SHORT CIRCUITS

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 404, 13 December 1932, Page 2

SHORT CIRCUITS

Policeman: You are hreaking the law, miss; this is a one-way street. Fair motorist. "Well, I'm only going one way, surely! # A luxury tax at the rate of 3 per oent. of the retail saies price is now being imposed in Spain on motor-cars, tyres, and accesorries. ~ ^ $ $ * $ The noted English driver, G. E. T. Eyston, has a new supercharged 1500 c.c. six-cylinder Riley, with which he is shortly to attack world's records. A 25 h.p. Daimler closed limousine with fluid flywheel transmission, for the private use of his Majesty the King, was delivered recently. * * * Regularly clean the exterior of the sparking plugs to remove any oil or dust deposit on the insulation, which will act as a conductor and, in all prohahility, cause short circuiting from this terminal to the body of the plug. * ^ # * Form the habit of hav£ng your brakes tested 'at a service station every thousand. miles. Brakes are your main safeguard as .a car driver, and only regular inspection and adjustment will keep them at a maximum efficiency. * * * st Of 148 fatal motor accidents in the Dominion for the year ended March, 1932, 27 were on a Friday, 39 on a Saturday, and 24 on a Sunday; and 93 of them were caused in daylight and 30 in darknes^ or moonlight. M. Louis Renault, head of the great Renault concern of France, recently addressed a press meeting in Paris, at which he deplored the cost of motor taxation in France. * * * The West End of London now boasts a petrol station which occupies a more valuablei piece of land than any ather station in the world — about £400,000 an acre. This stands in what was the forecourt of historic Lansdowne House in the heart of Mayfair, where important rebuilding wil eventually take place, * * * * Sometimes a valve stem sticks or squeaks, and it is often difflcult to in- ' troduce oil where wanted. A feather, ! however, if dipped in the lubricant, 1 can usually be inserted hetween the , coils of the valve spring and manoeu- j vred iso that the oil reaches the stem. A free application will prevent the i trouble recurring.