GARAGE GOSSIP
American authorities anticipate that in 1928 the automobile business will give employment in the United States to 4,000,000 persons, or nearly 300,000 more than it has done before. Appearances are deceitful. Take a man driving a car, for instance. He moves only two feet, but he travels a mile. Before replenishing the supply of grease in any cup about the car, see to it that the outside of the cup has been wiped absolutely clean. “Didn’t you have any better sense than to strike a match to see if your petrol tank was empty?” “Well, why not. It was a safety match! ” To convert Fords and Chevrolets into automobile sleighs for use in snow, creeper tracks and runners to take the place of the front wheels are being sold in the U.S.A. A London Police Court witness told the magistrates recently that “her husband was so clever a salesman that he could sell a Ford car to each of the Tour Horsemen of the Apocalypse.’ ”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 354, 15 May 1928, Page 6
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167GARAGE GOSSIP Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 354, 15 May 1928, Page 6
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