AVOID SKIDS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 256, 21 June 1932, Page 2

AVOID SKIDS

Advice from a man who has experienced a million. Mr. Thomas Dale, the skidding wizard, has just retired after forty-six years in the service of the London General Omnibus Company, during the last eleven years of which, as a driving instructor, he has created and corrected well over 1,000,000 skids. Here is his advice on how to correct a back-wheel slcid. Don't touch your brakes when the car begins to skid. Release the accelerator pedal and ease of the clutch. Turn the front wheels in the direction of the skid; that is, if the rear wheels skid to the left or near side, turn the steering wheel to the left or near side. Turning the front wheels into the skid will check the spinning back wheels. Ilf possible, as soon as the wheels begin to grip, change into a lower gear and accelerate. The car should then straighten up. For a front- wheel skid, which is rarer and even more dangerous, the skidding champion advises: — Try to create a back-v/heel skid by jamming on, the brakes. This will swing the tail round. Then act as for a back-wheel skid. Skidding, according to Mr. Dale, can be avoided to a great extent by: Driving in a careful manner on greasy roads so that sudden bralcing is avoided. Accelerating gently. Taldng corners at slow speed. Avoiding sudden diversion of direction, such as pulling over suddenly to pass another vehicle.