Evening Star Newspaper, October 24, 1926, Page 71

\ 1 will know it to bm a zyteptom of the first ailment. 1f e neezes, it's the second PART 3. -— 'THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. OCTOBER 21 1926— | 4 e et v MARKET BETTER ; Regardless of what the condition ts.| If the dog's eves water easily, vou | How to Slow the Wiper. Continent on Eve of Expan- some drivers think first of the horn as | If the windshield wiper works too Y o U 9 L L B E P n o U n sion in Auto Use, Pyke . a means of remedying it. There is a | |vlgomusl.\' there is too much suction Of That Car Refinished In Johnson Says. legal requirement to he met in the nse | ,applied to it. Use a smaller suction Middle-Grounders Are Held Up as Example for New Driver to Copy. Entertainment for Motor Car Owners. By WILLIAM ULLMAN. narily would let another pass is pro- | voked into accepting the recurring | blasts as a challenge. | “Car owners could profit hy realiz- | ng that it doesn’t pay to be an ex- tremist in driving. MOTORING IS HARMFUL TO DOGS, EXPERT SAYS| Inflammation of Eyes and Nose Often Results From Rides, Veterinary Holds. Keep your dog at home when you go automobila riding. He may seem to en- joy it and you may want to take him| along, but it shouldn't he done. Motoring is not good for dogs, ac- cording to one of the greatest authori tles in the University of Pennsylvania Veterinary School. ‘Riding on the run- ning board is especially bad. Joy rid- ing for dogs is supposed to cause con- | Junctivitis or what is known as {nflam- mation of the mucous membrane of the eve sacket. Rhinitis is another re. sult of taking the dog motoring. Rhini- ! ' A Weekly Department of Helpfulness, Information and \ U and lustily that the driver who ordi. | Making the Old Car New. of the horn, and drivers should try | tube—an elghth-inch _size—or pinch In Our Shops, Where the Craftsmanship that Comes always to use it intelligentiy. the tube being used. That will cut the Here is & homemade device to add Only With Years of Quality Refinishing to the old car, one that will make it qulite a8 modern as some of the latest equipment: Insert a two-way plug into the in. If we must have signs on the backs if a small, shapely ornament were of cars, why not something construc- | used instead of the conventional tive like: “If you like my driving, tell | heavy monogrammed meter. others; if not, shut up.” . How Abont Decelgration? take manifold in place of the small “Accelerates from 5 to 30 miles an |one-way plug that allows the vacuum hour in 10 seconds,” reads an auto jSuction pipe to tap the intake. Tap a advertisement. ' Very food, but what |hole in the engine breather tube and |about deceleration?” HOw many sec. | TP & b?fl" copper tube from the plug onds are required to bring the car|. ; reather tube. Then cap the from 30 miles an hour down to 52 reather tube with a cork. It is customary to think of stopping in terms of distances, whereas it may be more to the point to co{mh::r 1tin | © seconds. The time interval mucl 2! t0 do with the distance. for even if a |E48 vapor will be able io condense in car has poor brakes and does not stop : = 2 Saved somewhers | Ofl suspended in the vapor and sucked eftectively, a second saved somew! in through the intake will serve as an in the process is quite & bit of distance | ymective ofler for valves and upper BRYSSINA wel ton of a | SYlinder walls. 1f too much crankcase By conserving even a fraction of & | yapor gucks in the amount can be cut second, some drivers are able to get down by pinching the copper pipe four-wheel-brake results with two- | aiigit; wheel brakes. Drivers who have used 2 s, handbrakes in the past well remember What's the Answer? What is a_double-pole spark plug? the gain in deceleration distance wl;-n 1 peed the stoj . ;fi?,z,:’:f“' e e R DL 30 Wiithiwi 2 s ngehican s Gnvus Stopping is coming to be a matter | tional radiator be used as a condenser i of seconds more than of distance. Stop | f0f & steam cooling system? Middle-grounders, those individuals who make their way calmly and efficiently. through the tangled streams of traffic. are the tvpe for the new driver to copy. They do not apply their brakes with ferocity or attack the horn button with ex- cessive vigor. They are never far above the speed limit and never far below ft. It pays to be a middle-grounder in the matter of automobile operation. There are too many extremists driv- ing automoblles, in ' the opinion of Oscar Coolican, local Packard dealer, Wwho advocates the cause of the mid- dle-grounder. ““The extremist driver,” says Mr. Coolican, “is In a sense a wastrel. He wastes time and money. He goes too Vigorously at getting to an objective. He passes vour machine at a terrific clip in his desire to get downtown. A few minutes later you come up on even terms with him in the traffic stream, although when he passed he méy have been driving at 35 miles an hour, while you were doing the legal 22. In the meantime he has been risk- ing collisfon, driving jerkily and mak- | “The horn extremist blows so long suction and slow down the device. temperate Guarantees Excellence Engineers Have No Voice. One of the most amazing conditions in motordom at present is the lack of confidence most automobile manufac- turers seem to show in the capacity of their engineering departments. There is hardly a manufacturer in the coun- try who would make any radical change in his engine, transmission or clutch on the recommendation of the “‘house” engineers. These same manu- facturers, however, will go outside to small parts makers or to individual inventors for their real outstanding de- velopments. There are just a few exceptions to the rule. In most instances these are cases where the chief engineer is also a ranking official of the organization. Almost anything he suggests is adopt- ed. He even gets the company into difficulties with new models. Confidence has been further shat- tered by the complete defeat of the | Europe is standing on the threshold ©f great expansion in the use of the @utomobile as its tremendous utility in all forms of transportation is more widely realized. More roads, lower tariffs and reduced taxes are the Pprimary needs of motor transportation abroad. These are the salient facts in the report of Pvie loineon. secrstary of the United States official delegation to the Internaticnal Poad Congress re- cently hell in Mian, Italy. The delegation re'urned home last week after vislting England and the continent to study 1oad problems It was composed of American officials and representatives of the motor industry. The views of Mr.” Johnson are re- garded as a keen analysis of the Eu- Topean autom.bile situation, ba<ed " Don't Go Thru Another Winter upen close study of all factors that will Influence further use of motor transportation abread. They were submitted in his report to the Na- tional Automobile Chamber of Com- merce, of which he s the Washington representative. engineering department of one of the biggest manufacturing organizations in America, a department that is main- tained at a cost of a half million a year. On the advice of this depart- ment the manufacturer came out vig- orously against four-wheel brakes. It cost him several places in the race for watches on the braking technique of many drums probably would show the need for such a change. Mileage Not Best Test. M ge no longer is a true test of 3. Why doesn't a carbon-choked en- gine knock so badly when it is cold? 4. What is the difference between a shackle and a spring bolt? 5. What is the bead of a tire? (Think these over during the week and look for the answers in this de- ing himself a nuisance. “The trouble with the extremist is that he isn't efficient. If he were, he could tell that under congested traffic conditions one cannot with safety make much better time than the legal speed limit, regardless of the tremen- { |Stromberg Carburetor| Without a On Your Car CREEL BROS. The Acme Auto po and Body Co. PIONEER REFINISHERS DUPONT DUCO Frank W. Sigourney, General Manager 1415 to 1421 Irving St. N. W. Columbia 5276 Winter Enclosures—Cars Rebuilt—Tops, Curtains, Ete. partment next Sunday. You may be a car's endurance, and probably it p 3 is| wrong) never was. To say that one car is more deserving of reécognition because it gave 10,000 miles more of service than another may be sheer nonsense. Long ago intelligent persons came to appreciate that the service of cars ia better determined by what they have done rather than the number of years they have been in uss ané the number of miles they have traveled. Distributors production and weakened the public's 1811-17 14th St. N.W. confidence in his engineering policies. The whole department and the man facturer since have admitted their mis. take. Perhaps the manufacturers are jus. tified in fighting "shy of their engi- neers’ recommendations for radical changes. Some ingenious devices have been developed by the com- dous potential speed of his car. Auto Out of Luxury Class. “A great many motorists, any ob- Among the points developed by Mr. Johnson is the fact that public de. mand is removing the automobile from the luxury class, with the result that there will be a wider popular support for measmes helptul to mo- tor transport. There is an increasing tendency on the continant for persons to drive their own rars, doing away (Conyright. 1926.) Pot. 473 Wwith the expense of chauffeurs. In spite of the siowness of financal recovery in Europe, automobile sales this year have de exceptional strides. “In the Scandinavian countries,” Mr. Johnson says, “the American au- tomobile continues to ba the favorite which it always has been, and 90 per cant of the imported cars are being purchased from America. In the cen. tral European countries, like Austria and Germany, unfavorahle conditions have made for slower.sales in all mo- tor vehicles, and in the case of Ger many, the mo or manufacturers par ticularly are making every effort to £t things into a position to compete with the American product “The chief barriers to future sales of motor vehicles appear to be the need for ro:d development, and in £ome counirics for lower taxes. Every- where there is an active and growing effort for road betterment, and in some countries, notably England, France and Denmark, road programs are well under way. England Building Roads. “This is particularly true in Eng land. where many projects involving large expenditures have been under- taken. While the major purpose has been to alleviate unemployment, the results already have proved beneficial to the arterial transportation facilities in London. “The fact that the car has been locked upon as a luxury rather than a utility has made for high taxes in some countries. European makers are now heginning tn emphasize the fact that the retention of these levies can only result in Inwer returns to the treasury, since the number of users appreclably is curtailed as taxes in cre. “American cars are proving pepular in Czechoslovakia “Trade in England has suffered from the coal strike, which has been harmful to every branch of business there. “The French motor factories are very active, and the Paris show was particularly interesting as a world motor event. Display Well Timed. “More than a score of American motor companies exhibited in the French show. This show is particu- larly well timed for South American trade, and as it comes ahead of the Summer selling season south of the Equator. There was a large dealer very panies’ engineers, but the great strides in the advancement of motor cars are being taken. in the main, out- side the great automotive laboratories. American facto engineers did not create the sleeve-valve motor, hy- draulic brakes, effective air cleaners, chassis lubricating svstems, oil puri- fiers, oil rectifiers, balloon tires, cam and lever steering, vacuum tanks, steam cooling. vacuum gear shifting and a host of great inventions, sys- tems and devices. Looking Backward. In 1917 the averagze car cost $1,687. In 1916 13 per cent of the engines used the T-head principle. In 1915 the average tire size was 34x4. In 1914 1 per cent of the cars still used two-cylinder engines. In 1913 the average piston displace- ment of cars was 345, a high peak in history. In 1912 1 per ceht of the cars were powered by five-cylinder engines. In 1911 99 per cent of the cars had no starter as standard equipment. The remaining 1 per cent was equipped with air starters. In 1910 82 per cent of the cars car- ried four-cylinder engines. Ornaments Have Utility. Radiator ornaments are more than trills. By clever use of the proper ar- | ticle any car owner actually can im- prove the appearance of his car and even change the lines of the front. A car that does not seem long enough can be given the appearance of great- er length by the addition of an orna- ment that extends forward. Cars that are not heavy enough in appearance can be improved through using flat, wide wings, plus a radiator heat indi- cator. Many cars that are too cumber- ome looking would he more attractive representation at this event from all over the world. “With mass production in Italy, and the business growing in both France and England, there is every evidence that the manufacturers in those coun- tries will seek to maintain the present trade barriers. “Despite these barriers, the perform- ance of the American car, coupled with the economies of production in this country, will continue to be help- ful in getting America's share of the It would be interesting to know how many times the gears of a car are shifted during its life, how often its engine is cranked, how many times its brakes are applied and how often it is business. Dependable The greatest thing about a Ford is the way it keeps conditions. 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