The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 23, 1922, Page 7

SATURDAY, DECEMBE THE NEW PILOTING Keep Foot Off Accelerator on Turns, Advice DETROIT, Dec, 23.-—"Keep your engine pulling” fs an instruction that has proved fatal to many an autoist Many are now of the opinion that it te far safer to let the engine run idle when braking than to try to “keep it pulling. New drivers have been taught to keep the engine pulling when round a corner or desiring to change to a slower speed, by shutting down the gas and applying the foot brake Thus the car is slowed to the same speed as the engine dents: “It ts thought the driver at tempted to apply the brake and struck the accelerator instead. Then the crash came This recalls a striking case. car into @ garage, Another car was coming behind him. He looked around as he put his foot out for the the garage doors. The auto struck @ supporting post, knocking it out. The second floor was let down on him with many autos. He was caught in the debris and, in the ensuing fire, was burned to a crisp, while thousands of dollars in damage resulted. This man was a believer in the tBeory of keeping the engine pulling But it has been found that it is just erator as with the hand throttle. the use of the clutch, such an acct- dent as the above is not apt to fol- low. When an autoist drives with .the accelerator he must release ft as soon as he removes the clutch. Thus the engine is permitted to run idle at a low speed, while the car is free from the engine. When the autoist reaches for the foot brake, should he miss it and strike the accelerator, he has done no damage. Dunlap Tire Plant Will Reopen Soon BUFFALO, N. Y., Dec. 23.—News that the plant of the Dunlop Tire & Rubber corporation, which has tain Wil reopen soon and employ some : | $ : 3 it 1 plant will be built daily. | More than 55 per cent of all auto. Mobfies in this country are in towns leas than 5,000 inhabitants. & Domestic consumption of gasoline in one month last summer was near- ly 600,000.090 gallons, against storm and cold. The long wheel base sun visor, windshield mirror. PRICES IN Fours — 23-34, $1050 $1415; 23-37, Sixes—23-41, $ ; banned 23-47, East Pike at Harvard Mail This Coupon for 1923 Buick Catalogue ies PLAN ADVANCED i Frequently, one reads of auto ace. as easy to drive a car with the accel.) ‘Then if a driver schools himself Into | idle here practically since the war.) {Rare 6 Buick Company, 08 Eg. fie.” | Apparently the motoring pu a| backer on what constitutes an ideal automobile, man, considered a good driver, was| now on display at the showrooms of L. M. Cline and Alfred attempting to turn his large touring | that is causing favorable comment, bl Ameri neers This been high p engines price of motoriat ‘The Igine to lup bere Ayerst Co., 1830 Broadway, ENGLISH PILOTS _ BEAT YANKEES, NEW YORK, Dee English are better drivers than we are of American automotive engi aulomobile SEATTLE STAR ican Autoists Said to Lack Patience 16.—The This ts the conchusion who have been observing methods abroad superiority, they say, by forced upon them thru prices of automobiles, auto mobile parts and motor fuel ynomy hay brought about a ) driving and in the the automobile, say the s. Wor example, the high ganoline—or petrol, as Kt ix called tn England—has dirested the ‘s attention to the use of ic is inclined to agree with the idea'of Capt. Eddie Ricken-|tne accelerator pedal and the care Above is one of the '23 closed car models | ot bis « ngine English will permit an en run long enough to ‘varm re starting,” explains M. H A feature of the new Rickenbacker motor is its balanced crankshaft and two flywheels, | pice, president of the Cadillac com which are claimed to practica tiveness of the car / | According to a statement issued by the Ford Motor Co., deliveries of Ford cars and trucks to retail buy- jers during the month of November totaled 106,327. This is a new sales record that has never been ap proached by the company at this sea. | gon of the year, and one which stands |out in marked contrast to the No vember 1921 retail} truck delivery fis | ures, which totaled slightly over 58, | 000 cars and trucks - For eight consecutive months, be ginning with April i of this year, re tail deliveries have exceeded 106,000 Ford cars and trucks each month, | the accumulated total for the first }11 months of 1922 beittg approxt mately 1,200,000. While the company points out that it is not unusual for Ford retail sales to exened the 100, at its peak, the manner in which business has held up thruout the bal- ance of the year is without prece- | dent. } Credit for this remarkable showing to the many improvements which have lately been made on Ford cars, -| and particularly to the new low level of Ford prices, recently put into ef- fect. Altho the Ford factories have been operating at capacity for the past eight months. sales have equaled pro. duction, and judging from the unusu- ink in at this season of the year, Ford dealers will be unable to accu- mulate an adequate stock of cars } 000 mark during the spring and early | | summer months, when the demand ts | is attributed by the Ford Motor Co. | al manner in which orders are com: | lly eliminate engine vibration. accelerator and his car leaped thru|lently appointed in upholstery and late refinements, and all models offer the option of disc|** wheels. The lines are long and graceful, but not to a degree to detract from the conserva-; general makeup. Ford Sales Break ) “IN GASOLINE == All Former Records) _ wrsosensssiuey “(clon ot the fo! et or Co., November sales are an indica- | tion that many prospective purchas lors, realizing the exceptional value now being offered in Ford cars, are beginning to anticipate an unusual | In the opinion of the Ford Motor | | spring demand, and are therefore | placing orders during the fall and winter, and will continue to do #0 thruout the winter, to avoid disap. pointing delays in delivery later on. ‘REMEMBER THIS | WHEN YOU SKID! Expert Explains Ways to Prevent Accidents BY B. J. LEMON NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Why an automobile skids is of interest to a motorist, but what to do to prevent skidding and what to do when the car if skidding are equally im | portant topics. | the action of the brakes operating The closed mcdels are excel-| pany almost The r the ame Hah me ine to start funoti Whereas here w xpect the ning properly immediately enult in @ marked saving in yunt of fuel used by the Eng thod of preheating the en IPEAN BOONOMY (2 2." 35 WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. — One| the En; dime out of every dollar that the| of enetr | American autoist no® spends for Fritish automotive engineers ot given much thought to lish in the proper control cars American engineers, however, are gasoline will be saved, if expert-| devoting thelr efforts toward per ments being conducted by the United | ¢, cting States burean of standards succeed. | would A complete study of automobile! tis of engine performance, both in the lab: oratory and in carn on the road, i] become ® carburetion system that save fuel. The Hritien do their own accord Economy has forced the Firitish to better drivers in yet another being made, with the object of im] way. That is, by letting the car creasing the efficiency of internal! pyr to a |combustion engines. It is estimated foe & 10 per cent saving, which | cortro} top. The brakes are used ¥ an ponsibie, The fuel te shut off at an appreciable now appears promising, would clip! gistance from the stopping potnt the nation’s gasoline bill something | 4.4 ¢n, like $100,000,000 a year egy = And that’s not all the bureau of} * standards in doing. Gas burners are being studied so that efficiency may be tncreased and} |} consumption reduced, with the tn-| | tended result that the basement gas | meter won't continue to exceed the| Under npeed limit while the housewife is| Where cooking supper | Griver, around. & very small “foree couple” will pro- duce skidding, and the skid ¢ * tendency for a quick stop py getaway tn avoided All of which are marks of « good my engineers. Retter, they save gasoline and the braking rys tem, and prolong the life of the car. Resides, the mabkhine ts well control at just the point this contro! is essential—onx at street cromsings—and the danger of accident is diminished. After the wheels once start to wl SEC. FALL MAY a "tuendeutfipon the magetwse ot} QUIT IN SPRING the “force couple” which in turn) wag IHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Persiat- |depends on car speed and weight.) ent rumors are afloat today that fo ‘reduce skidding because tt re | rosigna The main cause of skidding of| Turning the front wheels in the di-| gecretary Fall, of the interior de-| Tear wheels of motor cars is due to, reetion of the rear wheel skid, helps! partment, will shortly announce his | ion, to take effect next jthru the rear wheels. Skidding, of duces the magnitude of the “fore? wpring, and that Carmi Thompson, course, normally ocours only when the roads are slippery. progresses over the highway in but jone direction or plane. This direc- jtion for the rear wheels i deter. couple” jforward slip and consequent side/ j skid. | nation Two means are employed to Pre | Teapot Aino periodically releasing | recently dfeated republican candl land reapplying the brake #0 the! gute for governor of Ohio, will be ap- | An automobile wheel rotates and|rear wheels can get ® «rip offsets! pointed his suc © ‘The cause of Fall's reported resig- grows out of the Sinciair oll- Dome scandal, the fight over during the winter months for deliv.| mined by the front wheels under | vent skidding in motor vehicles. The! 4) ory newt ne. Alaska forests and turning down of For Cold Weather Motoring Confidence The Buick Seven Passenger Touring, $1,690 On winter roads, the abundant power and smooth riding of the Buick seven passenger touring car gives a new confidence to cold weather motoring. Close fitting storm curtains, provided with the special Buick weather strip to seal the joints, and that open with the doors, afford a snug comfort and the rear cantilever springs with a new suspension, insure easy rid- ing, made luxuriously comfortable by the wide, deeply upholstered seats. effortless driving is at the driver’s hand. Stand- ard appointments include such refinements as Every convenience for wiper and rear vision The seven passenger touring car maintains, in every particular, the traditional Buick excellence. The Buick Line for 1923 Comprises Fourteen Models: SEATTLE— ; 28-35, $1075; 23-36, 1655 ; 23-38, $1570. 23-44, $1400; 23-45, ; 23-48, $2210; 23-49, 690 ; 23-50, $2525; 23-54, $1890; 23-55, 945, Evoemer 32g|OMpany East 0842 NRE ERY SEE SSS SES SS When better automobiles are built, Buick will build them we a we ne my ae on ee oie ae control of the driver. While the rear wheels grip the ground and ro- tate they control the direction of the car. However, as soon as the rear wheels are locked by the [brakes they begin to slide, and as they slide sidewise practically as leasily as forward, they lose the | Power to direct the car. | It takes comparatively little brake friction to lock and slide rear wheels on slippery roads because there is little friction between the tire and the road surface. When once the driving wheels begin to slip the car in kept in motion by the force of inertia acting at the car's center of gravity or mass, This forward motion ix opposed by jthe resistance of all four wheels on the ground, a resi#tance that ts | sreater in the rotating front wheels than in the sliding rear wheels. Un-| less the combined ground resistance of all wheels, tending to stop the car, acte on the same point aa the lforee of inertia tending to carry | the car forward, there results what |is called a “force couple” which causes the car to skid or spin use of non-skid or rough tread tires | Waiter jand of antiskid chains. Nonwkid} tires are designed to give forward) ltraction and to prevent side stip. | As long as there ts traction the! rear wheels will turn, and as long as the rear wheels turn there will| one, be no serious side slip, Unless the) ries front wheels are blocked | saeoh Because they make available in} ' road friction the total weight of the car instead of only half the car ture to conservationists. F. Brown's plan to tranafer the forestry bureau from the agricul. the interior department. The president was compelled to! turn Brown down because of deter. | Fall today to confirm or deny the ru Production of 1922 is 10 per cent weight, four wheel brakes are com-| ‘ther than that of 1920 ing into une, expecially in continen: tal Europe. Not only can cars be stopped more quickly, but the: be driven safely on wet days and im tee and snow without chains, In/ stopping @ car equipped with four | road-bul whee! brakes all four wheels may| slide and the car as a whole slip) Prote forward. to be little or no side skidding. This! in expecially true if the brakes are) A fla Minnesota has started to ling ite can bighways with trees, Kentucky, in 1921, had the first iiding policy. ots are being made against However, there appears | highway billboards. shlight te a handy accessory connected diagonally in patra that| to the car. fs left-hand front whee! and right-| lhand rear wheel. With this arrange.| Une t hinner grade of ofl In winter. \J ay-Wal ker Denounced | | WASHINGTON, D, C,, Deo, 16 than |The publ |to place the blame for any accident | conservative estimates Jin which an automobile figure was at fault when as & matter of fact, in @ large majority of cases, the person injured was to blame ‘I have before me,” continued Mr. Eldridge, “a chart containing @ summary of traffic accidents In 60 per cent of the accidents is listed as unknown, the blame in the cases where the placed on the persons injured which 7 accidents, private automobiler police department of found by thoro investigation, that heavy preponderance of jured person was to blame in more | ger.” PAGE 7 as Menace to Traffic of the remaining , an a whole, is too ready | 4,083 cases, basing this on the ‘nort | During the on | same ps 1,209 the driver of the automobile,” said | accidents, M. O. Biéridge, executive chairman | curred, the cause for 51 such cases | that of 200,000,000 horses, of the American Automobile Associa-| was traced to the driver while 437] tion ‘The firet cry that goes up,| Cases were blamed on the person! Jas a rule, when such an accident} injured, and the cause of occurs, is that the-driver of the car| dents remained unknown “These figures serve to empha} Eldridge continued, contention of the A. A. A regulation is complete until it provides a penalty for jay-walk The jay-walker, in my opinion to | facture last year. United States | . “the | biles built since 1912 have been sold that no} for lees than $1,000. nize,” traffic New Yory city, with the fault or |'?® P incapacity of the proper party list-|'* she je, pe th we of asere ed, and while, perhaps, the cau | codiag been | deporit in the engine comes from “The automobile has always | It in | #asoline mult of the accident has|@ subject of class legislation legislator revenue. been determined is overwhelmingly |® Shining target for every new means of “Over @ certain period of time in| It pays more tax than any property involving | Of similar value in tho world, and in 24, the | Subject ew York city |4ny other means of conveyance. Automobile Asso- in 450 cases the driver of the car) ciation stands for obedience to the! National Motorists’ association, was to blame; in 3,168 cases the | law and for observance of all traffic -. person injured was to blame; and| regulations, but in 3,683 sases the cause of the ac-| motorist is to cident was unknown, With the/ience of a traffic signal, blame | pedestrian should be fi secking « than ‘The American if &| wPederal aid road building be fined for disobed-| will cost about $3,000,000,000, then the “ee placed on the person injured in the| walking across known causes of accidents, it | himself but fair to presume that the in-|in that immediate vicinity, for jay- Large Michigan moter plant putting | duces 260 tractors a day. as every motorist fle 1 in dan. | CAR * ment opposite wheels are able to - roll freely, retaining their directing | qualition. <_ | | GASSAWAY MILES HEY MISTER MILES ORIVE BACK HERE A MINUTE (LEFT A COUPLE OF WRENCHES || ALWAYS AND MY BEST HAMMER (INSIDE YOUR MOTOR - (MAY NEED Em You COME iN AGAIN!’ Please saad tin nouapiets catalogue ot! 4 1928 Buick model 1 @ASSAWAY FINDS A CARELESS Pe et MECHANIC HID SOME TOOLS ' | W WE OLD Mo7orR Se ha 5 suas haibhbidins«s\sanbde bes tote a BY STAN THE WAY BEFORE = == === The Four-Passenger Sedan $4600 ruremies: car which it is possible to Ten Body Types ickenb WORTHY a OF Behind the Wheel Lincoln motor cars are produced by the world’s automobile manufacturing jpstitution in accordance with the highest standards of manufacture known to the indus- and character will persistently stand foremost. of the Ford Motor Company that each ive the Snest and most satisfying motor ‘To that end the | AUTO TALK Yor identification purposes keep am laccurate record of the car and Dum bers of all parts and accessories, eee Motor vebieles in the United States have a combined power equal t@ ee The most popular low-priced car laverages about 42 per cent of the total number produced, one Seventy per cent of the automa ee More than 200,000,000 board feet of lumber were used in auto Mant oe Nearly 8 per cent of the A brush with stiff bristien wil clean the car's upholstery effectively, bes Dry batteries should be protected — from moisture, dirt and vibration, — a Non-nkid roads are sought by the | why ie about $17,000. i of the be carried