. Outing. ne hundred pounds ormore, which, with the same live load,would make two thousand seven hun-dred pounds, or ninet\ pounds perhorse power. The hill-climbing power of the lighter AUTOMOBILES FOR AVERAGE INCOMES +13 machine, therefore, would be the same asthat of the heavier, as has been demon-strated so often that there is no longerany room for argument. There is one thing, though, that nei-ther the $850 nor the $2,000 car can dowith safety, and that is to make thespeeds of fifty to sixty miles an hourwhich the big two-ton machines oftenachieve when there are no constablesnear. Not a fe
. Outing. ne hundred pounds ormore, which, with the same live load,would make two thousand seven hun-dred pounds, or ninet\ pounds perhorse power. The hill-climbing power of the lighter AUTOMOBILES FOR AVERAGE INCOMES +13 machine, therefore, would be the same asthat of the heavier, as has been demon-strated so often that there is no longerany room for argument. There is one thing, though, that nei-ther the $850 nor the $2,000 car can dowith safety, and that is to make thespeeds of fifty to sixty miles an hourwhich the big two-ton machines oftenachieve when there are no constablesnear. Not a few tragedies may be A tire on a big car in ordinary useis relatively short-lived as compared withthe performances of a lighter a careful driver who has thegood fortune to escape punctures aset of tires not infrequently lasts a sea-son. The difference in first cost of tiresfor a light machine and for a heavy oneis marked. The $850 car mentioned has 30-inchwheels, taking 3-inch tires in front and. Photograph by Spooner & Wells, A. ).COUNTRY ROADS HAVE NO TERRORS FOR THE MODERN CAR. traced to the attempts of owners oflight cars to crowd them beyond thelimit of safety. Most conspicuous of the economies inowning a light car is the saving on Michelin, an authority on tires, re-cently read a paper before the FrenchSociety of Civil Engineers, in the courseof which he said: The total travel of which a tire iscapable is inversely proportioned to thecube of the weight which it example, if the load is doubled theaverage wear and tear on the tires aremultiplied by eight. 3|- inch in the rear. The former costfrom $15 to $ each and the latterfrom $22 to $24 each, while the bigcars require tires costing from $36 to$60 each. One owner of a $2,500 car, who kepta careful account of his expenses forthirty months, during which time heaveraged a thousand miles a month,found that his outlay for tires was fivecents a mile; for gasoline centsper mile; for incid
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