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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ALTERNATIVE GRIPS
the wheel is also of importance, and it should not be
held on that portion of the wheel next to the driver’s
person. On the contrary, it should be more to the
side of the wheel, as in this position the rotation of the
wheel is caused by a direct push or pull from the arm,
which is far more powerful, and quicker in action, than
the lateral motion possible if the wheel is held at the
bottom.
If Nature has provided one with a large hand and
fingers, the grip in which one of the steering arms is
always between the first and the second finger is a very
powerful one, and is more quick in its ability to grip
and control the steering wheel than the other type.
Unless, however, one has got a big hand and fingers
this grip may prove too fatiguing. It should, however,
be tried, as it is undoubtedly an excellent grip when
one can manage comfortably to span the steering arm.
Some Alternative Grips
Whatever position one takes with regard to holding
the steering wheel, on a long journey one wants a
change. What the writer terms the tension grip is
quite sound as a change for open country work, and is
also quite restful. It is not so suitable for town work
or for very quick manoeuvring.
The grip in question is only properly permissible
when it so chances, as frequently is the case, that,
whilst the direction of the car is straightforward, the
steering wheel has an arm each side of it at right
angles to the direction of progression, or, say, parallel
with the dash. In this case, one places the fingers of
each hand over thé steering arm on the respective sides
of the wheel, the fingers gripping the wheel and a
slight tension being put on the arms—what one might
term just a hanging tension. As each arm is now in
tension to check any irregular tendencies of the steer-
ing, the change arm is quite a distinct rest for the
arm, as it is not called upon now to do any compres-
sional work. If an obstruction to the right wheel tends
to throw the steering to the left, then the fingers of the
right hand resist that action in tension, whilst if the
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