Horseless Age Volume 30 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 Excerpt: ... district, however, cars are kept largely for practical use, and the demand is for a strong, low-priced car. Cordoba, perhaps, offers the best market for a medium-priced machine. The gasoline car is the only one adapted to this country. The cities are too small and too far apart as yet for electric vehicles, and there are only a few where power can be obtained. The only two electrics in the district have disappeared. Steam cars are impracticable on acount of the difficulty in obtaining water that is not so alkaline as quickly to ruin the machine. POOR ROAD CONDITIONS. About 300 automobiles were sold in this district last year. Their use is very general through the country as well as in the city. A great part of this district is so level that no variation is apparent to the eye. In the centre, however, is an isolated range of mountains in which lies the city of Cordoba, and in that region are almost the only improved roadways in the district. Elsewhere the roads are nothing more than the public way, usually not even drained. They are good, though rough, in dry weather, and become impassable after rains. A widespread attempt to improve them has lately been seriously begun. LICENSE FEES. A license is required for all automobiles, but the regulations are very lax. There is a fee of $150 Argentine paper, or $64 United States gold, on machines of 15 horse power or less; of $200 paper, or $85 United States gold, on machines of 16 to 20 horse power, inclusive; and of $250 paper, or $106 United States gold, on machines of greater than 20 horse power. Nominally, the horse power is calculated in the same way as in the United States--on the diameter of the cylinder and the length of the stroke. The bureau of inspection in Rosario states, however, that no actual measure...