INDEX
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169; road troubles: motor stops completely through overheating, 170; causes of overheating, 170-172; how to detect overheating, 172; what to do when motor heats, 173; dangers of a 'seize,' 173; stoppage through starvation of carburator,1I73, 174; through a flooded carburator, 174; mechanical causes of stoppage, 174; ^oiiig by fits and starts, 175; causes of motor not ' pulling' well or missing fire, 175-178; how to find which cylinder misses, 177; engine races -defects in governing gear, 178, 179; causes of unusual noises, 179, 180; bunting of ignition tube, 180; advice in general, 18l. See Ignition in petrol engines
- Carburetter (petrol engine), surface, Mi; Benz, 115; spray, 116; De Dion, 117; Longuemare, 117; automatic tor motor bicycles, 319
- Carless and Lees' safety benzine lamps for motor-houses, 87
- Carr, Mr., his story of an unskilled motor enthusiast, 370
- Cattle on the road, anecdote concerning, 345
- Chamois leather for coat lining, 68
- Chapelle motor bicycle, the, 37
- Chaplin, Mr. Henry, and the Light Locomotives Act, 23
- Charms of driving in motors.
See under Motor-driving - Charron, M., accident to, in his petrol carriage, in the Marseilles-Nice-Turbie race, 18; in Pans-Amsterdam-Paris and Versailles- Bordeaux races, 20
- Chasseloup-Laubat, Marquis de, on the history of the motorcar, 1 et seq.; at the Paris to Bordeaux race (1895), 12, 14; at the Paris to Marseilles race (1896), 15, 17; on the petrol motor, 19; his brother's electric racing car, 308
- Choice of a motor-car, 38; advantages of the petrol engine, 38; Panhard carriages, 39; steam cars, 39; electric carriages, 40; light carriages and voiturettes, 42; the 7-h.-p. Panhard, 43; mixed tyres advocated, 45; points for and against pneumatic tyres, 45; horse-power, 46; care in car keeping, 46, 50; skill required in driving, 47; side-slip, 47, 48; safety tyres, 48; membership of the Automobile Club advised as an economy, 49; omnibus for country-house work, 51; the Scrpollet landaulet, 52-54; lighting and heating cars, 54; use of two cars in touring, 54; distance to be covered, 54, 55! luggage-car, 55; shape of carriage, 55; drawbacks to the use of very powerful cars, 55; hill-climbing powers, 56; testing speed up hills, 57-62; paraffin motors, 62; cars for doctors, 64; second-hand cars, 64, 65; motor engineers, 65
- Churchill, Lord Edward, his
