GAR A GE GOSSIP

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 426, 7 August 1928, Page 6

GAR A GE GOSSIP

As an effort to arouse the people to a higher regard for highway safety, white crosses have been placed in Boston near the spots where forty persons were fatally injured in automobile accidents since the first of the year. The crosses, two feet high, are made of white cardboard, inscribed with the words, “In memory of a life recently muffed out by an auto accident near this spot.”

A straight-away speed record for four-cylinder cars was claimed last week by Wilbur Shaw, who drove a Whippet Special over Daytona Beach at an average speed of 134.83 miles an hour.

Shaw claimed the old record of 147.32 miles an hour made in 1912 in a German-built car, was not official as it was timed with stop watches instead of the modern electrical timing device. * * * The motor-cycle road patrols recently established by the A.A.A. have received commendation from so far afield as Mr. A. Dunscomb Allen, touring manager of the Automobile Association of Great Britain. In a letter to the touring manager of the Auckland Automobile Association, Mr. Allen enumerates the advantages of joining his association, which, by the way, are already available by members of the A.A.A. visiting England. Mr. Allen continues that he believed that many overseas motorists, having hired a car, leave the route to the paid driver, who succeeds in showing them little more than the hackneyed main roads. The discriminating motorist wants more than this t and the Automobile Association is in the position to give it. k

The Yellow Sleeve-Valve Engine Works, in East Moline, Illinois, has increased its manufacturing staff by the addition of 100 men to cope with the extra work involved by the receipt, last week, of an order from the Yellow Truck and Coach Manufacturing Co. (subsidiary of General Motors), for 231 double-decker buses. All engines for these buses will be manufactured by Yellow Sleeve -Valve Engine Co., and will be the first to pass over the new progressive assembly lines installed in the works to manufacture Yellow Valve engines on the most economical cost basis.

It is interesting to know that the Black and White Taxis in Auckland have the Yellow Sleeve-Valve Engines.