The autocar handbook, a guide to the motor car
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Author(s):
Anonymous
- Category: Transportation and Vehicles
- Publisher: London, Iliffe & Sons Limited
- Publish year: 1910
- ISBN: 9678000005885
- Number of Pages: 232
Within the space at one's disposal in a handbook of this elementary nature, it is quite impossible to deal with any degree of completeness or at adequate length with the theories which govern the functions of various parts of the motor car. Information on this subject may be divided into three classes: The things one MUST know ; the things one SHOULD know ; and the things one need NOT know ; the last-named being those things knowledge of which, although exceedingly interesting and valuable, is, however, of no immediate utility as regards the successful running and keeping in order of a car. This it is that forms the raison d'etre of this book. Roughly speaking, then, the information one must have will enable one to keep one's car running in good order, whilst what one shoifld have will result in the car being actually improved, although the line of demarcation between these two classes of knowledge is not very apparent.
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Contents.
The Autocar Handbook.
CHAPTER I. The Choice of a Car.
CHAPTER II. The Internal Combustion Motor.
CHAPTER III. Ignition.
CHAPTER IV. Lubrication.
CHAPTER V. Cooling.
CHAPTER VI. Control.
CHAPTER VII. The Starting Gear.
CHAPTER VIII. The Flywheel.
CHAPTER IX. The Transmission Gear.
CHAPTER X. The Frame.
CHAPTER XI. The Axles and Bearings.
CHAPTER XII. The Road Wheels.
CHAPTER XIII. The Tyres.
CHAPTER XIV. The Springs.
CHAPTER XV. The Brakes.
CHAPTER XVI. The Steering Gear.
CHAPTER XVII. The Carriage Work.
CHAPTER XVIII. Care and Management.
CHAPTER XIX. Driving.
CHAPTER XX. Involuntary Stops.
CHAPTER XXI. Accessories, Tools, and Spare Parts.
CHAPTER XXII. Clothing.
CHAPTER XXIV. Institutions.
CHAPTER XXV. Law.
Miscellaneous Tables, etc.
INDEX.