Cycling and Motorin Notes

Horowhenua Chronicle, 11 September 1915, Page 3

Cycling and Motorin Notes

From the Dunlop Rubber Company ol Australasia, for the week ending 4th September. 1915. #***##-«

As in many other things connected with the « - ar, Germany's exactness and preparation is first in the field to solve the problem of tho used "war-car" which looms threatening in the distance. Great Britain and France realize the seriousness of the matter, but so far have not taKen any action to control it. Germany, however, has already made preparations to handle tlio delicate situation effectively, the moment the war stops. A company has been formed in which the Government and the motor car manufacturers are interested, which company will take over all the cars used in the war ■which are capable of repair. They will be put in first class running condition, and then offered to the publio at a reasonable price. Only one third of the total will be placed on the market in the first year one third in tho second year, and the remainder in tho third year. In the meantime manufacturers of new cars will be able to introduce their product, knowing exactly how many oars, aud of what price and condition will be in the time, and can plan their niauDfacturturing and sales campaign accordingly. 11. for instance, a certain type of car is especially numerous in the used-car field, manufacturers will "go light" on that type. By such means it is hoped to control the situation, and prevent a flood of poor, used cars, at ridiculously low prices.

Particulars should shortly be to hand of the finish of the big motor cycle military despatch ride across the American contanient Iroin Washington to San Francisco—a distance of nearly 4000 miles. The transcontinental route was divided into 43 over which two or more motor cyclc couriers were to carry a despatch from President Wilson. The latest American files state that the despatch had reached Toledo— the 13th section—some 3 hours behind time, the routo being m a very bad condition owing to heavy rain. The despatch left Washington at 0 a.m. on July 19th, and was scheduled to reach its destination by 1 p.m. on July 24th. As tlio S«an Francisco papers to hand, under date July 2oth, make not mention ol the arrival of i-be motorists, the heavy condition of the route has evidently delayed the progress of the President's message.

Tiie announcement is authoritatively made that Henry Ford, the designer and manufacturer of the well known "Ford" car, which is being turned out at the rate of over a thousand a day, lias practically perfected a motor tractor, upon which he has been working ior a long, time, and that within a feav years he expects to develop an immense neu plant at Dearborn, .Michigan, where these machines will be built. Nothing in the way of details nor or the eharactor of this tractor has yet been given out; but the inventor says that it will be of world-wide importance in reducing tho labour of tilling uie soil and doing the heavy work on the farm, with a corresponding effect in reducing the cost ol food. It will take ten years to fully develop the new plant, where ultimately no expects to make all the now motors required ior both his automobiles and tractors, alt the iron work being done here. Mr Foud has act]uired over 2000 acres of land at the new site, and of this the new works will occupy about (300 acres or nearly one spuare mile. On a portion of tho remaining property, a new town will be provided for, to accommodate the employees.

Ol all the puzzling problems motorists have to face, none is more confusing than Carbon Deposit. 13airing mechanical troubles, faulty carburation and ignition; carbon, deposit from lubricating oil, may be summed up as fellows:— Carbon deposit is caused by excess lubricating oil burning in vhe combustion chambers. Prevent the presence of excess oil, and you avoid undue carbon in your combustion chambers. In some motors the piston stroke will, by suction, draw a light oil u;o freely to the piston heads. In other motors a heavy oil will work to the piston heads. In either ca6e excess carbon will be deposited. The remedy :■> obvious. Keep excess oil from your combustion chambers by using an oil whose body and quality fit the mechanical conditions of your motor.

Most motorists are ol the opinion that", any lubricating oil will suffice, as long as the quality is right, but it is not so, for every engine requires an oil especially suited to its own mechanical conditions.

The Australian Champion, Alfred Goullet, defeated tne American flyer, E. Kramer, by two inches in the two miles American Championship decided on July 18th at Newark. 'Hie finish wab one of the closest witnessed at the track, and the automatic judge, a machanical contrivance used in the State to decide very close nnishes gavo the event to the Australian by the.barest margin. Eive yards from the hnish, Kramer was in front, but the Australian got the last "jump in r! , :;nd won amidst great excitement. Spears, another Australian, was third. Goullet now leads by five points lor the American Championship, which is decided on points scored in a number of championship events over various distances.

The American Brassard, a cycling event, which carries a prize of £10 per ■week, as long as 'the winner can hold the title, has been, in the keeping of 11. McNamara of N. S. \\ ales for eight weeks, despite eight separate challenges .and races, all of wliicli fclie Australian has won.