ALL ABOUT MOTORING

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 692, 18 June 1929, Page 6

ALL ABOUT MOTORING

AUCKLAND HAS UNIQUE SCHOOL The average owner-driver of today finds himself the possessor of an intricate and expensive piece of mechanism of which he knows nothing. To secure sufficient knowledge to run a motor-car economically is a long job, and to meet this need motor training businesses have sprung up in. the populous centres of America and England. The idea has now been taken up in New Zealand, and a motor training institute established in Auckland. The institute does not exist to teach driving. It is designed rather for the owner-driver who wants to know how and why his motor works, how to do breakdown repairs, and to learn in non-technical language some of the mechanical principles on which a motor-car engine is based. “Headlight” paid a visit to the classroom the other day, and sawsome of the working models and diagrams used in the lectures. The pupil is first introduced to a bare chassis with the engine, gearbox and back exle cut open to show the parts working. Then the instructors, show the pupils what brake bands look like when the lining is worn, also cylinders badly in need of decarbonising; burnt-out fuses and blocked radiators. The pupils go right over a.modern car from the front axle to the back axle, examine every working part and know what it is for. A second course deals with by-laws and insurance, which every motorist could well learn something about. Lantern slides show proper driving signals, what to do at dangerous corners, w-hat not to do on the road, and so on.