YOUR BUS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, 26 November 1927, Page 13

YOUR BUS

DO YOU PRESERVE IT POINTS ABOUT MOTOR-CARS. Car-owners who desire to keep up with the traffic procession to-day are learning that it cannot be done safely with an automobile that is not kept in the best of condition in every respect, according to the emergency service bureau or the Automobile Club of British Columbia, Automobiles are built that are impressively safer than ever, and the owner who allows his car to become unsafe and poorly kept becomes conspicuous to his fellow motorists, as well as to the officials charged with supervising traffic. “The accuracy of this view of the situation can be determined hv the individual motorist very easily,” savs the club in a statement just issued. “Who of us that drive cam not immediately spot the car which has noisy ineffective brakes, which steers witli difficulty, and- with a notorious absence of the fine precision that everyone knows is being built into the automobile of to-day? The person who can not do this is one who has not paid much attention to the progress the automotive engineer has made. “Traffic to-day is moving at higher legal rates of speed both in the city and on the open highway. This boon to motordom has been conferred by traffic authorities because they recognised the inherently greater safety of the motor-cars of the last three years. It is a privilege that motorists can not afford to abuse. “Still greater privileges are to be conferred in this respect but not until the individual learns to care for his car in such a way that it will constantly provide the larger margin of safety with which it has been endowed by its maker.”