Show SPARK PLUGS AND Ai SPEEDOMETERS Dont run your machine when It has an unknown noise without investigating Its cause Terre Haute Ind lcd Is experimenting with an automobile patrol wagon using It for tor both day and night service Moving pictures of the last French Grand Prix race are being shown at vau vaudeville aU deville theatres In some seine of ot the eastra cities A partially flexible rubber robber grip more than twice the length of the ordinary one has been placed on the market as an aid to motor cyclists From December 28 23 to January 4 are the dates that have been selected for the Im Importers Importers Importers porters Automobile Salon show of ot for tor foreign eign cars ears at New York Pleading in a Connecticut court that he ha was asleep and that his chauffeur was In full tull charge of the car a motorist recently recent recently ly escaped a fine tine for tor speeding Over 1200 machines were present at the Wood county Ohio fair fall at Bowling Green this year ear Three years Jears ago exactly three machines were registered New York tradesmen who object to the early dates of ot the shows In that city are planning another for Cor early earh next spring probably at Morris Moms Park track Contrary Contral to expectations the Chinaman has proven a reliable chauffeur in his na native natho live tive land and motor buses are supplant supplanting ing the tramways at Shanghai A OO mlle endurance run for tor a alua valuable ble trophy over roads of eastern Pennsyl Pennsylvania Pennsylvania vania anla will be conducted by the Quaker City Motor club January 1 and 2 Because some of ot the tho firms are losing money mone through the keen competition that prevails forty fort of the leading Italian man manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers are about o 0 form a trust Among recent novelties for comfort Is II IIa Isa s strunk a trunk designed for tor weekend trips It about lil u steamer r trunk and of ot the usual length len 1 Its It draw drawers era ers pull out then by a downward move movement movement movement ment they fold back so ao that when closed and In place the trunk is virtually on its side Ide and takes up very little space In the car carA A recent tire pressure sure test on the Brook Brooklands Brooklands Brooklands lands track in England indicated that the theair theair theair air pressure in a tire males makes practically no difference to the speed of ot the car carIn carIn carIn In the district surrounding New York City there are miles of good roads that may be covered in a II season se Son by a mo tao motorist motorist without remaining away from home over overnight night Although they think It extravagant Parisian road authorities who have been experimenting with tar on the highways find that there Is nothing equal to It as a adust adust adust dust preventive The effect of ot the French occupation of or Northern Africa Is seen In Algiers where almost as many automobiles appear on the streets as In any city of ot similar size sl e eIn In itt France With dealers representing some half hat hundred standard cars pledging pledgIng pledging ing their support the Detroit show sched ached scheduled scheduled for the tho week of ot December 9 already Is assured of ot success Substantial cuts In the prices of ot 1906 models of some makes of oC foreign cars al at already already ready have been made and a general reduction re reduction reduction is prophesied at New York the headquarters of the Importers Although King Carlos of Portugal does not motor as aa much as some other European Eu European European rulers he takes great pleasure In n driving his different cars c rs over o er the steep hills with which his hl nation abounds The Automobile club of ot Hartford Conn is making elaborate plans for Its gymkhana which was postponed until spring and which bids fair tall to be a star event In New England motoring circles More than sheet steel road signs are being distributed throughout the coun country country try tl by a well known manufacturer Al AI Although Although AIth though th ugh an advertisement they the will prove proe of or great value alue to the touring motorist The new taximeter cabs put on New Yorks streets seat four persons and the charge char e Is 30 o 0 cents for the first half mile and 10 JO cents for each additional quarter mile whether hether one or four our passengers are carried Believing that many business firms are are prevented from using corn com commercial mercial vehicles by the large Initial cost coat costa coata a Vienna company has been organised to rent them by the day week month or year Licensed unlicensed and foreign manu manufacturers manufacturers manufacturers will exhibit under the same roof root at the Philadelphia show the ri rl rivalry valry among the different classes being less marked In the Quaker City than el where e All connections between the cylinders and the must be kept air airtight aIrtight airtight tight If any of the joints become loose admitting extra air the mixture will be become become become come so diluted that the engine will skip explosions Planning a more or less continuous sea season season season son of ot automobile racing at Philadel Philadelphia Philadelphia phia a syndicate has baa been formed In that city with some of ot the strongest mow melt moIn In the eastern automobile world as finan financial cial cW backers An organization of French chauffeurs has requested the support of ot the minister of public works for the passage of a law t that will limit their profession to men mea I holding certificates Issued by b the got gov government The first company of its kind In t country has been formed at New Yoi d to keep all aU necessary repairs together with storing it when not In use for n p I fixed price per year Ejected from a a relief train en route rout from Houston Texas to a railroad wree newspaper men made the trip to the wreck thirty miles distant In an automo automobile automobile bile secured their stories and returned return d be before before fore tore the first hospital train trainA A new feature at the coming Phila Philadelphia Philadelphia delphia show sho will b be the setting apart of the morning hours of each day da to al allow allow allow low students of at technical schools to ex examine examine examine amine and study the mechanical of the cars exhibited i What was probably the oldest aute auh v mobile party part ever held took place In ii York last week when three m rn made a II tour of the city cit five inmates of the Home of thee tars lers of or Jacob whose ages to years ears The guests ranged fro tro Davis Ull still spry SPI at 12 and Me moud mom with years or so ro down don the earold bab babi horns horn m I Ii r Ir I i 1 |