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WHY DID IT HAPPEN ?" which had but

MR. C. D. LAMBERT'S PRACTICAL * HINTS TO MOTORISTS.

HOW CAREFULNESS SAVES BREAK- DOWNS-AND YOUR POCKET.

Seldom has a local Rotary Club address proved more popu lar than that given yesterday by Mr. C. D. Lambert on "Why the well-known did it Happen." Mr. Latumert is of course motor expert, whose hobby is helping fellow motorists out of troubles, so members realised that they were getting the best of advica on a subject that affects them closely.

As the Hon. Dr. Tao, president of the Club, who was in the Chair said; Mr. Lambert bad unveiled all the mysteries of the trade. Rotarian Shield was equally enthusiastic and suggested that the address be translated into Chinese, for the benefit of those who had Chinese chauffeurs.

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Rotarian Lambert's offer to give a practical demonstration of some of the points which he had dealt with in his address was greeted with applause and no doubt the Rotary Club will have the privilege of further motoring advice from this source.

WHAT NEGLECT OF SIMPLE PRECAUTIONS LEADS TO!

Mr. Lambert said:

In the course of my work as a repairer, on innumerable occasions I have had to remonstrate with

one of them perhaps no more than twelve inches or so away from the filling orifice of the tank.

*attention because the engine, a few minutes earlier commenced to misfire, be- haved most erratically and threat- oned to stop.

The driver pulled up, and, as he did so, noticed smoke 19suing from various poitita about the front of the vehicle. He had the wisdom promptly to turn uff the petrol .tap under the dashboard tank Then he got down, crened the bonnet, and found the carburet. on fire. ter flooding badly and It soon burnt itself out and the only damage was a scorched dash- board and bared high tension wires.

How did that happen; a back- fre into the carburetter might have caused it, but in this cras it was due to a broken high tension terminal, which allowed the spark- ing plug end of the wire to fall onto the float chamber; a series of sparks occured there, jumping to earth via the Boat chamber lid and ignited the pet within.

In another caro afletached wire from a plug was the cause of an expensive roplacent, the driver within ton in this instances miles of horse or a long days run, and when of the cylinders suddenly cruseo fire he refrain- ed from stoppig at once tu sce what was wig.

He had nead aboard and con- You may say "that nobody in more or less experienced owners their right mind would ever do i sidered held just as well "carry and drivers about their neglect of such a thing it is so obviously ask- Jon" and At things right the next the most simple precautions against ing for trouble." Yet I know of morning But at the bottom of a accident and mechanical derange-two cases in which transport cars long a steep hill, which was de- ment, and to spend no little time were completely destroyed for no cend at appreciably above the in explaining why such precautions; other reason than that the drivers legtimit, the engine refused to!

when the throttle was opened. were desirable and what might did what I have just mentioned,

was then Aparking plug wire wall happen if they were neglected. To give a very simple example of what I mean let me remind the experienced amongst my audience that they would never think of filling a dashboard fuel tank whilst a pair of lighted paraffin side lamps remained on their brackkets,

n

I have mentioned two disastrous

und detached, but refitting it "Bare ups and the cause of them did not enable the engine to be both, another which was brought to restarted, for only after an hour or two of fruitless effects made in my notice was far less serious

attempts to get it to restart was it found that he Magneto Armature its results, hut might have en

had "burnt out,' as badly as the other two.

It was a flare up UB

the

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The latter was due to running

bonnet, and attracted theiver's tinued at foot of nest column.)

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OBSERVATORIES. THE BALLOON BOY. THE

YES, it was a balloon!

Artloy shaded his eyes and

Do you know that to-dohe Jooked again to make sure. It was

memorates the founding

yellow, and it looked like a queer Groenwich observatory (16ruds

Observatorics date backncient along. There was a string tied to little misplaced aun as it floated of years. They existed most

it, and on the string something Babylon and in Egypted by seemed to be fastened. But the famous being that ndria in

balloon was so high that Paul could; Ptoimey Soter in however, 300 B.C. It was at an ob- only guess what the small object until the 16th cequipped for might be. The balloon was drift- servatory adequagations

ing lower now. Perhaps it would was land in the woods. astronomical Royal Obser built at Chesch was complet-

meadow.

STAMP COLLECTOR

Batteries.

Nearly all transport motors are now fitted with electric lighting and electric starting motors.

One precaution is positively es sentin! if they are to be maintain- ed in efficient condition."

with the detached wire; this had arranged slopping place. the effect of bringing the safety gap in the high tension circuit into use, but, as has occured in other cases, this fitting belied its name, possibly no harm would have re- sulted but for the rapid decent of USEFUL accessories in the study the hill, which implied a compara tively high engine speed with the

lates to the upkeep of batteries. of stamps may be summarized

natural accompaniment a "hercer" For the benifit of the inex-' briefly as follows: twęczers

current generated by the magneto:

perienced let it be said that each stamp tongs for handling your this in turn overstressing the in-

or

It re

"I won't lose sight of it," said stamps, magnifying glass for study-sulation of the armature because of cell of a battery womprises .num- vatory at Grtcent times sush Paul, as he ran along across the ing the design or paper, perforthe high resistance in the earth' tion gauge for determining the per-circuit due to the dimension of the foration of a stamp, watermark

safety gap.

The latter device is not intended detector for ascertaining whether

Kat

ed in 1875. and private, on institutionsave boen erected.

a large story at Parsonstown At his Obrd Rosso erected

in Irely mirror of which was

telesco diameter and cost six

Cheerio,

UNCLE JACK.

£20,0

Habit

dow-box down tɔ“grass."

YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE.

The wind tossed it here and there, and Paul followed wherever the balloon want. He had to climb the paper of a stamp is water-

ber or "plates" which should be kept continuously covered in a solution Bulphuric Acid and Dis tilled Water.

This solution must be maintain-

drometer with the deid at do de-.

a fence and cross a little brook, but marked or not, and lastly subscrip- to be in use for any length of time.ed at a definito strength, yaigély he didn't mind. Whore had that tian to same philatelic journal or Its purpose is to reduce the stresses between 1260 and 1200 en 4 Hy- balloon come from None of the magazine to keep you in touch with on the amature insulation when a children out here in the country what other stamp collectors are had such ballona. It must have doing and what new stamps are slipped out of the hand of some boy being issued each month. or girl in the town, and fosted

off to see what the country, was like.

lower the balloon came hobbing

Ottawa Postage Stamps.

Conference at Ottawa.

New Zealand Gets Penny Postage Back,

break occurs in one of the spark-grees Far. ing plug circuits; but the addition- al stress on that account is not en tirely removed by the safety gap end dependance on the gap for any.

The normal voltage of fully charged cell is between 2 and 2.1 and drops to 1.8 volts when prac tically discharged.

occurs.

Strangely enough no dimination Special postage stamps, bearing length of time is liable to and in Paul hurried on, for the balloon respectively portraits of the King trouble. Yet how frequently one of strength occurs if watsz be add- Dweller (showing friend

was making for the woods, and if and of the Prince of Wales, will be observes cars, particularly transed to maintain the level of the dow-sill garden)-" You see, we

solution, or the Electrolyte as it fere always used to lawn at it caught in a tree when he didn't issued by the Canadian Govern-port motora, being driven for miles frome, so we've put half-our-win- ace it, he would load it. Lower and ment to commemorate the Imperial and miles on end, the drivors quite is called, the reason is that, al- -unhoeding that their engines are though in the natural course of Tunning on three cylinders only-events the distilled water in tha It sailed under the branches of

Doubtless the cessation of firing solution is constantly evaporating a tall pine, and over a clump of

in one cylinder is sometimes due to no such loss of the sulphuric aciu saplings. Paul was out of breath,

The rate of evaporation of the but has had kept up with the run Penny postage was recently re-a short in the ignition circuit, such away thing, and was ready to catch stored in New Zealand, and great as a faulty plug and in that event water from the battery necessitates replenishment of fairly frequent- in the popular satisfaction. New the armeture of the magneto is not intervals, the frequency depending The solution of yesterday's puzzle it when he could." is as follows:~-

Then as it floated past a slender | Zealand claims to have been the likey to suffer; but it is a wise pre- mainly on the extent to which the oak tree, the string caught in first country in the world to intro- caution to investigate the cause battery is used and the time of

censes to fire......

Speaking generally, never more branch. The balloon wavered and duce universal-penny-postage. As immediately as soon as a cylinder the year.

Only when the misfire is found to than two to three weeks should tugged, but it was held fast, and a war tax the rate was raised to its journey from some unknown and 1d. and in 1931, us à means of be due to some cause other than a elaps without distilled water bes break in the high tensión circuit, ing added to each cell, so that the far-away point was ended!.. raising additional revenue.

is it safe to ignore the trouble and Electrolyte covers the tops of the

"¿Continued ̈on: l'age 3.) - |(Another tap. article neal week.) limp home or to the next pre-

CAMP CAME

FAME or CARE,

FARE

FIRE

To be Continued.)