| Show MARKS HELP TO 0 IDENTIFY AUTOS locking devices are good protection against depredations depreciations of meddlesome boys 14 EMARS 1 1 ARE WELL LOCKED professional thiel thief discards discard license plates changes car and eng no n numbers and obliterates every mark it Is believed that at least denst one auto mobile out of every dozen manufactured and sold Is stolen how flow many stolen machines are eer e er recovered by their rightful owners Is ancher ano her question tion rood good locking devices or thief sig anis are not to be despised they are a sure protection against depredations by meddlesome boys and will III cause the automobile thief so much trouble that he tool look for it a cur car that la IR easier to take awny away where several cars care are parked this will not be hard to find Compa few cars are left sell locked find and many stand sand NIt without hout being locked at fill all owners sometimes forget to take the switch key mith th them lulng it in the switch lock inch work of professional should a professional automobile thief get your car he will take good car that you will no recognize it should you see it again you know it now chiefly by its license plates car and engine numbers and a few Fc scratches dents rind slight peculiarities ile he discards the license plates changes the engine and car numbers find obliterates every mark by wh which ill you might identify your car caution Is his middle name ile he likes to tear down several cars of the same make and reassemble rens hem so that no two of their principal parts will be fount found in any one car together ile he has looked everything over ever with great care to see whether bet ber initials tire are hidden under a washer or whether there nrc are prick punch holes concealed ce lost you identity identify some scratch or lent dent he may use new fenders and repaint the car way to secure car it you could make it decisive identification of a body frame engine gear case rear axle housing or front axle you gouid stand the best kind of a chance to take that cur car away from ft crowd of claimants even it if your markings could be found on but one f of f these parts how near cun can we e come to a system of invisible markings unlikely of chance duplication and readily als discoverable by the owner or someone authorized by him there it Is safety in numbers Se several verill markings on each part make it less likely that all ran can be obliterated note of secret marks take for an example the following memorandum of a secret mark 7 in hor horizontally to tile the left of center of the right engine suspension holt bolt scrape crape oft off the paint and find a drilled hole fillet filled with mith lead if you have several such marks carefully recorded on different parts jot of the frame your identification will become more positive as it Is highly improbable that two or more of these marks would be accidentally duplicated by some other person many fany other methods of marking the cur car will suggest thein themselves selves to the inventive owner it roust must be remembered however that secret identification marks tire are worthless unless they are re carefully and exactly recorded and a record of them bliem preserved henry it 11 thayer in popular science monthly |
