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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 17, 1915)
- . . . T-vr rpiifi? T?ir nTf?DI A V AT tTTTAI LIVES OF CARS VARY NEW MODELS OF TOURING CARS WHICH AKKlVi.ll liN ruiiiAu i- ii-'ir. rwn. uxkjm. i SHOW. Length of Usefulness Largely Depends on Driving. MINOR POINTS IMPORTANT Mechanism or Machine May BeCn dcrstood Without Taking Special Course Companies Publish Books of Instruction. illliff J""" njiin. in. y -li- 111 T"gk ; Many motorists on buying a car or looking it over, ask: - "How long will this car last? How many years will It run without trouble?" H. H. Pinney, manager of the Chal mers works, says that the answer lies in the carowner or driver. A car can last a few months or a decade, depend ing entirely on the way it is handled. He says: "Ninety-nine out of 100 people who buy automobiles today consider that they are making a service investment. The automobile has ceased to be re garded as a luxury. The general utility as well as the pleasure-giving quality of a motor car has been so well demon strated that owners no longer regard their cars as mere toys. Good Diivlas; la Need. "An automobile is, after all. simply a machine. A new car is a potentiality, which will run satisfactorily for a given number of miles, carrying its full quota of passengers and equip ment, and which will accomplish the various things for which it is deponed for a given length of time the le of the mechanism. i "Driving is the service a car renders; the themes by which the machine de livers its quota. Good driving enables the car to realize the full value of the investment. Careless driving and lack of care depreciate the investment out of proportion to the service rendered. By good driving alone do you get the most out of your car. "Driving an automobile consists of more than merely operating the clutch, changing gears, applying the brakes and steering. To drive well, and there fore get the best service from your car. requires a little study of the machine. Many of the minor troubles which pri vate owners have with their cars come from not having attached the proper importance to the minor points of driv ing. Special Coarse Unnecessary. "It does not necessarily follow that the owner of a car must take a special course in mechanics, or serve an ap prenticeship in an automobile factory. It Is the effort of the Chalmers Com pany to make its cars so nearly trouble proof that but little technical knowl edge is required to get satisfaction. Positively all companies publish com plete instruction books, which should enable an owner to handle his car welL And I do believe the greater number of owners today understand the general principles of their car. They may oc casionally be very careless in such mat ters as lubrication, adjustments, etc, but I am convinced that where dissatis faction exists it Is largely due to care less handling, rather than to absolute abuse of the machine. "One of the most common faults of driving is starting away too fast. Transmission gears invariably have a number of speeds forward. These vari ous speeds are for the purpose of giv ing the car momentum with the least possible strain. A car can be started gradually in first speed, and as the mo mentum is picked up the driver shifts so that the motor does not bear unusual strain. If you make your motor pick up dead weight it will, after a time, de velop noises; there will also be noises and grinds in the transmission gears or rear axle. "The question of brakes, too. Is one of the most Important in driving. Brakes are not put on an automobile for the purpose of stopping the wheels, but to compel the wheels to travel slowly. It is a well-known fact that If the brakes on a streetcar or loco motive are applied so hard that the wheels stop entirely, the result is a flat wheel. The same conditions prevail in applying the brakes to an automo bile. Of course, you don't hear the flat wheels, but you have, nevertheless, worn flat spaces on your rear tires. Gradual Stop Advised. "Begin to pull your car up early enough to allow of your applying the brakes gently In bringing the car to a gradual stop without jolting yourself or your passengers and without ruining your tires and straining the mechanism of your car. "Another common fault in driving is allowing the motor to 'race.' In crowded traffic you frequently see a driver throw out his clutch and apply his breakes, reducing the speed from 20 miles an hour to say five miles an hour, without reducing the speed of his motor. Allowing the motor to race simply uses up some of the efficiency of the car which ought to be conserved for mileage. This fault permitted fre quently means loose valves and knocks In the motor. When these develop don't lecture the repair man with a com plaint about your car, but study your own driving a little and find out If perhaps you are not at fault. "It is in the matter of turning cor ners, perhaps, that the average auto mobile driver Is most greatly at fault It still remains to be proved that dash ing around corners at high speed saves any time for the driver. It certainly does not save tires, wheels, gears and mechanism generally. There is no rea son in the world why a driver should not. in 999 cases out of a thousand, re duce his speed one-half when turning a corner. Intermediate on Hills Is Best. "In hill work. too. many drivers liter ally abuse their cars. There aeems to be a personal satisfaction to the aver age driver of a car to say that his car will take such or such a famous hill on high." There seems to be a prejudice against the use of the inter mediate transmission speed. Yet those intermediate speeds are put in a car for the express purpose of saving the motor and moving parts from over work under unusual stress. True, it is plessant to dash up a hill on high speed, and the average car of today If it is well built, properly designed and rightly powered, will take the av erage hill on high without unusual strain upon the mechanism.- But this is not true of all hills, and there Is no reason in the world why the average owner should not use his intermediate Hpeed and thereby save himself many dollars in motor strain avoided. "In descending long hills, special care should be taken to save the brakes. It Is not advisable to use either the service brake or the emergency brake continuously. The brakes used become hot under the unusual strain and suffer unnecessarily great wear. In going down a long hill, alternate from the foot break to the hand brake, or if the hill is extremely long, get Into the Intermediate speed and allow the motor to act as a brake." Te Ell Ends 114 With 603. CENTRALIA. Wash. Jan. 1. (Spe cial.) According to the annual report of Town Clerk W. J. Simmons, the town of Pe Ell finished the year 1914 with a cash balance of $603.18 in tbe treasury, in spite of the fact that no local tax was levied last year. Pe Ell is a dry town. i1' .itf4cC2a.f i ( pic" "TffTr s t , r& nTnrxT3 'l ? " " '1- 'iri $y C7h & Sm ?r-sr Csrr E SPKINGFIELD (MASS.) MANUFAC TURER PRODUCES KOVELTV. Two Men, 75-Mile Trip and Thousand Rounds of Ammunition Are Pro. Tided for On Creation. Hardly a day passes but some new field of utility for the motorcycle Is discovered. The extensive use of the motorcycle by the military authorities in England and France for maneuvers and courier service, suggested to the engineers of the Hendee Manufacturing Company, Springfield, Mass., manufac turers of Indian Motorcycles, possibil ities in a combination of motorcycle and automatic field gun for riot serv ice in this country. The Hendee company has built a combination motorcycle and side-car chassis on which a Colt automatic field gun of rifle caliber is mounted. Provision is made for carrying two passengers, so that it is possible to operate the gun while the machine Is In motion. The motorcycle is a standard Indian twin-cyljnder model of 15 horsepower, equipped with two-speed gear, which permits the machine to be used for cross-country work if desired. A speed of 40 miles an hour is attainable, and a radius of 75 miles on a tankful of gasoline can be covered. The Colt automatic gun used is the latest model of field piece, and has a firing capacity of 450 or more shots a minute. The gun is carried on a spe cial mount and can be operated on the machine or detached and used on a nortable tripod, which is collapsible and is carried on the chassis. There are four feed boxes, each having a capacity of 250 rounds of ammunition. The equipment also Includes a loading apparatus, which, by the turning of a crank, automatically loads the car tridges into, belts, from which they are fed into the gun. After the first shot is fired, loading, firing and ejection of the shell is performed automatically by the powder gases, as long as the operator presses the trigger. The guD has a killing range ot 214 miles. AI MANAGER PICKS PAPEK C. C. Wlnnlngham, of the Hudson, Declares Dailies 3Iost Effective. C. C. Winningham, director of sales and advertising of the Hudson Com pany, is a firm believer in newspaper advertising. This is quite to be expected, because Mr. Winningham is an adver tising man of National standing and graduated from the newspaper and ad vertising ranks into the high position he now holds. Mr. -Winningham is a greater believer in theXpower of public opinion. Public opinion is diredted and swayed by the newspapers. Both the news col umns and the advertising columns have a powerful effect on men's opinions and actions. Hence the Hudson Com pany, under Mr. Winningham's direc tion, makes large use of daily and weekly newspaper space to present Its message to the public. Being an old reporter, JUr. Winningham's ideas are colored by his newspaper experience. He believes that advertising should contain news, that it should be full of human Interest, but above all that it should offer a topic of conversation. The Hudson has always been remark able In this respect. Its advertising has been more talked about than prob ably that of any other motorcar com pany. Taking the year as a whole, there Is probably no other company that uses a larger space In daily news papers than does the Hudson Motor car Company. To Test Valve leak. When a tire gradually softens, you may suspect air valve leak. Turn the wheel so the stem shall point down ward, remove the cover, but allow the cap to remain on. Hold a tumbler of water up against the rim so that the valve stem shall be immersed in ine water, and If a gradual leak is there you can see the bubbles. Then remove the cap and try it again. UNIQUE INDIAN MOB GUN TURNED OUT BY INDIAN FAC TORIES FOR SPECIAL POLICE DUTY. 'i- f i ,-..ov-.: row"; -jfijn L. Tfce Indian Mob Gnn Cenlnt nf a Stock Cycle Wtli a Side-Car on Which la Mcunted a Rapid-fire ii t-nesx. Girl Speeder's .Excuse so Novel It Wins. New Tork Chauffeuse Tells Court She Thought Motorcycle "Cop" Be hind Wan Racer, and Made Dash to Prevent Accident. THE Teason I speeded at the rate of 32 miles an hour was because I saw a motorcyclist behind me going so fast that I . thought he would run into my car," said Miss Frances B. Lud low, 21 years old. Yonkers, when she The biggest automobile value ever offered for less than $1,000. Powerful, swift, silent. " The easiest car in the world to drive. The greatest of all bill climbers. ; Holds the road at 50 miles an hour. 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Washington and King Sts. Marshall 1915, A 1917. i KafAiA Xfacristrftta Krotel In Morrisania Court charged with running her machine 32 miles an Hour on isroaa way. "He appeared to be going so fast," she continued, "that I tried to get out of his way and went faster. But the faster I went the more speed he put on until he shot in front of my car and put up his hand announcing that he was an officer. He was not in uniform and I was never so surprised In my life." Magistrate Krotel said that the ex cuse was the best he had ever listened to and suspended sentence, warning the girl to be more careful in the future. Malaria and MoonllKht. Pittsburg Dispatch. Indulgence in moonlight serenades or other nocturnal diversions down in the Panama Canal tone Is unsafe un- i less one Is willing to pay the penalty In subsequent large doses or quinine. Malaria has so largely Inferted the Americans in the sons after they have pent an evening at pleasure resorts, especially in the suburbs of Panama, that the Health Department has been obliged to Issue a special warning that it is unsafe to do so. In case of neces sity or the search for pleasure leads one to so expose himself, it is said thst quinine shonbl he taVen theresfl-r. We Will Exhibit in the Ballroom at the Automobile Show General Electric Starters for Fords Stromberg Carburetors Hartford Shock Absorbers Willard Storage Batteries Hess Bright Bearings Raybestos Brake Lining Harris Oil and Grease Autograph Oil and Grease And a Full Line of Supplies . Chanslor & Lyon Co. 627 Washington Street