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FOR THE

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY: OCTOBER 1, 1927.

MOTORISTI

ALBERT L. CLOUGH

STARTING WITH A WEAK BATTERY,"

If the ignition-switch has been that four dry cells will furnish ig- accidentally. left on overnight or nition current to enable an en- lights have been thoughtlessly left fine to be started by handcranking, if they are connected up in place of burning for a long time, the battery the storage battery." Even flash- is likely to be found too low to oper-light cells have been utilized for ate the starter. It may, however, this purpose in an emergency. prove strong enough to furnish ig nition, current, so that the enging

Guarantees on Ĉars.

Question: When a person buys can be started by: hinderunking, a new car, what guarantee does he and. If there is anyone about receive? It is my understanding! "husky" enough to perform this that he is guaranteed to receive a operation successfully, it will then car in first class condition and capable of working antisfactorily. merely be necessary to let the en: Supposing that, after a car runs gine run idle a few hours to charge 500 miles trouble develops in it, con the battery sufficient to make the the purchaser insist upon a new Starter function. But if there is car?

Answer: Manufacturers warrant no one about capable of starting the that their cars, when delivered, are engine by hand, or if the battery is free from defects in material and too far gone even to furnish igni-workmanship, under normal use, tion and there is no spare battery but the obligation they assume un- available to qubstitute for the dead der this warranty holds for 90 days only and they bird themselves one, it may still be possible to get solely to replace (under conditions the engine going, by the help of an- prescribed by them) such parts as other ear. This can be used to tow prove defective within the above the disabled car, with high gear en-named period. You will find this gaged, clutch held out, and ignition warranty reprinted in nearly all awitched on and when it is moving instruction books and we shall soon publish an article dealing with this at 15 or 20 miles per hour, by en gaging the clutch, the engine will subject. A purchaser has no begin to turn over, the generator Fround upon which to base a claim: will charge and furnish ignition for another car, in case one which current and the engine will begin he has had delivered to him proves to run, when the cars can be stop-tefective, but he can claim replace- ped and the engine of the towed car ment of defective parts within three can be idled, at a speed just high months of the delivery date. enough to develop full charging cur-

rent, for a few hours, which should

be long enough to give the battery

Noise Valves. .

Question: How can I stop the

a charge sufficient for starting valves of my car from tapping purposes. In case no towing con- so loudly? I cannot set them with nexion is at hand, the able car can any less clearance or I shall lose Would new valves run any push the disabled one, using the power. front bumper of the former and quieter?

Answer: If the valve stems are the rear bumper of the latter as the power transmitting connexion. If very loose in their guides, there is there happchs to be a piece of down-likely to be unnecessary noise when grade road nearby, to which the car they set and if you find this trou- can be pushed by hand, no tow carble to exist, you better pat in) will be needed, as when the ear is new guides and valves or instal running down the hill the engine new valves with oversize stems and can be started on generator current, have the guides reamed out to fit in the manner described above. It them. It is possible that this tap- is well to stop as soon as the engine ping noise is not made by the valves starts and preferably before the car themselves but by the valve lifters, is all the way down the grade, so which may have become loose in that, if the engine stalls, it can their guides, in which case new again be 'started by the kindly force guides and new lifters would cor-i of gravity. It goes without saying rect the trouble.

AN INEXPENSIVE TOUR.

1,000 Miles for Three Guineas.

(By A Woman Owner-Driver, in the Daily Mail.)

which spelled a 20 minutes delay for us. That bridge is an inachro- nism.

Bournemouth, with its hordes of beretcapped motor-cyclists, its pil- lion girls, and ils eight-miles-an- hour crawl along the front, was de- lightful but crowded. We went west, dropping down the steep hill into Lyme Regis, drowsily sunning itself at the foot. Nature has) provided the town with natural de-. fences against motorists. The niin street has a one-in-five up- ward tilt.

"

Carrying a passenger and lug

A policeman was busy scribbling gage for two, Jane (my little coupe) and I have returned from a fort-lown the numbers of a few cars "Can't park night's 1.000-miles holiday tour of perched along it. the South Coast and Cornwall. Ex here," he said of Jane, briefly."

"But we want to have luncheon." penditure, so far as the car is con-

"Can't park here." cerned, was ludicrously low:

. Petrol

Oil..... Washing (twice) Garage

£ 9. d. 21 0

05 0

0 9 0

0 7

6

£3.2 G

From this you will gather that Jane spent some nights out in the open in hotel courtyards and did not get all the washing and polishing she so thoroughly deserved.

Jane Camps Out.

At Eastbourne our hotel, one of the biggest there, had a garage. But it could accommodate only about half a dozen ears and was apparently locked up at about 8.30 each night. So Jane said she didn't mind roughing it in the open. At Worthing we got garage accommo- dation free. That was better!'

At Bognor they have u novel way of ensuring good patronage of the band performances. We parked on the front, and up came a policeman. "Mustn't park here if you are leaving your car," he said affably.

"But we want to listen to the band." £59.0.0. "Oh," he replied, "that's all right, then. You can stop in your car and listen, but you mustn't leave How it and listen!"

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So we went through carpet and lace towns to Exeter, where we had a belated lunch-ten and wondered if the miss of a meal would not be excellent for the slimness of our sil houettes.

A pleasant run acfoBя Devon brought us to North-west Cornwall, whore Tintagel and its romantic E legends of King Arthur and his Round Table so enchanted us that we made it our headquarters. The smallest school-child there knows more about the adaptations of Ma- lory and Tennyson than the average grown-up Londoner. Many of the coast roads there are narrow and The sign-posts sadly precipitous. need attention.

On the seaweed-covered rocks at Port Isaac I found fishermen sort- ing out huge crabs and lobsters destined for London. I learned to distinguish Mr. Crab from Mrs. Crab. The local fisherfolk calli them "Jacks" and "hens."

At St. Enodoc we played golf.

Record Homeward Journey. We left Cornwall after breakfast -at 10 a.m. to be precise-and had covered the 230 odd miles back to London by dinner time. I checked the homeward run on the speedome- ter and found; as most other light- car owner-drivers have found, that it was difficult to do more than 80 miles in an hour. In 71⁄2 hours, not counting an hour's stop for luncheon, Jane had covered 208 We whisked along to explore the miles, working out at about 27/ beauties of the New Forest, and miles to the hour. Without being then pushed on from Lymington toiduly boastful, Jane and I regard Bournemouth. This is a favourite that as a good average.

An Antediluvion Bridge.

road with motorists. We came to We had no punctures or engine a bridge wide enough for only one trouble whatever. Perhaps this stream of traffic. Consequently was because we carried Tom Web- there was a Picadillian traffic block ater's "George" as our mascot.

RIGH

Charm There is an irresistible

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But Packard's prestige is based upon

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