WHEN A VALVE SPRING BREAKS.
Do not be annoyed if a valvo spring should break and no extra spring be available. A motal Washer with a holo larger than the valve ntom should ho placed between the two parte of the spring. This provents their coil- ng around oach other and so will sorve until a now spring can * to obtained.
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EXHILARATING MOTOR CYCLINU,
"If I were 25," remarked Sir artin Conway, the woll-known explorer, the other day to “Quoz" of The Evening News, whon ko daw a youngster passing him by en a motor cyolo, "that it what I should like to be doing. Caroering along, guiding my own machine, getting the exhilarating cur through the air an t-tonio."
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SATURDAY. OCTOBER ́4, · 1924.
PASSING OTHER CARS,
SOME SAFETY SUGGES- TIONS.
As moro accidents occur in attempting to go past othor care proceeding in the same direction. than under almost any other con- ditions, the following Batoty sug- gostions are offered: Don't bo too ambitious to passing cars on orowded roads. Bo espoolally GoBservativo about it unlous your car has rapid acceleration and rstrato braking power. Novor attempt to pass without sounding the born and being sure that it has been heard. Don't try to pass more than one car at once, Don't cut in front of a passed car, too sharply. Rufrain from passing
unless there is plenty of froo space on right sido of the travail-i ed way, avoiding passing on hridges, underpasses, ambank- mo ta and roads with guard rails. Never try to pass on road inter- sections. It goes without saylig that any attempt to pass a car excopt on its right side is utterly inexcurable, if not worse. While shore is always danger that the ear being passior may swing to its right and collide with or ditch the passing car, the danger of collision with cars moving in the opposite direction is far greater. Therefore, novor try to do any passing unless the road' 'and approaching traffic, can be That the married man is less seen for a safe distance ahead.. | inclined to fit from one job to On tlus account nover another, that he is steadier inry to (185 ດາ curves, his working habits; but fitress unless the roadsides are clear of to Attiva an Automobilo istreos, buildings or other obstruc Automobilo drivers between a matter of intelligence,. caution tions to view, for a sufficient dis It is important to keep the the ages of 30 and 39 years are and quick novous reaction to lance, and avoid passing when valves of an engine properlyst likely to have accidents, the needs of a sudden emergency nearing the top of a hill, the
while those between 20 and 29-feur roaction, psychologists brow of which may conceal ap ground and in correct adjusL-
are not constitutionally #feall it. All of this has nothing to preaching cars. Passing on up- ment at all times, Valves that careful.
do with the driver's habits as grades is injudicious, taloss have became warpod or pittad These facts have beon revealed affected by his 'economic stalas, one's car has ample hill-climb- under high heat, or that are by Dr.. A. J. Snow, a famous "In going over the accident ng power as compared with tho "riding" ty to inflicient American psychologist, who is records of drivers we classed as ear to be passed and in passing clearance, all result in a direct the National Association of dents, and as single those who remember that his ability to stop making a series of investigations married all those who had dopen-on steep downgrades one should power tous. Scored cylinders or Taxesh Owners with a view to hurl no dopomitents. The records is car is very much reduced. bad-fitting piston rings, faulty working out a series of pay-show that the married status The ideal conditions undor which fignition, due to doid or foulded ehological costs which may he has no effect upon the accidento pass the other fellow is on a
spark plugs, incorrect timing and applied to drivers averywhere records. A married man is as to determining if lik. ly to have automobila weak electrical output, are all with a view conductive to excessive dilution, they are safe persons to place at mashups as a single driver. If the oil level doon not indicate the steering wheel of a taxicab,
motorbus, or other automobile. an apparent consumption tho rate
Dr. Snow has investigated the
SOME MORE TIPS,
MEN BETWEEN 30 AND 39 HAVE FEW MISHAPS.
Age suomed to have a mor: important hearing on the matter. Drivers from 20 to 29 yours of
right, lovel strotch of road, with plenty of leeway at its right| ido, and with no cars visible moving in the opposite direction or a disance within which one is tortain that passing can
ffected. If no passing wore at- empted exo-pt undor the above conditions, there would be very
bo
of raw fuel dilution in approach-accident records of several thou-age had considerably more se ing a dangerous stage and the and Chicago taxicab drivere, and cidonts against them than thos only remedy is to correct the has chucked them against the between the ages of 30 and 39," mechanical defect. If the cylin-gradings of the Samo neu ay This is believed due to the facow mix-ups. Trucks have to be dera are out of round, tapered or shown by the texts ho han work that the older man has had his passed frequently on account of scored, have them roground and ad gut. In almost every caso, it caution developed by experience heir slow speed, but it is now pistons and rings rofitted. has been found, the man who makes to a greater extent than the always a risky proceeding ou ac- When excessive wear has sot in
poor grado in the test has younger, and also to the fact that count of the road width they the use of a heavier oil will not an unfavourable accident record, his nervous reaction to enor occupy and the fact that their elfoviate the condition. Such while the man who makus agency needs in automobile driv-porators usually cannot hear practica temporarily acts as a good grade is found to haveling has been stimulatod,
narcotic, only to invite trouble of a different nature later on. It is imponsible to replace motal that has been worn away with [ heavier-bodied lubricant.
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one's horn or even 820 one's car, if the load is a bulky ono. Paon "The old supposition flont
ing a truck at night is safor than married mon are less likely than single men to have atttomo deof 1920, the number of motor
From 210,00 at the beginning by days, because its operator can
нас usually
ono's headlight accidents has been definitely cycles in U.S.A. has declined smooth space on its right side beams. A wide road with lots disproved by our investigation; stondily until now it is only 120 is the safest place to pass theso declared Dr. Snow, "It may be 336, Cheap autos is a big reason.wirlo, noisy vobicles,
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