Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-11-02 | Page 47 | Science Helps Motoring Joy

SCIENCE HELPS MOTORING JOY U'ugi ncoriug science, plus modern methods of manufacture havo developed devel-oped the high-grado motor car to a poiut -where performance is taken by the owner as a matter of course. Longdistance Long-distance touring by automobile, once regarded as a feat worthy of comment, now is looked upon u:; a task that the automobile may bo expected to accomplish. accom-plish. On a cross-country tour of 2000 mitos or more the motor car encountering encoun-tering all mauuer of road conditions, will travol day after day without giving trouble. A railroad locomotive, on tho other hand, is run into tho roundhonso at the end of 250 or S0O miles for cleaning, oiling and general recuperation; recupera-tion; in fact, at each division point it receives, at the hands of experts, general gen-eral inspection. Tho inspection of the motor car, on a long-distance tour, generally is confined con-fined to a glance at the oil gauge and a peep into tho gas tank. Jt is comparatively only a few years since a tour of a fiow hundred miles was looked upon by the owner as a real test, of his e:n''s endurance. On a trip of that kind the driver was prepared pre-pared to experience mechanical (rouble.. Since then llxre has been a decided improvement im-provement in road conditions throughout through-out most sections of the country, but the big advancement has been found in the construction of the automobile itself.