Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1927, Page 67

~ SOLUTION OF TRUCK D . - PROBLEM SOUGHT Irresponsible Drivers Being Rapidly Driven From Highways. ‘Public interest is making no demand for regulation of the common carrier trucks of the Nation engaged in inter- state commerce, the highway trans- portation committee of the National Industrial Trafic League declares in a report based largely on testimony in hearings on the question which con- cluded in Washington late in October. The irresponsible truckman is rap 1dly being driven from the highways and iittle difficulty is experienced by shippers in effecting claim settlements where trucks are used, the report Shippers were aroused to this issue last Summer when the announcement was made that the Interstate Com- merce Commission would hold hear- ings on the possibility of bus and truck regulation and the relation of highway transport with the railroads. Findings Approved. The league meeting, which was at tended by several hundred traffic di rectors of manufacturing interests, ap- proved the following geven findings of the committee report 1. That the motor truck engaged in Interstate commerce furnishes a char- acter of service unobtainable via other transportation agencies—namely, abil ity to go anywhere at eny time, direct from the door of the seller to the door of the buyer without transfer, classi fication restrictions or packing re quirements. 2. That the motor truck enables the conduct of business with smaller re serve stocks than were forme eces sary, thereby reducing capital inves ments. 3. That the so-called fly-by-night or | irresponsible truckman is rapidly be. ing driven from the highways, and that while loss and other damage claims are not uncommon, little diffi- culty seems to be experienced in ef fecting settlements, 4. That there is no visible démand upon the part of the shipping public for the regulation of motor trucks en- gaged in interstate commerce. That those railroad representa- tives who testified favor regulation. Difference of Opinion. 6. That some owners or operators of husses or trucks favored regulation, although the number of witnesses so testifving represented a small percent- age of the whole, and a goodly num- ber of them seemed to be intrastate rather than interstate owners or op- erators. 7. That there appears to be con- siderable difference of opinion between those mentioned as favoring legisla- tion as to whether same should be ad- ministered by the Federal Govern- ment, the State government or a com- bination of the two. SAFETY COUNCIL WARNS CURTAINED CAR DRIVERS Autoists Urged to Leave Space for Hand Signals, Thus Avoid- ing Accidents. The Baitimore Safety Council has called attention to the ‘“seasonable danger” from driving curtained autos. Cold and rainy weather has caused the almost universal use of curtains on open cars, with the consequent ab- sence of the proper hand signals, offi- cials declare. It has resulted in sev- eral accidents. “Drivers who are using curtains,” #aid John H. Truett, director of the Bafety Council, “should have the prop- er opening to permit hand signaling, as left turns or sudden stops are not indicated to the traffic in the rear. The automatic light on the rear gives Wwarning to slow up. but it does not in dicate change of direction and should not be depended upon for this pur- pose.” SAFEGUARD RADIATOR. Anti-Freeze Solutions Soon Evapo- rate in Winter. ‘Winter is the season when water should be added to the radiator regu- larly. The usual custom is to pic ture Summer as the time for greater attention to this feature of motoring. In Winter the same anti-free solutions aporate with annoying celerity, and even where the proportion of anti- freeze is low, the chances are the river will forget to uncover the radia- r in time to prevent boiling and loss of radiator contents. LOOK TO YOUR BATTERIES. Control Plays Big Part in Satisfac- tory Car Service. Battery condition plays a tremen- dous_role in satisfactory car service at this time. Winter, at the same time, plays bavoc with the battery’s eondition unless the car owner is alert to the vagaries of the season. One way to aid this hard-working car unit js to glve the engine a few turns by hand before stepping on the starter. It will free moving parts from con gealed oil and grease, and the battery * will have a great deal less to do in ac tually starting the car. Did You Know— That there is no danger spreading pring leaves apart by driving a screwdriver between them, provided the body of the car has been jacked up in order to take the weight off the springs? Ordinary driving strains springs far more than would be pos. gible for the car owner to do when spreading the leaves apart That an excess of lubricant should be forced into the bearing of the engine fan now and then to drive _out any thin lubricant that may be Teady to leak and spray over the engine? A weak spring can be replaced in & hood clamp by unscrewing the han dle from the barrel of the clamp? Always repack with grease. 1f too much air is drawn from the crankcase and fed hack into the carburetor to ald in carrying off crankcase vapors, there is danger of creating & partial vacuum in the case? This allows an ex amount of exhaust vapor and raw line to work past the rings and pistons. The compression of an engine can pe lowered and knocking eliminated by inserting a gasket between the engine block and base? With thys arrangement the pistons travel upward quite so far. creases the piston displacement. arrangement s far more saisf than using two cylinder head gots, since a leak in the gasket be- fween block and base would not in terfere with the operation of the e "‘;'hnm it is harder to get a car in mption on a dirt road than on a mod ern smooth highway? i Canada is next to the Unite the number of cars in pro sum;fl""o population? New Zealand POnka third, there heing 13 persons to each registered car cannot This in- The $80,000,000 Is Lost Annually by ldling Automobile Motors A sum aggregating $80,000,000 annually is wasted by Americans through idling gasoline motors, and the same practice is, in addition, creating dangerous health cor tions in the larger cities. These as sertions recently were made before the American Congress of In dustry. In presenting this information be- fore the congress Prof. Alexander Silverman, head of the department of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania, predicted the appli cation in the near future of restric- tions in the large cit t the carbon monoxide evil, ¢ added that the time is near when inter city motor trucks will carry auxil fary elec motors to propel them through t 1 s LUMINOLS ROADS Highway Officials Declare Phosphorescent Materials Will Be Developed. Luminou: in a magazi prophesied recent by an nstructor article cent surfaces of roads. Whatever the aterial used, the highway at night ill glow softly over rany marvelous miles.” Night markings and warnings have given the highway department a gr many anxious moments. Traffic divid- ing lines are painted on the surface of the road to indicate the approach to a curve. They are used on the crest of a hill. White paint is easily dis cernible in daytime, but its visibility at night is a problem. Some varieties of white paint simply fade out under the rays of bright head lamps. Proper refraction cannot be had. Highway department chemists have experimented with many pigments, hoping to overcome the tendency of white paint not to be white at night. They have experimented with black and orange paints. Black is regarded as impractical at night. Orange is in- clined to “fade out” under the sun’s rays. A phosphorescent paint, used on a road section near Harrisburg, . was excellent %o long as no auto. mobile head lamps shone upon it. This dividing line was ali sufficient in the dark, but that was not what the de- partment wanted. The phosphorescent highway con- jured up by the State College man will not “glow softly” under motor vehicle head lamps. It will be just like any other road surface. PBut if the motor car throws no bright beams of light the road of the future, as imagined by the professor, will be an improve- ment over those heaviiy traveled high- way sections which today are a men- ace because of glaring head lamps. _ AMMETER TESTS LIGHT. Stop Signal May Be Gauged With- out Leaving Car. ‘When the stop-light goes out many motorists feel that they must have help when they tackle the job of rem edying the siti They find simple enough to replace new bulbs or to revamp a defective connectlon, but the matter of testing bothers them They find it physically impossible t press on the brake pedal and run bac 1¢ feet to see whether the light is working. So they scout around for a helper, or very often they put off the job until tomorrow. It isn’t necessary to go to any such lengths to test a stop-light. When pressing the brake pedal just glance at the indicator of the ammeter. If it flickers on the discharge side when the pedal is pressed down, current is be- ing drawn from the battery. That is proof that the light in the rear again is working. CURING PISTON SLAP. Best Stunt Found to Be Lowering Cylinder Block. Using heavier ofl and tightening con- necting rod bearings are two ways of curing a piston slap, but there is a better method, provided the trouble is not caused by cylinder wear. | block to the base. This tends to lower the cylinders, with the possibility that the pistons will be steadied. Slaps are less common in with deeper cylinder walls. If this method, remember it neces: a readjustment of the valves, Tag With 'Figures Cut in Outline Is Asked in Maryland Maryland's Assembly will be asked to approve a new type of automobile license tag at this ses- ston. The tag in question, inst having the conventional numerals, has the figures cut outline with a colored light hind to bring them into bolder relief, particularly at night Sponsors of the new type plate declare it wifl facilitate the | identification of “hit:and-run” drivers. engines Servicing automobiles for some per- sons seems to be a matter of trying to see how difficult they can make the job. When anything goes wrong they cast about for the hardest remedy {and the one that will take up the most time This is illustrated in the case of running out of gas. After the gaso- line tank is refilled the tendency is to want to remove the filler plug of the vacuum tank and refill it. Then along came news of the short cut—that of unscrewing the cover of the car buretor float chamber and filling that. This looked ke sifplicity itself, for with the engine running a few min utes the vacuum tank would quickly and automatically refill itself. But that is just ene of the longer short cuts. There is an even simpler | way to do the job. Just step on the 0 FOREGAST UPHELD at Penn State Colle are by means an impossib the opinion | of the Pennsyl N 1 Department coneur i lief that the day w constructior phosphoresce illum s It is College in- | structor t « in_chem v will son nake night driving pleasire. He sees the time when | motor vehicles will need only their “dimmer lights” on the phosphores it The stunt is to lower the cylinder block. Sometimes this can be done by tightening the bolts t hold the | [Servicing of At;tox;;i;iles Often Done By Hardest Method Just to Take Up Time THE SUNDAY FRENCH ADOPTING U.S. BODY STYLES New Paris Models Show Trend to Designs Popu- lar in America. Adoption of American styles by French body designers is the trend reported by J. F. De Causse, custom hody authority, who has just returned [trom an extended stay abroad. He | points out that American tendencles |are casily visible in the newest French | modet though branching off into | 1den fields in the materials used | e posite hodies. It is added that ish remain wedded to the | vle bodies, higher and rather | ippearing > principal impression 1 gained how, id Mr. De | was the general tendency of rcturers to ir cars and ably lower:, Americs h man designs of th bodies conside reat many instances mplify | |tice has been copied and the number |of freak bodies with many finished |ornaments and attachments has be- | come very small | “The high-built-line type of body | with small windows which was popu- lar in France a few year 0 has al- most disappeared. Fabric Coverings Shown. lexible type fabric-covered bodies have taken on a very large extension and w exhibited Imokt every stand. While bodies of this type have |the natural advantages of all com- | posite bodies, both in quietness and itness, even improving on Ame in-made composite bodies in the last- med quality, 1 don’'t believe they 1 ever becon ar in this coun- ce they are ex heing entirely ather, neither ince of the nor its lasting qualities, shabby looking after a hort time. A second drawback is that it is almost impossible to keep the in- terior warm in severe weather. “In the conventional type of body, the great majority of cars exhibited at the Paris show were of the three-pas senger and four-passenger coupe tvpe, a type rendered popular in America several vears ago with the introduc- tion of the coupe, and a large portion of these bodies are of the collapsible type. | | painted body becoming very American Finishes Used. “Nitro cellulose finish appeared on only about 25 per cent of the British and French cars, but it is perfectly evident that this finish is becoming more and popular and will soon be universally adopted. “Both in Paris #nd London Amerl- can cars were well represented and commanded very considerable and fa- vorable attention, thereby causing jealousy among KEuropeAn manufac- turers. Even with the high duty on American cars, in many cases these cars sold for very little more and in some cases for less than European cars in their quality class. English {prices are unusually high, much higher in proportion than even the finest American cars.” SEES TRAFFIC CONTROL ON EXTENSIVE SCALE Chicago to Embark on Program Which Will Exceed Any Ever Before Attempted. Chicago Is planning soon to embark on one of the most extensive pro- grams of traffic control ever attempt- ed. A unified system of regulation is being planned for the entire metro politan area of the city. For the past 10 months an inten- sive scientific survey of the district has been conducted by the Albert Russel Erskine Bureau for Street Traffic Research. The survey was in uted by the Chicago Association of Jommerc The area ha population of more than 4,000,000 and includes portions of 50 cities and two States, six counti 109 towns and vill Car Owning in India. According to the United States De- partment of Commerce automobile shipments to India have shown an increase. This will be good news to & missionary who has just left Ameri- ca for the Fast and who soon will be taking his car out of storage for use again over the Hindu highways. He has taken along with him a steel barrel full of good engine ofl. He shied at balloon tires, however, tearing he would have trouble with the wheel size. Wheels are going to be a problem for him any for he expects to find them dry as a hone and has made plans to soak them in water for a few days before trying to run the car. . While in America he was enterpris- ing enough to spend a week working In a service station that specializes on his make of car. Now he can do his own repair work, an absolute neces- | sity in some parts of India. About 60 miles from his station, however, there is a big automobile repair shop, but 50 miles is a long walk. Tips for This Season Keep an eye on the bolts that hold the new license plates. The nuts are mora likely to work loose on new bolts than after they have rusted fast. The ease with which this can happen often is,lost sight of because it probably was necessary to shear the nuts off when changing tags. When there is snow on the ground, drop back into second gear sooner than usual and drive a little faster in this gear before shifting into high Momentum is lost much more quickly when the streets are snowy and good driving calls for allowing higher margin of speed while shifting gears, 1t will be well to remember that better traction is to be had in driving through snow or over ice if the tire | pressure is lower. It should not be too | low, howeve Do not be afraid to bury the front [ wheels jn snow when parking. So long as Yhe rear ones are free, there isno danger of getting stuck starter for a moment or two with ignition off, throttle closed and choker inopenative. This allows the pistons to draw asoline into the vacuum s; tem. Then stop cranking, t a mo- ment for the gasoline to drop through to the lower vacuum tank and then on to the carburetor float. Then, when the car is cranked in the usual way | the_engine will start immediately. I AUTO | WHEELS 1 AND DEM. RIMS | RUNDLETT || wIM & WHEEL CO. 1336 14th St. N.W. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JA JARY 9, 1997—PART 3. Girl Auto Driver |MOTOR INSURANCE Put in Top Class As Insurance Risk Females of the species are not always more deadly than the male. Owner’s First Thought. Take the case of the co-ed, for gl - instance. Insurance companes — | mxpert n does Ixpert opinion does not sustain the have discovered that, as an auto Insurance for one’s motoring is WATCH OIL CAREFULLY. motorist who fails to v the tires | mobile driver, she is a better |vital and adequate pretection should | o | when the car is being washed and | i . - a L | Pays v hen Engine | polished specialists ¢ 0 wis HIRk s Ber ibrotiier SOt the' |ihat ¢l Arsts thiolleht) ol svery e oy EROwie WL S 16 the remark fhat T Soon| s. i p obile, accord o onsumes Greatest Amount. get dirty aga chow.’ This disclosure is one of the |Who buyvs an automobile, according to d Cratlls Sl ""‘§’ b TN most intresting developed by a |H. M. Luclus, secretary of the Auto-| [t would pay every car owner to| ')l““'l»""l:fy"l{“"f:_"- lp»”;*_!if;lr\ - questionnaire .addressed by the |mobile Club of Maryland. | know under what driving conditions | (hat " are’ eleaned will wear much ‘r\'“‘l’f;'f‘“" f*""‘m‘jhi"’ '\T S “I am not entering into the con-|his engine consum the g st | 1 e e I I iea oo | troversy, .pro or con, on the question | amount of ofl. Knowing this. he will wouldn't have your su o cnderwriting companies of | o¢ " cumpulsory liability insuranc do well to avold these conditions as|cleaned and pressed, your hat cle ALL merica s says Mr. Lucius. “1 am trying to|much as possible ind blocked and then go out on the To the co-ed's credit, the In- | gar one angle of automobile insur-| When oil burns off rapidly, the en with dirty, unsuined shoes quiry revealed that she does Mot |gjce that should appeal to every car | gine is working hardest. 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