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* for a run, 318; the surface carburetter, 318, 319; electric ignition, 319: sparking plugs, 319; good compression to be ensured, 320; detection and arrest of leakage, 320, 321; attention required, 321
 * 'Motor Cycling,' 398
 * Motor-driving, practice, requisite till automatic perfection is attained, 322; the first drive, 323; starting the car, 324; first speed, 324; second speed, 325; third speed, 325, 326; how to change speeds properly, 326-328; use of the accelerator pedal, 324, 328; overrunning the engine, 328; preparation for starting for a drive, 329; precautions before starting the engine, 330; lubrication, 331; driving backwards, 331; testing the brakes, 332; use of the sprag, 332; rounding corners, 333; descending steep hills, 333; using the brakes, 333; some of the dangers met with on the road, 334; side-slip, 336; greasy roads, 323, 336-338; ice-covered roads, 337; rutty roads, 338; difficulty in steering when tyre is punctured, 338; cautions on night-driving. 339; fixed habit of careful driving to be practised, 339; charms of English roads, 341-345; exhilaration on the motor, 341; power of traversing large areas of beautiful country, 342; delights of country life enhanced, 343; regarded as land-yachting, 344; scenes on the road, 344, 345; dealing with restive horses, 356-360; influence on health, 79-82
 * Motor laws as they exist, 409-417
 * 'Motor News,' the, 398
 * 'Motor Vehicles and Motors,' cited, 400
 * 'Motoring Illustrated,' 398


 * car, the, 52
 * Nederlandsche Automobile Club, secretary and other officers, &c., 393 Nesting-boxes for accumulators, 294
 * Netherhall Gardens, Fitzjohn's Avenue, used to test the hill-climbing powers of motors, 62, 63
 * New Orleans 7-h-p. car, 44
 * New York pneumatic tyre, the, 238
 * Nice to Marseilles race, 404
 * Non-slipping tyres, 49, 239
 * 'Notes and Notices,' 337, 387, 398


 * Automobil Club, headquarters, officers, &c., 394
 * Ogle, Mr., steam carriage of, 4
 * Oil reservoirs and. pump, self-contained, 90
 * Oppermann electric cars, 293, 296
 * Overheating, causes of, in petrol cars, 170 et seq.