GAR AGE GOSSIP

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 776, 24 September 1929, Page 6

GAR AGE GOSSIP

Spare parts are so cheap in America j that the knocking down of old cars j for usable parts is no longer a popu- j lar trade. The Hawaiian Islands has a motor vehicle for every six of its inhabitants, Canada and New Zealand one for every nine. The city authorities in Irvington (U.S.A.) have drawn up an ordinance requiring horses to carry red tail lights after dark. Austria, Belgium, Canada/ Czechoslovakia, Denmark, England, France Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland and the United States, all produce motor vehicles. There is a growing agitation in all civilised countries against the noises of streets, workshops and home. Tramcars are the worst offenders, and they are being superseded by the motor-bus or made trackless. The Wellington Commercial Travellers and Warehousemen's Association has come to a special agreement with the Wellington City Council Traffic Department to secure an extension of the parking limit times for the loading and unloading of travellers’ samples. Owners of motor-ears who have no use for them during winter have found a cheap garage at the public pawn shop in Paris. The institution takes them in at a rate from 10s to £1 a month, and advances 60 per cent, of their value at S per cent, besides. There are more than 200 cars now in the pawn shop garage. A London oil man suggests that a universal name should be provided for petrol. In England, and Australia it is called petrol dr* motor spirit. In France it is essence, petrol being used to designate kerosene; in Italy benzine; and in the United States gasoline. He thinks that since U.S.A. handles and uses more than 70 per cent, of the world’s gasoline, that name should be universally used.