria, and most of the Eu- ropean and Latin-American coun- trios. arles Clifton. president of the Automobile Chamber, will name at ler st three men to carry on the work ouilined in this international effort. ‘Th.ese men will be liaison officers be- tween the motor groups in the difter- ent nations, taking to them the ex- : and information which the stry has accumulated in the United States and in turn gathering the experiences of forelgn tards and making them available taxation, legislation, garaging, fi ice, and sales and at the same time will v these subjects In conference h the authorities in Australla. {e will likewise visit Hawali, New Zealand, British Malay States, Bur- India, Cevlon, Persia, Syria, 2, and South Africa. ‘With all nations working toward goal of ‘a car for every family, | er than it sald Mr. s objective is much ¢ /s a few years ago, ‘lifton. ‘The automobile leaders, and in mony cases the government officials in most parts of the world, are alive to the fact that the spread of motor tr nsportation to the point whers evory family has a car is an ideal which will spell economic wellbeing ard fuller and more satisfying life for ths individual Business Not Salesmanship. “The automobile business has been ‘onnded not primarily on astute sales- menship, but on the fact that the car m:nisters to the universal human de- sire for Incrsasing the mobllity of 1nzn. The family here or abroad which lacks motor transportation is deorived of some possibilities of mod- ern_civilization. “This international movement recog- ives that the automobile is a demo- cratic institution; that it makes avail- tie national resources, creating wealth, 8o that the masses of the peo- ple can afford their own motor trans- norration. ‘We have had some experfence in he United States in the way of high - planning, taxation and servicing “hich may be helpful to other lands ard we are glad to place this informa- ton at thelr disposal. Expect Big Increase. “We expect to learn a great deal about the ways of our neighbors at-oad and we hope to see i tremen- deus increase in the manufacture, @.es and use of motor vehicles with. ou' respect to the country of origin, e concentrat. n: on the maximum service at the owest possible cost motor travel will in-rease and there will be more bust- ness for all. ‘Emphasis in this campaign will not be on trade bickering, but on the sp-ead of mutual enlightenment. We ars clad to accept these invitations “rom our neighbors to help in promot- in the idea and method of motor tronsportation. As motor transporta- len increases there will be business arough for all. Foreign manufac- u have invited us to visit their lonts and our factories opened their ‘eors to many visiting automobile nokers in the past yvear. ‘While much will be gained in the mutual exchange of manufacturing 214 merchandising methods, the chief function of this movement will be to encourage methods which will render motor transport as efficlent and inex. | THE SUNDAY MOTORIST THE BUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. U, FEBRUARY 21, 1926—PART 3. An Abridged Magazine for Car Owners. EDITED BY WHLLIAM ULLMAN Relieving the rubber situating b; rounding the corners on two wheels isn't s0 good. Looks Often ]ieceifing‘ Fifty motor cars trail over the mod- ern highway, each traveling thirty miles per hou! All have wheels that turn, engine shafts that revolve and speedometers that register a travel of thirty miles within the same pe- riod of time. And yet, odd as it may seem to those who have not consid- ered the matter before, the engines of some cars travel much farther than others. It's all in the gearing and the actual wheel size. Some .cArs are geared high, some low. Some wheels cover more ground per turn. Two cars were running side by side along a wide boulevard. They seemed to be running exactly alike. Yet under the hoods it was a different story. Every time the engine of one car revolved 100 time: the other revolved 65. A number of cars are geared .10 to 1 in “high.” ~Several are geared lower than 4 to 1. One of them, the Rolls-Royce, is geared 3.25 to 1. Putting the matter of engine speed other way, consider the varfation in results if two engines, geared dif- ferently, were driven at the same speed. If the gearing of one was 5 to 1 and the other 3 to 1 the former would propel the car to a given point in five hours. The other car would be_there two hours earlier. Run the engine of the 5 to 1 car at 2,500 revolutions per minute and the engine of the other at 1,500, and they will each reach a given point at the same time. Actual ratios are always altered by wheel size and tire inflation. If the rear tires are sagging the engine will have to turn over more revolutions per mile of travel than it would if the tires were “up” and the actual wheel was its normal size. Three Parking Pointers. Most of the difficulty in getting into parking spaces lies in moving the car too fast for the various opera- tions. Where a maximum of steer- ing is demanded the forward or back- ward movement of the car should be at_the lowest possible rate. While it is correct procedure to pull ahead of a parking space and then back Into it there are times when it is best to stop right beside the space until trafic behind has passed by. It may be the only way to prevent someone from stealing the space after one has started to back into it. A motorists never knows when drivers, front and back, will wedge him into a parking space, and the fact that such drivers violate local parking ordinances does not help mat- ters to any great extent when he 18 in a hurry to get away. The best safeguard against this sort of thing fs to allow the regulation space in front and in back of the car when- ever parking. The chances of having both cars, front and rear, depart and thelr spaces substituted by cars that are driven too close are relatively slight. the engine of Safety in Ignition Lock. Lately the opinfon has gained cre- dence that it doesn’t help to guard the car against thieves by using the ignl- tion lock. Several manufacturers have even gone so far as to elimi- nate the ignitlon lock altogether, Are they right? Recently two detectives and a_me- chanic struggled for nearly an hour to cut out the ignition lock of a stolen car. Two flashlights were pro- vided to assist the mechanic in ma- nipulating the wires under the dash. Still, he didn't succeed. Breaking the Puddles. It has been known for a long time that near the ends of the intake manifold, and sometimes just beyond the point of connection with the car- buretor, there are pockets in which puddles of liquid fuel collect when an engine is idling. Despite impor- tant changes in carburetion this fault is still found in millions of cars, and therefore efforts are being made to devise methods of breaking up the | puddies. One of the most effective | ways of doing this is to tap a hole {in the manifold directly under the | place where a puddie exists and then lattach a short tube in the shape of ) S. Because the end of the pipe {1s higher than the level of the liquld the gasoline cannot run out, but the {air sucked in breaks up the puddle and improves carburetion. i Ordering a Car Wash. When ordering a wash upon enter- | | dull hood. The usual custom is to| stop on the way in and mention the matter of the wash, whereupon the | garageman orders the car to be driven | right up on the washstand. The washer goes to work immediately, damaging the hood and radiator by pouring cold water on them while they are still hot. Avold this. Put the car in a space. Then on the way out stop, reconsider and tell the garageman to wash the car. The order can be put in such a way to convey the idea that the matter isn’t so pressing. ‘With the car in a stall and other cars coming in for washing the ga- rage man will be less inclined to rush the job. This gives the hood a chance to cool off. It Just Happens— That there are five popular V-eights In America. Something significant about the Roman numeral e would seem. That the lowest cars are the most expensive and the highest the cheap- est. That there are six sixes selling un- der $900. Now You Have It! (Answers to last week’s questions.) 1. The principal objection to the supercharger is its noise. In order to create a forced draft through the in- take at top engine speed It must be geared to run at a terrific rate. 2. Universal joints are used to con- nect the sections of the “drive line, which are not on a straight line from engine to rear axle in most cars. 3. A brake “shoe” is the actuating member of an internal expanding brake. A brake “band” is the actu- ating member of the external con- tracting type. Each carries brake lning. 4. Aside from quality and use, brake { lining wear is due largely to brake | bands not being concentric with the drums. The bands get out of round, causing the lining to wear excessive- ly at certain points, thus destroying it prematurely. 6. An exhaust pipe steams on & very cold day shortly after starting because of condensation in the pipe. ‘When the pipe starts to heat again the water in it steams off. (Copsright. 1926.) e HILS CUT OIL DILUTION. Frequent Climbing Burns Out Raw Gas in Crankcase. Oil rectifiers are wonderful acces- sories for engine efficiency, but the man who has not got one on his oar noed feel no jealousy for the owner of the more modern car. Every hill is a potential ofl rectifier. If the car 18 forced up a good, steep grade every few days much raw gasoline in the crankcase will be burned off. Hill climbing is an excellent remedy for crankcase dilution. Whenever the engine does not seem to be using the normal amount of ofl, that is the time to suspect excessive dilution. Head for & few hills and burn off the dilutent. The ol indicator will soon show the engine needs a quart or so of fresh oil. AUTHORIZED for Rep; and REFINISHING TOPS and ENCLOSURES Remember—the worst part of Winter is ahead ACME DUCO CORP. 1415-21 Irving St. N.W. Col. 5276 EXPLAINS AUTO'S ROLE IN PROGRESS . S. Jordan Says Advance Depends on Ton-Mile Trans- portation Cost. Every nation’s progress, in the last analysis, depends upon the ton-mile cost of transportation. This was the assertion of Edward 8. Jordan, presi- dent of the Jordan Motor Co., before the 1,200 members of the Soclety eof Automotive Engineers, who attended the annual diner of the society given | recently in New York. From ancient times until the pres- ent, Mr. Jordan declared, the eco- nomic, political and cultural progress of the leading nations has been in keeping with the progress in the re- duction in cost of transportation. As rapidly as the cost of delivering mer- chandise to its markets is reduced, he pointed out, the wage scale is in- creased, the standard of living raised and men are placed In a position to educate their children and to finance religious and cultural interests. Held Greatest Industry on Earth, The automotive industry is now the greatest on earth, because it is the fundamental of transportation and communication. Looking toward the future, Mr. Jordan,sald that no man in his wildest imagination can con- celve of the progress of which the | dustry {s capable, as no one has any idea of the extent of the demand for individual transportation. A possible tuture development that would be of vital importance to the Nation and to the world is the production of an aluminum alloy that will be lighter, cheaper and better than steel, he col tinued, and predicted that future com- mercial domination will depend upon the production of such a metal because of its close connection with cheaper transportation. With reference to the importance of the engineer in the industry, Mr. Jor- dan sald that the development of the automobile self-starter did more to in- crease sales of cars than had pres tically all of the salesmen in the in- dustry and that the man who devel. oped a set of tires that would travel 10,000 miles did more to jncrease sales of motor cars than a Host of adve: tising men. Of even more importance than the contributions of these indi- viduals, however, was the collective work done In standardizing the pro- duction of parts, because no man can compute the saving thus made for the American public in the cost of trans- portation. The most thrilling thing about the business, sald the speaker, 18 the saving of hundreds of millions of dollars effected by the engineers and the production men of the indus- try. Progress to Continue. C. F. Kettering, past president of the society and toastmaster at the dinner, epeaking of the continued ad- vancement of the dndustry, said that progress will continue until the engl- neers have utilized every phenom- enon of nature as nearly 100 per cent a8 the materials will permit. Thomas J. Litle, jr., chief engineer of the Lincoln division of the Ford Motor Cg., who was elected president of the society for 1926 at the dinner, expressed the view that the commer- clal supremacy of the industry de- vends largely upon the engineer, and said that he felt that much yet re- mains to be accomplished in the fm- provement of the power plant of the motor vehicle and hoped that the en- gineer and inventor would get to- gether for the purpose of achieving improvements, particularly in the mat- ter of conservation of power. THE OLD MECHANIC SAYS: I don't mind seein’ owners clean their cars on the outside, but I do wish some of 'em would carry the idea under the hood, too. I've never seen a clean engine yet that didn't save money for its owner. Dirt on the engine or on any part of the chassis hides trouble. There was £0 much grease und dirt on the steerin’ gear housin’ of one car that came in here I couldn’t see it was cracked. It was just a matter of luck the owner got as far as he did with- out havin’ trouble. Greasy engines always increase the fire hazard. Where a carburetor and the engine block are clean as a whis- tle there isn’t much for a stray back- fire flame to set afire. Dirt hides oll leakes, too. T re- member one crankcase that was so caked with olly dirt you wouldn't suspect the engine was losin’ quite a HOW TO START EASILY. Don’t Turn Ignition on Too Quickly When Engine Is Cold. If the engine gives a few sickly chugs when being cranked on a cold day the indications are that the igni- tion is switched on too soon. This is & common difficulty, and one that gen- erally precedes flooding an engine with gas. If the ignition is switched on before or stmultaneously with the operation of the starter-motor what little gas vapor Is built up and compressed in the cylinders during the first few turns is ignited and wasted because of the weakness of the early ignited charges. The engine will start quicker if cranked a little before the ignition is switched on. bit o' oil constantly. One of the crankcase bolts was missin’, so all the while the engine operated, oil was leakin’ out there. Instead of drippin’ straight down to the ground where the owner could see it, the ol was absorbed by the dirt and trav- eled all over the case until large wads of dirt und greass fell off only when he was drivin’. Pretty soon we're goin' to need en- gine cleaners, something clever that will keep dirt out of the engine com- partment. In the meantime owners could save a lot of money by cleanin’ under the hood as well as on top. There's one little hole on the side of the carburetor used on many cars that will stop she engine it clogged up. You probably know that dirt in the hole of the gasoline tank cap will also stop the vacuum system from workin’. KEEPING ENGINE WARM. Close Front of Radiator Before Stopping Car. In order to keep the engine as warm | as possible it 18 a good plan to close the front of the radiator before stop- ping the car und parking it. A little practice will tell the motorist how far he can figure on going with the radiu tor front closed without risking over. heating the cooling system. Usually the front can be closed with sufety several blocks before stopping. Color Not Test of Oil. Buying oll because it looks to be such a pure color is one of the ab. surdities of modern car ownership. Quailty counts. Even the ofl drained off the crankcase may be black and still be good. SIMPLIFYING PRIMING. Cotton Sopped In Gas in Petcock Substitute for Funnel. Where it fs necessary to prime i engine, and there is no funnel or other convenient means at hand for introducing the high-test gasoline fnte the cylinders through the peteocks, a little absorbent cotton can be used to good advantage. Dip this inte the gasoline and squeeze out all the few drops, then put the remainder into the petcock by pressing the cotton dr: = e Did You Know That— Luster can be added to laquer finisi or restored, by using a laquer-finisi. polish? It keeps the car cleaner to drive slower when the streets are wet? It is not necessary to retard tle spark when crenking an engine equipped with semi-automatic ad vance? ———— Die Production Quicker. One of the biggest items In all-steol Lody construction a few years ago was the manufacture of dies. Recent me chanical improvements have cut the time of production from nearly elght months to less than two months, MOTOR CO. Conveniently Located on Fourteenth Street RY POSSIBLE MOTOR W A MOST FLEXIBLE UNIT Put this" Velie Motor to ANY Test OOSE the meanest road, take the wheel and PROVE that there is a reserve of power beyond any ordinary need. You’ll notice it most in the pick-up. You'll incredible increase in speed—acceleration and leap from fifty to sixty miles an hour as readily as from forty to fifty. as possible for the general|ing = public arage a little tact will ing one the pangs of a 7777722272222 72722211277 It’s Here!! |2 ALL THIS WEEK =~ At all speeds note the absolute absence of vibration, a direct result of inbuilt features. It is not gained by complicated, outside bal- ancing or compensating attachments. No larger crankshaft is now found in any six cylinder car at any price. Enjoy the silence of the running motor. This is not duplicated except in cars selling for much larger prices This Velie quijet is due to a lubrication system which insulates even the most remote moving parts with a film of protecting oil Take nothing for granted—come and let us prove every statement. THE MYSTERY CAR? Now in our showrooms, the car that will have all Washington guess- ing It runs under its own power without a driver, It starts—it stops— it reverses in a manner that clearly demonstrates the flexibility, power and ease of control built into the new (?). Don't fail to see it—it’s edu- cational, interesting, and instructive. Valuable Prizes Will Be Awarded Valuable prizes will be awarded those who can tell approximately the number of miles the Mystery Car will run during this demonstration. On disply from 12 noon until 2 p.m., from 4 until 6, and from 7 until 9 only. Come on and join the fun—your chance of a prize is as good as the next one, S T Honry Bally. Velie Motors Corp. Moline, Minots Cers of faultiess and : . o S“Q'Ffi::: ffist;f; \"" ash13gto:1¥ghe Co. current e i e e e 1136 Connecticut Ave. sary luxury. i dges will bo J. Leo im Permans. Aute Faltor of Advertising Department of the Star. 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