WATERPROOFING DICKEY SEATS
.Occasional showers in summer-time frequently mtian a drenching for the unfortunate passengers in the dickey seat of a car, for in most cases they will hot be provided with the waterproofs and other protections against inclement weather which are usually carried in wintertime.
' One source of.:trouble which is particularly annoying to the dickey-seat passengers is the leakage of raindrops down the rear of the hood, over the slope of the tair of the car and down into the dickey 'seat, dripping on to the passengers' foot. To cure.this trouble a shallow gutter should be fixed to the forward edge, and arranged at a slight angle to give a fall to the water which drips from the hood. The gutter may be of sheet metal enamelled to match the bodywork and screwed to the top of the rear part of the car in front of the dickey seak
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Shannon News, 7 August 1928, Page 4
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150WATERPROOFING DICKEY SEATS Shannon News, 7 August 1928, Page 4
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