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210
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255
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240
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270
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320
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405
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DEATH OF MR. J. W. PACKARD.
A Motoring Pioneer.
The death of J. W. Packard re- cently at Clevoland recalled to the minds of many veterans of the au- tomobile industry outstanding con- tributions to the motor car Indus- try made by the originator of the Packard automobile. Many things now used on all cars were the in- vention of Mr. Packard more than. a quarter of a century ago,
J. W. Packard and his brother W. D. Packard werd prosperous
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and electrical supplies at Warren, Ohio, when they decided to build an automobila. Their car completed November 6, 1899. It' a success that.friends was such forced them to build others and in short time the Packard Motor Car Company was launched.
The Butterfly-valve in the car-line, than is the conventional air-manufacturers of electric lights buretor air inlet-the choke-has intake choke-valve. Carburetora long been recognized as a crude embodying these, improved start device, capable of harmful effects, ing and warming-up features are cupecially if unakillfully used, but appliable to cara not so equipped. has been regarded by most manu-
Starting Car on Hills." facturers as a necessary evil. Its failing is that its effect in Question. I have lots of trouble enriching the mixture to enable an re-starting my car, after I engine to start is usually exces have been forced to stop it on an The first car, designed and built sive unless very carefully moderat-upgrade., The engine often stalls by J., W. Packard with the usaist ed, and that during the starting and I have to try several times ance of W. D. Packard contained and warming up process, as per-before I get the car going. Can the basis for the automatic spark. formed by the average operator, you give me any pointers?
advance now used on all cars. A quantities of gasoline out of ali Answer. The principal thing to patent on the devico was granted proportion to the actual require-remember is that it takes much Mr. Packard two years later. In ments are drawn into the cylinders greater engine power to start a car addition to an automatic advance and crankcase, with detrimental upgrade than to start it on the the original patent covered niechan- effects upon lubrication. What is level. The engine must be rupiam for producing a spark of con- required in-n mixture enriching ning faster and the throttle must stant, duration, regardless of the device, for starting purposes, be opened quicker and wider, be-speed of the engine, a feature with which is free from such exaggerat fore the clutch fully engages. out which automobiles now could ed action; which will rollably The fear that the car will start to scarcely run..
Wabbly Front Wheels,
and this too was covered by s. pat- by one of the largest manufacturers ent granted Packard,
Motorista "to-day can set the
Packard.
the use of sheet metal water jacket for the cylinders, first cm- ployed by the Packard brothers in the building of their cars in 1902.
made in the same manner now. The cylinders of practically ali water cooled airplane engines are
supply a readily Ignitable mixture, back downhill, often makes one The familiar "II" slot for shift- under most unfavourable circum nervous and the clutch is engaged ing gears, found on all motor care stances, but which cannot be mis-suddenly, when it is most neces-now manufactured, was another of sad so us to flood the engine sary that it be let in gently, so the better known mechanical fea- Carburetor manufacturers have as to avoid loading the engine too tures invented by J. W. Packard. recently brought out several forms suddenly and thereby stailing it. The first Packard car had a cross of starting contuels which seem Probably the best procedure is to spring at the front and similar to to fulfil these requirements. In hold the car by setting the hand that used for a number of years one of these, instead of choking brake, throw out the Clutch, The air as it enters the carburetor engage low gear, speed up the and thus making it possible for engine slightly with the hand the engine to draw gasoline with throttle and then try to operate throttle control of their cars on almost no air, a properly propor-accelerator, engage clutch and re- the steering post and operate the tioned and adjusted choke ia lease handbrake almost simul-foot accelerator without disturbing applied to the throat or venturi taneously, so that there shall be the setting of the hand control be of the carburetor mixing-chamber, plenty of power to start the car, around the gasoline jet, which rejast as the brake lets go. Gentle cause of another invention of Mr. duces the flow of air past the ich, chutch engagement, with plenty of ent on this device, now universally
He was granted a pal increasing the suction therent and gas, accurately timed with brake used, in 1905. thus the proportion of gasoline release, will give perfect results.
One of Mr. Packard's original which it supplies to the mixture. Why don't you practice this opera-inventions played an important The control, which operates this tion on a hill on a quiet road, until part in the Liberty motor. It was venturi-choke, is so interconnected you fully master it? with the throttle-valve as to open the latter just enough to give the engine a suitable idling speed Question: The front wheels of during the warming up period and my 1921 car shimmy, especial. constriction around the jet to pro-Can you tell me what is the trouble to insure the proper degree of fairly when going over a rough road. duce an adequately rich mixture, and suggest a remedy? without lability of flooding. Answer-Shimmy of this kind Another arrangement consists of as most likely to be caused by lost special starting and warming-up motion between the wheels and the jet, with its venturi opening into steering device, due to wear, which the main mixing chamber, which leaves the wheels free to wabble,ed on which the original patents is put into action by means of the and ordinarily, when all such so-called choke button. In the backlashis removed and the case of carburetors of the metering wheels are positively controlled by valve Lype, the starting device so the steering device, the trouble moves the metering valve as lofcenses. Correct any serious loose- greatly increase the amount of ness found at any of the following gasoline which can pass it, thua points: End connexions of the enriching the mixture so long as tie-rod, at knuckle-pins and bush- that difficulties in filing suitable materials was one of the greatest the valve is in the starting or ings, at the ends of the drag-link troubles experienced in the early "choke" position. A priming and in the steering column
duys. Armour plate steel sheets' device, admitting liquid gasoline mechanism, See that knucklo into the intake just above the arms are rigid in their knuckles. Kave the only steel that could be throttle-valve, is sometimes made Make sure that wheel alignment is found suitable for making gear wheels. It, ruined the tools which use of separately or in conjunction correct. Do not try to drive with were used to turn out the gears, with other enriching devices. All front tyres at too, low inflation. of these devices are far more near-See that there is no serious loose- ly" foolpropf," as regards freedomness at front-spring ends and that from flooding engines with gaso-their clips are tight,
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Most of the patents issued to Mr. Packard for motor care have ex- pired but a large number are as universally used as these mention-
Important as they have been in the industry, it is believed that some of the original Packard developments with materi als for cars overshadowed them.
have also expired.
In an interview some time before
his last illness J. W, Packard said
however.
Because of the endless trouble encountered with grades of steel then available and in machining them, the Packards were forced into intensive research in heat The sole motor-cycles were the treatment of metals. The Packard first to ascend, and though the company, through the start made majority conquered the
hill, by J. W. Packard and the work several failed and charged the which has been continued since the banks or began to run backwards carllest days of the company, has been credited with a great part in London to Land's End town the T-in-4 gradient.
the heat treating science, one of the greatest contributing influences in the present mechanical age.
PROCESSION.
Test.
'London, April 9. The 320-miles journey of the London to Land's End motor trial organised by the Motor Cycling Club was covered by those who completed the course in just under twenty hours each.
The loose stonen on the surface made control difficult.
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Up.
Competitors Give Up. From Beggars' Roost, which the vanguard reached at 6:30 a.m., to South Molton it was very hard going, and a number of the com- petitors had given up before reach- Of the 553 competitors. who made for luncheon. More than a ing Launceston, where a stop was entered 474 finished the course score of the motor-cycles failed These included 236 solo motor.
An annual survey of automobile to reach this point. cycles, 74 side-cars, 19 three that number of sidecars, 3 cycle- mobile
About half taxation by the American Auto- Association reveals the wheeled cycle-cars, and 145 cars.
ears, and not quite 30 cars were fact that state motor vehicle taxes The first competitor left Slough also missing when the check was increased three times as much as at 8.30 p.m. on Friday and from
made,
the registration and that the thence onwards, at half-minute
Only 90 miles now remained to average tax for the entire country intervala for motor-cyclists and later at minute spacings for car be covered. From Launceston a went up 10 per cent. since 1926.
The automobile owners, it ap drivera, the long procession was new route was followed through
Camelford and Wadebridge to pears, has finally been accepted as despatched Into the west until at
Perranporth, and then the difficult the national tax goat.. License 2.33 a.m. on Saturday,
gasoline taxes, personal By this time the leaders were in climb round the two successive foes, Somerset, 120 miles on their way, hairpin bends at Bluehills Mine property taxes and the national and were nearing Taunton, where was made thence to Portreath excise tax have been hung on him and Hayle by twisting roads into until he is looked upon as the an hour was spent for breakfast.
Aaviour of local governments from Penzance. The fine weather had made the
financial bankruptcy. roads perfect, and with the full sky, made lamps almost unnecesto
Then 'followed the last twelve
Land's End.
But there should be a limit to
moon, shining from a cloudless miles of tortuous and dimeult road this. Taxes, the A. A. A. points
sary.
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out, have run so fast that they are The first man to conclude the 278 per cent, higher, per vehicle than they were in 1919. And since then, let it be recalled, the national excise or var tax has been reduced to 3 per cent.
run was No. 1, D. F. Welsh, who, on a little 1-h.p. Francia-Barnett, The main test of the run was in had been the first competitor the Somerset and Devonshire hills, despatched from Slough on Friday which the head of the long proces-evening, and who was timed-in at sion reached soon after daybreak. Land's End at 3.55% p.m. on
There were four observed hilla Saturday.
Most taxation is in the form of Yet the state gasoline revenue.
this may go even higher, if motor- -Porlock, Lynmouth Hill, Beg- As standard time was 4. p.m., late don't join in a united protest gars' Roost, just before leaving and according to the rules no com- against a practice that may become Somerset, and Bluchilla Mine, near petitor wishing to earn a gold a habit. Perranporth, Cornwall.
medal could be more than ten The American Automobile Asso-
At Beggars' Roost there were minutes early or late at any check, tion and its associated clubs are about 5,000 spectatora on the he was within his schedule. For doing a vallant service in trying grassy banks, and for miles the the following six hours, until 10 to keep automobile taxation down roads were congested with motor p.m., the huge procession kept to a reasonable limit-American vehicles.
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