Puncture Solutions
Magnets and small boys used to pick nails up off roads to avoid punctures in car tires
Archive for the 'Automotive' Category
Fish Oil as Fuel for Car Engines 1927
COMING: THE FISH-OIL MOTOR
The possibility of farming the sea for motor-fuel, after all the oil and gasoline are gone, is indicated by studies of the use of fish oils and other animal oils as motor fuels reported to the French Academy of Sciences, in Paris, by Messrs. Georges Lumet and Henri Marcelet. Says Dr. E. [...]
DUI Tests 1927
TESTS FOR DRUNKENNESS
JUST HOW DRUNK must a man be to make him unsafe as a motorist? This is the problem that has been bothering British experts, as already noted in these columns.
The British Medical Journal (London) tells us that for several years public attention has been aroused by convictions of persons charged with drunkenness when [...]
European Touring Roads 1927
A NEW FRANCO-GERMAN WAR OF MOTOR-TOURIST ROAD BUILDING
SHALL France or Germany capture the bulk of the American and English automobile traffic that sweeps southward each year for those tourist paradises, Switzerland and Italy? That question became a vital one when the French awoke recently to the significance of Germany’s newly hatched plans for great [...]
1920’s Automobiles
During the 1920’s cars progressed from being fairly sparce and utilitarian vehicles to practical vehicles that were more reliable, comfortable, technically innovative, and stylish. Manufacturers strived to out-do each other in advancements in all aspects of automobile construction and styling in order to increase their market share and profits.
As cars became more mechanically reliable, comfortable, and [...]
Steel Wheels for Cars 1925
Steel Wheel Advertisement from 1925Â
Source: Motor Magazine, January 1925
THOUSANDS of tests have proven the artillery type spoke wheel the most practical and durable of popular type wheels. A careful study of “wheel-ology” will show that spoke wheels withstand the greatest shocks without damage to axles, bearings, or the car itself.
Steel Wheels – Where Strength Is [...]
Torque Converter Developments 1927
NO MORE SHIFTING GEARS
At a recent meeting of the Royal Society of Arts, in London, Mr. George Constantinesco delivered, by invitation of the Society, a lecture describing recent developments of his remarkable device called the “torque converter,” replacing the usual gear-shift systems of automobiles and similar machines. Says Dr. E. E. Free, in his Week’s [...]
Pressed Metal Developments 1927
INCREASED USE OF PREST METAL
THIS interesting feature of the year’s iron industry is reported in The Iron Trade Review (Cleveland), by Ethan Viall of that city, a former editor of The American Machinist. Mr. Viall attributes it to refinements in mechanical processes, and to more extensive employment of welding and improvements in the finishing of [...]
