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JAPAN DELEGATES APPROVE NASH “400"

Nash manufacturing principles and merchandising policies received the unqualified approval of those overseas visitors who were questa at Kenosha Nash headquartere last week. The party was headed by. Solchichi Iwasaki (center) of the Aoi Motor Car Company, Nash distributor in Tokyo, Mr. Iwasaki, a graduato of Cornell University, is the Japanese employers' delegate en route to the International Labour Conference in Geneva, He is also president of the Tokyo Gas Company and vice-president of the Tokyo Chamber of Commerce.

SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1929.

AUTOMATIC BRAKE.

Applied When Accele- rator is Released.

A SWISS INVENTION.

A motor car with a fool-brake! which is automatically applied the moment the driver takes his footj from the accelerator has made its appearance.

During a test says the motor cor- respondent of the Daily News, 1] was driven along a straight rondj jat a speed of about fifty miles an

hour. Suddenly the driver remov-] Ted his foot from the accelerator] fand the car on its own account] came to a standstill smoothly in the same distanco otie would ex-l (pect if the ordinary foot-brake!

had been used.

The device is the invention of aj young Swiss, M. Badertscher, and parts of the world. It virtually re- patents have been taken out in all moves the necessity of the customi Jary foot-brake control, though one.. was fitted on the car for emer

goney purposes.

WEAR AND TEAR. wheels to turn a

their little on

Body noises often can be traced tapered axle ends. Looseness at to carelessness in use of more po- this point actually becomes a safe-werful brakes as well as to abus Traps for the Unwary.ard; otherwise pinion and ringing the advantages of balloon gear would have, to endure more tyres. To stop suddenly places n strain than at present. Universal strain on the body of the car, loo joints are strained by sudden apening and weakening it. There neutral gear engaged the

When the car is at rest and INSUFFICIENT, OILING.plication of power, especially if is a tendency to drive too fast over brake is on. The driver engages they are worn to a point, where rough spots when balloons lessen

the bouncing but the body and the the first gear, lols in the clutch chassis, are taking a terrific strain and accelerates the brake is re-

leased and the car starts.

All advertising to be inserted in this Motor Supplement, must be

The managing director of Gen-they are loose. eral Motors derlares that motorists } delivered

fare demanding exact inforniátiqu; Inter

Sullen stepping on the acceler. on this point. They want to know ator is more apt to strain the than 2 p.m. on the

how to get the maximum use from Plutch and the rest of the drive their rars.

line, though it also frequently Wednesday of

rear wheels from loosens the tho

axles; injurba the universal joints; werk of publication.

strains the spokes of the wheels and belph burn op fyras.

Carelessness in handling the clutch causes more wear on ear than my other one thing. Many drivera let in the clutch with such suidenness as to cause the driving

ressed into extra hard service tremely economiend is apt to be

THE

MOTOR UNION

INSURANCE CO IT?

Incorporated in England

(Under the auspices of the Automobile Association)

LIBERAL BONUS FOR CAREFUL DRIVING.

LOCAL AGENTS,

THE UNION TRADING Co., Ltd.

York Building,

Phona C. 587.

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He explained that clutcher, are

under such circumstances.

UNDERGROUND. PARKING.

London contemplates un, under ground parking place underneath Leicester Square: The park w accommodate about 200 ears and

new

The automatic bruke will hold the car on the steepest hill; (his) makes starting on a steep gradlont easy; for it is not necessary to useļ the hand-brake.

designed for easy operation and if the estimated cost of construction and the engine can be used as a

is around £50,000.

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LAW ENFORCEMENT.

the engine Is accelerated beyond the point where the ear itself enn immediately follow, the clutch plates will slip. This heats them; up and may permanently damage More than 12,000 traffic law them. Often when a clutch slips offenders in New Orleans were

con-

There is a neutral position on the necelerator pedal where the brake does not come into action!

brake. This is to prevent stant braking on acceleration. Rut as Hoon as the accelerator| pedal is allowed to come back be-] yond the neutral point, on goes the brake.

it will heat up and expand, result-rested or ordered to report to After a little practice it is po ing in andden grabbing that a headquarters during 1927. Of sible, owing to the neutral 'posi-| particularly hostile to the drive this number about half wore tion, to use the accelerator in the line.

arrested, and the reminder given jsame way as a foot-brake pedal tickets to uppear in court.

and for choking or stopping.

Time and time again the warn- ing has gone out that engines] deteriorate most on account of in- adequate olling. Time and time} again this has been demonstrated, The motorist to-day assumes his engine to be very economical on oil, and thinks all there lo to do in change the oil, at stated intervals. In many cases such a rule serves well enough, but millions of engi- | nes require more oil than they get, and even the engine that is ex- which results in a higher rate of oil consumption,

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HROUGH many years of sustained that their great success in North America

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ular demand, the Nash has evolved to a Yet this perfection has been achieved with point of such perfection and refinement out the customary penalty of higher that it ranks as a favor- ite among the world's

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