The Horseless Age; the Automobile Trade Magazine Volume 14

Download or read book The Horseless Age; the Automobile Trade Magazine Volume 14 written by Anonymous and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...is found on few machines only, many automobilists seem to be under the impression that it does not offer the advantages claimed for it, and that it is really of no use on an engine. This impression is entirely wrong, however, as shown by an article on this subject in our last issue. It is absolutely certain that an auxiliary spark gap will permit an engine to run with sooted spark plugs when it would not run without it, and that the device will greatly improve the operation of the engine when there is much misfiring owing to sooting. However, the best modern engines give very little trouble from sooting of the plugs, and if there is no trouble from this cause, the spark gap is a positive disadvantage, as it increases the insulation strains in the coil, and also slightly reduces the volume of the spark. In view of these facts, owners of cars will be well advised to leave spark gap devices alone unless they are bothered considerably by sooted plugs. But if the latter is the case, they may confidently expect relief from the use of the spark gap. Automobilists and the Farmers. Owing to the speed excesses of some automobilists, and for other reasons which one may guess, the automobile has recently been made the target of condemnatory remarks in a number of agricultural journals, both by the editors and by correspondents. We have been favored by a reader with a number of clippings from agricultural journals published in Maine and in Pennsylvania, respectively, in which the automobile problem is discussed, apparently from the farmers' standpoint. The writer in the Maine publication is extremely arbitrary and wants to rule all automobiles off the road. He claims that the Grange, of which organization the paper in which he writes is evidently an...