THE BEST AUTOMOBILE BOOKS All by VICTOR W. PAGÉ MODERN GASOLINE AUTOMOBILE, ITS DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR. 1917 Edition just published. 5x 7. Cloth, 850 pages, 600 illustrations, 12 folding plates. Price, $2.50 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS RELATING TO MODERN AUTOMOBILE CONSTRUCTION, DRIVING AND REPAIR. A popular work at a popular price. 51 x 7. Cloth, 650 pages, 392 illustrations, 3 folding plates. 1917 Edition just published. Price, $1.50 AUTOMOBILE REPAIRING MADE EASY. You will never "get stuck" on a job if you own this book. 1,000 specially made engravings on 500 plates. 1,056 pages (5 x 8). 11 folding plates. 1917 Edition. Price, $3.00 528 pages. Price, $1.50 1917 Edition. STARTING, LIGHTING AND IGNITION SYSTEMS. 1917 Price, $1.00 HOW TO RUN AN AUTOMOBILE. This treatise gives concise instructions for starting and running all makes of gasoline automobiles, how to care for them, and gives distinctive features of control. Price, $1.00 THE AUTOMOBILIST'S POCKET COMPANION AND EXPENSE RECORD. This book is not only valuable as a convenient cost record but contains much information of value to motorists. Convenient pocket size. Price, $1.00 STORAGE BATTERIES SIMPLIFIED. A comprehensive treatise devoted entirely to secondary batteries and their maintenance, repair and use. 250 pages. Very fully illustrated. AUTOMOBILE CHARTS Price, $1.50 Full description of all the above will be found in back advertising pages. Special circular of these books and charts sent free on request. Any book sent prepaid on receipt of price. Published by THE NORMAN W. HENLEY PUBLISHING CO. 132 Nassau Street New York HOW TO RUN AN A concise, practical treatise written in simple language the most thorough and easily understood By VICTOR W. PAGÉ, M.E. Member Society of Automobile Engineers Author of "The Modern Gasoline Automobile," "Automobile Repairing SCIENCE Illustrated with seventy-two specially made diagrams and NEW YORK THE NORMAN W. HENLEY PUBLISHING CO. 1917 1 IN PREFACE PRESENTING this little treatise to the reading public the writer wishes to emphasize that it is not intended as an instruction book on the construction or repair of automobiles. It has been prepared in answer to numerous requests for a concise exposition of the operating principles of modern gasoline automobiles. It has been thought desirable to incorporate a chapter outlining automobile construction very briefly in order that the novice may obtain some appreciation of the functions of the various parts before he learns the care and operation of the car. This book is intended as an absolutely non-technical compilation of the operating instructions of leading automobile manufacturers with which the car owner should be familiar. If a more detailed study of automobile construction or repair is desirable the reader may obtain very complete treatises and text books from the publisher of this little volume. The basic principles of gasoline motor car operation are practically the same in all types of cars though various forms of speed changing mechanism demand distinctive methods of control in each specific case. It is not possible to give definite information applying to every make of automobile but the types that are illustrated are representative of standard practice and the general advice given can be applied to all cars, especially the instructions relating to motor speed control and gear shifting. A careful study of the illustrations will serve to make clear many points that may not be fully explained in the text. Victor W. Pagé. March, 1917. |