GARAGE GOSSIP

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 680, 4 June 1929, Page 6

GARAGE GOSSIP

The only time a horse gets scared nowadays is when he meets another horse. The General Motors export division has 22 overseas assembly plants in almost as many countries. A total of 507,110 motor-v.ehicles were sent overseas from the ports of the United States during 1925. He (doing a steady 60 m.p.h.): "Shall we push on now, or do you still want to see the country?” It is estimated that motor-bus lines in the United States transported 1,825,000,000 passengers last year, as compared with 1,575,000,000 in 1927. The annual 500-mile memorial day motor-ear sweepstakes on the Indianapolis speedway will be known hereafter as the Grand Prize of America. Driving Instructor (to elderly pupil who has taken both.hands from the steeling wheel): "Madame! Under no circumstances whatsoever must you let go of the wheel—!” Pupil: But you distinctly told me to release my clutch!” Motorist: “I say, will five shillings pay for this wretched hen than I’ve just run over?” Breeder: “You’d better make it ten shillings. I have a rooster that thought a lot of that hen and the shock, might kill him, too.” “What’s your name?” asked the magistrate of the motor-cyclist charged with driving a motor-cycle with a noisy exhaust. “Gunn, sir,” was the reply. “Gunn, you are discharged,” said the magistrate. The report was in the paper next morning. | I