MOTOR BRIEFS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 261, 28 June 1932, Page 2

MOTOR BRIEFS

i Speed Cop: Let me see your license, please. Motor Tourist: Marriage, car, driver's, camping, fishing, or hunting. I Open the license trunk, Maria. *!- v »i" A blackened headlight bulb means wasted current and lost light. Replace a bulb immediately it starts to become discoloured. * * * Taxi driver, to pedestrian, who has been dodging to and fro in front of his cab: This won't get us anywhere; let's come to some arrangement. Now, just what are your iir. n"d: ite plans? :J: • « In order to reduce the demand for foreign currency necessitated by the large imports of foreign motor fuel, it is proposed to establish a "standard motor fuel" for Germany. * * * During the Easter meeting at Brooklands, Sir Malcolm Campbell did several laps with "Blue Bird." He accelerated so violently, however, that the tread of both rear tyres was destroyedl Modern brakes are infiintely more effective, durable, and reliable than those of not so very many years ago, but still demand a littl'e occasional attention. * * A farmer has been fined 10s at a Welsh police court for rendering a road impassable to other traffic with a load of hay which overlapped the sides of the vehicle,- * * * An American recently thought he would play a joke on a friend, so he started to let the air out of the tyres of a car in front of his friend's house. While he was doing this someone shot him in the leg. He had chosen a car that did not belong to his acquaintance. * * A record production of 1600 cars in one week was recently achieved by Morris Motors. * * * Accarding to the latest figures there are now over 93,000 motor cycles in use in Italy. * * * ' A report on Glasgow's traffic problem proposes the erection at 77 places in the city of automatic signals at a cost of £24,000. * # * The Italian Minister of Finance is to make a big reduction in the tax on baby cars with the object of expanding the country's car industry. * * * That cinder track racing is as popular as ever in London was evidenced by an attendance of 45,000 at the 1932 opening meeting of the West Ham Speedway. * * * The suggestion has been made in England that the police should be armed with a special kind of revolver which will fire slugs to puncture the tyres of bandits using stolen cars. * + * It was about 10 o'clock and Sunday evening had become very dull to three young men standing on the footpath somewhere along Riccarton Road, Christchurch. So when a "baby" car stopped at a corner, it seemed like Fate's vehicle for a prank. The driver did everything a motorist should do to make his car start again, but what could a "baby" car do when it had three large men holding on behind like grim death wvith their toes dug well in the potholes on Riccarton Road. It did its best, but after all it' was only an infant, and although the engine raced madly, and the driver became more and more annoyed, the young men held their own in the tug-of-war against a machine. Finally, after the car had made a desperate leap forward, only to be pulled back again, the young men tired of their sport, a disgusted driver and an ashamed .car shot down Riccarton Road as if Old Nick was after them. But three to one, and that one a baby — not the fairest of odds.