HILL-DRIVING HINTS
MOST DANGEROUS PROBLEM Gears are put in the car to be used; therefore use them. Do not shift into neutral until the car has so slowed up that the engine is about to stall. Most rules are generalities, and at times it is quite safe to coast, the clutch out and engine idling. But in nearly all driving keep the car under control of the engine—with the clutch in.
On down grades a good rule is to use the same gear that would be required in ascending. If it requires second gear going up, use second gear going down. Like many other things, that is a generality, but if the rule is followed, particularly in hilly driving danger will be avoided. In a modern car second gear is a quicker way of getting down a hill than high gear and much safer.
The dangerous problem in hill driving is the necessity of a sudden emergency shift —so shift before the emergency arises.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1938, Page 12
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