HOW TO GARRY “SPARES.”
There are many different solutions to the puzzle of carrying spare parts in safety and silence, but often great difficulty is experienced by small car owners with regard to breakable spares, such as lamp bulbs and so forth. Where space and pocket allow, elaborate containers may be purchased, but for the average motorist the suggestion low will be found both inexpensive and compact. Obtain a stout wooden box, the dimensions of which should depend upon the number of spares it is required to hold, and plane down a block of soft wood so that it just slides into the box and completely fills it. With a brace and bit bore holes in this wood on each face to such depths and diameters that the parts they are to contain may drop in and remain a fraction . below tfte top of the hole. Holes intended to accommodate lamp bulbs should be bored slightly deeper and have cotton wool packed in the bottom. The spares being placed in their allotted places, the wood block fits into the box, which when shut leaves very little room for rattle or breakage. With a box fitted in this way, it is possible to carry four spare plugs, two head and two side lamp bulbs.
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Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 143, 29 July 1926, Page 7
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