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RECORDS BROKEN.
GRAHAM-PAIGE PRODUCTION.
when the shock absorber moves, an undue stress is put upon one or other of the arms.
Other types of shock absorbers have their own individual adjust- 21,881 CARS.
ments, and certain forms of damp. or have no adjustment at all, in the interior friction Graham-Paige production for which case 1928 passed 21,881 cars on the mechanism should be removed. Hecond day of May.
car
Never run with a shock absorber
KEEPING FOOT CONTROL.
The new model Graham-Paige broken away on one side of the car sponsored by the three and its companion shock absorber Graham brothers in the first four in full working order on the other months. not only equalled last side. year's total production but every production and shipping record in the 18 years' history of the fac-
Ιπ broken. April tory was monthly and weekly production records were surpassed and a single day's shipping record was also broken.
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OVERHAULING.
HOW AN AMATEUR MAY, DO IT.
NOT SO DIFFICULT.
THE CHINA MAIL,
matal pieces between the frame and the bonnet, and usually carry the bonnet clips. There will often be control rods on the dash connected to the steering column. These must, of course, be freed. In all there will be a lot of diaconnecting necessary, more than one would expect.
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It will save a good deal of labour "Overhaul" is a word which if the steering column and box be. generally brings visions of expense removed bodily together with the and trouble to the average owner. gear and brake levers, as, then the Really it is easy for an amateur to body need not be lifted so high. make a good job of an overhaul if The bolts holding the body to the he has sufficient time to spare to do frame must be taken right out; it As time goes on, the surface on things efficiently. In the average will not do merely to remove the the pedal plate of a car becomes garage there is not room for nuts hoping that the bolts will draw shiny, and therefore slippery. It the strong various parts, and out as the body is lifted. They stand might, but they would more pro- is not well to allow the process to the best solution is to go too far, because in an emer the body itself out of doors, bably stick in their holcs.
The a tarpaulin.
To try If the body Is free, raise gency the foot may slip from the covered by clutch or brake pedal, with discon- chassis can then be manoeuvred it on one side with a lever for The pedal plate without hindrance in the garage. about an inch, and put in a block In the single week, April 23 to certing results. 29, the shipments of Graham-can be roughened by cutting lines Mats, cushions and other sundries of wood. Treat the other side in Fuige motor cars totalled 2,195. In it with a chisel, or punch marks can be stored in the house itself, the same way and afterwards put
over the plate, This was more than 10 per cent. can be made all
The preliminary is a wash-down in two more, blocks, so that at last while, alternatively, rubber covers more thorough than usual; It would the body is raised clear of the frame, of the entire 1927 production.
These records were made de-can be obtained, which will fit at- be worth while paying extra atten- If it does not lever up readily some- MR. J. W. PACKARD. spite the fact that production, curately over the plate, and may be tion to the bodywork and upholstery, thing probably still needs discon- during the month of January was renewed when, after long usage. for in the ordinary course so good necting somewhere quite likely considerably delayed and it was they become badly worn.
an opportunity, no doubt, will not some perfectly obvious thing, such not until January 20 that the
present itself for some time. The as a. petrol pipe from a dash tank.
The death of J. W. Packard re- 200th Graham-Paige car
actual dismantling may be taken in When the seats are fixed to the built.
any order found convenient; pro-frame separately from the body they cently at Cleveland recalled to the bably the bonnet, radiator and must come out before the body le minds of many veterans of the au- lamps will be the first items, then removed. Everything must be per-tomobile Industry outstanding `con- the wings and running boards. fectly clear, so that it is advisable tributions to the motor car Indus- When lampa mounted on the wings, to attend to all these points and try made by the originator of the the cables should be drawn down others that occur with each Indivi-Packard automobile. Many things the tubular wing-stays, if thus dual car before the helpers arrive to now used on all cars were the in- fitted, towards the frame, so as to get the body off, leave the wings clear. If the wings
LIFTING THE BODY. or dented beyond the To man-handle an ordinary body are bent amateur's power of straightening, It comfortably four persons, at least, would be wise to send them at once are necessary. Two will stand on lising in this kind of work.
Was
This phenomenal record of pro- duction has been fully reflected in export shipments. Export orders shipped and on hand for the first five months of 1928 show ed an increase of 75 per cent. over the best previous five months' record made during the company's entire 18 years" history.
FAULTY SPRINGS.
HOW SQUEAKS CAN BE CURED.
FAST OR SLOW?
THE PROBLEM OF TRAFFIC CONGESTION.
Colonel Waldon, a director of the Detroit Automobile Club and a member of the Rapid Transit Com mission of that city, takes excep- tion to the view frequently ex- pressed that high rates of speed lessen congestion by keeping traffic moving at a more rapid pace. He
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MOTOR CAR.
vention of Mr. Packard more than a quarter of a century, ago.
J. W. Packard and his brother, w. D. Packard, were prosperous manufacturers of electric lights and electric supplies at Warren,
considers that 15 to 22 miles an for a quotation to some irm specia-each side and the body will be best Ohio, when they decided to build
hour is the most satisfactory and fastest speed in ʼn line of traffic.
"The speed at which the great- est number of vehicles can pass a given point," anys Colonel Waldon is approximately 15 miles per hour. Eighty-nine out of a hun- dred would say that the higher the speed the greater the capacity, whereas the opposite is true above this particular speed.
WRAPPING METHODS.
When the springs of a car are very free and when, in the case of a sports car, it is desirable to stiffen up the whole spring, Inde pendent of the shock absorber, the best plan is to bind the leaves to rether by wrapping whipcord "At sixty miles per hour, only round the leaves, with a knot at 60 per cent, as many vehicles will frequent intervals. This is not so be able to pass the same point as way an operation as it may sound. could pass were all travelling at "The cord has to be really tight the fifteen miles per hour. The rea- whole way along, and the knots son is that at each increase in must be reliable, otherwise the vehicle speed there must be an in- whole wrapping will come undone crease
in the safe distance be in a very short time. Wrapping tween vehicles.
Apring in this fashion is useful
"With each increase in speed when a cur is about to be taken there is consequently a lesser num on a tour, as it slightly reduces ber of vehicles occupying one mile the possibility of breaking a spring of the single traffic lane. With leaf owing to the cord limiting sub-the line moving at sixty miles per Atantially the flexion of the spring hour it in easy to see that if more vehicles are introduced, thereby BINDING THE SPRINGS. lessening the interval between cars Stout Insulating tape can some the speed of all cars must show times be used with advantage in down to what is safe for the new place of cord, and there is a xait-distance that separates each one er, which is put on puttee-wise, from the other.
leaves.
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and has practically the same effect. "A stream of motor cars is un- Before the wrapping is put on, the like a stream of liquid, the great springs should be greased to pre-eat speeds of which are through vent rust. In the matter of shock bottle necks and. with the lowest absorbers, it must be remembered speed in the wide place that lles that the running of the car can be between. The automobile speeds altered materially by the adjust-up in the wide places and becomes ment of these components. Ajammed in the bottle necks and whock absorber will not stay at the sharp turna. Trying to force a number of automobiles same pressure indefinitely; wear is large always taking place and adjustment through a zig-zag intersection may 3 consequently needed. Indeed, be likened to cramming
A lot of
HEAVY JOBS.
drawn off straight backwards, re-
an automobile. Their car Was membering the two assistants at completed November 6, 1899. It The wiring must be taken down the dash end will probably have to was such a success that friends on some system or endless time lift 5in, or Sin. to clear the pedals. forced them to build others, and in will be wasted when reassembling in Where the gearbox and engine area short time the Packard Motor trying to find where each length of separate, with an open propeller Car Company was launched. cable goes. A plan as simple as shaft, the shaft should be discon-
Early Invention. any is to detach only the outward nected at one of the universal joints The first car, designed and bullt ends of the wires, leaving them con- er flexible couplings; after that the by J. W. Packard with the assist- nected at the junction box or swich gearbox will come away easily, folance of W. D. Packard, contained board, and tying each cable in a lowed by the clutch leaving the the basis for the automatic apark neat coll with a label to say where engine clear. A. short examination advance now used on all cars., A its outward end went. Each one of the particular car will enable one patent on the device was granted of the Inward connections will, of to plan out the best way in which to Mr. Packard two years later in ad- course, eventually be taken down, go to work. The makers' instruc-dition to an automatic advance the cleaned and refitted; but the over tion book often gives directions for original patent covered mechanism haul of the electrical equipment is these major operations, and should for producing a spark of constant a job by itself. The switchboard, be consulted if available. If not, duration, regardless of the speed of in some cases, is carried, with the the job is open and simple enough the engine,
a feature without instruments, on a metal extension provided one looks ahead for the which automobiles now
could from the dash, and the body may be most convenient method.
acarcely 'run. removed without disturbing it. More REMOVING THE ENGINE UNIT.
The familiar "H" slot' for shift- usually it will be necessary to dis-
When the engine and gearboxing gears, found on all motor care mount the faclaboard and draw are of unit construction or bolted now manufactured, was another of] the switchboard and the instru- together to form a unit, this will the better known mechanical fea- ments first. Care should be taken prove the heaviest job that has to lures invented by J. W. Packard. not to burr the slots of the nickell-be tackled. If there be a handy beam The first Packard car had a cross ed screws by which it is generally overhead and tackle can be bor-spring at the front end similar to rowed, the simplest and obviously that used for a number of years' held.
Probably the body, will come next. the best way is to swing the unit by one of the largest manufactur- This and the engine are the heaviest out, run the frame and wheels away, era and this, too, was covered by jobs in the overhaul, and the body and then lower the unit on wooden patent granted Packard. is the more awkward of the two. blocks. Once on the floor it can be
Motorists can set the throttle There are some practical points. worked on to some purpose. If control of their cars on the steer- The chief is to see that there are there be not much room or equiping post and operate the foot ac- no wires, control rods or piping ment for handling auch heavy stuff, celerator without disturbing the left by accident connecting the body it can be lowered gently on its side setting of the hand control because and chassis. It is the easiest thing and the sump removed, the big of another Invention of Mr. in the world to overlook these. Some ends dismantled and pistons and Packard. He was granted a patent bodies come away leaving the dash connecting rods drawn, the gearbox on this device, now universally on the chassis, but more usually the taken down and so on, until one used, in 1905. dash belongs to the body.
gets to the top half of the crankcase
One of Mr. Packard's original in- and the crank shaft.
ventions played an important part When the engine cannot be swung in the Liberty motor. out with a tackle it must be lifted use of a sheet metal water jacket, It was the out; sometimes it may be possible for the cylinders, first employed by
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CONTROL TO BE FREED. The bonnet plates must not be
the shock absorber, simple and re- bricks through a pipe with a sharp forgotten. They are the wood or
liable as it is, should not be bend in it.”
neglected. a fact the newcomer should bear in mind. Taking the ordinary friction type. Hartford shock absorber as being possibly one of the most common types, ad- justment is effected by putting a spanner on the big hexagon nut in the centre of the pack of shock- absorber dises and turning the nut
EXPORT MOVE,
DETROIT TO SPAIN BY WATER.
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to work the other way, le.. to take the Packard brothers in the build- the frame away from the engine ing of their cars in 1002. The instead of taking the engine away cylinders of practically all water- unboxed cars from New York to from the frame. One just jacks up coloured aeroplane engines are Hamburg. By eliminating the the chassis by the frame. The made in the same manner dow. cost of boxing and unboxing the wheels are then removed, followed
Most of the patents issued to cars, as well as the increased land-
the axles and springs. This Mr. Packard for motor cars have ed cost of boxed cars due to the by duty charged in most countries leaves only the frame and the power expired, but a large number are on the valve of the boxed itself, unit. By carefully lowering the as universally used as those men- on which the original considerable. savings are effected frame, each and alternately, the toned
unit is brought to rest on the floor.patents have also expired. Import- for the overseas purchaser.
It is then a simple matter to undo ant as they have been in the in-l the bolts and remove the frame, dustry, it is believed that some of leaving the unit clear to work on.. the original Packard developmenta with materials for cars overshadow- TRAFFIC, BLOCKS.
ed them.
The sailing of the s.s. "Tractor in a clockwise direction, that is, of Hamburg" from Detroit the direction in which the nut ia inaugurates new develop acrewed further on its bolt or styd, ment in automobile exporting.
The Great Lakes, East nut is provided with a point- Instead of the usual practice of ér, and the adjustment should be shipping cars to the Atlantic sea- Inauguration of the Lakes to taken up evenly; that is to say, board by rail and thence by water, Europe plan of shipping motor if one aut is moved a quarter of the cargo of "The Tractor," can-
cars recalls the fact that Stude- a turn, the similar nut on the sisting exclusively of Studebaker- baker was the first manufacturer other three shock absorbers should built cars bound for Barcelona and to make extensive use of Great be moved an equal amount. With Bilbao, Spain, will follow an all-Lakes shipping
markets. Some ten years ago, a little care the resistance the nut water route to its destination: offers to movement will tell one Passing from Lake Eric to Studebaker traffic officials sug- whether the pressures, are very Lake Ontario through the Well-gested to Great Lakes ship own- nearly equal,
If the shock absorbers are too Joose the car will roll more and the springs become more lively than usual. If the shock absorbers are too tight the springs are very much Harder, and every small inequality in the road delivers its shock straight to the body... Shock ab sorbers need not be very tight un- less the car is used for speed
ovinta,
If the shock absorbers are much too tight the spring may practical- ly cease to function as a spring. and, the wheel, axle and spring will move as though they were one plece.
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The most important point is to
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In an interview some time before cial thought on the part of the roads are tar or bitumen coated, his last illness J. W. Packard said driver, become treacherous and and rain tends to make them verj that difficulties in finding suitable slippery with rain, and it is neces slippery. When brakes are applied
materials was one of the greatest
daye.
troubles experienced in the early cary to drive with the utmost care. suddenly it is very probable that A cinematograph survey
worse sensations one wheel will fall to grip the road |London, to help the authorities in
Armour plate steel sheets There are few their study of the tangled traffic gave the only steel that could be than a skid. The car is proceeding as well as the other, and a skid problem, is now being made by wheels. It ruined the tools which out of the universe, the driver feels tow closely behind another car, or
found suitable for making gear sedately in its appointed direction; follows.
suddenly the bottom seems to drop In wet weather it is foolish to fol- the Home Office, acting in con-
were used to turn out the gears, disembodied, and the car seems be to attempt cutting-in in a stream of junction with the Ministry of Transport and Scotland-yard.
The rear wheels have traffic. Recently. I saw an instance Four officials, accompanied by
however.
Because of the endless trouble witched.
an experienced cinema photo encountered with grades of steel shown a decided preference for a of how cutting-in might cause A line of cars was grapher with a camere mounted then available and in machining crab-like, method of progression, an accident. on a tripod, set out from Scot them, the Packards were forced and the car has skidded sideways travelling in one direction, and ♣
solitary car going the opposite way.. Land-yard with a police inspector into intensive research in heat to the edge of the road.
For five hours they were engaged treatment of metals The Packard If there be plenty of room a skid Suddenly a car left its place in the in taking the first series of pic-company, through the start made is not dangerous: it is difficult to stream, found the car going in the tures showing how London strugby J. W. Packard and the work overturn the modern car. But if a opposite direction almost upon it. gles to get from one point to an- which has been continued since car skids in a narrow street the and accelerated in an effort to get the earliest days of the company, frantle efforts of an inexperienced 'round the car in front of it and other. M
Parliament-square, Trafalgar- has been credited with a great part driver to correct the trouble, may † into line again. The swerve and aquare, and Picadilly-circus were in the heat treating science, one of cause a serious accident. The acceleration, combined with a wet the centres which claimed first the greatest contributing Influences main thing to remember when a car road, resulted in a magnificent skid, attention. The traffic at all these the present mechanical age,
skids is that the brakes should not the car broadaiding towards the ap- Important points was photograph-
be aplled. The accelerator should proaching vehicle. • Fortunately, ed from various angles from the
not be applied. „The accelerator the latter was able to stop in time, shock absorbers, and it would be and Canal, the ship will follow the jers that one or two vessels be ground and also from high build-
should be released immediately, and and the cars came to rest with only a very good thing if an instrument St. Lawrence River past Montrealfitted with special equipment to ings with the object of Illustrat
the steering wheel swung in the about two feet separating them. existed to toll one readily what the and Quebec into the Gulf of St. handle the shipment of unboxed ing how traffic accumulates, how:
direction of the skid. Application On country roads there is always' prosaure is of nach, Shock-absorb-Lawrence, thence into the North automobiles, from Detroit to other it is released; where it comes
of the brakes merely accentuates the possiblilty of a skid ig wet er disce should never be lubricat-Atlantic. Great Lake ports. After ifrom, where it goes to how it le
the skid.ZA
weather. Patches of clay become Additional Interest was roused & trial, voyage, the new controlled, and how pedestrians
Few drivers seem to realise thaty, Skids, or most of them, may be very slippery, and cause skids at While on the subject of shock by the shipment due to the fact method was pronounced a cross the road—if they can. -- absorbers it is well to mention that that of the 248 cars constituting complete success. The method Scores of important streets and with the inception of winter, drivs avoided. They are generally caused even moderate speeds. For this
ing
(alter a vas
violent braking or too sud- reason it is always as well to slow In by the two arms should be in the the cargo, 55 were shipped un-was quickly followed by so many junctions will be photographed
Corne →which right down when approaching cul- <rame; so that the point at crated Studebaker is the largest other companies that a large part during the busiest times of the summer the surface of the road den
does
It varies can be negotiated af Min dry verts or bends, What must- äppar Army is attached to individual user of the method of of Great Lakes shipping originat day. When the work is finished,
accelerator ald membered is that infinitely" the frame Is in the
straight shipping cars unboxed, having in- ing in Detroit nowconsists of the films will be shown privately every few yar
more slowly after caro is needed in wet weath I'na stotis point of ichment to augurated this system early in motor cars for all cities on the to Ministry of Transport and good in summe the axle, because, if this is mot-so, Tanusry with a shipment of 500, lakes:
other oficials.
car will run with no need for
ed.
WINTER DRIVING.
THE, AVOIDANCE OF SKIDS.
Con
not vary
Roads
and ove #hich the
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