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Show oo TEMPERAMENTAL AUTOS. Don't attempt to tell that automobiles automo-biles are not temperamental affairs! All this stuff about them. being lur sensate things of metal and rubber Ib bosh. Take tho mere matter of steer j lng, and every car in the world will I bo found to be a law unto itself. I Every man who has ever sat behind the steering wheel of more than one car knows I am right in making this assertion. I have arrived at the conclusion con-clusion that a car is more easily steered where the wheels have a decided de-cided dish Inward. Such cars not only make It easier for their drivers, but make It more difficult for road obstructions to communicate any swerving effects. Dishing the wheels is in a way equivalent to making them revolve on a common central pivot Tho finer the point of the pivot the easier It Is to turn by means of the lever attached to it, and the more difficult to turn by pressure applied to the pivot itself. This is tho logic of satisfactory steering as I have figured it out. Added to the foregoing there must bo a correct distribution of weight between the front and-back wheels, whereupon nine-tenths of the steering difficulties will have been done away with. The Commentator in American Motorist. Mo-torist. oo |