SPEEDING THROUGH

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 272, 7 February 1928, Page 6

SPEEDING THROUGH

Saturday race meetings and trials are a. failure in America. Sunday is the only day on which a great crowd of motoring enthusiasts can be attracted. * * * Several varieties of front axle attachments for prevention of frontwheel wobble are .selling in England. The devices are similar to a shock absorber in action, and the tension can be regulated from the steering wheel. One of these fittings sells for £2. * * * The points of spark plugs tend to keep themselves clean when function-, ing at a high temperature. Misfiring of the engine is usually caused by a carbon coating upon the plug insulators. This coating should be removed. * * * The blue or “daylight” headlight bulb will give no more light than the' clear bulb. Tests have shown that clear bulbs are just as good in lighting the road as the blue lights, and in fact are even better in cases of fog or wet roads. .

TAXES IN AUSTRALIA

STATISTICS have recently been compiled of the number of motor vehicles in Australia on June 30 last, and the average amount of revenue taxation fees and licences —a vehicle collected by each State. The .details are as follows: State No. of Motor Average I Vehicles Rev. per unit.

With regard to the sale of the latest “baby” cars, it is reported that the very up-to-date salesman give the buyer the option of taking it away, or having it sent by parcel post. A tow rope is extremely useful in dragging a car out of a mudhole, and most motorists keep one—hanging up in the garage. * * * ' Remember that “running on the lo\y” refers to the mechanism of your car. and has nothing to do with the financial side. * * * A speculative motorist bought a 1914 car for £3 10s at an auction, and started straightaway on a 400-mile run on it. Report says lie- reached his home in Aberdeen on it without misnap or incurring additional expense. * * * Small-car driver: “Excuse me—is this Parramatta Road?” Big-car driver: “Yes.” Small-car driver. “Then would you mind letting he have a bit more of it?” * * * “Is that your car?” “Well, officer, since you ask me, considering I have 50 payments to make, owe three repair bills, and have not settled for the new tyre, I really don’t think it is,” * * * Little boy: “Please, may 1 have my top?” Motorist, who has just rparked: “Yes, but where is it?” Litrle boy: “Stuck in the flat front -tyre of yours.” * * * Ruth: “Jack taught me to drive in 25 lessons.” Mabel: “The cad—he taughtme in six.” * * * ‘“How did your father discover that you took the car out last night?” “Listen —remember that fool we knocked down near the post office? "Wen, it seems that was papa.”

The French Prefect of Police has instituted a motor school of instruction for traffic police, and every man employed on traffic duty will have to qualify as an efficient motorist and traffic driver.. What a chance for New Zealand?

N.S.W. .. 176,272 .. £6 18 0 Victoria . 134,135 . 6 9 Queensland 68,818 .. 3 18 0 S. A W.A. (Met. 70,811 .. -1 1 area only) 14,239 . 13 6 Tasmania . 13,102 . 5 1 0 Fed. Cap. i 938 . ° 6