REDUCING FIRE RISK.
, .Alkhough most drivers are in)t ■ as careful as they should be in the handling of petrol, motor-car fires are not very common, The wide adoption of a ■ simple device rfcently invented in Great Britain should still further reduce the fire risk.t This is a special safety valve intended to close the supply pipe from the tank to tlle carburetter, and thus isolate the petrol in the.event, of a fire beneath .the bonnet. In consists of a vaive for insertion in the supply pdpe. The valve is spring loaded in such a way that the spring tends to .close the valve. The valve is kept open by a slip of special
Don't s'appose yon've- dorie your dash. ^ " — —
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 290, 2 August 1932, Page 2
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119REDUCING FIRE RISK. Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 290, 2 August 1932, Page 2
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