MEMS. FOR WOMEN MOTORISTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 41, 11 May 1927, Page 5

MEMS. FOR WOMEN MOTORISTS

FORESTALLING TROUBLE In the ordinary pursuits of life it Is perhaps a sound precept to leave well alone, but the woman motorist •hould not obey this injunction too •lavishly. An experience which came within the knowledge of the writer will illustrate what is meant. Two ladies who owned a light car of a popular make had the good fortune to run it for over ten thousand miles without a single puncture. As a consequence tney never at any time found it necessary to change a wheel on the road. One evening almost at the end of a long run home, the inevitable happened and one of the rear tyres began to deflate. After considerable difficulty the wheel was coaxed off, but the spare wheel flatly refused to be fitted on. To cut a long story short, sev(ral hours were spent in the efforts °f various “helpers” to try to fit the wheel, until a local joiner managed to bang it on somehow with a wooden mallet. Later the ladies discovered that one of the bolts on which the wheel slides had been slightly bent and that this had caused all the trouble. The moral for new, and even old drivers, is to change once at least all the wheels of a new car in turn whether they require it or not, just to make sure that they slip on easily when the occasion arises. It often happens on a new car that over-run-nir*g paint is enough to prevent the spare wheel from fitting easily when required. No motorist should start on a run of any length without satisfying herself that certain tools are in fneir appropriate receptacle. The most important of these is the jack and jack handle, the tyre pump, the brace for loosening and tightening the wheel nuts during the operation changing a wheel and an adjustable spanner. The woman drivei should be certain in her own mind that she has the aforementioned tools °n board even if she takes no others. To keep white artificial silk vests a good colour after washing put them in the copper on top of the other clothes nnd boil for about a quarter of an nour. Then take them out, rinse, and Pot them through blue-water (do not wash them this way if soda is used). * * * MTien fixing straps on heavy or awk- « parcels lay the straps on a table ♦thd cross them so that when fastened v**® left strap goes through the right uckle and the right through the left. s>lraPs5 >lra P s s ° fastened never slip.