Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-08-06 | Page 15 | Distance Motoring Devices Are Described

DISTANCE MOTORING DEVICES rARE DESCRIBED DESCRIBED- Marathon Writes Interesting Dope for Womans Woman's Woman's Womans Womans Woman's Wom Wom- ans an's Magazine Two Two convenient devices for long distance motorists are lre Describe 1 in the August Womans Woman's Home I Companion by hy bya hya a marathon automobilist Last summer we arranged avery a a very verv convenient and at the same time neat looking device for carrying out our baggage baggage baggage bag bag- gage on long motor trips We had a I flat wooden box built to fit the tho left running board low enough nough to allow the front door to swing just over it I and extending back only as far as the rear door and had it finished to match the car This provided a roomy place II for storing all the numerous small articles heeded for a long trip In front of this box we we had an iron rod I put ut on with bolts elea clearing ring the fender by about tw two t o inches This held two large suit cases firmly by buckling alight alight a alight I light strap around them and in such sucha a position on the car as to get the least possible amount of dust The whole affair is very neat and Inconspicuous Incidentally if one wishes to carry a camp outfit there Is practically as much space left for that as if there w were ere no other baggage on board Getting Out of Holes In the August Companion C C. H H. I Claudy Caudy says the best drivers some- some Continued on page 6 6 DISTANCE MO MOTORING T ORiNG Continued from page 4 4 spin and and splatter but the car ar stays times get et in a f from i om the car refuses to climb The rear w wheels still One remedy is winding the tires with a i rope rope spiral which acts as tire tira chains act Rope wears out quickly but will last long enough to get out ofa of ofa ofa a mud wallow w If no rope is available throw anything and everything hard Into the hole ahead of the tire You Youcan Youcan Youcan can also try unrolling the tool kit and putting it tools and all in front of one rear wheel The tire which slips In Inthe Inthe inthe the mud may get a grip on the tho tools The tool kit will be a muddy mudd sight but it is better than staying out on the road half a day waiting waltin for someone to come orne along with a team of horses Chains Are Arc Necessity No matter how new a full ret Fet of nonskid tires may be hr no tour should over ever be bc undertaken without a set of chains Tho best nonskid tires wont won't hold in slimy mud and Its It's far better betterto to carry the weight of or chains and not use them than be without and wait for fora a farmer with a pair of or oxen and abill a abill bill blU as long as their horns The substitutes substitutes substitutes sub sub- for chains are better than I nothing but they are not Just as asgood good I