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Show !S GARAGE DOOR PREVENTED Dented and Disfigured Fenders Tell Where Owner Usually Keeps His Automobile. GUARD RAILS WILL PROTECT Piece of Strong Piping Attached at Each Corner Serves to Push Car From Either Side of Door, Thus Preventing Harm. Very often you can Identify the fellow who keeps his automobile in his own garage by the condition of the fenders of his automobile. They are bent down somewhat, or dented, and otherwise disfigured, because in driving in or backing out of his garage he has a habit of misjudging the distance dis-tance between the fender and the door-jamb, door-jamb, and before he can stop moving, the fender has been made to suffer. Where the doorway is none too wide a natural condition with the city man's garage, since usually he cannot .''Ms i i Slanting Guides at the Garage Door Will Protect the Fenders From Injury. make it any larger than necessary to barely squeeze the car in it is a good Idea to install guard rails in the corners cor-ners of the door opening or little concrete con-crete or wooden guiding-blocks. If a piece of husky piping is attached at each corner It will serve as a guard against which the tire will strike if the automobile is run too close to the doorway. This will either have the effect of pushing the automobile over away from the side of the door, or It will offer enough obstruction to the forward movement of the automobile to warn the driver in time to change the automobile's position. Obviously, Obvious-ly, these diagonal pipes would only be of advantage when entering the garage, being of no service when backing back-ing out. The concrete or wooden blacks, however, are intended as hacking-out protection, serving to guide tile wheels in the path they should follow in order or-der to clear the doorway sufficiently. They are of no special advantage wlv n ee'ering the garage, being opposite op-posite In their function to the diagonal pipe fenders mentioned above. Popular Popu-lar Science Monthly. |