1902-1903 The Motor: Index

Note: This is a sub-section of The Motor

• Accessories, Useful, 136
• Accumulator Case, Damaged, 50
• Accumulators, 35, 84, 86, 114, 116, 148, 199, 216, 229,. 236, 256
• Accumulators as Applied to Motorcycle Ignition, 470
• Accumulators, Care of, 41
• Accumulators, Charging, 65, 97
• Acetylene Gas for Automobiles, 113
• Agricultural Motor, 62
• Airships: Stanley Spencer’s Great Feat, 112, 392
• Alcohol, Future of, 392
• Alcohol, To Popularise, 415
• Alcohol Trials, 45
• Alcohol Trials in France, 247
• Alcoholic Facts, Some, 414
• Aluminium, 196
• Ambulance, An Automobile, 14
• American Light Cars, 302
• Ardennes, Circuit, 10, 11, 432
• Ardennes, Circuit (Awards), 29
• Army, Motorcars for the, 30
• Attachment, Additional, 99
• Australia, Motor Cycling in, 405
• Auto Polo, 31
• Automatic Ignition, 49, 493

AUTOMOBILE CLUB.

• Advisory Committee on Motorcycles, 290, 291
• and Motorcycles, 140
• Anniversary Dinner, 228
• Anniversary Run to Oxford, 210, 225.
• Assistant Secretary, 432, 459
• Gordon-Bennett Contest, 277, 291, 391, 411, 412, 435, 458, 522
• Legislation, 522
• Motorcycle Trials, 522
• Papers, 412, 458, 435, 448
• Reliability Trials, 77. 95, 122
• Reliability Trials, Awards, 160
• Resignation of Secretary, 391
• Speed Track, 431

• Automobile Industry of the World, 501

• Back-firing, 255
• Balfour, Hon. A. J., and his Cars, 29, 143
• Bands, Puncture-proof, 99
• Barter Engine, 37, 72
• Batteries, 99, 107, 116, 132
• Belgian Motor Trade Progress, 159
• Belt Hooks, 63. 136. 240
• Belt v. Chain, 278, 486
• Belts, 3, 34, 56, 99, 188, 198, 231, 256, 415
• Belts and Hill Climbing, 50
• Benzoline, Substitute for Petrol, 100, 161, 214
• Bowden Exhaust* Lifter, 148
• Bradbury Motor-bicycle, 521
• Brake Lever Switch, 247
• Brake, Motor Acting as a, 216
• Buchet M., Death of, 222
• Building a Frame, 116
• Burgling, Motorcar as an Aid to, 139
• Business Purposes, Motorcycles for, 76

• Cable, Electric, Where to get, 116
• Carburetters, 164
• Carburetters, Durr, 144
• Carburetters, Fleury, 88
• Carburetters, Longuemare, 56, 414
• Carburetters, Roubeau, 14
• Carburetters, Spray, 39
• Carburetters, Troubles of, 99, 147, 231, 256
• Chain Drive, 163
• Charging Board, 163
• Chase, F. W., and Records (See “Records”)
• Circuit des Ardennes, 10, 11
• Clement-Garrard Motor, and How to Manipulate it, 86
• Clement in America, 46

CLUBS.

• Automobile Club (See “ Automobile Club ”)
• Manchester Automobile Club, 93, 125 Motor Cycling— t
• Bristol, 245
• Derby, 433, 522
• Kentish Auto Club, 291
• Leeds, 11
• Liverpool, 64, 142, 191, 245, 414, 432, 522
• Motor Cycling Club, 222, 289, 327, 412, 434, 459, 522
• Nottingham Motorcycle Club, 485, 328

• Coils, 35, 68, 92, 231, 256
• Colour Signals in France, 94
• Compression, 50, 100
• Congo Free State, Motor Roads in, 63
• Connections, 231
• Connection Bad at Plug Switch, 188
• Construction, Engine, a New Principle, 37
• Construction, Problems of Motorcycle, 1, 20
• Contact Breaker, A Mercurial, 136
• Contact Breakers, Oil on, 39, 231
• Contact Breaker Wearing Out, 200
• Continental Light Cars, 306
• Converted Cycles, 486
• Converting to Higher Power, 68
• Cost of Motor Cycling, 229
• Crank Case, Leakage of Oil, 198
• Crank Chamber, Explosions in, 148
• Crankless Motorcycle, 56

CYCLOMOT’S CAUSERIE (See also “ In Transit ”).

• A Better Lamp Bracket Wanted, 386
• A Fine Cleanser, 424
• A Simple Oil Trap, 424
• Automatic Lubrication, 365
• Cooling or Vaporisation, 386
• Cost of Motoring, 497
• Economy of Motor-bicycle, 497
• Engine Position, 355
• Lamp Brackets, 474
• Motorcycle not to be Neglected, 320
• Oil Trap, The, 474
• Pedals: Are they Wanted? 457
• Removing Pulleys, 497
• Seasonable Advice, 355
• Silencing, 355
• Single Gallons of Spirit, 365
• Some Troubles and their Remedies, 409
• Spray Carburetter, The, 293
• The Light Car as it Appeals to Us, 293
• The Vibration Bogey, 457
• Tyre Results, 497
• Useful Book, A, 474
• Wanted: Continuous Sight Feed Lubrication, 320

• Cylinder Cooling, New System of, 330
• Cylinder Lubrication: Use of Graphite, 180
• Cylinders, 116
• Cylinders, Aluminium, 99
• Cylinders, One-piece, 230, 231, 285
• Cyclometers, 39

• De Dion Motors, 143, 279, 290
• Despatch Riding by Motorcycle, 94
• Dry Batteries, 107. 116
• Dustless Roads, 127
• Dynamos v. Accumulators, 115, 162

• Economy of Motorcycle, 198
• Edison’s Batteries, 112
• Electrical Connections, 161
• Electrical Faults, 34
• Electric Automobiles, 473
• Electric Current as Motive Power, 55
• Electro-Magnetic, 40
• Elopement by Motorcar, 339, 366
• Endurance Tests, Motorcycle, 14
• Engine, Internal Combustion, 23, 151
• Engine Racing while Hill Climbing, 129
• Excelsior Experiences, 97
• Exhaust, Smoke from, 50
• Explosions in Exhaust when Exhaust Valve w liaised, 188
• Eyes, Care of the, when Motoring, 482

• Fire Engine, Motor, 141
• Fly Wheel, Function of the, 499
• Fly Wheel, Value of, 200
• F.N. Bicycle Experiences, 358
• Footrests, 50
• Fore-carriages, Leonard’s, 189
• Fore-carriages, Trimo, 193
• Frame, Building a, 116
• Frame Connection, To Dispense with, 164
• Freezing, To Prevent Water from, 148
• French Army, Motorcars in, 14
• French Motor Tax, The, 127
• Friction to Chain Drive, Converting from, 36

• Gaillon Hill Climb, 121
• Garrard, E., Death of, 128
• Gas Engine to Petrol Motor, Altering, 148
• Gear, Altering, 36, 131, 199, 200,
• Gearing, Noisy, 116
• Gears, Two-speed, 116
• German Emperor’s Car, 127

GERMANY.

• Imports and Exports, 30
• Motorcar Taxes, 94
• Popularising the Motorcycle in, 392
• Gordon-Bennett Contest (See under “ Automobile Club ”)
• Gouverneur Motorcycle, 88
• Grease Remover, A, 189

• Handicapping Difficulty, The, 74
• Handicapping Motor-bicycles in Races, 394
• Handicapping Question, 145
• Hanging-on Nuisance, 129, 179, 229
• High Speed Craze, 113
• Hill Climbs (See “ Racing ”)

HINTS AND WRINKLES.

• Bad Connection at Plug Switch, 188
• Belts, 34
• Belt Hooks, 34 240
• Compression Wrinkles, 433
• Contact Breakers, Oil on, 34
• Cyclometers, 39
• Electrical Faults, 34
• Electric Lamp for Locating Carburetter Troubles, 39
• Exhaust Boxes Getting Blocked up, 211
• Explosions when Exhaust Valve is Raised, 188
• Flints in Tyre Covers, 240
• Free-wheel Clutch and Chain, 212
• How to Remove Tight Nut, 188
• If Without a Stand, 34
• Inlet Valve Springs, 188
• Management of Twisted Belts, 188
• Outside Fly Wheels, Machines with, 34
• Pole-finding Paper, 432
• Sparking-plugs, 188
• Sparking-plug Wrinkles, 211
• Spray Carburetter Difficulties, 39
• The Brakes, 433
• Test the Bearings, 247
• Washers to make Petrol-tight Joints, 188
• When Overheated Engine Misfires, 188

• Hooligan, An Automobile, 101
• Horse, Passing of the, 192
• Horse-power, 81, 210, 215
• Horse-power for Trailers, 256
• Humber v. Singer, 175

• Identification of Motorcars, 246
• Ignition, 34, 40, 40, 67, 86, 100, 107, 114, 132, 146, 231
• Ignition, Magneto, 260, 288
• India, Victory of the Motorcar in, 364

INFORMATION BUREAU, OUR.

• A Better Silencer, 419
• A Compression Problem, 440
• Accumulator and Silencer, 315
• Accumulator Losing Charge, 399
• Accumulator Problems, 256
• Accumulators, 35, 84, 199, 216
• Accumlators, Repairing, 116, 251
• Altering Contact Breaker, 599
• Altering Gas Engine to Petrol Motor, 148
• Altering the Gear* 36
• Aluminium Cylinders, 99
• A Motor Tandem Tricycle, 419
• Ampere Hours, Meaning of, 491
• Apparent Stateness of Petrol, 420
• Ariel Quad, 492
• Attachment for Extra Rider, 99
• Attachment to Prevent Sideslip, 420
• Back Firing, 255, 336, 559
• Bad Connection to Frame, 182
• Battery Losing its Charge, 131
• Batteries, 99, 132
• Belt Hooks, 335
• Belt or Chain, 181, 182
• Belt Runs oil Pulley, 256
• Belt Slipping, 99, 116
• Belt Treatment, 18, 68, 360
• Belts, 231, 287
• Benzoline as Substitute, 100
• Best Systems of Ignition, 132
• Blacklead Lubrication, 147
• Bowden Exhaust Lifter, 148
• Broken Piston Rings, 164, 200
• Building a Frame, 116
• Calculating Horse-power, 215
• Carburetter, A Spray, 35
• Carburetter Flooded, 147
• Carburetter Troubles, 99
• Carburetter Query, A, 231, 256
• Carburetter Short of Petrol, 492
• Carburetters, 419
• Cause of Slow Running, 527
• Charging Accumulators, 148
• Charging Accumulators at Home, 450
• Clearance of Exhaust Valve List, 200
• Coil, A Damaged, 256
• Coil Connections, 399, 420
• Coils, 35
• Compression, 52
• Concerning Weight, 68
• Compression, Loss of, 100
• Connections, 231
• Constructing a Spark Coil, 336
• Construction of Tank and Carburetter, 131
• Contact Breaker Faults, 399
• Contact Breakers, 251
• Contact Breaker Wearing Out, 200
• Converting a Tandem Bicycle to Motor, 165
• Converting a Tricycle, 116
• Converting to Higher Power, 68
• Conversion from Friction to Chain Drive, 36
• Correct Method of Wiring, 526
• Cylinder Problems, 116, 231
• Damaged Accumulator Case, 52
• Damage to Tricycle Motor, 527
• Daniell Battery, To Construct, 316
• De Dion Carburetter, 516
• De Dion Coil, 399
• Defective Insulation, 439
• Detachable Motor, A, 255
• Different Types of Carburetters, 164
• Difficulty with Trembler Coil, 526
• Dimensions of Magneto, 515
• Direct Chain Drive, 163
• Dry Batteries, 116
• Dry Cells or Accumulators, 359
• Dynamo Connections, 491
• Effect of Cold on Surface Carburetter, 527
• Efficiency of Motors, 147
• Electrical Connections, 181
• Electrical Query, An, 99
• Electric Tricycle. 335
• Exhaust Box, Firing in, 35
• Exhaust Valves Breaking, 335
• Exhaust Valve Lift, 255
• Explosion in Crank Chamber, 148
• Fast or Slow Running for Economy, 526
• Faulty Magneto Ignition, 288
• Firing in Exhaust, 288
• Firing on Half Compression, 491
• Fitting a Set of Castings, 182
• Fitting Exhaust Valve, 527
• Fitting Motor to Lady's Cycle, 36
• Fitting Wipe Contact to Minerva, 182
• Fixing Leather to Pulleys, 131
• Fly Wheel, Value of, 200
• For a Tropical Climate, 67
• For Trailer Work, 419
• Free-wheel Clutch, 231
• Freezing and Defective Circulation, 336
• Frost on Carburetter, 316
• Gear Ratio, 420
• Gearing of a Motor, 399
• Gelatine for Accumulators, 199
• Height of Frame, 84
• High or Low Gear for Pedalling, 199
• High-powered Motors, .18
• Hissing Sound from Motor, 67
• Home-made Motor, 131
• Horse-power and Carburetter, 399
• Horse-power for trailer, 256
• Ignition, 67, 100. 163, 182. 199
• Incandescent Platinum for Ignition, 232
• Increased Engine Power, 599
• Induction Coils, 251
• Inlet Valve, How to Get at, 151
• Inlet Valve Mystery, 287
• Interchangeable Parts, 215
• Knocking Noise in Motor, 182
• License of Car, 599
• License for Trailers, 148
• Licenses, 99
• Liquids for Driving Motors, 148
• Loose Driving Pulley, 147
• Loose Ely Wheel, 440
• Loss of Compression at Cylinder Joint, 528
• Loss of Power, 440, 492
• Low-speed Motors, 182
• Lubrication Difficulties, 599
• Magneto Ignition, 516, 527
• Making a Steel Tube Cylinder, 555
• Matter of Speed, A, 152
• Mechanical Details, 251
• Mis-firing, 200
• Motor Acting as a Brake, 216
• Motor for Ordinary Roadster, 100
• Motor for Tandem, 148
• Motor Lacking Power, 116
• Motor Missing Fire, 84
• Motor-bicycles in France, 18
• Motorcycle Lamp to Burn Paraffin, 52
• Noisy Gearing. 116
• Non-stop Runs, 100
• Oil Leakage, 52
• Orient Enquiries, 181
• Overheating, 216
• Over-lubrication and Short Circuits, 216
• Petrol, Concerning, 55
• Piston, A Stuck, 55
• Piston Kings at Fault, 491
• Piston Rings, Shape of, 287
• Power Problem, 165
• Pulley, A Worn, 55
• Puncture-proof Bands, 99
• Re-boring Motor Cylinder, 288
• Reducing gears, 200
• Reducing the Gear, 151
• Regulating Speed, 181
• Rectifier for Charging Accumulators, 420
• Self-starter for Tricycle, 599
• Separate Trembler, A, 100
• Shipping Motor-bicycles, 580
• Silencers and Reduced Power, 52, 84
• Single Lever Control, 599
• Size of Driving Pulley, 251
• Smoke from Exhaust, 52
• Some Mechanical Questions, 580
• Sparking Troubles, 99
• Sparking-plug, A Charred, 55, 116
• Sparking-plugs, 68
• Spare Parts for Touring, 116
• Speed-changing Gear, 152
• Starley Axle, About the, 515
• Steam Cycles, 18. 99
• Storage of Motor-bicycle, 52
• Suppliers of Motor Oil, 52
• Taking Motor-bicycle to France, 527
• Terminals Corroded, 148
• Three-wheeled Tandems, 147
• Throttle Valve Problem, 67
• To Construct a Charging Board, 165
• To Dispense with Frame Connection, 164
• To Prevent Water Freezing, 148
• Tremblers, 288
• Trembler or Non-trembler Coil, 355
• Troublesome Quad. 231
• Twin v. Single Cylinder, 256
• Two-cylinder Motor. 528
• Two-cycle Motor, Fitting a, 35, 67
• Two-speed Gears, 116
• Value of Exhaust Valve Lifter, 492
• Value of the Throttle, 231
• Valve Grinding, 256
• Valves Sticking, 459
• Voltmeter Test. 131
• Water-cooled Motor-bicycle, 251
• Werner Carburetters, 1900, 18
• Werner Details, 55, 167
• Werner Tips, 52
• What Determines Direction of Rotation of Motor? 215
• Wheels and Tyres, 35
• Where to Get Electric Cable, 116
• Why Drive is on Left Side, 100
• Wiring Problem, A, 527
• Without Vibration. 52

• Internal Combustion Engine, 23. 43. 167, 202
• Inlet Valves. 74, 131, 188, 229, 233, 287, 433
• Interchangeable Parts. 2, 15

IN TRANSIT by a Cyclomot.”

• A Dog’s Doing, 134^
• A Grand Lamp, 134
• Exploded Fallacy. An, 38
• Farewell to the Compression Tap, 205
• Getting More Air, 38
• Inaccurate Cyclometer Readings, 241
• In a Sorry Plight, 89
• Is Frequent Cleaning Necessary? 265
• Mixture Mystery, 4, 24
• Motor Cycling Suit, A, 205
• Need for a Good Saddle and Toolbag, 26S
• New and Delightful Experience, 73
• New Minerva, The, 197, 205
• Non-stop Hundred, A, 153
• Novice on the Motor, A, 73
• One-piece Cylinders, 241
• Paraffin in Cylinder, 265
• Parts that Require Attention, 89
• Running Mount, The, 4
• Saving Vibration, 106
• Terminal Clips, 171
• Those who get Troubles, 38
• Thousand Miles without a Hitch, 171
• Trailers, Pleasures of, 75
• Transparent Plug, The, 106
• Value of Care, The, 80
• Voltmeters and Testing Lamps, 265
• Where the Motorcycle Scores, 58 (See also “ Cyclomot’s Causerie.”)

INVENTION.

• Adapter for Re-charging Batteries, An, 154
• Adler Motor-bicycle, 250
• A Swivelling Steering Wheel, 423
• Bassee and Michel New Trembler Coil, 519
• Bat Pulley, 154
• B.K. Sparking-plug, 22, 105
• Carpeviam Motoicar, 204
• " Carsig ’ Motorcar Signal, 425
• Castle Sparking-plug, 319
• Clement-Garrard Two-speed and Chain Drive, 22
• Clyde Motor-bicycle, 1903, 189
• Collan Oil, 40
• Corona Motor-bicycle, 220
• Crankless Motor-bicycles, 56
• Crypto Motor-bicycle, 105
• Curiosity in Motor-bicycle Design, 220
• De Dion Float Feed Carburetter, 423
• Dietrich Racing Bicycle, 136
• Ducellier Motorcycle Lamp, 189
• Dunhill’s Umbrella Coat, 204
• E.I.C. Motorcycle Plug, 40
• Electrc-Magnetic Ignition, 40
• Excelsior Motor Lamp, 220
• Fleury Carburetter, 88
• Gouverneur Motorcycle, 88
• Graphite for Cylinder Lubrication, 180 Grease Remover, A, 189
• Hooydonk s Paraffin Valve, 250
• Ideal Motorcycle, 17
• Improved Belt Fastener, 136
• J.C.M. Sparking Club, 423
• L.A.C. Sparking-plug, 425
• Leggings, 250
• Leonard’s Front Attachment, 189
• “ Leva ” Motor-bicycle Stand, 319
• Lloyds’ Reserve Petrol Tin, 204
• Locomobile Light Steam Car, 250
• Longuemare Carburetters, 220
• Longuemare Carburetter for Bicycles, 56, 319
• Lycett Patent Pulley, 204
• Mercurial Contact Breaker, A, 136
• Miller’s Motor Edlite, 189
• New Automatic Mixture Regulator, 423
• New Belt Fastener, 385
• New Features in Royal Motor-bicycle, 17
• New Method of Lubrication, 88
• New Motoring Garment, 105
• New Non-slip Driving Belt, 22
• New Non-slip Driving Pulley for Motorcycles, 17
• New Principle of Making Piston Rings, 319
• New Simms Motor Set, 88
• New Type of Battery Testing Voltmeter, 56
• New Type of Contact Breaker, 17
• Oil, Lubricating, 22
• Patent Petrol Storage Can, 105
• P.M. Mica Plug, 154
• Punching Holes in Belts, 56
• Ready-made Lengths of Connecting Wire, 105
• Riche’s Motor-bicycle Accumulator and Case, 585
• “ Rosser ” Grip Pulley, 220
• Salsbury’s Motorcycle Horn, 154
• Sarolea Motor-bicycle, 180
• Self-regulating Contact Breaker, 154
• Spring Chain Wheel, 40
• Spring Seat-pillars, 22
• Stands, 22
• Storing Petrol: New Idea, 56
• Sutherland and Marcusson Charging Board, 385
• Tandem Three-wheeler, 385
• Telescopic Support for Motor-bicycles, 180
• Toni Motorcycle Tyre, 385
• Trailers, 40
• Two-speed Gear Bicycle, 40
• Useful Accessories. 136

• Italy’s King in his Car, 527
• Ixion Motor (See “Primus Motor”)
• Ixion Two-stroke Motor, 90

• Jarrott’s Flying Kilometre, 45
• Justice ? Is mis, 4

• King’s Experience, The, 62

• Lady’s Cycle, Fitting Motor to, 36
• Lamaudiere Motor-bicycle, The, 51
• Lamp, Conversion of, 50
• Lamp, Good Motorcycle, 142
• Lamp, The Polkev, 487
• Lamps, Miller’s, 189
• Lamps, Ducellier, 189
• Leathered Pulleys for Speed, 131
• Legislation Affecting Motors, 222
• Licenses, 99, 115, 125, 129, 161, 206
• Light Car Movement, The, 295, 523
• Light Cars, Best Form of. 285
• Light Cars, Comfort in, 389

• Magneto Ignition
• Medical Opinion on Motor Bicycles
• Medical Opinion on Motor cars

Military

• Automobile, Army
• Automobile, Corps, the
• Automobile, Maxim Guns
• In the United States
• Motorcars
• Tricycle Machine Gun
• Milford Hansom
• Minerva Experiences
• Minerva Improvements, 159, 190, 212
• Missfires, 200, 230
• Moderate Speed Engines, 161
• Monaco, Prince of, a. Motorcyclist, 484
• Morris Motor-bicycle, 591
• Morocco, Sultan of, and the Motor Car, 393
• Motor, Power from Waste heat
• Motor, Coming of the
• Motor Cycling in Winter
• Motor Firing with Switch Off
• Motor Manufacturers and Traders Society
• Motor Position and Stability
• Motor Position: Its Relation to Sideslip
• Motor Problem
• Motor Racing: C. Jarrott’s Paper
• Motor Running on Mixture of Petrol and Lubricating Oil
• Motor Tandems
• Motoring for Men of Moderate Means, 483
• Motors, Motors, Motors, Motors Motors
• Motors: Reduction of Weight, 222
• Motor-bicycle Accidents, 263
• Motor-bicycle, Details of, 54, 137, 102, 120
• Motor-bicycle I have Never Ridden, 280
• Motorcar, Cheap, 487
• Motorcars, Oil for 1902, 169, 184, 212, 251, 381
• Motorcycle to Light Car, From, 313
• Motorcycle Yarn, A, 495

MOTORCYCLES AND CARS DESCRIBED AND ILLUSTRATED.

• Adler Motor-bicycle, 250, 459
• Buchet 32 h.p. Tricycle, 210
• Chapelle Bicycle, 71
• Clyde Motor-bicycle, 189
• Corona Motor-bicycle, 220
• Crypto, 105
• Davis Bicycle, 13
• De Dion Bicycle Motor, 279, 487
• De Dion Voiturette, 426
• Dietrich Racing Bicycle. 136
• Fafnir Motor-bicycle, 341
• Gouverneur Bicycle, 88
• Hewetson Bicycle, 28
• Hobart Motor-bicycle, 434
• Ideal Bicycle, 17
• Ixion Two-stroke Motor, 90
• Jacquelin’s Racing Motor, 111
• Jesmond, 158
• Locomobile Steam Car, 250
• New Hudson, 485
• Phoenix Tandem, 13
• Princeps, 3
• Quadrant for 1903, 176
• Royal Bicycle, 17. Ill
• Rudge-Wedge Bicycle, 414
• Sarge and Sabeck Racing Motor-bicycle, 210
• Sarolea Motor-bicycle, 180
• Truffault Racing Cycle, 177
• (See also Descriptions in Show Reports, under “ Shows ”)

• Motorcycles for Invalids. .143
• Motorcycles, No More Wind Shields for, 142
• Motorcycles: The Power and Weight of Motor-bicycles for 1903, 428
• Motorcycles, The Scientific Designing of, 425, 443
• Motor-tricycles, Pattern for 1903, 178

• Napier Silent Brougham, 144
• New Hudson Motor-bicycle. 485
• New Rapid Motor-bicycle, 291
• North Pole by Motor, 112
• Novice, Helps to the, 86
• Novitiate, My, as a Motor Cyclist, 405
• Nut Tight, How to Remove, 188

• O’Connor’s, T. P., Speech, 221
• Oil as a Dust Layer, 47
• Oil Leakage, 52
• Oil, Lubricating, 22
• Oil on Contact Breakers, 34
• Oiled Roads in Hampshire, 126
• Oldsmobile Light Petrol Car, 118

OPINION (EDITORIAL).

• Activity in Motor-bicycle Trade, 190
• At Last 1 450
• At Last! A Definite Move, 502
• Automobile Club and Motorcycles, 140, 481
• Automatic Inlet Valve, 468
• Brutal Contest, A, 60
• Constabulary and the County Court, 172
• Collaborative Evidence, 224
• Conquest of the Air, The, 172
• Crystal Palace Exhibition, 502
• Dashwood Trials Abandoned, 5
• Development of the Motor, 266
• Dimensions of Motor, 468
• Efficiency of Motor-bicycle Demonstrated, 124
• Gordon-Bennett Cup, 342
• Gordon Bennett Cup Race, 450
• “ For Men of Moderate Means,” 326
• “ Furious ” Journalism, 108
• Future of Motorcycle Racing, The, 244
• Historical Repetition, A, 208
• Horses and Motor, 26
• How Low can an Air-cooled Motor be Geared? 467
• Law and Speed of Motorcycles with Trailers, 92
• Light Cars: Some of the Requirements, 390
• Lightweight Motor-bicycle, 44
• Minerva Motor, 190
• Motor Accident Scare, 60
• Motorcycle Definition, 342
• Motorcycles for Business Purposes, 76
• Motorcycle Races at the Crystal Palace. 44
• Motoring for Men of Moderate Means, 481
• Movement Towards Sports Control, 430
• New Departure, Our, 294
• Numbering: The Pros and Cons, 410
• On the Track of the Trailer, 124
• Our Change of Title, 450
• Playing the Game, 172
• Popularising the Motor, 208
• Power of Motor, 467
• Power of Small Motors, 108
• Premeditated Persecution. 140
• Privilege, not Monopoly, 224
• Purchase of Petrol in Small Quantities. 5
• Railway Companies and Petrol, 190, 224
• Splendid Response, A. 502
• Stanley Exhibition. The. 481
• State of the Streets, The. 294
• The Control of Sport, 390
• The Need for Hurry. 430
• The Paris Salon. 326, 342
• The Popular Vehicle, 430
• The Shows, 266
• Tips Concerning Exhaust Valves, 468
• Veracious Reporter, The, 26
• ’Ware Lights, 92
• Welbeck Trials. The, 5
• What the Trials will Prove. 76
• When is an Accumulator Charged? 467

• Orient Buckboard, 521
• Orient Motorcycle, 49
• Ormonde Company Suggest a Match, 49, 175
• Ormonde Motor-bicycle Experiences, 46
• Ormonde Motor-bicycle: How Wired, 521

OTHER PEOPLE’S VIEWS.

• Accumulators for Repair, 114
• Accumulators, Mileage of, 312
• Accumulators: Why Some Fail, 333
• A Doctor’s Views on Motor Cycling, 50
• Air Supply for Carburetters, 98
• An Unusual Mishap, 198
• Automatic Ignition, 81 114
• Automatic v. Mechanically Operated Valves, 311 358, 378
• Belt or Chain? 253 334, 356, 418, 438
• Belt or Chain Transmission, 489
• Belt Transmission. 525
• Belts and Hill Climbing, 50
• Benzoline. 161, 214, 285, 437
• Best Forms of Light Car, 285
• Capabilities of Motor-bicycles, 488
• Carburation, 33
• Carburetters, 397
• Carburetters for Front-driving Werners, 81
• Carburetters, Spray or Surface, 462
• Century Wick Carburetter. 416
• Change-speed Gears, 253 437
• Change-speed Pulley, 437
• Charging Accumulators, 97, 179
• Charging Accumulator with Primary Battery, 65
• Cleaning of Motor-bicycles, 379
• Concerning the Light Car. 253
• Converting to a Motorcycle, 416
• Cost of Motor Cycling, 229. 253
• Cotton Belt for Transmission. 417
• Coupling of Motorcycles and Safeties, 66
• Design of Light Motors, 356
• Drive and the Wear of Tyres. 357
• Dynamo v. Accumulators, 115, 161
• Eagle Tandem. The, 490
• Economy of Motorcycle. The, 198
• Electric and Petrol Driven Cars, 437
• Electrical Connections, 161
• Electrical Terminals, 114
• Engine Position, 489, 524
• Engine Racing when Hill Climbing, 129
• Excelsior Experiences, 97, 115
• Experiences on Orient Motor-bicycle. 16
• Faulty Exhaust Valve Lifters, 524, 525
• Fitting Motors to Roadster Bicycles, 490
• Footrests for Motorcycles, 50
• Free-wheel Clutches, 523
• Freezing of Carburetter. 396
• Front Attachment for Motor-bicycles, 230
• Front-driving Werners, 115
• Future Tyre of Motor-bicycle, 357
• Gas Engines, Improvements in, 65
• Gelatine tilled Accumulators, z29
• Good Performance on 1% h.p. Minerva, 146
• Handicapping Question, 14b
• Hanging-on Nuisance, 129, 179, 229, 512
• High-powered Machines, 16
• High v. Low Power, 214, 312
• Home-made Car, A. 490
• How to Fit Piston Rings, 596
• Ignition, 254
• Improving the Coil, 525
• Inlet Valve Lifters, 229
• Is a Towed Bicycle a Trailer? 145
• Large v. Small Spark Coils, 355
• Leakage of Oil from Crank Case, 198
• Licenses, 129, 161
• Light Car and the Medical Profession, 311
• Light Cars in “ Motor Cycling,” 436
• Light Cars, 356, 558, 578
• Light Electrically-driven Car, 466
• Light or Heavy Weights? 285
• Lincona Belt, How to Manage, 198, 511
• Lubrication of Mitchell Motor, 214
• Lubrication of Motorcycles, 525
• Magnetic Ignition, 146, 488
• Magneto v. Electric Ignition, 285
• Mechanically Operated Inlet Valve, 214, 596, 417, 466
• Mileage of Accumulators, 397. 488
• Moderate Speed Bicycles, 161, 198
• Most Suitable Horse-power, 81
• Motor Cycling in India, 285
• Motor Firing with Switch off, 146, 214, 511
• Motor Missing Fire, 129, 250
• Motor Position and Sideslip, 465
• Motor Tandems, 161
• Motorcycle Stands, 462
• Motor-tricycle, The, 579
• Napiers in the Gordon-Bennett Race, 558
• New Method of Cylinder Cooling, 596, 458, 466
• Noisy Tricycle Gear, 525
• Oil Leakage Difficulty, The, 489
• Oil Splashing, 525
• Old Type Werner Carburetter, 198
• One piece Cylinder and Combustion Head, 230, 285, 578
• Original Type of Werner, 35
• Pedals as Footrests, 50, 65, 524
• Petrol in India, 597
• Petrol in Small Quantities, 65
• Petro-electric Cars, 466
• Petrol Motor and Dynamo Transmission for Cars, 396
• Platinum for Tremblers, 81
• Position of the Motor, 598, 416, 436
• Position of Regulating Levers, 97
• Quad, Good Word for the, 525
• Quad v. Light Car, 523
• Quadrant Experiences, 97, 114
• Registration of Drivers, 333
• Repairing Punctures in Motorcycle Tyres, 115
• Sideslip, 525
• Size of Light Cars, 554
• Social Motorcycles, 466
• Sociable Motorcycles, 525
• Sparking-plug Experiences, 129
• Speed, 98
• Speed Limit and Trade, 556
• Stands for Motorcycles, 524
• Steam Motor-bicycles, 16
• System of Cylinder Cooling, 417
• Tallow as Lubricant, 198
• Three-wheelers and Sideslip, 488
• Throttle v. Mixture Tap Control, 555, 396, 490
• Tired Knees, 66, 97
• Trailers in Grease, 114
• Trembler Experiences, 50
• Tremblers, Oil on, 33, 50
• Trimo Forecarriage, 597
• Two Cycle Motors, 16, 65. 97
• Tyres for Motor-bicycles, 81
• Wanted: A Standard of Power, 416
• Wear and Cost of Cycling, 179
• Weight of Motorcycles, 356, 438
• Wood for Motor-tricycle, 534

• Outside Fly Wheels, Machines with, 34
• Overheated Engines. 188, 216
• Over-Lubrication, 216

• Parsons’ Non-skidder, 435
• Pedals: Are they Wanted? 446
• Pedals as Footrests, 50, 65
• Perfect Motor-bicycle, Details of, 363
• Petrol, 190
• Petrol and Railway Companies, 212, 221, 224, 461
• Petrol-driven Railway Trains, 328
• Petrol Consumption, 110
• Petrol Experiments, 341
• Petrol for Power, 406
• Petrol, German, 247
• Petrol in India, 159
• Petrol, Purchasing in Small Quantities, 5, 47, 49, 65
• Petrol, Storage of, 56
• Piston and Rings Sticking, 200
• Piston Rings Broken, 164, 529
• Piston Rings, Shape of, 287
• Police on Motor-bicycles, 211
• Position, Engine, 338
• Power, Increase of, 434
• Power, Large, from Small Engines, 421
• Power, Methods of Increasing, 233
• Power Problem. 163, 214
• Primus Motor Company. 75
• Princeps Motor-bicycle, 3, 63
• Pulley, A Worn, 55
• Pulley, Compressed Leather, 282
• Pulley, Loose in Driving, 147
• Pulley, Size of, 231
• Punctures, Repairing Motorcycle Tyres, 115

• Quadrant Experiences, 97, 159
• Quadrant for 1903, 176
• Quads, 231
• Quads, How to Wrestle with, 403

RACING.

• Ardennes, 10, 11
• Boston-New York, 15
• Canning Town, 48, 57, 128
• Chateau-Thierry, 138, 157
• Crystal Palace, 12, 58, 60
• Deauville, 47, 61, 63, 109
• Frankfort, 112
• Gaillon Hill Climb, 121, 160, 176
• In Spain, 212
• Paris-Madrid, 222, 246, 435, 485
• Paris-Vienna, 191
• Plymouth, 32
• Spa Hill Climb, 191
• St. Albans, 62
• Welbeck, 6

• Race Meetings: Some Suggestions, 96, 104
• Racing Motor, 475
• Racing, Motorcycle, 248
• Racing Motor-bicycle. The Riding of a, 258
• Railway Motor Service, 64
• Records, 45, 61, 64, 127, 277
• Regal, Victor, 279
• Reliability Trials, 77, 95, 122
• Reliability Trials, American, 128
• Repairs, Simple, 383
• Retrospect and Prospects for 1903, 196
• Road Book, Motor Cyclists’, 44
• Rothschild, Baron Henri de, Experiences of, 435, 448

SHOWS.

• Birmingham, 177
• Brussels Motor, 485
• Crystal Palace, 367
• Crystal Palace Motor, 481, 503
• National and Stanley Cycle (Novelties), 187, 207, 223, 239 . 267, 292, 331
• Paris, 343, 372, 387
• Stanley Motor, 451, 477

• Sideslip, 195
• Silencer, A New, 143
• Silencers and Reduced Power, 50
• Simms’ Motor Set, New, 88
• Singer Cycles, 94
• Sparking-plug Charred, 116
• Sparking-plugs, E.I.C., 40, 63, 188
• Sparking-plugs, 129

SPECIAL ARTICLES.

• Accumulators as Applied to Motorcycle Ignition: An Article in Defence of the High Tension System by Leonard Bell, 470
• A Novice’s First Impressions of Motor Cycling, 362
• A 600 Miles Tour on a Singer Motor-bicycle, 83
• Aluminium as a Constructive Material for Motorcycles, by Leonard Bell, 196
• All about Simple Repairs and Replacements, by G. C. Weston, 383
• Automobile Hooligan, The, 101
• Causes of Sideslip in Motorcars: Is there no Remedy? By W. Phillips, M.I.M.E., 133
• Design of the Lightweight Motor-bicycle, by “ High Tension,” 235
• Electric Automobiles, by H. F. Joel, A.M.I.C.E., 473
• Handicapping Motor-bicycles in Races, by G. Vernon Rogers, 394
• How I Manage my Motor-bicycle, 42
• Hunting Man’s Experience as a Motor Cyclist, A, By Edward Kennard, J.P., 219
• Law Relating to Motorcycle and Car Licenses. 206
• Leaves from a Continental Motorcyclist’s Notebook, 69
• Leaves from the Diary of an Inexperienced Motorist, 19
• Motor-bicycle for Professional LTse, 117
• Motor-bicycles: Their Management and Repair, 102, 120, 137
• Motorcycle Yarn, A, by “ Kuklos,” 495
• Motor Racing as a Spectacle, by Saxon Browne, 201
• My Fifth Motor-bicycle and Some Experiences, by “ Petro,” 195
• Plea for a Weight Limit for Motor-bicycles, A, by “ Petrolia,” 213
• Retrospect and Some of the Features of 1903 Machines, 194
• Some Motorcycle Troubles and How I Remedied Them, 27
• Some Suggestions on the Management of Motorcycle Race Meetings, by G. Lacy Hillier, 96
• The Cyclist and the Motor, 242
• The Riding of a Racing Motor-tricycle, by Victor Regal, 258

• Speed, 11, 13, 45, 47, 49, 63, 64
• Speed-changing Gear, 132
• Speed of Cars, 93, 142, 143
• Speed Trials, 435
• Spring Chain Wheel, 40
• Stand for Bicycles, 180
• Steam and Electricity, 283
• Steam-driven Motor Tandem, 282
• Steam Motor-bicycles, 16, 18, 49
• Storage, Motorcycle, 50
• Surrey Wisdom, 175
• Swift Motor-bicycle, 291

• Tandem, Motor for, 148, 161, 165
• Tandems, Three-wheeled, 147
• Terminals Corroded, 148
• Theatricals and Motors, 112
• Thousand Miles as a Novice, 352
• Throttle, Value of, 231
• Throttle Valve Problem, A, 68
• Tired Knees, 66
• Touring, Spar< Parts, 116
• Towed Bicycle: Is it a Trailer? 145
• Trailers, 40, 73
• Trailers, License for, 148
• Training Schools for Motor Cyclists, 177
• Trembler Experiences, 50
• Tremblers, 288
• Tremblers, Platinum for, 81
• Tricycle, Converting a, 116
• Troubles, Motorcycle, 27
• Truffault Racing Cycle, 177
• Two-cycle Types of Motors, 16, 31, 35, 65,
• Two-speed Gears, 40
• Tyre Covers, Flints in, 240
• Tyre-mounting Record, 392
• Tyres, 81, 127
• Twin v. Single Cylinders, 256

• United States Import Duties, 222

• Valve Grinding, 256
• Valves, Mechanically Operated, 214
• Voltmeters, 56, 132

• Wartburg Car, 412
• Washers for Petrol Light Joints, 188
• Water-cooled Bicycle Motors, 231
• Wear on Tyres, 127
• Weight, 68
• Weight Limit for Motor-bicycles, 218
• Welbeck Trials, 5, 6
• Werner Cycles, 18, 32, 33, 35. 52, 62, 81, 115, 193
• Who’s Who in the Light Car World, 310
• Wrinkles, Some, 482b

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