How To Drive A Motorcar
A Key To The Subtleties Of Motoring
År: 1915
Forlag: Temple Press Ltd.
Sted: London
Udgave: 2
Sider: 138
UDK: 629.113 How
Written and illustrated by the Staff of "The Motor"
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HOW TO DRIVE A MOTORCAR
so that it is lying on the forefinger, and study the situ-
ation once more. Admittedly, the grip is not so good.
On the other hand, however, imagine the same sequence
of events, and presume that sudden reverse stress again
to come into being, and then picture the result. The
only damage which happens is that the fingers are
forced to open, the starting handle shooting out from
their containing grip, whilst the thumb is entirely out
of the danger zone.
In other words, the possibility of damage from a back-
fire on the downward movement of the handle is even
less with, this grip than a backfire on the pull-up stroke
with the ordinary grip. The reason is that the fingers
with the grip advocated give way to the sudden re-
versed stress in the position indicated much more
quickly than they do on the pull-up stroke where the
thumb is on the other side of the handle.
Still again, in the odd few occasions when the engine
takes it into its head to continue to fire backwards for a
revolution or two—as it does sometimes when hot—the
hand is thrown clear of the circle described by the start-
ing handle, whereas in the pull-up stroke with the
ordinary grip it is very frequently struck on the back.
With regard to backfires on the upward stroke, there
is nothing to be gained by the principle advocated; but,
as previously pointed out, in ninety-nine cases out of a
hundred sprained wrists and thumbs caused by back-
fires are brought about by those which occur on the
downward movement of the handle. As with everything
else, practice makes perfect, and although this method
of starting up will be found more difficult at first, the
writer would ask the reader to persevere with it for a
short time, and when a backfire on the downward
stroke of the starting handle does occur, he will probably
be able to congratulate himself on his escape from the
encounter.
For Strong Wrists Only
There is another method of guarding against the risk
of damage by backfires, at any rate, on small and
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