AVERAGE SPEED
M]any drivers do not realise that it is possible to mia.intain a good average speed without resorting in any way to tha "brutal" form of acceleration and foraking which brings so many cars to an untimely and' expensive end. Every car, states a famious English motorist, has a natural cruising speed at which it runs best, and to inaintain the hest average this should he steadily maintained wherever road conditions permit, and should not he exceeded for long intervals on even the best of roads. Once the car is forced along at a speed at which it becomles uncomfortable tbere is introduced a risk of hreakdown, which will cause a much greater loss of time than would a slightly lower speed. Driving too fast for the road conditions means risk of tyre trouble or mechanical hreabages. It also is extremely tiring, and after an ihour or twio th'e driver will find a rest essential, during which he drops hehind a schedule which could have heen much more comfortably arid economically maintained at a lower speed.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 670, 24 October 1933, Page 2
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177AVERAGE SPEED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 670, 24 October 1933, Page 2
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