descending steep hills, 343;
using the brakes, 343; some
of the dangers met with on the
road, 344, 345; side-slip, 346;
greasy roads, 333, 346-348;
ice-covered roads, 347; rutty
roads, 348; difficulty in steer-
ing when tyre is punctured,
348; cautions on night-driv
ing, 349; fixed habit of care-
ful driving to be practised,
of English
349; charms
roads, 351-355; exhilaration
on the motor, 351; power
of traversing large areas of
beautiful country, 352; de-
lights of country life
hanced, 353; regarded as
land-yachting, 354;
on the road, 354, 355; deal-
ing with restive horses, 366-
371;-influence on health,
75-78
Motor laws as they exist, 441–
479; the Light Locomotives
Act of 1896:- regulation as to
lights, 441; bell to be carried,
441; rate of speed, 441; use
of petroleum, 442; Local
Government Board's regula-
tions, 442; excise duty, 442;
application of the Act to
Scotland and Ireland, 442.
The full text of the new (1903)
Act-reckless driving, 443;
registration of motor-cars,
443; licensing of drivers, 444;
suspension of licence and
disqualification, 444; forgery,
&c., of identification mark or
licence, 445; duty to stop in
case of accident, 445; Local
Government Board's regula-
tions, 445; power to prohibit
motor-cars on special roads,
445; rate of speed, 445;
erection of notice boards, 446 ;
penalties and legal proceed-
ings, 446; regulations as to
maximum weight of cars, 446;
Inland Revenue licence for
motor-car drivers, 447; sav-
ing of liability, 447; applica-
tion to servants of the Crown,
447; protection of Menai
bridge, 447; application of
the Act to Scotland and Ire-
land, 447, 448 ; interpretation,
commencement, and
title, 448. Circular letter of
the Local Government Board
on the Motor Car Act,
outline of amend-
1903-
ment of law, 449; registration
of motor-cars, 449; size of
number plates and illumina-
tion of, 450, 451; number-
plates assigned to motor-car
manufacturers and dealers,
451; licensing of drivers of
motor-cars, 452; restrictions
on the free circulation of
motor-cars and reckless driv-
ing, 453; weight of motor-
cars, 456; penalties and legal
proceedings, 456; miscella-
Local Govern-
neous, 457.
ment Board's regulations
(registration and licensing),
1903-registration of motor-
cars and motor-cycles, 458-
461; licences, 461; form of
particulars to be given by
applicant for registration of
a motor-car, 462; provisions
to be complied with as regard
cost of upkeep of 7 h.-p. car,
Nice-Salon-Nice race (1901),
Nice to Marseilles race, 435
Nice week,' races, 1903 and
1904, 436
Non-slipping tyres and treads,
45, 244
Non-stop trials, 439, 440
"Notes and Notices,' 347; now
'Journal' of the Automobile
Club, 404
Notice boards, erection of, 446,
455, 457, 473-474
O'DONOGHUE v. MOON case,
the, cited, 400
Oesterreichischer
Automobil
Club, headquarters, officers,
&c., 411
Ogle, Mr., steam carriage of, 4
Oil reservoirs and pump, self-
contained, 86
Old Deer Park, Richmond,
Automobile Club's exhibition
of motor vehicles in, 403
Oldsmobile car, the, 74
Oppermann battery for electric
cars, 299; electric cars, 302
Ormonde motor bicycle, 322;
old and new patterns, 324
Otto cycle system, 132
Overheating, causes of, in petrol
cars, 175 et seq.
PAINTS for motors, 89
Palmer pneumatic tyre, the, 244
Panhard, M., anecdote concern-
ing, 433, 434
Panhard and Levassor, control-
lers of the Daimler patents in
Paris-Berlin race (1901), 435
Paris-Bordeaux and back Auto-
mobile race, 1895,
19, 433; 1902, 435
Paris-Boulogne race (1899), 434
Paris-Dieppe race (1897), 20
l'aris-Madrid race (1903), 427,
436
Paris-Marseilles and back race
(1896), 15-20, 434
Paris-Ostend race (1899), 434
Paris-St. Malo race (1899), 434
Paris-Toulouse race, 435
Paris-Trouville race (1897), 20
Paris to Vienna race (1902),
436
Parsons non-skid device for
tyres, 246
Pecqueur, M. Onésime (1827),
his ingenious devices, 7
Petersham Hill as a climbing
test for motors, 54-56, 403,
437
Petrol burners for steam cars,
249-250
Petrol car,
the details of
simple transmission, 187;
variation of the ratio of
engine speed to wheel speed,
188; action of gear wheels,
188; ratio between engine
and road wheels varied by
varying size of gear wheels,
189; belt-driving, 190, 191;
chain-driving, 191; protec-
tion of the gear case, 191;
'block' and 'roller' chains,
192; bevel gearing and con-
necting rod, 193, 194; use of
Cardan joints, 195; skew or
screw gearing, 195; friction
clutches, 195, 196; positive
clutches, 195, 198, 199; speed
varying gear combined with
transmission gear proper,
199; the belt-driving system,
and
leather
199, 200;
dressing
belts, 200;
Crypto, epicyclic, or sun and
200-202; the
planet gear,
Duryea transmission gear,
202, 203; wheel-gearing and
chain transmission illustrated
in 14 h.-p. Daimler, 203-208;
shifting the gear to obtain
reversingaction, 207; putting
a lower gear into operation,
207; lubrication of gear and
bearings, 208; unusual sound
near transmission gear, 208;
Renault shaft transmission,
208-210; reversing gear in
the Renault, 210; full lubri-
cation to be provided in all
211;
gear-driven devices,
varieties of design in frames,
212; diagonal staying for
frames, 214; wheel-base,
215; springs, 215, 216;
breakage of spring leaf, 216;
spring hangers, 214, 216;
axles, 217-219; action of the
differential gear, 219-221;
steering gear, locked and
direct, 221-223; testing
steering gear, 223; brakes,
223-227; brakes used by
various makers, 226; Auto-
mobile brake trials, 227;
wheels, 227-229
Petrol engine, principle of the,
99; general arrangement of
18-22 h.-p. Daimler motor
(1904 type), 100; internal
combustion, 101; illustrated
by a single-cylindered Daim-
ler, 101; force generated by
explosion of mixed gas and air
in combustion chamber, 102;
fired by electric spark or red-
hot platinum tube, 102, 103;
suction stroke, 102; compres-
sion stroke, 102; explosive
stroke, 103; exhaust stroke,
103; operation shown in a
complete cycle, 103, 104;
induction valves, 104; ex-
haust valve, 105; mechanical
lift of exhaust valve, 106;
the carburetter, 107-121-
surface carburetter, 108; wick
type carburetter, 109; spray
or atomising carburetter, 109;
Longuemare carburetter, 109–
112; automatic or extra air
valve, 112; Krebs carburetter,
113, 114; Chenard and
Walcker carburetter, 115-116;
Crossley carburetter, 116-120;
Napier carburetter, 120; posi-
tive feed carburetter, 121;
system of governing, 121-
130:- reduction in volume of
fuel, 122; governing by com-
plete cut out of fuel supply,
125; governing by retention
of exhaust gases, 125-128;
governing by retarding the
spark, 129; silencer, 130-
132; motors with more than
one cylinder, 132-136; water
circulation, 136; cooling by
gravity circulation, 137; pump
or forced system, 137, 138;
the rotary pump, 138; the
radiator, 138; gilled tube
radiator, 138; honeycomb or
small tube radiator, 139;
Argyll new pattern radiator,
139; cooling fan, 139; the
crank chamber, 140; the
piston, 140; appliances for
starting the motor, 141;
various types of engine, 141;
ignition, 142 et seq. See
Ignition in petrol engines
Petroleum spirit (petrol), con-
sumption of, per mile, 416;
trials, 438-439; regulations
concerning keeping of, 442,
477-479
Peugeot petroleum vehicles, 9,
14, 16, 24; in the Marseilles-
Nice-Turbie race, 19
Phoebus motor tricycle, with
Aster motor, 321
Phoenix motor bicycle,
improved Minerva engine,
324; two-speed gear, 327
Platinum tube for ignition in
petrol engines, 142, 143
Pneumatic tyres, 20, 45, 90, 232,
243, 244; punctured, 233,
383. See Tyres
Pressure gauges for boilers of
steam cars, 268, 269
Primus two-cycle motor, power
transmission, 325
Pump or forced system of water
circulation for petrol engine,
137; rotary pump, 138
Pumps for boilers of steam cars,
262
QUADRANT motor cycle, the,
324
RACES and trials, English and
Continental, in motor vehicles,
426-431, 433-440
R. and P. motor cycle, position
of engine in, 324
Radiator, types used in water
circulation (petrol engine),
138, 139
Railway level crossings, dangers
of, 345
Rain covers, mackintosh, for
cars, 91
Reckless driving, penalties as to,
443, 456, 457
Registration and licensing au-
thorities of the United King-
dom, list of, 465-468
Registration of motor cycles and
licensing of drivers, 320, 392;
of motor cars, 443 et seq.
Reliability trials, 1902 and 1903,
Rendult car, 137
Reminiscences of motoring, 372;
mechanical traction on roads
long delayed by obstruc-
tionists, 373; the Hon.
Evelyn Ellis's introduction of
the Panhard car to England
as a police test, 373, 374;
Mr. and Mrs. Koosen's enter-
prise, 374, 375; extracts from
Mrs. Koosen's diary of experi-
ences with a motor-car, 375-
377; Mr. T. R. B. Elliot
on his early motor-driving
days, 377; Sir J. H. A.
Macdonald's experiences on
the motor, 378-383; Mr.
Butler on early motoring,
379; Mrs. Coleridge Ken-
nard's story of parsonic sim-
plicity, 380; Mr. Carr's
anecdote, 381; Mr. Sturmey's
confession, 381 ; an adventure
on the London-Uxbridge
road, 381; a contretemps on
the road to Gloucester, 382;
Mr. Edmunds' hastily ac-
credited skill in a side-slip,
383; account of a punctured
solid tyre, 383; Mr. Graham
White's conduct in an acci-
dent to steering-gear on a
long run, 384; Mr. Rolls'
pertinacity in calamities on a
Paris-Havre run, 384, 385;
Colonel Magrath's story of
the old peasant woman, 385;
Lord Edward Churchill and
his daughter's relation of a
sad time, 386; the Thousand
Miles trial (1900), 386, 387
Renault 14 h.-p. car, 43; shaft
transmission car, 208-210
Richter Oil Economising Co.'s
self-contained oil reservoir
and pump, 86
Ripolin's, Messrs., paint for
motor engines, 89
Roads, different types of surface
of, 333, 346-348; at night,
349; English, 351-355; the
'nerves and sinews of the
land,' 357; their vast import-
ance in the national life, 357;
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