TAKE YOUR CHAINS WITH YOU.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 250, 21 October 1924, Page 12

TAKE YOUR CHAINS WITH YOU.

I Experienced motorists do not need to be told of the loss of control which is liable to occur when a car is being driven over greasy clay or mud. Not only are side-slips to be expected, but wheel-spin may occur, cither resulting in loss of driving adhesion or rendering the car uncontrollable when descending h. : lls. Non-skid chains are the only effective means of preventing all sips under such road conditions," but few motorists possess a set of these grips, and even when he docs the car owner may be caught unprepared away from home, his chains having been left in the garage. In emergency, a length of rope wound around the tyres and rims of the driv.'ng wheels will serve as a temporary means of preventing sideslip or loss of adhesion. When this temporary expedient is adopted the rope should be removed from the wheel as soon as the necessity for its use disappears. If a length of rope is not available, any odd pieces of rope encircling the tyre and secured separately to tlie spokes of the wheels will assist in getting the car out of a mud-hole. Krom present appearances it would seem as if chains will be of more use than dust coats on the Labour Day trip next Monday.