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BRAKE ADJUSTME NOW VERY PRECISE AT BEST GARAGES Methods of Testing Recent- ly Have Become Ab- solutely Accurate INEFFICIENCY GONE Good Service Stations Now Have Equipment That is First-Class One of the most interesting and jmportant motor car maintenance developments of the moment is that throughout the country brake adjustments are becoming increas- ingly precise. Service stations everywhere are adding equipment which enables mechanics to get away from the inefficiency of test- ing brakes by hand. And why not? Precision long has been a justifiable boast of the automobile industry. Today, the la- boratories in which constantly pet- ter motor cars are being made are calculating their measuyements in thousandths of an inch and even less, and the makers of precision instruments are kept busy produce ing devices to determine the accn- racy with. which finely machined parts fit together, : Precision has made the motor ear popular. Now, it seems well on the way to making its brakes much safer by giving the mechanic and car owner accurate informa- tion regarding the car's decelera- tion equipment. This development, now reaching fruition, has been on the way for some time, -Many are surprised that it was so long jn reaching its Westination. There has been no questioning the lack of precision of methods of brake testing that. have pre: vailed In the vast majority of re- pair establishments up to the pres- ent time. The usual method has been to jack up the car and have Yul foelat Fe Hospitality . . quality ac commodations , . careful, cheerfulservice . . moderate charges. Brevoort restau rants are famous from coast to coast. Two and a half blocks from shopping center and world's busiest corner. At the edge of financial and insurance districts. Con- venient to depots and all transportation. Garage ex- tends special courtesies, 1 person, $2.50 to $5 a day;2 persons, $3.50 to $8. Cars called for and delivered. . MATHEWS, Presidens Manager $ 1.0 OSHAWA LA 1 uuce, tua VAY, MAY 15, 1928 Cr -- -- g-- some one apply the brakes while the mechanic tried to turn the various wheels. If all of them turned with approximately the same expense of energy on the me- chanic's part, they were regarded as properly adjusted and nicely equalized. But were they? If the mechanic were sent to a barrel of sugar and told to measure out a pound by "feel," might he not have 20 ounces, or 12, as well as 16? Old System is Changing. Gradually, however, this system of brake testing is being replaced, Various types of decelerometers, which measure with much greawer accuracy, are being added to the equipment of hundreds of auto- motive repair establishments. And, as- many know, police departments are purchasing similar devices to be used to test the brakes of cars that have figured in accidents. In addition, metropolitan police de- partments use their decelerometers from time to time in campaigns designed to check up on the brake equipment of cars chosen at ran- dom on the streets of the city. Brake-testing devices, so used, vary in design. They are not al- ways called decelerometers by their makers. The term is a general classification, however, and in this way all of them are described by it. The most generally used device of this kind is similar to the odo- meter of the average car in that it is calibrated to record the num- ber of feet it takes to stop a car from a given speed after the driv- er has been given a signal. While it is not true of all devices of this character, some of them have the weakness of mot showing the inequalities between the brakes on the various wheels of the car. In addition there is the ques- tion of the driver's reaction time. It is obvious. that many motor car operators have a. definite mar- gin on others in the matter of get- ting their brakes into operation with a minimum loss of time. And the time lost in the case of the slow driver is recorded against' the brakes. From this it is clear that some cars might have good brakes that would be classed as inefficent under some such decelerometer tests. Device Has Weakness In connection with the ordinary decelerometer, there 1s the fact tnat it does not show precisely why the brakes are failing, whether ft is due to warped drums, a low co- efficient of friction because of worn tire tread or had road condition, With all these defects, which easily could be male to appear more im- portant than actually they are, this the oldest of the mechanical brake testing devices, is vastly superior to the "touch'" system employed in many repair shops. Still better testers are being made, however, involving new ideas that elimimate the human element in brake efficiency and many of the other factors that confuse the situation, These improved devices put the car on rollers, or treads for pur- poses of testing Its brakes, These treads are so designed that their frictional coefficient with the tire virtually is identical with that of a good concrete road. On some of these, the engine plant is utilized to get both car and tread into mo- tion, On some of the latest types, however, even this is unnecessary, Both, of course, represent an im- provement over the conventional road, test for the reason that condi- tions may be kept equal under the virtually all circumstances, FARMER SUICIDES Guelph, May 11--Word reached the city today that Frank Coutts, aged 66, a well-known farmer of Egremant Township, had taken his own life by shooting. The %ody of the unfor- tunate man, who had been suffering from depression, was found, with a bullet through the heart, Everyone have the Tires he wants FOR a couple of years some car owners had to get along with short-mileage, troublesome tires. Now it's altogether different. Bigger sales have brought Goodyear Tires down to where everyone can afford to buy them. And, of course, it's admitted that Good- years are far and the market, bought at a asked to pay for away the best buy on especially when they can be * price as low as "cheap" tires. Ontario Motor Sales 99 Simco: Street South----Oshawa you were Lid Service that means a real! saving to you Washington, May 15.--Bootleggers and others who transport liquor over frontier boundaries and {rom one place ta another by automobile, mo- tor truck or other conveyances are henceforth i to the bullets of dry agents who, accord to an im- portant declaration of policy by the Prohibition Bureau here are barred from using their arms except to pre- vent: a felony. Rum. running, announced Dr. Dor- an, head of the prohibition bureau, is not a felony. Dr. Doran made this announcement in connection with the information that Robert L. Taylor, a Federal dry agent in West Virginia, has been summarily dismissed irom the service for firing on an automobile, which he believed to be a speeding rum runner. The Prohibition Bureau, Dr. Doran said, is ready to cooperate with the state of West Virginia in the prosecution of the ex-Federal agent should the authorities of that state suggest it. The Bureau, Dr. Doran added, stands ready to dismiss U.S. DRY OFFICERS FORBIDDEN TO SHOOT AT RUMRUNNER AUTOS any other dry agent who uses his pistol against any comveyance even though it is supposed to contain illi- cit hqueor, ° While the "withold fire policy" it is believed may bring greater im- munity to professional rum runners, it will, according to the Prohibition Burcau, safeguard innocent life en- dangered by dry agents who take upon themselves to stop speeding ve- hicles as suspicious and open fire on that basis alone. The Prohibition Bureau also an- nounced that a thorough investiga- tion has shown Michigan dry agents, accused by the Canadian authorities as having fired over the border into Canada, as entirely 'innocent. Cana- dian Mounted Police officials, 'it was stated, now admit that 45 calibre bullets fired into Canada presumably from the American side were not bullets of American customs officers. The missiles proved to be of the soft nose variety, whereas the Am- erican officers universally use steel jacketed bullets. DETOUR PROBLEMS WILL LESSEN WITH "3-DAY" CONCRETE New Building Mode Holds Promise to Traffc Everywhere CHICAGO LEADS WAY Departure from Established Custom Seen by En- gineers The apparent success of experi- ments with three day concrete by highway department marks an inno- vation mn rebuilding that is of wide importance. 'I'o motorists who accept, as a mat- ter of course, a penalty of an entire scason of indescribably defective de- tours as compensation for the com- pletion of sections of smooth pave- ment, the message will come as a blessing, That the departure from establish- ed custom in the method and proce- dure of concrete road construction is revolutionary and required consider- able fortitude to embrace, is the opinion of highway engineers gen- erally, although the knowledge that quick setting concrete had heen de- veloped as a practical construction method has long been common in the trade, As recently as ten years ago lead- ing engineers regarded permitting usc of concrete work for traffic under six weeks, or forty days, as an act approximating professional suicide. Within the period ensuing the time for setting has been gradually under- going a "taking up" process until the conventional engineer of today stands on the proposition that twenty-one days curing is sufficient. The Cook county board of com- missioners instructed the highway department several months ago to go thoroughly into the question of rapid curing concrete. Under these instruc- tions Maj. Quinlan has carried out many experiments for the county in- dividually, and has kept in constant touch with the laboratory work con- ducted by the cement organizations, When the problem of rebuilding a section of Western avenue pavement was presented last fall, the question of providing for the enormous traf- fic which uses that thoroughfare be- came acute. The demand for rébuild- ing was insistent, The county, how- ever, had been unable to manipulate its road building program last ygar in such a way that permanent road detours could be provided. The coptractors began tearing out the old pavement on April 19, Des- pite unfavorable weather the work- men began- lying concrete April 23. It was decided to lay 20 feet slab at the west of the street first, and when that was complete to build the east 20 foot, The distance is one and three-fourths miles between 135th and 147th streets, First 1,000 Feet Open On May 1 the first 1,000 feet of three day concrete was opened for traffic at the west side of Western avenue, As the concrete is being poured at the rate of 700 feet a day, the street will be opened in sections, the opening to follow the laying by about three or four days, "While the cement content is in- creased and the work will be slight- ly more expensive than the standard mixtures," Maj. Quinlan said, "the added expense is not great, The in- crease of cement is graduated to a maximum that is found in the last day's work by the pavers. The con- crete laid in the first two or three days need not contain as much cem- ent as does that laid with the idea that it must set within three days. "Detour maintenance costs will be cut down because of the time saved in the use of detours and in re- pairs, so that gencrally speaking the costs will be equalized and the most desired ends of the traffic facility attained." CONTESTATION OF MONTREAL MAYORALTY MAY BE DEFAULTED Montreal, May 11--A motion to block the contestation proceeding pending in the Superior Court against Mayor Camillien Houde on the ground that the action.was not returned within the legal days fixed by the court, was presented before Mr. Jus- tice Coderre in Practice Court today. The motion was taken under advise- ment by His I ordship. The contestation action was taken by Joseph Dollar Lafleur and the Motion presented on behalf of the mayor today asked that the petitioner be declared in default, HE CAN'T FIGHT (Vancouver Sun) Pacifists should be cheerful in an era when the only way for an ad- | miral to get famous is to scold, L USES OWN ILLNESS FOR EXPERIMENT New York, May 14.--Dr, Hideyo Noguchi of the Rockefeller Insti- tute for Medical Research, has made use indirectly of his own ill- ness to identify the carrier of wie deadly African yellow fever, While Noguchi was ill from the African disease, he had a monkey inoculated with some of his own blood. Twelve days Jater the mon- key contracted the disease and died, Additional experimentation, he says, showed the micro-organism to be a deadly member of the Lep- tespira famrily, He will try to find a vaccine against it. BORDEN ADDRESSES INSTI- TUTE OF PACIFIC RELATIONS LJ New York, N.Y, May 11--Sir Rob- ert Borden, Canada's wartime Prime Minister, addressed the Council of the Institute of Pacific Relations, American branch, at a private lunch- eon here today. d Sir Robert discussed the recent or- ganization in Canada of the Canadian Institute of International Relations, which is affiliated with the Royal Institute of International Relations and the Institute of Pacific Relations. RUBBER FENDERS 1928 "INVENTION" Engineers Flooded This . Spring With Startling Ideas from Public Spring, which so often is credited with inspiring a young man's fancy with armorous thoughts, holds its in- spiration for many other types as well. One is the itinerant automobile inventor who at this season responds to a renewed urge to seck recognition of his originality in the offices of motor car engineers, This throng of inventive optimists again descends upon engineers with usual insistence. They come from every direction "for personal inter- views and flood the mails with in- numerable original proposals. Here are some of their startling ideas: Rubber fenders for bouncing through traffic. A celluloid surface for a ear fin- ish with several layers which may be peeled off annually to give the car a fresh appearance. The 1928 model of perpetual ma- tion, A cargurctor of perpetual A carburetor that uses the gasoline all day, keeps the engine humming and returns the gas to the tank ev- ery evening, A radio ignition system with call letters for each cylinder, A warning light on the instrument board which becomes illuminaged when the driver exceeds the speed limit. Inventors volunteer to correct any- thing that isn't perfect in the auto- motive field. Custom-built inventions are their specialities. Often inventors' models fall apart before they are sub- a way to correct this, more value 'mitted, and if some one could invent would result to all concerned, . "Every suggestion by personal call or letter is ' carefully considered," said A. H. Knight, consulting ang- ineer. "Many of the inventions' have already been invented, others have been tried and failed, but sometimes there may be one of merit." DUBLIN BACK And if they fly the Bremen back to Europe the least they can do is to change her name to Dublin, DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT The Soviets are training women as soldiers, And yet they say they want world disarmament, a She sings now in the kitchen Now the family listens to her singing in the Kitchen, Do you sing in your Kitchen? Perhaps you havent a Moffat-- Over 90,000 Women the over are singing the praises of R FQ Canada struggled along with a "plaguey" Wood Stove, doing their he mouths. Cooking, then, was a task, and a heavy one, too. Other fuels came, but they only served to lighten her drudgery but a little. Those were the days when she was too tired to hum a lullaby, . But one-day she heard of the pleasures of electric cooking, What a time, labor and money saving system it had proven itself to be. Then she, too, demanded MOFFATS WESTON 3 years the Womanhood t to feed hungry Moffat--and got one. orld Moffats Electric Ranges. LIMI = ONT Chade mn Canada Gp Sold théWorld over J RM-125 Moffats Electric Ranges ELECTRIC for sale the by SHOP Simcoe Street North, Oshawa, Ont. MAKES HEADLIGHT | WITHOUT A GLARE BUT STRONG GLEAN Detroit Engineer Has Tested All Sorts and Conditions of Lamps BEAM BROADENED NonFocusing Lamp Now Reality--Will Soon Be 'Standard -------- Lighting engineers are trying to make night driving safe and en- joyable by designing a set of head- lamps that will be foolproof, that will always throw the right kind of bean, that won't glare into oth- er drivers' eyes and that wilt {l- luminate the road sufficiently and far enough ahead to afford as fast driving as daylight does. Work done in one of the best laboratories points to the fuirl- ment of this order almost to the last requirement. In a large dark room on the ground floor of the research build ing in Detroit, R. N. Falge ana tis assistants have been experimenting with all sorts of lighting arrange- ments for the improvement of this part of the automobile. Dozens of types of headlamps are racked up along the side wall of this long, wide room for com- parative study. Posts and signs are set up and an automobile is parked in the distance to stimu. late actual street conditions, Study Lenses and Reflectors, In front is an apparatus on which four headlamps rest, Here various types of reflectors are plac- ed, lenses of all kinds are attacned and changes are amde to guide the engineers in the study. Four reflectors of one type, for instance, are partly blacked so that, if the four unblacked portions were uted they would make wu complete reflector of the type un- der examination. Thus, each of these sections--not necessarily equal in design or size, but all com- bining to make one complete unit --can be studied for its effect on the illumination of the road and the shape of the reflector possibly ime proved. Similarly, horizontal sections of various types of lenses are placed, one above the other, in front of a lamp and the effect of each type or of all combined is observed on the floor and screen ahead. As a result of 'these studies, the fMluminating engineers have suc- ceeded in broadening a beam of light considerably, eqiializing the illumination over the entire road surface and maintaining a bright light while eliminating glare. We now can see even around cor- ners, Double Beam in Use Elimination of glare without dimming of headlamps has already been accomplished and is in prac- tice on the better automobiles, This is done by means of the dou- ble or depressible beam headlamp, A switch throws the light from one filament in the bulb to another, thereby either lowering or raising the beam of light as desired. When the beam is lowered, the road is illuminated as intensely as before, in fact even more so, but closer to the car and over a small. er area, The result is that, no matter how powerful the lights of the approaching car, the depressed beam affords sufficient counter-ef- fect to almost nullify the glare of the other car and at the same time light up the road #o the right, Dimming of the light, as has been the practice, is like driving in total darkness, compared with the latest achievement. Despite this progress, however, engineers have had to face the more irritating problem of lights getting out of focus and adjust. ment. They have therefore tried to develop a foolproof headlamp that would need no focusing. Non-Focusing Lam Falge and his .assistants have been moving the filament of a headlamp about in a cireld up to 60 thousandths of an inch from the exact focal point to discover the effect of each position on' the beam ahead. As a result of this study he has devised what he calls 2 non-focus- ing headlamp which would elimin- ate the necessity of such adjust- ment. At present the bulb in the beadlamp has tobe moved backward or forward by means of a screw in back, in order to get the proper type of beam. The non-focusing headlamp is so designed that he filament of bulb may be jarred out of place as much as 60 thousandths of an inch with- out affecting the efficiency of the beam. " Road Test of Lights :fore final approval is given for such development, however, Falge got out to put it to actual test on the road about Detroit or at the proving grounds. For this pur- pose he has a standard automobile, but with four headlamps in front and three tail lights in the rear. On the dash he has a complicated arrangement of buttons or switch- es, by means of which he ean pro- duce all sorts of combinations in lighting his head or tail lights. Thus, driving along any road, up hill or down, around corners and on straight stretches, Falge has been able to observe the rements. He has been able to test the lights against those of approaching cars. Not satisfied even with actual practice, Falge has taken pictures of all his experiments. By compar- ing pictures, he has been able to ascertain definite effects and im prove on the basis of positive fact. He has not trusted his own eyes. It was in this way that Falge de- signed the non-focusing headlamp. Ais good ted' The Orange Pekoe, at a little extra cost, is extra good In clean, bright Aluminum AUTHORITIES BAFFLED AS BOY RE- LATES HOW HE WAS STRICKEN BLIND Carteret, N.J, May 15.--A case of total blindness involving a 13-year- old boy is baffling authorities of the Carteret Board of Health, The vic- tim, Stephen Zuko, was confined to his mother's home here, stone's throw from the Carteret high school, unknown to the health authorities or the general public for the past ten months. Friday Officer Frank Born was informed of the case by a citi- zen and immediately started an in- vestigation, The victim was taken to the Health Department's Headquarters and ques- tioned by Health Officer Born and the department nurse, Miss Margaret Hackett in an effort to determing how the boy became blind, Stephen said that he was stricken blind sud- denly about ten months ago. Roth his eyes, he explained, bled a little without any apparent cause and then everything became blurred, This con- dition, he said, was followed by to- tal blindness, Questioned as to what medical treatment he had been given the boy said that he had been treated by an unidentified person with pray- er. He told the health officer that this person had promised him recent ly that his sight would be entirely restored withm a few weeks, Mr, Born said he is endeavoring to find the person who administered the "prayer treatment." The boy has large brown eyes thaf appear to be .periectly normal. He told Mr. Brown that - hs is not cons scious of light to the slightest degrees 1 MANITOBA OFFICIAL IS TO VISIT HOLLAND Winnipeg, May 11--=J. H. Evans, Deputy Minister of Agricultural in the Provincial Government, will leave May 17 for Holland, at the ine vitation of a Dutch emigration ors ganizaztion which is investigating set= tlement conditions in Manitoba and Western Canada generally. With L. A. 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