MASTERLY DRIVING

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 237, 27 May 1932, Page 2

MASTERLY DRIVING

CHIEF HONOURS OF FIRST MEETING OF SEASON AT BROOKLANDS. Sir Henry Birkin carried off the chief honours of the first motor xace meeting of the season at Brooklands last month, but in the fastest race of the day he was within an ace of dashing off the banking through the fence and into the trees beyond. Close on the heels of another car his Bentley got into a series of violent swerves when both cars were high up the banking. To the spectators on the bridge it looked as though disaster was eertain, but by a supreme effort Birkin straightened his machine, set off after the lead'er, and won the race. In the high wind handling the big cars was a difficult taslc. Reeordbreaking in the conditions was out of the question, and Birkin's achievement in winning one race at 12 miles an hour and doing a lap in his other race at 134.24 m.p.h. was masterly. Even after the steering mechanism has been thoroughly lubricated and inflated, a. car may not steer as easily as the owner expects. The spring U-bolts may be the cause of the trouble. If they are loose, they are eertain to increase the amount of effort required for steering. • * * -t When two motorists who had collided at a dangerous corner in England recently got out and came face to face, they discovered that they worked in the same office, were both foremen on the sani'e job, and were both responsible for the painting of the white lines and danger s;gns 011 the road. * * A wheel is in balance when, spun freely, it does not stop repeatedly with the same part nearest the ground. Weights on the spokes opposite th§ tyre valve are the most usual means of securing this static balance (balance at rest). A statieally balanced wheel automat'cally has dynamic or running balance.