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car? (asks the "Motor""),
to atop the car with the near-aide, Some people seem to take a mali- wheels an inch or so from the kerb, cious pleasure in driving, back to but the tyres should not actually be the near side of the road much too allowed to rub along the kerb. quickly, after drawing ahead of an- Some drivers make the mistake of other vehicle, but this mistake. Is. maintaining high speeds up to the no doubt, often due to ignorance. last minute and then apply their The relative speed of one car pass brakes very violently, but it is much Ing another is often only about 10 better, although less dramatic, to miles an hour, so that time must pull up gradually, so that the pas-be allowed to get well ahead of the engers do not experience any for overtaken vehicle before resuming ward jerk. It will usually be found that a smoother stop results if the the rear side of the rond. It clutch and gear lover are left alone naturally follows thut, if traffic in until the speed of the car is reduced approaching, the driver desiring to to walking pace, the clutch then overtake must make sure that it is boing disengaged to avoid stalling sufficiently far away to give him the engine..
plenty of time.
Why is it that many n'màn who at golf will never rcat
content until he can be reasonably certain of achieving a clean drive or long putt, or who will make end- less experiments in order to prove the quality of reception of forded by his wireless set, so often contents himself with a low, or, at any rate, mediocre, standard of at- Lainment in the handling of his
Many people, after years on The most shocking mistakes, So much has been written about the road, are no more proficient in however, arise when endeavours gear changing, that it is sufficient the finer points of handling a car are being made to park a car in a to say that double declutching is a than is the motorist of a fortnight's limited space. Suppose, for in- much easier operation than is com- standing; one is driven to the con- stance, that there in a long line of monly believed, and one which cor- clusion that they do not reallee the stationary vehicles with a gap be- tainly repays practice by the results: great increnso in the pleasure and tween two of these, perhaps some obtained, A quick change to a safety of running a car which fol- 18ft. long, in which the owner lower gear may be required either lows from the ability to drive it driver wishes to insert his 13ft. for rapid acceleration in traffic or really well. It may be true that vehicle. Time and again one sees during the ascent of a hill, and the the really expert driver is born and him endeavouring to drive into ability to effect it rapidly and with not made, but, nevertheless, any such a space forward, with the absolute certainty should be re- one of average intelligence can result that, when his radiator is up garded as an essential qualification quite quickly improve his or her against the car in front, his rear in any driver, and not as a trick driving methods, given a little wheels are still well out into the only to be expected from the expert. practice and enthusiasm.
road, and no amount of reversing Many people make the mistake of to and fro will improve matters.
into the space available at an angle, whereas it is really much easier (al- The correct procedure is to back dabbing the accelerator pedal dur- ing the double declutching process, the front wheels being finally put
Negotiating Corners.
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho,)
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11
34
25
127
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16
119
20
35
38.
140
20
443
HORIZONTAL
1-Gloomy
-Mlater (India) 11-Pertaining to the
12-Thought 14-Ardor; dash (Fr.) 15-Little, valleys 17-Observe 18-Qlel's name,
shortened 19-8kaded retreat 20-Obscure 21-Preposition 22-Woody plants 23-Untrammeled 24-Closest 28-Caste 27-9huts out 25-8nare
29-Insane notion
$1-Pinan
34-Cain's brother 35-Gardon vegetable
(pl.)
26
Zá..
19
13
32
136
39
142
15.
146
ÚTHE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.
HORIZONTAL (Cont.)
36-Nearby 187-A feh 38-Weird 30-An oxclamation 40-Pronoun
41-Profit 12-Hoan; loạ 45-Care 45-Prepared for
publication 47-Those who dya 48–Outer garmente
VERTICAL
1-Salty 2-Verbal
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B-Reparation
B-Compositions for:
7-A mimic S-Pessoasive pronoun
-Preppaltion
Many people lack n sufficiently high standard of comparison; they have never sat beside a real expert at the wheel, and consequently, fail to realise their own shortcomings on fun fock when the tail of the though it entails a quicker move- Enthusiasm for improving one car is almost in the desired posi-ment of the pedal and gear lever) standard of driving also comes with ton. In this, as in other matters, siniply to hold the accelerator pedal resuits, as in the case in games; the owner-driver wit be well repaid in position, allowing the engine to thus, once a driver has succeeded in by making a few experiments, say, rev up while the double declutching changing down quietly and rapidly by marking two points on the korband gear shifting operations are at 30 m.p.h., he will never again some 16ft. or 20-ft. apart, and then being carried out. be content to stagger up the saute endeavourfag to reverse into posi Clutch stops are not now com- hill in top gear or to foozle his tion between them.
monly fitted, but on cars which en- gear-change. Gear-changing should,
ploy them, they should be under- in fact, be a pleasure; the writer The negotiation of corners is stood and used by the driver. This will not readily forget the thrill of another matter desṛrving consider is mentioned because the writer has real enjoyment obtained when he ably more care and attention than known more than one case of a first made a successful change most drivers imagine to be neves-driver who had great difficulty, in down from top to third on a sportscary. In taking a bend where walls changing gear because he had no model at 59 in.p.h.
or hedges obscure the view, there idea that a clutch stop was fitted Take even the simple processes would appear to be two methods in to his car, the action of which de- of starting and stopping a car, common use, some people hugging which are easy enough to carry out the nearside edge of the road while ended on the extent to which the after a fashion; observation shows others keep more to the crown of clutch pedal was depressed. Once that very few drivers trouble to the road, because, by so doing, their he had learned that the pedal start and stop their cars with any range of vision forward is in- should be fully depressed when degree of finesse. When getting creased.
changing up, and only partially away, smoothness should, be the
depressed when changing down, he object, and the majority of modern
was delighted with the ease with cars-are-fitted with clutches which,
which he could change gear. if handled properly, will pick up the load so gradually that no shock is experienced. Rough use of the clutch pedal is a common fault.
It is, of course, also important to in city and suburban streets are of confidence with which he can con- handle the throttle very carefully, ten taken much too wide, so that the troi a so that the engine is neither stall-ear swings round well into the mid-Driving a car in reverse was in fact tor podal in such a position that ed nor allowed
to rev, unduly, dle of the road and the risk of ac-an Army test for several years dur- the engine is not driving the car Here, in the opinion of the writer, cident is thus increased.
in the war. many drivers would do well to
Reversing at any- The great thing is to approach thing but a crawl is, of course, not and neither le the car driving the make greater use
the hand such a corner not too near the left often required, but the ability to throttle contral, which they would hand kerb (when about to turn to control a car with confidence when sharply as if steering the car to that engine. Then, if the rear wheels. continue to slide, turn the steering find much easier to operate skilfully the left), the car being steered so than is the ordinary accelerator that the near-side rear wheel just is running backwards at speed side of the road to which the tall misses the kerb at the corner; In may prove very useful indeed in a Rolls-Royce drivers, incidentally, this way, when the corner has been emergency-say on a steep hill. are always taught to get away on taken, the car will be well to the Again, a car must often be driven the governor control rather than left of the road.
In reverse when manoeuvring in a the accelerator pedal, and this con❘ In many cases the car must be confined space; for example, if it trol is, in many ways, similar in its slowed to a crawl in order to makel be desired to turn round in a nar- where it has chipped off can be im-
row roadway. In such circum-
pedal.
of
A middle course is probably the safest, the car being kept sufficient ly far out to give a reasonable range of vision, while it is suffi- ciently' near the left-hand kerb to avoid risk of collision with an on-a coming vehicle. Right-angle corners
Driving in Reverse. Gear changing is a good test of driver's abilities, but almost cqually searching is a trial of the.
VERTICAL (Cont.) 10-Contradicts
11-A garden product 13-Arched roots 16-Instigate 19-Boeng of combat 20-Decorate
22-Path
29-Whipa 26-Man's name 26-A bird 28-Follower 29-Borgeraus 8D-Lessoned 31-Persian fairy 82-Litts.
33-Horan 18-Carries
88-Always
$39-Destiny
41-Consumed 42-Childa napkin
44-E, State of U. 8.
(abbr.) 146-Accomplish
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Start out by filling in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn still others. À letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the cumbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or bath.
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
car running backwards. brakes alone and hold the accelera
Is sliding.
PAINT OUT THE BLOTCHES.
Worn spota on nickel or places
action to the hand throttle lever sure that no traffic is approaching stances many drivers make the mfg. proved by touching up with alumi
of the ordinary ear.
from first to second, and
achieved.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
QIGHTEN.
ATTRACTED
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Your Car, Should Be Overhauled
Before the fine Weather Comes
before actually taking a right- Having got the car under way it angle turn, and a change-drivers take of using only a portion of the num paint. Of course, this does is advisable to practise changing up change gear while slowing for the full steering lock available, so that but it helps considerably and may not make the most effective remedy: from corner, but the writer believes that instead of getting round with one prevent further wearing second to top at various speeds un a more pleasant result is obtained reversal, they go to and fro across ping.
or chip- til the smoothest possible accelera by changing just at the instant the road perhaps half a dozen times. tion is attained. Getting away on when the way la seen to be clear This can usually be avoided by an upward gradient requires even before accelerating.
using full lock in each direction, greater cure if quiet changes and Turning off a busy main road into the steering wheel being shifted smooth acceleration are to be a side street on the right is another quickly as soon as the car gets on
operation which is often very badly the move. Gelting Away Up Hill. done, The most common mistake is
Controlling Skids," Then there is the question of to slow up well to the near side
Lastly, there is the matter of the starting a car from a stand-still on with the right arm extended; the a really steep upward alope. This result being that the drivers of avoidance and control of skidding. involves careful use of the hand overtaking vehicles pass in a long. Some cars are, of course, much brake, which should be eased off continuous stream without giving steadier on a slippery road than gradually as the clutch pedal is the baulked driver much chance of others, but the fact that most being released, so that the clutch executing his intentions with safe drivers are unnecessarily nervous picks up the load just as the brakety. It should surely be obvious that of a akid is clearly shown by their is being freed, the engine, in the the right procedure is to keep to the slow rate of travel on a wet day. meantime, being revved to an ex- crown of the road, with the right This. nervousness largely arises tent just sufficient to prevent it orm extended, thus giving other from stalling. Common mistakes drivers an opportunity to overtake here are: Stopping the engine by to the left while a chance of cross insufficient revving or engaging the ing to the right is being awaited. clutch too suddenly, and, words
Controlling the Spark still, allowing the car to run back- wards, which may well result in a collision with a vehicle behind.
The matter of bringing a car to
from the fact that they have never troubled to learn how to control a skid, preferring to crawl along, in the hope that this contretemps will not occur. The first point to grasp The control of the advance and is that the adhesion available to retard lever is too often neglected; prevent skidding of the rear wheels In most cases, the top-gear peris only the balance left when acce! formance of a car can be material- leration or braking has been pro-
a standstill is another apparently improved by making proper use vided for: in other words, sudden ly simple operation, but one which of this device, although some en brake application or a sudden re- is frequently carried out in a very gines are much more susceptible to lease of throttle opening both amateurish fashion. Apparently, the timing of the spark that are people simply will not devote half others. The ignition should be re-reduces the ability, of the rear an hour to practising pulling up at tarded when it is desired to prospace will not permit of a lengthy wheels to prevent tail wagging. the near-side korb, so that
ceed slowly on top gear, and then, one sees cars being left by owner when accelerating, away, it should description of the ways in which drivers with the wheels a couple of be advanced, as the speed increases skids can be controlled, but, in this feet or more from the edge of the The operation of passing matter, a little practice la worth. road, or, as often as not, the car other cars In another de- parca of theory, so that the owner- sticking out at an angle into the tail requiring study, and driver can practise on roadway. In such positions it is while to cut things, too fine is to slippery and deserted, read on taking up undue space, and pre-rou needless riska, it is probably a wet day with the idea of putting sents a very untidy appearance. equally dangerous to swing out in an hour's practice in its control.
Parking a Car..
widely and leave an absurdly large. This is the principle to follow: The object should, of course, be space to the left.
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