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r Mr Elmore- “But the develops •„st as much power anruns nearly t twice as lons at halt thiottle. . “Another thing, you drive the car as fust as vou can in the lower gears, while vou should shift into second at 10 miles an hour, and into high at 2u miles an hour. That would save uO cubic centimetres of petrol on each stait. “Also if vou try to beat the normal flow of traffic, it necessitates an excessive SC of brakes, and you throw away most of the petrol used to'get the ear up to lb “Last a of Ml.” sa - vs Mr ' Elmore, “don't vour engine while standing still, and don’t try to make high-speed getaways/
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 261, 3 August 1942, Page 2
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