Evening Star Newspaper, July 18, 1926, Page 55

SINPLICTY SOUGHT I FEADLIATAG Lamp Equipment Mu,sthe Made Less Complex, Siate Expert Declares, ‘When headlights are made simple} the problems that have brought ur- gent cries for solution from all parts of the country for several vears will be little more than 'an unpleasant memory. This is the opinion of Alfred W. Devine of the Massachusetts State registry of motor vehicles, who de- clared in an gddress to thé Soclety of Automotive Engineers that the first step toward the improvement of au- tomobile headlighting ~<onditions should be in correcting inferior lamp equipment. R developlnx this point Mr. De- vine sal ‘Common sense should be used in the design and construction of the lamp so that difficulties shall not be encountered in ordinary usage. Im- mediate attention should be given to two outstanding difficulties: the variation from designed optical char- acteristics by reason of improperly shaped reflectors and improperly lo- cated light sources, and, second, the . insecure mounting of head lamps. Design Real Problem. “The necessity for designing lamps #0 that they do not have an excessive- 1y high maximum beam intensity can- not be stressed too strongly. The maximum intensity should be near the top of the beam, and from this point, or zonme the Intensity of thi beam should shade off gradually with- out confusing contrast. “The strength of lamp mountings calls for the most serious considera- tion.. Lamp supporting brackets usu- ally are attached to’ the fender-sup- porting brackets, and weakness of the latter against twisting or bending stresses may render a properly de: signed lamp-supporting bracket use- less. Head lamps are many times subjected to a force of possibly 75 pounds, exerted by hand near the top of the lamp while cars are being pusheq about in garages and other places,’ and any part to or through which this force may be transmitted should be sufficiently strong to with- stand it without distortion. ““The difficuities that have thus far prevented the best results from the Errétiq‘: Drivers Place Terrific' Strain on Auto " Erratic drivers inflict terrific unhh- ment on thelr cars and would to try the following [‘cure’: Stand an_empty niilk bottle on the floor in the driving*compartment and make a note of the humber of times it falls over. Also -note when it fa:ls over and why: Jerky ' starting, ‘sudden: stopping, rough year shifting, too’ Hasty accel: sration and turning corners too fast will be found to upset the bottle more frequently than rough plaees. in the road. . MARYLAND REVOKES 279 DRIVING PERMITS 174 Motorists Lost . !.ieemes' fie- cause of Operating Oars While ‘Intoxicated. ' Violations ‘of . the .Maryland ‘auto- mobile laws have resulted in the revo- cation of 279 operators’ permits since January 1, according to .E. Austin Baughman, , commissloner of motor vehicles. i The reords show that drlvu' while under . the influence of Hquer caused the commissioner to revoke 174 licenses, while traffic court rec- ords indicate that 129 drivers were arrested during the. first five monthy of the vear for ‘operating thelr cars while Intoxicated.’ Of this total, 51 were found gullty and given sen- tences ranging from one .to six months in jaill. Approximately 50 per cent of this number, the records show, took appeals. In an®attempt ‘to check the in- creasing number of drunken drivers, most magistrates in' Maryland are meting out jall sentences instead of fines. Under the law a magistrate is authorized to give a sentence rang: ing from 30-days to one year in jail for the first offense and for second and subsequent offenses - from siy months’ to two years’ imprisonment. o e present system of headlighting are interior equipment supplied with. the automobile and improper use of the equipment by the car owner or opera- tor. Headlighting should be handled by the car builder as a safety matter and in such a way that further State n will be unnecessar: { \‘///3, /7,? " to tap the tight part’ until it loose: succeeding only In tightening it until b n A i It Is 2 longer method, but it 18 & tme | it preaks. Tapping saves the hreak gorous hammering is & good way |and money saver in m hruk a part that resists the|Sometimes it happens *: one is try-|and offers the opponunlxy to sense the The senaible thing to.do is!ing to loosen a thing WIOng wi istal Tap and Save Money: Public Bu 18 Mllhon Dollars’ Worth of New Lower-Pnced Lighter Six, Chrysler “60” " in First Sixty Days In the first dm following its inuoduedo::'e&u-udcwor- ing public eighteen ly éombination of these nmonhy features— has paid more than s{mmfl“,'ndm hoot; mlfihm ymet by vast- Thisovezwlielming evitable for never before : lingvalueas the newChryales ? ln other lmodllu - ] cighteco millionsof dollar for the unprecedented_sccelr Prarcind. 2y s it R Unfifledordeuformymmbm' more are being expanded y, easily ex- traordinary gas ceeding 22 miluto dupllm the engineering design, in ctrlkmg beauty of Chrysler dy- ln mfismmhlp. in tidalty of namic symmetry— Astonis| riding bility; dl:ie?ifetv of Chrysler four- test and inspection, and in all .characteristics of :'ependability and long life. brakes; W¢mmmdemdnu mmfiffi and scores of other superiorities. gnhe neuttaliur road levelm -ndw,toomyufllmu— Unitforunk, indnenewllduer Chrysler “60” you have the .auysler’Moddelba: Mean Mfla Per Hour YSLER ‘&ma; Mtus 1 Ask about :fi‘&m&::.‘u‘:-":’n& : bm-fisowmul 5t On London Street Is Held ‘Too Fasl’ Wu of cars being driven at s the raté of 78 miles an hour in the metropolitan distriet of TLon- don has aroused the ire of Sir Wil liam Joynson-Hicks, the home secretary, according to the Lon- don Dally Mail. In a-recent address Sir Willian said there was no reason why the workman of .Great Britain should not .be as prosperous as the workman of America and be able to own a car, which: would give him and his family a wonderful | new interest in lJife. But he thought, perhaps, the. ordinary Jimit of 20 miles an hour on open country ‘ronds was not very es- sential these days. “However, when you find, a- I found,” he said, “a man that- on one of the roads in nu ‘metropolitan district he had driven # car at 78 miles an hour and was g:uod by another ear coming up shind him, the police have got to take notice of it. It is not fair to the polfce; it is not fair to the meral public for any one to-drive ike that.” EASIEST. PARKING SPACE. Room to Be Found Next to Corner in Many Cases. ‘One, of ‘the handlest places to park & car' is usually the one most often .| pasked by. This is the space nearest the street intersection when you are Just turning into the street on which you desire to stop. You are so busy watching the traffic’as you turn and 80 interested in scanning the farther end of the street to see how parking conditions are that you completely. overlookthe space that is right at your radiator tip. Turn the corner slowly, keeping as near to the curb as possible. The chances are 10 to 1 that' you'll roll right into a parking space. Most motorists credit the long life of their car's axle to'its individual strength. That the springs play a tremendous part in preventing this type of accident generally is over- looked. Test Test SELDOM STOLENIN PAR Wraps Often Remain Untalulud,lq Unnmndod Cars—Fewer I- "' chines Than in U. 8. i Motor car ownédrs of the United States, who have their cars stolen the thousands each year, would the French capital a veritable automo- tive herven, Thett of an autemobile in Paris is an occurrence of such importance as to create quite a stir and no end of comment. There one goes away from his car leaving_it unlocked and un- attended. Quite a. number leave ‘wraps and other articles in motor cafs and return to find them untouched.i* In this country, however, autome- biles are thirty times as numerous as in France and motor ‘car thieves piy their trade with a much larger fiel® to thrive on, which may account par tially for the difference in conditions Leéaving a car unattended certainly is not advisable. & Lo y - IN REMOVING CARBON. When scraping out carbon do nef drain off all the water until the job is finished and the head has been put on again. Here is the reason: If some water is allowed to remai in the cylinder jackets it will cateh’ any particles of carbon that fall through the water passages. These will drain out. But if the jackets are dry, when the system is filled up again the particles of carbon may ba washed around into places whers they will tend to lodge. AUTO REPAIRING MAKES Flint, Hudson and Gardner SERVICE A SPECIALTY T. J. CAMFIELD Rear 1118 13th St. N.W. 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