Ancestors Era in Car History
Added on 02-09-2006
At the initial stage of automobile history vehicle for the overwhelming part of population was something inconceivable, unreal, and rather unpractical. Some considered automobile funny rara avis but most saw it just as smoky and perilous machine possibly connected to evil spirit.
Imperfection of those automobiles gave well-grounded, sound and logical reason for negative attitude.
Townsmen were getting afraid of plops generated by gasoline fume explosions inside engine. Newspapers were alleging – “the police should prevent gasoline carriage from putting the world in danger”. So that G. Daimler, for example, had to try his carriages on out-of-town roads at nights. C. Benz was obliged to inform the police on its every trip route and stoppage points to enable fire brigades to be ready.
Automobile was still troublesome and unreliable and up to XX century is was regarded as amusing mechanical toy, sportive apparatus, carriage for making trips and solemn rides. In USA passenger automobile right till the First World War was being named “pleasure car”. In 1900 American magazine “Motor Age” issued an article “What is excellent automobile?” saying: “it is a beautiful, stylish carriage ready to be started immediately without enduring and laborious preliminary preparations, as well as stopped; it is able to move at any desirable speed up to 25 mph, can be managed by anyone without special training, pass via rough streets, roads, steep ascents – carries out everything a horse carriage is able to but more effectively and taking less spending; has no its own new lacks and those of horse carriage.
In spite of this positive description there was not a single automobile corresponding it as every, even a short one, trip in it obtained the importance of public event and the preparations for it were scarcely easier than of steam carriages.
The procedure of automobile starting looked as follows: driver was arranging it possibly horizontally, connects muffler to exhaust pipe with a hose, fills the tank with fuel, then puts ignition line in a socket, turns on fuel tap, presses carburetor needle not to let fuel overflow. Finished with preparations driver scrolls front, side or rear-arranged rod five revs; turns on carburetor, pressure-release cock to remove compression in cylinder chamber and some more revs to generate spark. Now driver has to manage cocks again: in case engine working is irregular with missings – it’s necessary to tune fuel delivery, and if engine doesn’t start – driver has to screw out a plug, wash it, dry it, and then driver has to clean carburetor from fuel and can try starting engine once more.
Finally started he climes up on it he had to put ten times more efforts to automobile managing as modern drivers do. In addition to well known pedals and tools there were levers for fuel delivery, ignition tuning and fuel pump. On hard road sections passengers had to climb down to lighten burden or even push automobile.
Therefore ...
Imperfection of those automobiles gave well-grounded, sound and logical reason for negative attitude.
Townsmen were getting afraid of plops generated by gasoline fume explosions inside engine. Newspapers were alleging – “the police should prevent gasoline carriage from putting the world in danger”. So that G. Daimler, for example, had to try his carriages on out-of-town roads at nights. C. Benz was obliged to inform the police on its every trip route and stoppage points to enable fire brigades to be ready.
Automobile was still troublesome and unreliable and up to XX century is was regarded as amusing mechanical toy, sportive apparatus, carriage for making trips and solemn rides. In USA passenger automobile right till the First World War was being named “pleasure car”. In 1900 American magazine “Motor Age” issued an article “What is excellent automobile?” saying: “it is a beautiful, stylish carriage ready to be started immediately without enduring and laborious preliminary preparations, as well as stopped; it is able to move at any desirable speed up to 25 mph, can be managed by anyone without special training, pass via rough streets, roads, steep ascents – carries out everything a horse carriage is able to but more effectively and taking less spending; has no its own new lacks and those of horse carriage.
In spite of this positive description there was not a single automobile corresponding it as every, even a short one, trip in it obtained the importance of public event and the preparations for it were scarcely easier than of steam carriages.
The procedure of automobile starting looked as follows: driver was arranging it possibly horizontally, connects muffler to exhaust pipe with a hose, fills the tank with fuel, then puts ignition line in a socket, turns on fuel tap, presses carburetor needle not to let fuel overflow. Finished with preparations driver scrolls front, side or rear-arranged rod five revs; turns on carburetor, pressure-release cock to remove compression in cylinder chamber and some more revs to generate spark. Now driver has to manage cocks again: in case engine working is irregular with missings – it’s necessary to tune fuel delivery, and if engine doesn’t start – driver has to screw out a plug, wash it, dry it, and then driver has to clean carburetor from fuel and can try starting engine once more.
Finally started he climes up on it he had to put ten times more efforts to automobile managing as modern drivers do. In addition to well known pedals and tools there were levers for fuel delivery, ignition tuning and fuel pump. On hard road sections passengers had to climb down to lighten burden or even push automobile.
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