WHY PRESSURE GAUGES?

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 688, 14 November 1933, Page 2

WHY PRESSURE GAUGES?

How many car owners understand the purpose of the oil gauge ? If you agree that the proportion is about one in ten (writes "Focus" in "The Light Car and; Cycle Gar") and that in any case one practically never looks at the gauge, can you explain why oilpressure giauges continue to be fitted ? My own feeling is that everyone save sports car owners would he much better pleased with a level indicator which told us not the pressurq in the : ducts but the quantity of oil in the sump. An dnstrumient of this kind would be really useful, whereas almost every oil gauge is regarded by most owner-drivers as being valueless. A sump level indicator would remove the need for frequent examination of the dip-stick and would make it much more difficult than it is at present to allow the level in the sump to fall too low. An oil gauge gives one but a slender indication either of the condition or of the quantity of the oil which one has aboard. Further, it is of little use for warning a driver of impeding . under-lubrioation hecause modem lubrication systems either work or fail to work and the interval between one state of affairs and the other is likely to last for more than a few seconds before the bother hegins. Sump level indicators will he seen on several light cars at the Show.