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THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1929.

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One car to every three persons! For those who require a quiet, That is the amazing claim made for smooth, town-carriage type of car the State of Columbia-a little at a reasonable price, the new 17-50 patch of land measuring (original! h.p. six-cylinder Flat will particu- ly) ten miles by ten, wherein nolarly appeal. The car is not excep one votes and wherein is built tionally fast, but the section of the America's beautiful capital city of motoring community which requires Washington. Three persons to this type of vehicle does not usually every one car!

This is the situa-regard high speed as being an asset.. tion in Washington-wherein I re-A curious point, is that, even so, the Bided recently for six months, writes Fiat can keep up a round pace and a correspondent.

|a 'high averago; it can, indeed, be When one first arrives in Wash-driven rather ter than the normal ington one gets the impression that rate of traffic ven on the best of there must be a race or a carnival the main arterial roads, without In progress, or something of an showing any sign of distress or equally exciting mature, to bring giving evidence that the engine.is out cars in thousands. For, day overworking, the best running speed and night, the streets are lined with being between 35 and 40 m.p.h. cars-yes, by night, too, for there For town work the machine le are thousands upon thousands of admirable, the engine being smooth cars which have never seen the in-at one time almost completely alde of a garage aface the first day, silent--and flexible from about 10 they were put into service. They m.ph.. upwards. As in the case of stand like faithful steeds outside, other Fiat models, the gear ratios, their masters' houspa.

particularly top speed, tend to be There is no way adequately to low, an arrangement which possesses describe the feeling of 'amazement the advantage that most of the with which one first sees car after day's work can be done on top gear car parked one behind the other only; acceleration on top in traffic before house after house and down is very good, as the table shows. street after street. Here and there

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will be a break in the long lines to The gears are reasonably quiet allow the regulation distance from and are easy to handle, the steering a fire-plug to be observed,

or to gear has a low ratio so that the big allow the streets to intersect, or to machine can be manoeuvred easily make way for a private entrance in a confined space, and the sus- for vehicles. The regulations as to pension allows the car to ride easily parking are very strict and every over rough roads as befits an vehicle must be parked facing in the Italian machine--especially when direction in which it would normally, fully loaded. When running light, be travelling-you will not see two or at low speed, the springs are a parked cars facing one another in little hard. On the indirect years America. In the one-way streets there is just about the usual amount traffic may sometimes park on both of noise, no more, no less, and on sides, but it must then all point in first the car should be able to climb the one direction. The queerest the side of a house," as the saying experience I had was to drive down runs. Certainly

1 in 72 A fairly lone one-way street be-gradient there is plenty of throttle tween two long rows of cars with in reserve, even on second gear. just enough room for my car to Then, again, the gas distribution is squeeze through-it was ke drive good, there being no flat spot in the ing to a race meeting, except that throttle range, even while the car is i it was about eleven o'clock at accelerated from a walking pace on night.

top gear by opening the throttle suddenly to the full.

The brake actuation in inter-

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CLUTCH CARE

Intelligent use by drivers of the clutch can do more to lengthen its life than good construction in the Periodic drainage of the oil factory. Proper engaging and reservoid is one of the most im- disengaging at the correct time, parking at certain hours, or in cer- over one can well imagine that the

by means of notices which prohibit esting. When the car is first taken !. portant details in the efficient and intelligent use of the gearitain places, or ation of the old oil in the crank-activity period. Never drive with Business houses may obtain police powerful form of mechanical servo of the car, as this comes into opern- operation of a car. Upon examin-shift, will materially lengthen its

ever altogether. brakes are operated by a very notices reserving them a certain! case you will probably find that the foot poised on the clutch pedal section of the pavement. During motor, but the brake shoes at the tion whenever the hand brake is on, it has been thinned in use. for this tends to keep the clutch the day it is the down-town sec-rear have a self-wrapping action Chemical analysis would show the presence of a varying percentage of fuel (motor spirit), depending chiefly upon the way your car is operated, the length of time the oil has been allowed to remain in the crankcase, and thec ondition of the engine.

motor. Actually there is no servo

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of leaving the car in a garage with

and there is a possibility, therefore,

the stop notice alight all night, thus imposing an unnecessary drain upon the batteries.

partially disengaged, encourages tions of the town which are crowd- and the actuating mechaniam slipping, and damages the clutch through overheating. Never "slip"

ed (and this "day" extends until]

very powerful. the clutch

As a result, the after theatre time), but at night' to aid the engine in the congestion shifts more to the

Car can be stopped in an extra- palling over a hill in top gear. suburbs. The difficulties of ob- ordinarily short distance, but the

Never coast with the clutch out! until certain that it is fully dis-that it is actually no advantage to

driver should taining parking, room are so great

uss the pedal care- fully at low speeds until he has be- engaged, and the engine is idling, use a car at certain times of the come accustomed to the car, other.in the main fuel tank, the tool box

wise the wheels are liable to lock

Air and Oil Cleaners Provided There is a reserve compartment

is conveniently carried on the run- ning board, and the spare wheel is strapped in position rigidly on one The standard fabric saloon is of the front wings. In .common

In making use of the carburet- If the clutch is disengaged, the day for town purposes. Many a ter choke valve to start the en-ammeter should show discharge, time during my residence in Wash- suddenly. gine, a large amount of fuel Considerable damage can be done ington I have ridden four blocks to drawn into the manifold and to the transmission, clutch, unl

a theatre and have had to go three'

the other way to find part

Four Wide Doors

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very volatile portions of this ing down-hill with the clutch dieing space; this is sheer waste of, an ample view all round, since there windscreen wiper will not function?

evaporate to form the explosive engaged, especially if engaged time and money in the ordinary mixture. Part of the remaining liquid fuel mixes with the lubri- suddenly after the car has gained

the crankcase and diluting the oil there. The remainder, and by

far the larger part, is blown out through the exhaust and is wast-

sand.

way..

can be fitted into when rained,

vacuum

When the liquid fuel has mixed the clutch In slowly while the en./not hesitate to use if ocension de- 'squab altered to suit the driver's feul tank, which incidentally is i

value of the oil are decreased. practically in proportion to the amount of fuel present.

Hence the necessity for drain ing the crankcase.

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TIMELY ACROBATICS

are three lights on each side, while at full throttle, but it is officient in the roar window is of. considerable all other circumstances. There are cant on the cylinder walls, and momentum. Never race the engineį One would think that, with such,

size. The body has scats wide two useful cubby holes on either works down by the rings on the and engage the clutch when the a crush of traffic, driving would be enough for all requirements, the sides of the instrument board, the

bonnet sides compression stroke, escaping into rear wheels are caught in mud and an absolute impossibility... Not so front cushion being Sft. 8in. across

It is easy to tell. when a clutch that the difficulties are

American traffic control is such and the rear cushion 9ft. Gin. In retaining supports

consider-addition, there is a very comfortable which is a convenient point. The is grabbing, but if it slips, most ably smoothed out. The police act foot rest for the rear passengers, engine details are good; the main motorists seem unaware of their

Dil by-passeB ed.

plight. To test for slipping, simply

with plenty of "pep" and they are while the front,sest can be adjusted supply of engine set the emergency brake, and let armed with powers which they do fore and aft and the rake of the through a big filter; the with the lubricant oil on the

mands. I found then "good tastes. It is conveniant, aleo, to larger than usual, has a glass filter: cylinder walls and in the crank- gine is running, and the gears are scouts" on the whole, nevertheless, have four wide doors, three of and the air intake of the carburetter case the body and lubricating in low. The engine should stalli

air-cleaning Few Pedestrians

can be locked with the is provided with an Most clutches now Instantly if the clutch is right. The police. are supplemented ordinary trigger mechanism, while device.

As is usual with Italian cars, the have a simple with such contrivances as auto- the fourth has a key lock, so that adjustment to increase the clutch matic signals, one-way streets, all with the windows raised and the engine, if anything, is overcooled, plate or disc pressure as slipping one-way squares, and so forth, all doors locked the car cannot be which is a fault on the right side, develops.

of which contribute to traffic effi- moved by unauthorised persons the water being forced through the ciency: So far as the police are when parked. In addition, the gear tail end of the fan spindie, both fan jackets by a pump driven by the If your car is new, drain the crankcase after the first 250 miles

concerned John Brown the motor- lever can be locked in neutral and of travel. Thereafter drain every

jat seems to be quite distinct from the ignition switch can be locked in and pump in turn being driven by 1,000 miles during summer and

His Majesty the King has recent the same

a belt from the crankshaft just John Brown

the off position. every 500 miles during winter.

ly acquired a new car, his fifth in pedestrian; the average American

behind the damper. As a rule, n When draining of the crankcase twenty years. The Royal care are trame "cop" does not treat the

beit drive. for these components has oil is neglected to winter weather, so well kept that they are fit for motorist with the same considera- though it had been added to the car belt becomes too slack both the fan The speedometer looka a little as to be watched carefully, as If the serious trouble may also result duty many years after they have tion as he does the pedestrian, & as an extra, and surely a machine and the pump go out of action from an accumulation of sludge, been discarded. The new car is all fact, which is not to be wondered of this calibre should have a trip together, but the Fiat belt adjust- which may cover up screens or British with a "double-six" engine at considering how he is harassed as well as a total mileage recorder. ment seems to be easy to operate. stop up the oil lines or drillings, and is painted in the usual dark by the former.

TO CLEAN PLUGS Also an internal light and some form, cutting off the oil supply and caus-crimson. As is well known, the In Washington the pedestrian is of roof ventilator would be worth oil gun nipples, the engine off Aller A minor chassis bearings, have ing burnt out bearings.

King's cars carry no number plates, getting to be rather a rara avia, having, since the car becomes a little is on the same side as the dipstick, parts, namely, a rustproof steel railway line at Monstebelluna when Most plugs consist of three An Italian doctor was crossing a On commercial behicles drain a purple light on top indicating the end I have noticed that in America stuffy with the windows up, and it and the ignition distributor and body, a gland nut and an insulate his engine stopped as an express every 750 miles in summer and identity of the Royal.Motorist...generally the man in the atreat is inclined to be draughty, if both contact breaker are high above the ed central electrode, the insulated train from Padua came in sight. every 500 miles in winter.

treats the traffic with considerably, the driving compartment windows engine and quite accessible. The material generally being mica. Turning sideways in his seat, fitted with red and green lights and countries. Pedestrians do not often windscreen can be raised sufficiently takes very little time to warm up exact distance.) These towers are more respect than he does in other! are lowered.. The single-panel engine starts easily when cold, and To take it to pieces two apan he placed his hands on the nors will be needed, one of which steering wheel and somersaulted the traffic cops" take their cue take chances. Those who do are to ventilate the interior of the car when once started. During a night is employed to grip the plug body, over the rail. The train struck the from them. When no policeman is candidates for elimination in this thoroughly, but there are many run the head lights did not appear whilst the other is used to un- car and reduced it to fraginents, on duty the traffic in the streets merry illustration of the "survival occasions when this form of ventilas to be powerful, but it may have been screw the gland nut. You will be but the acrobatic doctor was only,

of the fittest"-"fittest" being (which run at right angles to the

that the battery of the particular able, then, to dismantle the plug bruised, and remarked, "Who can avenues) takes its cue from the synonymous with "wary" in this

caac. "Jay-walking" is not

It is obvious that the side lights car tested was not fully charged at and clean the central electrode traffic in the avenges,

have been added to the equipment the time.

with petrol-soaked rag. Outside of New York many healthy pastime In America to-day.

Do not damage the insulated mufflers or silencers for motor methods are used. For example, in In New York I saw a monument to comply with the lighting laws of Britain the extra "dimming" bulbs

THE MAGNETO-

material cycles and automobiles. Three prizes Washington there is first of all the erected to the memory of pedes

Also wash out, the plug body will be granted in each of three plain policeman with his whistle trians who had been killed by tax the head lamps are for Con-

These dimmer, bulbs On some cara the magneto is in with petrol and scrape away any cycle, motors for motor cycles, tion his chewing gum, his ready the number of deaths recorded to venient control on the centre of the misfiring and similar troubles may When you reassemble the parts categories: For mufflers for two- and his white gloves-not to men- cabs; on it was a plate on which tiental usa.

come into operation when a con- rather an exposed position, and carbon deposit you may find. 10,300, 6,000 and 1,000 marks, and tongue, a freely-displayed trun date was given anything to in- for four-cycle motors for automo- choon and that significant, though pire the people to be cautional future owner should remember that against the effects of moisture, rectly; if your car has coll igni steering wheel is used, but the result if the magneto is not proof take care to set the points cor biles, 8,000, 8,000 and 1,000 hardly perceptible bulge under his town employs various methods, al-

Speaking of traffic control, each for town work it is beter to move. If it le found that in heavy tainton, the gap should be .08 in., marks. Notification was be sent not Jacket. Then there is the same though the same general tendency out the head lights altogether, az magneto, dure can usually be namely, 02 in. Make sure, also, the main lighting switch, cutting water is apt to get into the but with a magneto it is smaller," Inter than Dec. 1 to the "Deutscher gentleman armed with a long pole is noticeable in them all. In New otherwise the battery current is effected by smearing vaseline or that the gland nut is screwed home Schaildampfer-Wettbetrieb, Land- Atted Into a revolving base and on York the main thoroughfares like grafenstrasse 18, Berlin, B. W. 62, top of which is a sign having the Fifth Avenue are installed with the main head lights are alight, of the contact breaket and dis where all particulare of the contest words "Go" and "Stop" printed on towers in the middle of the street, though that fact can easily be over tributor covers. The seating com

wasted, because the dimmer bulbs very thick grease around the edges tightly.; can also be obtained. The contest it in appropriate colours. At night and situated at Intervals of every locked. For general use, also, it pound should also be smeared is open to makers of mufflers in all time this arrangement is supple five or six blocks (forget the would probably be wise to incor-round the parts where the high cent of the cars are owned in towns countries. Delivery of entries monted by a lamp fitted with vibandin must be made between February 1 coloured lenses which is fixed on (Continued at foot of preceeding perate a switch to cut out the tension cables enter the distributor of ten thousand Inhabitants or up- and: May 1, 1929.

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illuminated stop notice at the hack casing.

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The Automobile Club of Germany. and the General German Automo bile Club have joined in establish- ing a prize competition for the best

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tion is not too convenient.

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In the U.S.A. more than 55 per

say I have never saved a life?" Probably, too, he congratulated himself on the fact that he was not driving a saloon!

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