Ph THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG, SATU RDAY, APRIL 6, 1918. : Figuring Car Depreciation ||; We hear a good deal about the de preciation of the value of our moto cars and we do not have troubté in locating that depreciation when we want to get rid of used car. To hear a salesman talk a car when he is sei ng you or is an impression gained that will be worih more af be 4 year than when pegfectly hear him talk about the Yon have used it a year and want to tndde it in for a new one-- well, gel a very different impression. But the depreciation there, whether we want to sell the car, or keep it, and we might as well make up our minds to take the loss as it comes, In order to do that and avoid the unpleasant sensation of to take it later wll in one big it is worth while to 'keep an automo bile inventory, Perhaps you, as a business man, keep an inventory of your personal {property to enable you to know the first 'of each month just where you stand, It doesn't take long to do this if you are an average citizen, and if you are a millionaire and don't "gare where you stand, it will still be worth while to list your automobiles and write off the depreciation month ly. bs Suppose you are just buying-a new 1918 model, $2,000 car. that in the natural course of thingh, accident beside the question, that « ir, i used through 1918, wilp depreciate in value about fifty per cent, as far as selling price is concerned That » means a little less than five per cent. per month, In order to keep from thinking you are worth more than the facts warrant, you ought se, in your inventory the ' first of each month, write off five per cent, f the variation of that oar. If you do that through the year. when the car is a year old you may be reasonably certain that you can get out of it more than you count #® worth, and if their is any surprise, it is likely to be a pleasant rather than an unpleasant one. It you expect to keep your car un- til it i8 prachcally used up, the de- preciation is not such an important matter and it will be much glower, because that car is going to. have, when a year old, a much higher price value for you to use than to sell. I you write off 21% per cent. per month, you will be able to feel reasonably certain that you are keep- ing your car at a figure which rep resents fairly accurately its worth to yon to keep, J The figures you obtain in this way will give you a line on how much fire insurance you-ought io! be carrying on the car and whether it is valuable enough to gnake it desirable for you to carry collisign insurance on it AAA A cab A rr ii i you is np, much | You know ' hatter OF. ment and sense 1 bile buying figures. or approachi 0 be the inventory regi After follo year, no one { the old gue How Tires Arve Rim Cut, tection Om sim dard make 3 rd rim Jif But any type tine by abuse. tire, 'dented or ir ive loads, tire liners gre fl eutt beads The flange ed Ir ns cons m runnin ed derable in next tire the load for addition to ruinin t un th eads.! than- t gned ma where er » rim above heavier they bead are de the Motor Wary Pain is the man machine sends worn or disarranged attention. The mot its ailments The well-built ent comes close to and the driver with its accustome of-the- linary s rattle i's a war; ing. The wi warning. The bolt or a worn moto isg cannot the trouble seek the aid of t more ¢ 1 suffe a breakdown stiteh in time age as well as in the Milestones, tice of noise soon 1 trouble or 1 rken locat him he re or br for 1 York rol will be g dista that trim w hose y bre arning w fo knoek tble We are 1 adjust a month tine 1¢ tire, the Il1,be cut Ives no ng a y pres noiseless, familiar An-out- or brew- heeds the may | part. and he air md on the saves nine in the tailor \ ye a loose pin, a part of the adjustment, If the remedy should anebefore trouble develops, or he » road." A gars shop.- An inventor has combined an auto~ mobile jack and pump in a tool one handle operating both. single Fand | star LOOK OUT FOR CROSSINGS. Simple mip. 3 Things That suble oh the H May Prevent Railroad. down and dr ttle not bothering about | lower g . ~ Consider- + will show' that v be stalled when y drive in high gear 1 amount of gas, If ount iced too much the will st By shifting into peed all such danger is over- The car may be driven across approximately the same n run at a speed danger of stall- wrt and a full ter eontrol clear if neces- tion « the engi £5 at ut the en hine driver opens the throt- thus choking the use the air valve increased suc- sudden rush of air be- nozzle can respond line. The throttle, hand or accelgr- ned gradually éh- engine to respond. ngine on the tracks approaching high sh experience, to say 1ere is no time to start the operator who keeps mind uses the starter dang He-guickly peed and presses the pedal The car moves for- wly, but it moves! Keeping in mind, a driver may save suddenly, This is bec readily at ence ( ut of nto low in such an emergency and al-' ves of those with him, starting down a long, steep to leave. . the use. in an wheels will turn the engine, which resist affords a very good braking A light car on a moderately steep hill will slow down immediately and a heavy car will. move . slowly enough to be under control. This is called "using the engine as a brake.' It should be practiced from time to time so that the driver may become familiar with the method. Many drivers do not know how to, take the bumps easily. - A good way is to throw out the cluteh and apply the foot brake gradually. This re- lieves the shock so that many times it may not be noted by those riding. advisable speed for The rear then ance V A Minor Loss. The ant one (to brother of- olse NEWEST NOTES OF SCIENCE By turning rings at the ends a new fruit knife is opened -- : New Zealand's last animal sensus showed that it had nearly 25,000,000 sheep Under certain conditions wood as effective as iron for reinforcing concrete, 3 x Wine gnade from banana juice has been invented by two Frenchmen in Cochin, China. ) : An artificial cork Invented in Sweden is made of cork waste and a binding paste, . Wooden corks for picnickers' that are sealed in sanitary paper envel- opes are a nevelty, Energy emitted by radium has been utilized by a German scientists to drive a tigy clock. A dry battery electric lamp to throw its raps upon the music on a piano has been invented. = A government bureau in Uruguay recently estimated the population of the republic at 1,300,000, A plant in Germany converts tons of péat into nine tons of coke, with g#s and tar 4s byproducts. A new piano for travelling mu- sicians weighs about 120 pounds and can be packed and shipped like a trunk, y Some Paris streets will use oil for illumination, neither gas nor elec- tricity having been introduced. The skirt of a new bathing for women can be converted Bloomers as a wearer water, The increase in beet pro- duction in Sweden has almost caught up with that nation's demand for sugar, , Operated by an ele motor, a freight elevator in a factory in New Jersey runs up and down a stairway. It is estimated that Spain has de- veloped not more than 8 per cent. of its available hydro-electric power, The entire interior of a new range oven is so mounted that it' can be swung out for its examination of ifs contents, » For twenty years the population of the Netherlands has increased be- tween 13% and 2 per cent, annually. In-the weave lies the secret of a new Turkish towel that is said to absorb water more rapidly than absorbent cotton, The copper mines of Cyprus, ancient times among the richest the world, are to be recpened American capital, A novelty in the egg cup line has a space around the bowl that can be is 30 suit into the enters sugar ti ric in in by at the Officers' Club) you've lost your cap Ficer sittir De you know badge? . Phe gloomy one (of the transport)--- I'm not surprised. I've Just lost a ceuple of caterpillars, a six-inch Mk seven, nine motor lorries and a four-wheel drive.-~Galveston Ne motor Na ° In their place you have a speed "Ford Car---complete in sel. cram uggy that trav idle i¢ does not eat thee oh ' For instance, not 1 blankets, whi e harness, -forks, > A Rord will save you time, trouble, car for the busy farmer and his family, ¢ Van Liven Bros, Ki ' Gu H. Richards on, Tamworth. a LT) 3 Sa Hp A Ford Car Takes the of all These Things HEN you own a Ford you can do away with many articles only your driving-horse ps, currycombs, le, dignified, roomy Superior to the nartow, en a Ford is standing requires no "looking feed-bins, ete. ly, dependab It is vastly lowly. And meals a day, and it and money. Itis the'utility One-ton Truck ston - Moscow Place ~ "J. A Goodfello w, Parham. ~ » '| steering columi filled with hot water to keepd¥sicons tents warm. ; Diamonds exposed to radium be- come highly radioactive and remain | so for several years, aecording to a British scientist, : If razor hones are placed® upon strong magnates razors can be held flat and can be sharpened more rapidly and accurately, An instrument to measure the Susceptibility of persons to suggest- ions from others'is the invention of a French scientist. A band saw mounted on wheels and driven by a gasoline €nging has been invented for cutting off stumps level with the ground. Machinery to trim the scalloped edges of embroidery at about 50 times the speed it can be' done by hand is a Swiss invention. . The quality of flour can be tested by squeezing a handful of it, if good, it will retain the imprint of the lines of the hands. Among the natives of Great Brit- ain the Scotch average the tallest, the Irish are next, then come the English and the Welsh, A new scrubbing brush has a tele- scoping handle that enables it to be used at several distances, from the hands and'at any angle, Argentine has built near Blanca the largest dry-dock in America, capable of s dreadnaughts of its navy, \ A hoisting engine that handles } loads up to 1,000 pounds has been invented that can be operated by. either steam Or compressed air, Chinese and Japanese bells clapperless and never ar swung, tones being produced by them with wooden mallets, Apparatus that enables men who have lost their hands to write with their knees has been invented by a physician in Portland, Ore. The German city of Nuremberg plans to build a tunnel two miles long to help control g river which has caused 138 disastrous floods, An incandescent lamp socket has been entirely covered with porcelain for use in places where wet hands might produce serious shocks. Used only locally by the - natives for smelting, the coal deposits of Angola have been found rich in pe- troleum by Cape Town chemists, A Wisconsin farmer is the inyent- or of a simple brooder for keeping young pigs warm, heat being sup- plied by ah ordinary hand lantern. So successful have been Italian ex- periments with reforestation in«Tri- poli that 50,000 more eucalyptus trees will beset out this year. To save automobilists eye strait there has been invented a disk of colored glass that can be attached to windshfelds with a vacuum cup. Rubber shoes to be placed over the ends of tripod legs to prevent cameras\slipping on hardwood floors are an. English inventor's idea, Among the new automobile locks one which, when fastened to a . fastens the steering mechanism, gas ang spark controls. In an English inventor's smoke- less furnace the coal is coked and the gas derived in that is. mixed With air and burped with the cake. A portable. vulcanizer for automo- bile tires gets its heat from a Burner filled with as . which is satur- ated with gasoline or alchol. Glass mirrors dating from the sec- Bahia South handling the are their striking is. ' po World ) EEE "490 A" Five Passenger Touring Car $8235 £1 Sess = adster ed metal in which to see themselves. An 'English city has developed an economical method for recovering the tin cans by burning it from the iron by heat from waste flue gases. The use of. pitch in the manufac- ture of fuel briquettes in England is believed to cause a form of cancer among the workers in that industry. The motion of waves is utilized by a California inventor's device.that is intended to scrape barnacles and other marine growths from, piling. For either residences or restaur- ants a revolving pantry window has been invented to permit $ood 16 be passed from a kitchen to-a dining room yet exclude noise and odors, -- i THE EXPERTS SAY. In cars fitted with a magneto it is no-uncommon occurrence ai this time "of year to have trouble develop be- cause of water getting into the de- vice. Sometimes drops of water get in between the horseshoe magnets and prevents the magneto's function- ing. To prevent apy such trouble, not only from water buty from oil or grease, it is an exeellent plan to sidp @ leather cover over the entire ma- chine. Some supply dealers Lovers of this kind in stock, ghut if not any harness maker can manu- facture one io order. ws - The principal disadvantage charg- ed against the value in head motor, especially those of the valve cage type, is the difficulty of properly cooling the valves, This difficulty is Bot propounced-in the cane of the in- ond or third century, d tin a cemetery in Austria, iscovered theory that the ancients used po 3 he let valves, because the incoming gas is coel and keeps the valves fairly cool, but it does mean that the ex 5 i ? i 7 HE Chevrolet Model F, ** Baby Grand » . Five Passenger Touring Car $1295 gi, Four Passenger 0 ane tet a FU Ue 5 CC SEN SP { haye | \Y/HEN the graceful; roomy five car lower: in price electrically equipped thousands of 490 models were immed- iately sold. For over two mammoth Chevrolet production has not kept up with the demand. The Chevrolet i Chevrolet Motor Company announced an efficient, eee VROLET passenger touring than any other car in Canada, years the 490A has been brought up-to-date and represents today the best value in low priced cars. Hundreds of Chevrolet owners wanted a larger, more powerful, and more roomy car as good as the Chevrolet 490A. To satisfy this demand we are building the BABY GRAND Touring Car which is alight, powerful, car giving every comfort for discriminating motorists. We believe it repre- sents better value than any other car 'in its class. For men who want the ulfimate in power, ease of control, speed when necessary, our new Chevrolet EIGHT CYLINDER ni8¥el is the best buy. See the Chevrolet line at dealer. the nearest Chevrolet Buy now as the demand will be 'great; Send for descri needs. ption of model best suited to your All Prices £. o. b. Oshawa, Ont. THe CHEVROLET MOTOR CO. of CANADA, LiMTED OSHAWA, ONT. Western Parts and Distributing Branch REGINA, SOLD LOCALLY BY NAA ANA AA rn 'valves will need frequent grinding' In many cage type motors the cages must be watched to see that they do mot turn around and thus c¢ut off the inlet or exhaust. The private garage owner may be glad to know that ordinary com-~ mercial ammonia is a valuable fire extinguisher. Another formula for a liquid which discourages combustion is common salt, one ounce; sodium nitrate, one ounce; sal smmoniac two ounces; magnesium chloride, four ounces, and water, twenty ounces. The solids are dissolved in the water. Another efficient solu- tion is made of twenty parts of com- mon salt, nine parts of ammonium chloride, and seventy-one parts of water. = y haust In making an ordinary connection to a battery terminal the stripped end of the wire should be wound around the binding pest in a elock- wise direction. When the screw is tightened"it will be turned to' the right and with the wire wound in the same direction there is a tendenty for it to wrap all the tighter: around the post. When the wire is wrapped | the other way around it tends fo un- wrap when the screw is tightened, | __No one cares to think much about being towed home, but not to make a bad matter worse, some thought should be given 10 this stbject. In attaching the rope which is to be used in the towing many drivers fasten it to the axle, which is wrong. The rope should be 'fastened fo one of the front portions of the frame, so that the pull comes on the chassis, The same thing applies to the car do- ing the towing, except that the rope should be fastened fo some part of SASK. 8 CYLINDER CHEVROLET $1825 M. OBERNDORFF ER, Kingston, Ont. a At tlt rt) Never push a car along by placing the hands ngajnst a panel or by hold- ing the door handles. The latter may be lightly fastened to the body, and the pressure necessary to move the car is more than they can stand. A car. should be pushed, by taking hold orf the wheels or of the tires, It is sometimes useful to know that the Mglitidfg: composition of a f box of safety matches may, in emerg- ency, be used in place of emery pa- per. The gubstifute is not equal to the original, but in a pinch it will clean the ends of a set of plugs fairly acceptably, / -- a. Where a mesh of fine screening id used in' the lubricating system to separate foreign matter from the oil these screens should be frequently in- spected. Particles of metal or other sediment collect here, and if the screens are not cleaned ut frequent intervals this foreign matter sericusly impede the flow of fbr. cant, with starved bearings or a flooded crankease as. the direct re- sult. When the ordinary method of placing a wrench on a sticking Bub cap and then tapping the wrench with a hammer fails, try this: Place a small box or horse of very nearly the height of the hub from the floor alongside the wheel, so that when the latter is turned the end of the wrench will strike the box, the force of the blow loosening the cap. Never permit « tire valve to remain uncovered. In case the €ap is lost and un spare is immediately avail- able, tie 2 piece of mg Or rubber over the stem. If dirt ofive mak its way Into the valve Stem a leaks i tha rear frame, Almost certain to result, |,