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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 20 July 1929, Page 4

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In Berlin noisy motor vehicles are confiscated by the police and fitted with silencers at the owners’ expense.

The hood of a car never should bo folded when it is wet.' Otherwise the fabric- will deteriorate quickly. While the. owners of commercial vehicles in New Zealand are moving for a reduction in heavy traffic fees, it is interesting to note that m the Irish' Free State the rates for omnibuses.’ have just been increased 100 per cem,.- A fourtecn-seater bus will now pay £2B. and the same rate of -'£2 a seat will apply for larger capacities, a 40-seater vehicle paying £BO, or ’ £5 more than the maximum tor the largest bus in New Zealand. .An English coroner recently stated that the most dangerous time in the life of a motorist was when he liad been driving for about twelve months. German factories are making a bid for the commercial vehicle .market in Europe. In 1927 the output was 22,086 commercial chassis, ancl this rose to 41,600 from German plants m 1928. If you are using your car the second or third season, it is an excellent plan to clean out the silencer, which mav have become slightly chocked with the deposit of carbon. The restriction caused by the deposit can considerably increase the back pressure and be the cause of trouble with sparking plugs and valves. 4. car for £75 has been produced in France. It has a # vertical twocylinder, two-stroke engine. The clutch and "ear-box are normal, but no differential is fitted in the rear axle. Fourwheel brakes are standard. The wheel base is 7ft 4Jin, and the track u 3ft 4in Only two-seater bodies are htteu, and a maximum speed of 48 m.p.h. is claimed.

About brakes which squeak badly there is what may be termed apy™’ logical unsafeness, due to leluctance on the part of the driver to apply them. The defect should be rectified at'a service station.