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contrivance, 91; duplicate special tools, 91; ventilation, 91; warming, 92; precautions against fire, 92; cleaning and painting motors, 93, 94, 95; preservation of pneumatics, 94; carriage jacks, 94; care of the clutch, 95; rain-covers, 95; the thermometer, 96; guarding against frost, 96; hot-water system, 96; province of the stable attendant, 96, 97; grinding valves, 97, 98; booking and gauging benzine, 98; repairs and rectification of faults in motors, 98; preparation for the road, 99; Broomhill benzine storehouse, 99, 100, 101; Mr. Evelyn Ellis's motor-car house, 101, 102
 * Steam cars, main essentials of propelling apparatus, 243; paraffin and petrol as fuel for heating boiler, 243; the Bunsen principle, 243; petrol burners, 244; the Locomobile arrangement, 244, 245; the Weston, Milwaukee, and Reading systems, 246; vaporising the fuel, 246; starting the burner, 246-248; automatic fire regulator, 248; paraffin burners, 249-252; Clarkson's paraffin burner, 249; Syndicate vaporiser and Serpollet burner, 252; generation of steam in the boiler, 252; steam at high pressure, 252; the Locomobile boiler, 253255; water-tube boiler, 255; Toledo boiler, 255; principle of the flash boiler, 255; Serpollet generator and burner, 256; use and manipulation of pumps, 257, 258; Serpollet water and oil pumps, 259, 260; cams, 260; water and pressure gauges, 261; description of the engine and its work, 262; action of the slide-valve, 264-268; piston, steam, and exhaust ports, 263-266; link motion, 266, 268; 'notching up,' 267; the Reading engine, 268; compound engines, 268; House engine, 270; Serpollet engine, 270; piston rings, 271; stuffing boxes, 271, 272; condensers, 271; the Clarkson condenser, 272; oil-separator and water-filter, 272; water-lifter, 273; main advantages of steam vehicles, 273; art of driving, 274, 275
 * Sternoline belt dressing, 196 Stone, Mr., steam carriage of, 4, 5
 * Sturmey, Mr., starts 'The Autocar' (1895), 23; his brake confession, 370
 * Summers, Mr., steam carriage of, 4
 * Syndicate vaporiser for burners of steam cars, 252


 * used in automobilism, in English, French, and German, 418-438
 * Test (or Broomfield) Mill, Richmond Park, as a hillclimbing test for motors, 6062
 * Thomas motor bicycle, the, 315