GARAGE GOSSIP

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 360, 22 May 1928, Page 6

GARAGE GOSSIP

j The new A.A.A. signposting van was j | placed in service this week, the first ! work undertaken being the posting of the roads between Albany and Riverhead. * * * The Public Works Department is proceeding with the road intended to link the six-mile gap to Russell. It is expected that the access will be completed early in 1930. • * * The Te Kuiti highway between Plan- j gatiki and Te Kuiti will be opened oi\ June 1. This road avoids the hills near To Kuiti, and as the present main road has been allowed to deteriorate the new route will prove very popular. The Shell Company, the pioneers of bulk petrol distribution in New Zealand, have recently built a bulk distributing centre on reclaimed land in Lyttelton Harbour. The area is four acres, and six large storage tanks have been erected, five for motor-spirit and one for kerosene. * * * A cigarette paper averages in thick - I ness one-thousandth of an inch, or i .001. Yet the standard of accuracy in modern motor construction is so fine that one company, the Hudson-Essex, calculate that they perform 139 operations to one-half the thickness of a cigarette paper. Other operations are as follow: Number Standard of of Operations. Acceptable Accuracy 3 39 .0005 500 .001 176 .0015 610 .002 170 .003 205 004 195 .005

A social function was held at Pukekohe on Wednesday evening to celebrate: the conversion of the Franklin Branch of the A.A.A. into an agency. There are at present 300 A.A.A. members in the Franklin district. Mr. G. W. Hutchison, secretary, delivered an address in explanation of the new motor regulations.

A diamond-shaped symbol of “Britannia at the Wheel” has been registered as the “hall mark” of the British motor industry, it will figure as a guarantee of British manufacture in the advertisements of British cars, British commercial vehicles and British motor products in general. “Look at and remember,” says one advertisement, “that the British motor, which keeps thousands of your own countrymen in employment, gives value and service such as no other vehicle can offer.” * * * The Leon Bolle e factory, one of the best known and most up-to-date factories on the Continent, made record production figures in January, according to a cable from Morris Motors (1926), Ltd., into whose hands the factory passed last year. The Bollee for many years was noted for the excellence of its workmanship, and the Morris Leon Bollee, the latest product of the old establishment, now embodies all the good points of both the Morris and the Bollee.