SPEEDING THROUGH

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 112, 2 August 1927, Page 10

SPEEDING THROUGH

A slight front fender collision may throw one or both of the headlights out of focus. Headlights are frequently attached to the fenders or to the cross-rods bracing the fender, and it requires but a slight change of position of either front fenders to throw a headlight out of adjustment. In using your engine as a brake on hills, the resistance in high gear may be sufficient for gradual declines; on steeper grades use your intermediate gear, and on very steep mountain grades on which you should drive slowly, use low gear for braking. * * * Should you lose a nut from your wheel on the average Continental car, try one of the nuts which hold the hood in position as a substitute — they usually fit the wheel bolts. This also applies to some American cars. T

he hood can be easily kept in plac >y a piece of wire or string.

The city council traffic inspectors have enough to contend with on point duty without being blinded by headlights. Parking lights are sufficient in well-lighted streets.

Summoned at a Middlesex Police Court for having an indistinguishable number-plate, a man said it was all right when he went out, but the bad roads must have jarred the enamel off!!

What’s become of the old-fashioned motor enthusiast who took bis car to pieces every Saturday afternoon to get it ready for a Sunday drive?

Salesman: “ . . . and you see, madam, the beauty about this car is that it goes 50 miles on a gallon of petrol.”

Fond Mother: Oh. that is a small item. My son is very economical. He parks most of the time, don't you, Harold?”

A great deal of motor trouble is caused by warped valves or hard carbon getting under the valve, wearing the seats and causing a leak of compression. The Sydney Traffic Department has issued a reminder to motor-drivers that their brakes must be in good order and capable of stopping and holding the vehicles under all conditions upon any roadway, and the police have been instructed to take action against motorists whose brakes do not comply with the regulations. It is also a breach of the regulations in Sydney to leave a vehicle sanding in the street without having taken precaution against the possibility of its being started in the driver’s absence. * * * Nearly £500,000,000 was spent in petrol and lubricants in the United States during 1926. The nation’s bill for tyres was £100.000,000. Those who can’t spare time to drive the first 500 miles at 20 usually evenuii by doing 250 miles at 40. Woman Motorist: It was all your fault. I’ve had five years’ experience in driving and know how. Pedestrian: I’ve got you beaten. I’ve had 45 years’ experience in walking and know how. Many of the tyres and tubes now produced in the United States contain a percentage of reclaimed rubber, as along with the 366,000 long tons of crude rubber used in that country last year, 164,000 long tons of reclaimed was consumed. This is evidence of America’s attempt to cut imports of crude rubber as a means of combating the fixed prices placed by British rubber growers under the Stevenson plan.