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the running of your engine as com- pared with it in the ordinary alap- dash method, you will never bo satisfied without them
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CAR CLEANING HINTS.
Other Means Than Water.
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Another pleasant unnecessary that I have recently discovered is a rubber foundation to the floor! mats. In my car thera. is such a foundation, which consists of a "Pleasant Unnecessaries."
complete set of mats covering the In this connexion, I should like whole width and length of the to emphasise again that tt. is very floor boards, something like half an By John Priolenu.]
important that your thermometer inch thick, of a very resilient yet
Water is generally recognized as should show the temperature of firm material of the India-rubber the water as near the engine as order. It is anything but cheap, I the only effective medium for clean- An article I wrote a week or two the tend not in the radiator. believe, although I do not knowing a car, and the majority of ngo on the things I believe to be In some engines there is an im what the price is, but I think it absolute necessities in a 'modern monse difference between the two, well worth the money. car * hos brought me aand if you are going to control good deal of comment from temperaturen it is na well to do it readers. Our or two of them properly and accurately. take exception to my demand for steering wheel lighting switches, suggest what one of them calls and also to the hand-controlled radiator shutters on which I insisted.
motorists are no doubt sceptical that the operation can be satisfac- torily carried out by any other means. In this age of progress, however, nothing seems to be im- possible; in fact, one of the best- known concerns in England, J. Reckitt and Sons, Ltd., of Hull, have produced a preparation known as "Karpo" which enables one to dry- clean and polish a car in one opera- tion.
Pneumatic Upholstery. With this set of mats under the ordinary car mats there is no Some of the readers' comments vibration felt in either the back or the front seats. No matter how fast the engine may be running on any gear, not the slightest tremor can be detected by either hand or foot anywhere on the floor. The engine, as it happens, runs with leas vibration than most; in fact it
It hardly seems possible that can sou, but experiments on other such an operation could be carried runs with none at all; so far as I people's cars with this flooring has out without inflicting serious dam- convinced me that it is one of most age to the paint-work, but in the stration we came to the conclusion ecessary of the pleasant on-course of a very convincing demon- To conclude a list of pleasant that cleaning by this method did
1 A good flexible steering wheel unnecessaries
would add not seem to have any adverse Two cars liberally insulates the driver's hands, arms, pneumatic upholstery. Its place effect. shoulders and back from vibration is really much higher up in the covered with dry mud
and using only & either of the engine or of the road list, but sonic people may not at- Created, kind to an incredible degree, and tach the same importance to it as very small quantity of Karpol they!
"pleasant unnecessaries." About one of these, a flexible sicering wheel, I agree most heartily. I have used one of these wheels now for some three months, and al- though like most people to whom they are surrested I was at first quite incomprehensibly opposed to using it, it was not more than few hours before I reached the stage when I wondered how on earth we could have got on without such things all these years.
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It is, I suppose, the old story of personal taste, but I am convinced that anybody who has ever drives a car fitted with, at any rate, the headlights controlled from the wheel, would never willingly have the switches anywhere else. Ad my crities say, it is not a very long way to stretch forward to the in strument board in order to switch on. I quite agree, but it seems to me fairly obvious that anything which removes the necessity for taking your hand off the wheel, it is no exaggeration to say that it; 1 do myself. There is, to my mind, were quickly cleaned and given an especially at night, must be an ad- enables him to drive considerably no comparison whatever between excellent polish. The preparation vantage and not a disadvantage. further without failgue than the comfort of long drives seated is applied on a rag, and after the The question of cost can hardly would be possible with the rigid on air and sented on horse-hair-mud has been rent ved another rag enter into it at all, as I showed by type. They are not cheap com-and-aprings, or whatever it is the is used to give the final polish. "A quoting a really low-priced car pured with the latter, but they are, orthodox cushion is made of feature of Karpol is the exception- which has this a a standard fit-in my opinion, absolutely Invalu There is nothing much in it, perally, small amount of "elbow-grease" able. They are most specially to haps, in short and slow trips, but necessary-far less than that "re- As regards the hand-controlled be recommended to the owners as soon as you set your car's nose quired when using metal polish- radiator-shutters in conjunction of very small ears in which the for the blue, so to speak, knowing while a two-shilling tin is sufficient with the thermometer, I agree that driving seat is cramped. The that you have to keep up a decent to clean the car from 18 to 24 times. this winy perhaps not be looked flexibility is naturally not very average for several hours a day, It will therefore be seen that this upon as a necessity by those who great as mensured--that is to say, you will be very wise to have those method of cleaning is economical, are not interested in getting the you cannot bend the rim of the lightly inflated cushions in place although naturally a good deal of
rag is necessary. best out of their car or in running wheel very much-but the man of the ordinary kind.
I put pneumatic upholstery, the Karpol also is an excellent grease It at its most geonomical-very who finds difficulty in getting into often the same thing. Yet again 1 his driving-seat and who is becom flexible steering-wheel and rubber-remover, and it was extraordinary can only
answer that once you ing resigned to humping against covered floor-buards among the the amount of invisible grease that have known what it is to keep the the rim of hle rigid wheel when best things that have been invent-was removed from the cara during temperature pf your cooling using clutch or brake pedal will ed for the comfort of the motorist the demonstration. The lustre m- water exactly at the point you want find his, driving pleasure at least since cars were first pushed out on parted seems to be lasting, while it
to the road. it, and noticed the Improvement in doubled.
ting.
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can also be used to clean celluloid side screens with equal auccess. is, however, no good for cleaning brass or nickel plate. It is also claimed by the manufacturers that it preserves the varnish and paint- work in general, for it preventa eracks.
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One of the cars used in the de-, monstration was a blus two-seater] Morris-Cowley, which had been In daily use for 10 months. One side of the car-taking the top of the bonnet as the dividing line-hadj been cleaned by water and the other] half had been treated with Karpoi.| The contrast was very effective. The water-chuned half was dull and dirty in appearance, especially on the bonnet, while the other half is not called for on n'fabric body. had the appearance of a brand-new The surface of the fabric is celluloze, and the immunity from damare
scratching that For the bodywork, and even the claimed for the éelluloso- wheels, the preparation seems a finished car is also an attr- particularly easy solution of the bate of the fabric. If the cleaning problem; but, on the other dirt is particularly stubborn,
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would prefer water for the treat as for instance when the car has ment of the under parts. We also been left for two or three days be understand that fabric bodies can fore washing, a teaspoonful of paraffin added to the water will be treated with similar succesķ.
render the work much easier and no Karpól is stocked by all the lead-damage will be done to the fabric. ing garages and accessory houses in various size tins.
Washing Fabric Bodles,
After washing and leathering, the surface should be polished with ja dry duster, when its natural lus- tre will be restored. The use of polishes says the concern in ques- Many motorists complain that Lon-is unnecessary and, in fact, the fabric body la not so easy to is not recommended, as if wax is clean as an ordinary coachbuilt job, allowed to lodge in the pores of the but it is pointed out by ȧ well- material it is apt to hold dirt which
known concern that the reverse i
should be the case if the right necessitates very hard rubbing to
remove it, methods are adopted.
Washing a fabric body in this If a hose is available and the car way renders the work easy, and it is very muddy, it should be "sluiced certainly has the advantage of not down" at the outset, allowing calling for a prolonged use of cold a little time-for the water to soften water, always an unpleasant mat- the adhering mud. All that is ler, especially in wintry weather. then required is a bucket of warm Generally speaking, a Weymann water with plenty of soap in it and body will be found easier to clean a soft brush. The meticulous care than a hody on which the fabric to see that there is no grit on the has been fixed to the sheet steel car, which is so necessary when foundations. This arises from the dealing with a varnished surface, fact that the fabric not being back-
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ed by any solid substance, the Wey A point that well illustrates the mann cloth is generally of a very durability of the fabric cloth was substantial nature, in order that It an experiment carried out by a may resist any accidental blow, and well-known manufacturer of alde the cellulose surface is correspond-cara before adopting the material Ingly thicker. On some of the as standard. Hot tar was thrown lower-priced cars a thin material is upon the fabric and, after being often used on account of cost, but allowed to cool, was easily removed even this, if washed In the manner by a little paraffin without any previously described, will be found damage to the cellulose surface of Ito offer no difficulties.
the cloth,
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