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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 19, 1926)
lira .Him . - . - - DRIVER'S PROBLEM Rk(jio Talk Prepared by Well Known' Automotive Writer, Good Advice Jy Gonfe W. Hat ton. Jr. ."Good evening, people. . Well, here we are at the, beginning of e not her winter and. as unpleasant aft .that thought is to "most of us. we" all hare to . face it, .and those o( qb who motor hare to make cer tain preparations for the cold spell. . "There has been, such a great Improvement, in American cars during the past couple of years that a number Tot things we have to do to protect them f roan dam age, in winter " haa been reduced to a minimum.- But there re still tsome things the tnaTTufacturer can not do for us. and If we do not dbthem,-for"-ourselve,we are going. to pay hundreds of dollars for. the repair of damaged engines and pay possibly a heavier price for; the . unhealthy thoughts we (shall think when our automobiles go (wrong, due entirely, to our,ae gleet. , ., ,v . . t1lnk the, first rule of win ter" 'motoring is to go south the first of December and stay there until the first of April, but there arer sererar- hundred thousand of lis who. have to stay up here, dur ing the snowstorms ttoat are -com ing with their fero bfeezes and their ice and sleet, so we might as well get together right now to work out a little system to get the most out of ears.wlth;;thJeast wear and tear on them and Oiv pur own dispositions. . - - v-.-"Kvery autumn for the past 12 or IS years I have uttered, in print and, otherwise, weighty.. words of advjee urging .ay motorics to put alcohol la their radiators, at tne first thilly breath Of winter. And yet. last yeaf,: I delayed this sim ple matter and tm night; early in November winter crept-''upon my beautiful new ear while I was en joying a bridge game at a friend's house or four r liva hours. When I came out the car refused to start and ,1 didn't realty blame it, WJtiile I-had been indoors .the tempera ture had gone down something like 78: degrees and the water In my : engine was froren. It cost me $130 to have 38 Inches of elec tric welding put in the engine where the ice had burst it apart j and to get it back into running order, all because I had forgotten to put in a dollar's worth of al cohol. A very good stunt is to fill the radiator at this time with a mixture of 25 per cent alcohol and 75 per cent water and then keep in the garage a 5-gallon can of 60 per cent alcohol and 50 per cent water and, as the mixture In the radiator evaporates, replenish It with the stronger solution. This will protect it from freezing in weather as low as 10 degrees be low xero. - "Last year we began to hear a lot about new anti-freeze mater ialglycerine. In my automo tive work I have to try out a lot of new things so I immediately got some glycerine and used it in the car for the rest of the win ter. The results were decidedly satisfactory. I found out that chemically pure glycerine anti freeze solutions, such as those made by'any of the big soap man ufacturers, U free from acids and alkalis; will not corrode or eat in to rubber or metal, wilt not evap orate, has a slightlyhigher boil ing point than the .plain -water so that It will not cause. overheating of the engine and that one fill ing in the proper proportions will last an entire seasos-or four or five seasons f,or thaV.niatler.- . "A couple of days after putting the glycerine in I notice that it was leaking out at the rubber valve connections and around the cylinder head. I was scared to death because I thought it was eating its way through. I found out however that a drop of gly cerine has not that tough but in evitable skin, which surrounds a drop of water and holds it back from going through tiny aper tures. Instead.' glycerine will sneak, through little openings that water would, never find. I had new hose connections Installed and the whole engine tightened up thoroughly and had no more trou ble whatever.' Alt I had to. do was add a pint or so of water every two or three weeks. "Another'" thing I discovered was that; though the glycerine so lution was three or four times as expensive ;as an equal amount of alcohol, the fact that it doesn't evaporate allowed me to use the original amount for .the entire eoafcon. thus taking the expense down, to onlj a little above what I would have spent for constant replenishments Of "aleobol. An other point that pleased me much was that, since glycerine does not , eTaporate. T was not in constant doubt aste whether or not 1 had .'the proper solution In the radia tor to prevent its freezing.- There arjj now on ,t ho .market, besides xi BUCTJrine ana.aiconot nererai oiu- er excellent anti-freeze Solutions ) which . have similar t advantages - t . . a ..,4 .1.. . V . v 'tr.' au uv iiv uiin(V 10 iiiu rar. ihc old da ya ot ha rmf ut an tl-f roezc mixtures are pf actually "brief be cause' most , of them" have been drives from the market through their ; own Inherent weakness. "Ever since the first man said "Let's build an automobile," thir ty-flre yeats-ago. It has been the practice of most motorists to start THE OREGON STATESMAN SALEM. OREGON Whippet Makes Transcontinental Economy Run v u ; Upper left Bhows Carl uemmle, JK, asslsUnt manager of Universal Futures Corp., starting Cannon Ball Baker on trans continental economy run in Whippet. Motorcycle escort convoy ing Fake Out of Los Angeles is shown at the upper right. Lower their engines on cold mornings and race them for, a few minutes to get them warm. Very, very gradually it is dawning upon a few motor car operators that this is probably the worst thing that anybody could do to an automo bile short of running it into a tel egraph pole or off a bridge. When the engine is cold the oil in it is in an almost solid state and the various moving parts are operat ing without any lubrication. In other , words they are practically rubbing themselves to death be cause, there is noprotecting film of oil to. separate them. Some of the greatest automobile engineers in the country have told me that if all motorists would start their cars slowly and run them slowly for the first fifteen minutes with park retarded when they are cold the average car would give splen did service for several years long er than Is now the case. This is one of the easiest things in the world to do and it means hun dreds of dollars saved. Your car, ever since you bought it, may have run so per fectly without any attention what ever that you have never realized hat somewhere under the seat there is such a thing as a battery. However, if you continue this purely academic interest in that hard-working and much abused accessory during the winter months, you are in for a lot of grief. It would seem the. simplest thing in the world to drop in at the battery service station once a month or oftener, but very few motorists can be annoyed to thsi extent. When you start tne car In the winter, the chilly temper ature of the engine calls for more battery current than In summer and the shortness of the days causes you to employ the head lights a great deal more. Hence the battery has a very undesirable endency to lose its wini and wlg- or and presently, som cold, bliz- zardy night, you will find that the poor little thing hasn't strength enough left to turn the engine over, and you are left in a pro fane state of mind far from the nearest garage. There's another little point to be remembered in connection with the battery and that a battery which is almost dis charged will freeze, whereas a fully charged battery will not freeze. The simple and easy pre ventive of all this possible trou ble is to keep your battery well charged through a monthly, or of tener, trip to the setviee station. I could tell you some sad tales of personal experiences which have led to my religious belief in this rule. 'Most of the automobile manu facturers tell us when we buy one of their new cars to change the crankcase oil every 500 miles. In fact, -they usually 'consider it ira portant enough to stick a little paster on the windshield urging us to do this at least for the first thousand miles of the car's exis tence. After we've had the car awhile we forget that it has a crankcase and I've known cars to go 10.000 miles without a change of oil. And that's about all they ; did go instead of the 30, 40 and 50,000 miles that they should, have 1 delivered. Oil is cheap if you say j it quickly and automobile ma chinery is expensive and yet the average owner, if he thinks' of It at all, -will hare his engine oil changed about once every three or four "thousand' miles. ' This is an offense which constitutes cru elty td automobiles "and pocket books, especially in winter. - "Some of'thrV makers of new cars, however baYu equipped their machines "with crankcase ventilat ors, thermostats and , oil purifiers and claim' their cars need Jabrlca tlon only .three or, four times A year,' But this la certainly not he case with the average car. . " ' "When the-engine is cold, es ; pet-laity in starting., a great deal of the" gasoline drawn into the cylinders is not burned but passes in a raw state down the cylinder walls into the crankcase where it dilutes the oil to a point where it is unfit for lubrication. This is especially true when starting the engine on a cold day. In a few hundred miles, therefore, the oil becomes a thin, watery mixture, largely composed of gasoline and i totally unable to maintain the film which has to exist between the moving parts of the engine. The cure for this is particularly easy and requires no labor on your part. When the little card on the dash board on which you have put down the speedometer reading the last time you changed oil, is compar ed with the present speedometer readings, and tells you that you have gone somewhere between three and four hundred miles, simply drive to the nearest garage that handles the particular oil the manufacturer recommended for your engine, have the crankcase cleaned out and new oil put in. It will cost from 90 cents to $1.50 and will probably save from $25 to $100 worth of wear and tear. "My fifteen minutes is practi cally up and I've got a list of other wintering motoring thoughts here half a yard long. One of them refers to the care of tires in winter. You probably know that rubber cuts more readily when it is wet and, on wet days, you will therefore drive much more care fully. Even if I read off the en Listen The World If you're having trouble getting those distant stations, .you need a PHILCO SOCKET POWER t i Keeps your battery fully charged all of the time. Attached to your light socket, costs less than two cents per day for electricity. Philco Socket Power fits any Radio Set. Takes the place of "A" or "B" batteries. One switch controls entire operation. Let us demonstrate how a Philco Socket Power will "pep up" your Radio Trade in your old, battery. Liberal allowance for old equipment. Free installation. M. BRR E LL Battery and Electrical Service H 238 North High Street " J ' 'teieplione 203 , 1 left Baker replenishing fuel supply under official observation at Fort Worth Texas. John N. Willys, president of Willys-Overland. Inc welcoming Baker in New York City at the end of the econ omy test, is shown in the lower right. Inset. George Lewis, famous film star of the "Collegians." drinking to success of trip. tire list of don'ts it would not add greatly to the safety, comfort and economy of yur winter motoring. That is, f course, if you followed the rules. I've mentioned the im portant tilings. Put alcohol or glycerine in your car right away to avoid a possible early freeze. Keep the battery fully charged; change the crankcase oil frequent ly. Inspect the tires after every trip, stop up small cuts and tears with tire cement so they won't grow larger and remember that wet rubber cuts more easily than dry rubber. Put an automatic or hand operated ratiator shutter on your car if it is not already equip ped with one. If possible park your car against the wind so that the breezes will not sweep up from the rear over the drip pan and envelop your engine in an icy grip. Those are some of the things that should be done to in sure efficient motoring in winter. If you'll do them religiously, your car next summer will probably bo ready for many years" of good, hard work without complaint. Thank you for listening to me. Good night." Cobbs & Mitchell Co., lumber and building materials for every purpose. Get estimates, look at j qualitv of material, then you will order. 349 S. 12th St. ' ( j Of $N05.000 budget for Oregon forest roads in 1927, $57S,0O0 is forest fund. in on piI(Q) WHIPPET SHINES IN PEAK CLIMBING (Continued from pige 1 system with direct leads to tho main bearin&s of the crankshaft and with the hollow crankshaft construction carrying the oil from tie main Hearings directly to th? connecting rod bearings uniei heavy pressure. "The Whippet is an unusual car in the light car field. . It s rated at only 15.2 horsepower but it actually develops SO. 5 horse power. "Its advt rtisfed speed is 55 miles per hour but it has traveled better than 65 miles an hour. All the way through it has been built to give more than it is expected to give and I suppose this is true of the cooling efficiency as it is of the power and ppeed development of the motor." Dyer declares that he expects tfie feat of the Whippet in climb fiijg to Fhr top of Pike's Peak with out stopping to take water will remain a record for light cars tor some fine to come. White House Restaurant. 362 I State St.. where hundreds of peo ; pie prfer to eat. All you want to i eat tor less than you can eat at some. Quality and service. () I). H. Mosher, Merchant Tailor, is turning out the nobbiest and best fitting tailor made suits to measure; 100 business and pro- fepsional men liuy off Mosher. () Your Car Deserves to Be Remembered at f - Christ m as-Time For a number of years it has been the custom each Christmas for owners to give their car a present. This year make it a present worth-while give your car a set of MILLER Tires and .Tubes. Every day that you ride on Miller's in 1927 you will realize more and more what it means to enjoy tire satisfaction. With every high-grade Miller Tire goes an Insurance Policy protecting you against road hazards for one year. This is just an added feature of the - kind of service we give you. Then there's our Free Service policy. We give FREE tire service anywhere in Salem. No charge for puttitng on your spare when you have a flat tire. COME IN TODAY AND LET US SHOW YOU WHAT A GOOD TIRE MILLER REALLY IS "WE LOVE TO CHANGE A TIRE" MILLER TIRE SERVICE COMPANY 197 South Commercial 'RUSS?mith: , ... . , Phone 313 SUNDAY MORNING, HU; DESIGNER E Internationalization of Con struction Evident in Euro pean Autos Reviews ot the Paris Salon, just closed in Paris and of the Olympic Auto Show in London reveal the fact that 14 8 different makes of automobiles, including those im ported from America, are being offered to European buyers in 308 different chassis types. Marked trends are the steadily increasing turn toward the Knight sleeve-valve motor on the part of European manufacturers of luxury cars and the gradually increasing use of what the Europeans term "side valve" construction in the compared with the overhead valve ; construction which has held su premacy in European cars for some time. Two new Knight motored cars made their appearance at the Paris Salon and some of the older manufacturers of this type of power plant have increased their chassis types to cover wider price ranges. An outstanding Knight motored car of the Paris Salon was the Daimler double-six, a 12 cylin dered car for which remarkable power performance is claimed. The American invasion of the European market is commented uDon bv nearly every reviewer who covered the Salon and is viewed as a mass attack which is forcing the use of certain Ameri can features of design on the part of the European builders. French-built motor cars in par ticular, show the effect of Ameri canization. The Euronean designers were also quick to notice the European features which the leading build ers in this country are now in cluding in their design. A notable feature of the Paris Salon was the increase in number among six-cylinder cars, appar ently forced by the invasion of American-built sixes. Four-wheel brakes were stand ard equipment on all but 36 of the 308 chassis and of these 36, there were 9 American-built cars and the general comment of the Euro pean press is that four-wheel brakes must become standard on all chassis which are to find a ready reception. That the European driver is finding traffic conditions similar to those encountered here is ex pressed in the -statement of a writer who terms himself "Run about" in which he says that the light car, compact in design, flex ible in operation and easy to han dle is the car of the future. The consensus of opinion is that the Whippet, the new light car produced by Willys-Overland, which was shown both in Paris and in London represents the clos-, est approach to complete interna tionalization in design but that it shares this distinction with the CHUG R S DUB DECEMBER 19, 1926 two Willys-Knight models, a pro duct of the same company, whieh share with the other Knight mo tored cars, a prominent place in European interest. The large number of manufac turers who are contending for business in the European field is in marked contrast to the number who are prominent in this country, the reason being that the Europ ean manufacturer contents himself ' with small volume and is able to I command what we would term an exorbitantly high price. The newer European body cre ations are characterized by low roof lines and the double drop frame is in evidence in the finer productions. Outstanding in the Knight sleeve-valve field, in addition to the Daimler, were the new Bel gian Imperia and the new Pan-hard-Levassor Six which rounds out a complete line of Four, Six and Eight-cylindered Knight mo tors in this make. O. Co. J. Hull Auto Top & Paint j Radiator, fender and body repairing. Artistic painting adds 1 11 t ( ct to the appearance of your j auto. 267 S. Com'l. ' G. W. Day. tire. tubes and ac cessories: has the Goodyear tires, the standard of the world. Mr. Day can give you more mileage. Corner Com'l and Chemeketa CHRYSLER SEVENTY BRITISH FAVORITE (Con:inuil from page 1) hydraulic four-wheel brakes are very powerful. Steering ease is excellent and the car holds th? road at any spec 1. 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McGildowny In the san; issue of "Motor" declared: clared: should sav "Taking all the into consideration. that the Chrysler would be tl i h- 'hoie. since it has those e j ceptionally good-brakes and a As evidenced at the Olymp'.-i show, recently concluded in Lon don. British manufacturers an . attempting to stem the trend of I popular favor toward America n j made cars with ix new model displayed at the show which au to compete directly with" aulom biles made In the Cnited Stat. This policy of Urging British p-,-pl. to buv British-made cood i being pressed through newspa pers, magazines, and by the of special" stamps on mailin.; pieces. Despite this propaganda j , th1 ,ise of Rritish-mad , coots Chrysler- continues to h the most popular American-mad'-car in England where it is sai l to represent the ideal conception of quality, comfort., and fine ap pearance at low price. 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