GARAGE GOSSIP

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 456, 11 September 1928, Page 14

GARAGE GOSSIP

Do not take corners on top gear by slipping the clutch; change down. * * * Every time a child is killed by accident in Toledo, Ohio (U.S.A.), a mourning flag is displayed from the windows of the local branch of the U.S.A. National Safety Council. * * * A Parisian telephone engineer claims to have invented a composition rubber tyre that will grip the most slippery pavement. At the same time he claims that the type of tyre will increase speed and reduce petrol consumption. V 9 * In the town of Newcastle, TJ.S.A., jay-walkers are “tagged” by the police. Summons tags, similar to those hung on wrongly-parked cars, are given to wandering pedestrians, instructions on them being to report to a police court at a certain hour and date, find a good reason, or pay the fine. * * * The following new records have recently been established at B.rooklands, England: July 3, Mr. F. G. Micks, riding a 35 c.c. Velocette, broke the following world’s records in class B: 1 hour at 92.83 m.p.h.; 100 miles, at 92.98 m.p.h. On the same day, R. H. Hopkins and P. J. Ashton, riding a 350 c.c. ChaterLea, broke the following world’s records in class B; 4 hours, at 80.87; 5 hours, at 80.41; 6 hours, at 76.59; 8 hou.rs, at 76.59; 500 kilos, at 80.82.