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MOTOR NOTES
MOTORING INSTRUCTION. FOR POLICE.
COMMON IGNITION, FAULTS.
HOW TO DEAL WITH THEM..
MORE HINTS FOR THE NOVICE.
WILLYS
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CARS & TRUCKS.
CHIEF CONSTABLE'S
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Suppose the petrol is reaching the LITTLE THINGS THAT MEAN carburetter; that both the jets are clean; and that the plugs; - when unscrewed and laid on the engine, spark merrily if the engine is turn-
Acting on the view that the police should know with what they have to deal, Colonel T. R. P. Warren, the new Chief Constable of Buckinged, then-Oh, what can thể mättër hamshire, has, decided to instruct his force in the art of motor- driving, and to give them a general education as Car UNȚE
"We are growing more and more to be 2 community of motorists," he said, "and it is only logical that the police should themselves be motorists an experience without which they are at a disadvantage. A study of motoring problems will make them more efficient in their control of the roadlaring Com inunity, more sympathetic in their appreciation of roadfarers' difficu! ties, and more qualified to detect effending drivers.”
All the new constables will receive Colonel Warren's special instrue tion as part of their normal police training, but is has been arranged to provide it also for the younger men of the present force. A series of lectures will first be given at the police beadquarters on the general principles of motoring, touching both the mechanical side and the ase of the roads, which will include. careful driving, with special atten- tion paid to the courteous__treat- ment of other road-users. Having learnt the theory, the police. pupils will bo taken 'to the Morris motor works at Oxford to go more deeply into the technical side of the car. The whole of this teaching work has been arranged by Mr. W. R. Morris, at Morris Motors, Limited, through whose generosity the instruction will be no charge to the police fund.
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More harm is done by ignorance of the mechanical parts of a car than anything else. Stady, the
When is a Spark Not a Spark?
literature supplied you, and al- The first probability is that all though you may never attempt to that glitters not gold "-and al: do any repairs, it will exercise a that sparks outside may not spark big influence on your treatment of inside. In other words, although the est on the road and in the the plugs appear to be on their best. garage. The man who takes the bebaviour when on parade, they trouble to get a fair knowledge of may go on strike when under com- the internals of his machine places himself in a better position to pression in the engine. :
This Hittle problem has proved appreciate what is necessary to pons asinorum to mazy A keep it in condition and reduce motorist who thought he had since wear, and also it will make him passed that bridge of size. So always remember that, though a
mote careful in his driving. plug may spark beautifully outside the engine, it does not follow that it will spark when in place.
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And the reason? Just because the compression of the engine makes it harder for (a) the spark te jump the gap between the points, and (b) the internal insulation of the plug to stand up to its work.
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bend ahead never overtake a vehicle | handbrake. A light movement: of on one: wait until you 'can get into the handbinke often gives better the straight and see your way clear. I deceleration than the rough applica- Treat everything and averyone as tion of the footbrake. It also causes if they will probably do something less strain and less tyre west. extremely silly, and you will go far hills use the two brakes alternately. on the line of safety first. Never Learn traffic hand signals and use turn out of one road into another | them. at speed or into the centre of the road you are entering. Keep strict- ly to your correct side and tako things slowly.
road crossing the foot of a hill. If Beware, also, of the secondary.
the hill be steep, get into second, or even low gear and switch of the engine. This will help you to keep control of the car
Learn To Reverse Wall. And do lears how to manage pr manœuvre a car in a confined space. people's tempers Take the car to It saves your pocket and other an unfrequented side street så often straight backwards, round the turn- as you can and practise driving ing into another street, and mark certain points to represent obstruc- tions and drive between and round them.
Legal Half Of The Road, If you have no previous road ex-
Hill Failure Wind " Perience, you will find at first that your greatest fault will be in- Make proper use of your gears. In the straight street map out decision. Your legat half of the The power of an engine depends with two stones or paper a space upon its revvings." Don't wait between two imaginary stationary road is the left, but remember the until your engine's "revs." have, cars at the side of the road and saag of the pedestrian. His place slowed down before changing into practise getting your car into that
the next lowest gear. is his right hand side of the road,
Change space near to the kerb. down fairly early before the Drive forward until you are level and if you meet one you must pass gradient stiffens, and keep up your with the radiator of the first him on his left hand side. It is engine's speed. If your engine fails imaginary car and than reverse on a really bad hill and you get into the space. If you misjudge very much the same thing with
windy, get into reverse gear, switch things, stop, go forward again, and horses. More often than not you off the engine, and drop down the then reverse. Remember the rear will and them coming into the hill slowly by declutching and wheels do not follow the track of traffic on their right hand side. Itching the low reverse gear and the front wheels, but describe a
the brakes combined will keep the more acuto circle.
car from running away. Learn to Do not move the steering wheel judge distances and speed on the until the car is moving. To force level, and you will be able to con- the front wheels over by the steer trol your car without constant Fing wheel when the car is stationary
Troubles-Big" and Little. If, therefore, our diagnosis is now correct, must prescribe the millimetre, or, roughly, the thick- "closing up of the gaps" to 4 ness of a fairly stout visiting card. If the plugs, especially the mica type, function well to start with, and then show signs of fading away when the engine and plugă get hot, it is safe to assume that one or more are being led, the man the plug insulation has become will be on the horses' side further faulty. Was it Bernard Shaw who said Scrap the whole dam lot? is most from the kerb, that is, between Colonel Warren points out that Anyhow, that is the procedure-1 the animals and the oncoming braking. Cultivate the use of the imposes a bad strain on the gear.
leave the choice of bad language to traffic. I man is riding one add leading the other, he will be seated Should you find that carburetter and the plugs all functioning cor-
on the horse furthermost from the rectly, and still no life in the en-kerb. Pass on the left-hand side, gine say only spluttering-then otherwise the side nearest to th your trouble is more serious. It will probably be traced to faulty
driver or leader. valve or valves, or possibly the The most uncertain thing on the magneto timing will have come de-road is the pedestrian who is walk- ranged. Can handie, either of
nowadays the police are opposed by skilled criminals accustomed to use motor-care" to escape, confident in the knowledge that outside London they have little to fear from police (Continued at foot of next column)
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When the Rocker Doesn't Rock..
k. Another fairly common uncom mon. defect is that known as the sticking rocker arm," or a rocker arm that doesn't rock. You need not be afraid of rectifying this. S'easy.
Symptoms of the complaint: Engine has been running perfectly you stop it and yourself-say for a cup of tea or similar short inter- lude." You go to start up; cagine still mite and warm; starter buzzes her round in fire style; you even food.the carburetter-but the en- gine" refusals point blank.
་་་ You can put, on your best I know all about it" air and say "Rocker arm stuck up." It's long odds, in the circumstances given, that you will be right. If you have arrived near the seaside from an inland place, or, the atmosphere is abnormally damp, the odds are still more in favour of the diagnosis, as either of those conditions tends to enhance the likelihood of the defect. Take out the contact breaker and reamer out the little brust in which the rocking arm rocks. The central screw which you have to take out to remove the contact breaker can be used as a reamer. You must never all the fibre bush-keep it clean and dry.
A STRENUOUS ROAD TRIAL.
LONDON TO. EXETER AND
BACK
The_all-through-the-night drive from London to Exeter and back. next day is one of the few sporting events that grow in popularity each year. It took "some" hours to send off 332 competitors from Slough on their long and tantalising journey Just month. The road to Exeter is easy enough to follow and presenta no difficulties in the ordinary way, but the route as planned anew each year by the officials of the Motor Cycling Club is meant to surprise- the competitors in the most unex- pected way, and test their abilities to the fall. The weather converted, the event into a dismal procession, and so many of the machines were waterlogged or otherwise disabled that it proved a most disappointing exhibition of mechanical endurance.
puranit. He intends, therefore, that the motoring knowledge of his men shall be actively employed to form a patrol with fast cars at their disposal ready to beat the modern criminal at his own game. Buch a patrol, he consideri, will also bë much more effective than the foot constables in dealing with the dan gerous motorist, who will have reasons to be more cautious.
kerb in the direction of your travel. He may bolt to his right or to his left. Slow down almost to a stop," if necessary, until he decides.
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