MOTOR TOOL EQUIPMENT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1006, 24 June 1930, Page 6

MOTOR TOOL EQUIPMENT

“THE GOOD OLD DAYS'’ OWNER-DRIVER'S NEEDS It is the finest possible testimonial to the modern motor-car that so many motorists are able to enjoy month after month of trouble-free road travel \vith no more ambitious tool equipment than is provided by the implements supplied in.the car’s standard tool kit. Gone for ever are the “good old days” when no one dreamed of adventuring far from home without a capacious supplementary bag containing, among other items, a soldering iron, spare valves, a blow lamp, quantities of insulating tape, a big tyre repair outfit—sometimes even a portable vulcaniser!—a spare live axle shaft or a driving chain, a band vice, and rolls of copper wire. The need for any such additions to the normal kit is seldom experienced on the road nowadays, yet in the motor house, if the car is to be kept in really good fettle, there are many little jobs that have to be done. As a rule they can be done with the tools in the kit, but only by the expenditure of a quite unnecessary amount of time and energy. In order to reduce that expenditure to a minimum it is not essential to convert the motor house into a machine shop with expensive power-driven tools. Unquestionably, the more elaborate the plant the better the work which can be done with it by the expert mechanic, but machine tools are seldom within the financial reach of (lie man who is his own chauffeur.