Automobiles Motors and Mechanism: A Practical Illustrated Treastise On the Power Plant and Motive Parts of the Modern Motor Car, for Owners, Operators, Repairmen, and Intending Motorists
| Author(s): | Thomas Herbert Russell |
| Category: | Transportation and Vehicles |
| Publisher: | Chicago, The C. C. Thompson Co. |
| Publish date: | Jan 1, 1909 |
| ISBN: | 0009900000531 |
| Number of pages: | 269 |
In the preparation of this work the main object has been to set forth in a clear, concise manner all the essential facts reguarding the motive power and parts of the modem automobile, so that the reader may, with the least possible effort, leam to regard and handle the mechanism of his car understandingly.
Table of contents
Preface
Contents
AUTOMOBILE DRIVING.
THE ART OF DRIVING.
SELF-TUITION IN DRIVING.
ANOTHER LESSON IN DRIVING.
DIFFICULTY IN STARTING.
INVOLUNTARY STOPS
LOSS OF POWER.
CARE AND MAINTENANCE.
LAYING UP A CAR.
GASOLENE-ITS PROPERTIES AND ECONOMICAL USE.
CHOICE OF A CAR, ETC.
CHANGE SPEED GEAR-VARIOUS FORMS.
DON'TS FOR MOTOR-CAR DRIVERS.
THE LAW OF THE ROAD.
RACE DRIVING AS A BUSINESS.
NEGLIGENCE IN DRIVING.
