PAGE SIXTEEN THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1917. ssn cme mp -- HOW TO BUY A USED CAR. }| Generally speaking, used cars fall | into two classes: | 1. Junk not worth repairing, { +2..Cars that have plenty of good | work left in them. The dealer who! classifies his used cars in this man ner will see the advisability of get-| ting what he can for the first sort! "as is," without making a fruitless attempt to tinker such cars into fine condition, | And he will also see to it that the | second kind is treated differently. | Very often a coat of paint, a new part here or there, a slight repair, or a usable tire, as the case may be, will | add greatly to the appearance and | value of a car and make its sale eas- | jer. Buyers generally are not gifted | with imagination. They see what is | before them. If a car limps or looks | ragged its worth will be rated low. | Jt is not easy to make a prospect real- | ize that with a new coat of paint the| car will be beautiful to behold. But] by putting on the paint before he sees | | i it and by keeping the car ready to} r run, and are prepared to show him| at any time just what he will get, on} immedate delivery, and consequently| the sale will be considerably easier to| make, There are people who would not} buy a. used car at any price. Thei point of view is largely influenced by the factors of style and beauty.| But there are many others who know | that a used car of substantial make represents a much greater wort than they could find in any new car at an equal price, The reason for this is clear. Deal- | ers have almost universally treated! used cars as junk letting them stand around dust-covered, greasy, unfit to run or to ride in, shredded and flat of wreckage. Consequently the pub- lic idea of used cars is below zero. looks attractive, runs well and repre- sents excellent value. You can't make this showing in an advetise- ment; you can make it in a face-to- | experienced | ought th with tires worn | --the very picture | You can overcome this prejudice only jErease Against by actually showing a used car that | : : | short circuit In The Word Of Eas to look them over at the Used Car show which opens at the Montreal {Arena on Wednesday, June 20th. A Gray-Dort Enthusiast, Miss Marian Newland, a clever and driver, has become a great Gray-Dort enthusiast after "do- ing" California witiMher parents, Doc- tor and Mrs. Newland of Newport, Vermont. Miss Newland has this to say re- arding the performance of her Gray-Dort: "We have called it our 'Little Big Car' because of the things it will do. We drove up and down all the canyon and mountain roads from San Diego to Bakersfield and travelled in com- pany with all kinds of cars on the in- land and coast roads. "We paid out not a penny for re- pairs, had not a single delay and on the heavy grades took delight in pass- ing the many-cylindered big' cars. Our gasoline consumption was from | one-half to two-thirds that of the larger cars we have owned. We are certainly delighted with the Gray- Dort. It has made our tour a, won- der." AAPA BAGG STITCHES IN TIME. | s th It seldom-occurs to a man that he to strain the lubricating oil, this should be done, neverthe- 8s Most people rely on the strain- er in the funnel, and many give it no thought at all But foreign mat- ter carried into the pump may clog or cause it to fail, besides clogging the strainer in the pump. but S. If a gasoline pipe leaks where it is threaded the leak may be stopped by rubbing a piece of soap on the reads, as soap is not soluble in gasoline. When packing the stuffing box on the water pump we work some cup grease into the packing. So use soap against gasoline and hot water. Don't re- The porcelain of the spark plug will sometimes crack and permit a within the plug. This hard to detect unless the is removed and carefully The slightest indication -of to condemn face demonstration. And the most i en successful sellers of used cars are |... unanimous in declaring that the|='®R0eC. FUE way to sell used cars is to exhibit 12 ot aclure J su cient them to prospective purchasers, and | porcelain, then to demonstrate one car to each prospect until he definitely accepts | It should be remembered in the or rejects it. If he rejects one car | event of running short of gasoline in try him on another, and so on. Con- [3 Jgecality where the supply cannot centrate your effort in that one man, | be replenished, "stove naphtha" and and endeavor to supply him what hé | gyen kerosene oil can be used if ages. Sen satisfied Mien car buy- mixed with a large a proportion as er is able to suggest the names of | possible of the gasoline remaining in friends who in turn can be worked [the tank. upon. All of which leads up to the | : ne to quick and profitable sales of| The one precaution to be observed large stocks of used cars. All the is to keep the enginé running and more reason them why you should |to keep it hot, even if running with a not accumulate large stocks, and retarded spark is necessary in order the purchaser will have the chance to prevent the cylinders from becom- ying too cool to vaporize the charges | properly. Difficulties with the mixture are: {sure to occur, but can be remedied by caréful attention to the regular | adjustments, | When the starting motor for any reason lacks power to turn over the | crankshaft it may be made more ef- ficient by coupling on another stor- | age battery, connecting it in multiple | s0 as not to increase the voltage. If the conducing wires are of sufficient { size from the battery to the motor | there will be quite a gain in power output. | "Where the starting crank is not | handy, and the self-starter fails to , work the motor may be started by | jacking up one rear wheel, throwing {off the brak and setting the gears at | direct drive. By setting the wheel | the motor will be operated in same {manner as waen crank was used. | Caution: Do not lower jack until | elutch is neutral. Remember that chains are needed lin summer as well as in winter. A {heavy rain will soon mgke the | streets and roads dangérous. Some | people only carry ome chain on the right rear wheel, away from the curb. Two are better, both on the rear wheels, but it is best to use four and have one in reserve. Every ignition wire should have a terminal soldered at each end. This insures a firm contact and prevents wires breaking off 'and so gradually shortening. If terminal breaks off be very careful in fastening wire, as a single strand of wire touching an- other metal part may ground the current, thus preventing ignition sys- tem from working, or even ruining the storage battery. When coasting down a long hill change from orfe brake to the other to allow them to cool. Unfortunate- ly this does not cool the brake drums. So use the motor as a brake and go down very steep hills against compression. leave the gears in high speed, or, if you find that too fast, the second or first speed. Stop the ignition and it will cool your motor at the same time. It should be remembered that dry- cells are not intended to be re- charged or used again, while storage batteries, by virtue of their electro- chemical nature, may be used con- tinuously throughout their life, by recharging from a source of electric supply. < Too many motorists are apt to treat the storage battery as they would treat a dry-cell--they have the impression that there is nothing t& do but use the battery until it is exhausted. Consequently, they pay no attention to it, as long as it does its work, with the result that by the time it becomes inoperative the bat- tery is very seriously harmed. USE PLENTY OF OIL IN YOUR CAR. i Plenty of oil is the secret of the successful operation of any piece of thing you can waste in connection with an automobile, /Car troubles are, nine times out of ten, directly traceable to lack of lub- rication at some point. Accidents, charged to reckless driving, can also, in the majority of cases, be traced to the fact that some particular portion of the car was not lubricated at the proper interval. Any rapid deteri- oration of certain parts of the car, causing replacement of the parts, can be directly placed to lack of "proper lubrication. Noises which sometimes devolop about the car, which did not exist until after the car has been used a certain period are usually the result of improper lubrication. Difficult steering, hard rising, and certain other annoyances are traceable to a lack of lubrication. It is not only essential to see that oil and grease are applied at regular intervals, but it is also absolutely necessary that the oils and greases used are of the right quality, and that they have the proper body to them. For the motor, any good motor oil recognized as high quality may be used. It must be remembered that oils that are suitable for some mo- tors cannot be used in others, this being due to the clearness between the various parts, also the material used, and again the particular kind of an oil circulating system that is being utilized. However, as a gen- eral rule, any good, reliable make will prove satisfactory. In this climate, where the tem- perature drops much below the freez- ing point, you will find it necessary to use a different oil in winier trom | taat used in summer. All oils thin out when they are heated, and be- come thicker and heavier when cool. In hot weather the oil in your car ie rather warm, and sometimes even | hot, and if you use too light an oil in summer, it will sometimes become 4g thin as kerosene, with little lubri- cating value. You must, therefore, use a heavier oil in the summer. Changing the oil in your motor is accomplished by removing the drains at the bottom of the crank case and allowing all the oil to run out, after which the oil reservoir is flushed out in the same way that the radiator is cleaned, using kerosene oil as the cleaning agent, i While the motor: is being looked over it would not be a bad idea to readjust the tappets so that the clear- ances are at about the thickness of an ordinary business card, and also to clean the spark plugs. The plugs ean be cleaned by allowing them to soak in kerosene and then scrape the carbon with a pocket knife or some other metallic object, | { | ---- Running on Less Air in Sum- Travel KEEP TIRE PRESSURE I UP IN HOT WEATHER| i mer Is All Wrong, Says Manufacturer. Instructors seem unable to con- | vince the average amateur driver of! an automobile that he must keep his foot off the cluth pedal while] driving, they do not seem to realize | that even a slight touch of the foot on the pedal disengages the plates, | and that serious trouble finally re- sults from this. | When the clutch is even slightly, disengaged, as by the pressure of light touch of the toe on the! clutch pedal, the plates do not set firmly together but rub, and the re-| sult is overheating and wearing of the parts. This wear does not occur | with close contact, but when slightly pressed apart, the plates heat rapidly | and finally burn out and cars are} brought in because of clutch trouble, | and, of course, the poor manufac-| turer is blamed for having a clutch |fi is improperly set. is that the driver keeps his foot con- stantly on the clutch, and uncon- sciously presses it out of engage- ment just enough to wear it out. A direct cause of rapid tire wear, ||} particularly the rear tires, is in the misuse of the brakes. on a car should be very seldom lock- ed. They should not be locked in wet weather any more than in dry. The brakes | | | Auto Taxi Touring Car Service || Phone 566 Office: Clarence St., near King. Barriefield Camp and All City Calls Promptly Attended To. (Garage Robinson & Wiltshire VULCANIZING All kinds of cars repaired promptly. || Cars washed. Gasoline and oils for sale. Cars for hire. With J. M. Martin, Maxwell Service Station. 110 Clergy Street Phone 1192. IS YOUR CAR INSURED ? We have a very up-to-date policy which. we would like to explain to you -- it cavers all hazards a car is insured against. Call, write or 'fhone at our ex- pense. J.K. Carroll Agency Real Estate and Insurance. Phone 68. 56 Brock St. CITY TAXISTAND 285 King Street. Opposite Custom House ~ Phone 749 Boat, Train and All City Oalls Promptly Attended to. All modern five and seven passen- ger cars used. GRAY DORT 3 Passenger Shamrock ROADSTER $945 Quickest Motor Car Success in Years The motor car industry has seen some wonderful successes--but never a more astounding triumph than that of the Gray-Dort. Our first model was announced in December, 1915." The Gray- Dort was then unknown. Only one announcement was made. But in three days our entire 1916 output was sold. Dealers clamored for more cars. Many motorists were disappointed. For 1917 we increased out output tremendously. But the same scenes were repeated. Dealers came from all over Canada and asked for more than the entire output. rasan 7 ; A nile of iis We knew the car was good--ive knew it was the greatest motor car value ever offered. Shrewd dealers and experinced motorists came to the same conclusion. From the day the first car was in the factory showroom we have been inundated with orders. And after a vear's test, the' demand has increased enerm- ously. It's a Wonderful Car Wonderful Motor Silent, powerful, light ang efficient, thrifty of gas- oline and oil, speedy. Wonderful Comfort Lots of room in the seats--lots of leg room---deep SHOULD KEEP FOOT OFF CLUTCH PEDAL Amateur Drivers Do Not Real- ize Great Importance of This Warning. At A AANA ANNAN Ot / "With the return of the summer months come the days that are cost- ly to thousands of motorists," says the manager of the serviee depart- ment of one of the largest tire com- panies. ; A "I am referring to the belief that prevails among hosts of motorists as to the effect of hot weather on au- tomobile tires. It is surprising how many motorists still believe that in hot weather the air in a fire ex- pands to the danger point. Why this wrong impression should have gained such wide circulation is diffi- cult to explain. There 48 nothing in the hot weather theory. "It is true, of course, that on a hot day the air in a tire expands somewhat, but so slightly as to be negligible in its effect. Internal tire heat does not result from the tem- perature of the outside air, but from the constant bending of the tire as it rolls along the streel. And no season Is exempt. Whether in wint- er or summer your tires generate the 'same degree of heat. In winter the effect is mot so prominent be- cause of the more rapid equaliza- tion of temperature within and without the tire. : "The practice of running tires at less than recommended pressures in ow am beet ah ane st a . . Specifications: MOTOR--Gray-Dort, 4-cylinder, cast en bloe, L-head type, bore 3% in. stroke 6 in, speed 2000 rpm. horsepower 28 ocast iron removable heads. Timing gears--cast iron helical, Carter carburetor, Thermo-syphon cooling, 3-gallon tube and finn radiator. 4- quart ¢il pump and splash lubrication. Westinghouse two unit starting and Mght- ing system. Connectlout battery fgnition. 12. fnch cone clutch with 6 oompensating springs. ' Three speed and reverse selective transmission, with double row New Depart- ure bearings. Universal joint, Gasoline tank under cowl. 1 beam heavy duty front axle % floating rear axle, with forked tube tor- sion end Hyatt High Duty bearings. 10-inch internal expanding and external comtracting brakes, Pressed steel frame. Springs-- front, 37 dn. elliptic, rear 50 in. full canti- lever. Left-hand drive, 18 in. frreversible worm and mut type Steering wheel, Centre gear-ghift lever. Emergency brake, right pedal. Service brake, clutch pedal. Accel- erator. Spark and throttle eontrols on steer- ing wheel. Artillery type wood wheels. De- troit demountable ms. 30 x 3% Dom'nion tires. Nobby trear rear. Westinghouse el- cotric lighting. Linoleum @wered running board. Lock ignition switch. Dashlight, am- meter, roberail, fodtrail, clear-vision wind. shield, one-man top, tools, equipment com- plete. HE Ford car has been on the market" twelve years, surely long enough to have proven its high quality. There is nothing experimental about it. Every part has stood the test of time and proven its stability with hard service. No other car has ever aproached the durability records of the Ford. S-passenger touring model ..$.945 No matter what price you pay for a car warny weather to ove e expan- sion tendencies instead of saving 3-passenger roadster model .. 945 upholstery--- long cantilever springs--handy driving Westinghouse starting and lighting---easy gear shift. B-passenger sedan model 1160 you cannot get one with a stauncher chas- sis. Government Laboratory tests have shown that the different parts of the Ford car are superior to those in any other car. Ford Vanadium steel has never been eq- ualed in strength. If you want a car that can plow through deep mud, sand and gravel --that can cross fields, corduroy roads and ford ~ streams--that can climb the steepest hills with ease--that will give the mile- age all year round with the least expense and care--then there is only ONE car for you-- The Ford. tires and money has cost the motor- | ists, of this counfry many millions } of dollars. . 'The modern pneumatic tire ap- pears to be a pathetically trail | structure to many car owners--so the advent of a hot day is a signal' to them to reduce air pressure. But tires are not so fragil as some car Hi owners imagine. They are built to' withstand four or five times recom- Jj : mended pressures. An instance re-[j cently came to our attention in'j a which a boy attempted to inflate a Ji§ * set of tires on his father's car with, i an air hose and had actually put Hi ; - Wonderful Value We have built this car with the sole aim of ¢bn- glstent, continued performance of the very highest stand- ard. Materials are of the finest--construction honest. The value is unprecedented. "The Quality Goes Clear Through." Kingston lll Gray-Dort Motors, Ltd, Chat- ham, Ont. American Factory at Flint, Mich. 400 pounds air pressure in a tire Hii before discovered. "When you run your tires under- Hi inflated in hot weather to combat Hj air expansion you induce increased Touring . - $495 Runabout - $475 # F.OB. Fogd, Ont. ANGROVE BROS. * Ford Dealers _ an. Kingston, Ont.