RULES FOR THE GARAGE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 700, 28 November 1933, Page 2

RULES FOR THE GARAGE

Here are a few things about petrol Which everyhody should know, and some precautions, which if observed, will make petrol safer to handle and enahle us to use it with greater economy. Never run your engin'e in a closed building, such as a private garage. Perfect comhusition gives off steam vtapour and carbon-dioxide, two nonpoisonous gases; but imperfect combustion creates carhon-tmonoxide, which is a potently poisonous gas. lOpen the doors before you start your engine. If yours be a closed car and it has been left standing with th'e engine running, thorough ventir lation should he provided, as some of the heated carhon-monoxide from the exhaust may rise and enter through the floor of the car. W(hen the car is in motion the exhiaust gases are, of course, disch'arged without the slightest danger. Petrol is highly inflammable, conisequently the wdse man will always keep handy a fire extinguisher of the special type suitable for fighting petrol fires. In the absence of such special equipment, there should he several receptacles containing sand or loose "earth ready to hand for thTowing on the blaze. - If the fire be a small one, smother hy throwing over it a floor-carpet or similar ar.ticle. Never try to extinguish a petrol fire with water. 'Wlater will float the petrol and so spread the hlaze. It is la good rule never to smoke while h'andling petrol in open vessels arid it is also dan'gerous to run the en-' gine while filling the fuel tank.- .