WRONG USE OF BRAKES.
A "brake is one part of a motor car that is much abused. In driving along the road and coming to a place at which you want to stop, ease the car up and get to your destination with such an amount of way on that the car is easily, pulled up. Many drivers come along at a fast rate, jam on the brake, and pull up as if they we're preventing an accident. Such a method shows bad driving, as it is a eore way to do damage to the brake*, and will not improve the tyres.
If you were driving a pair of horses and pulled them up in the "quick stop" fashion, you would have them back on their haunchee. A good horseman would gradually ease his horse up, and often stop without a brake being used at all. A car wants to be treated in the same .way. Use common sense with the brakes and they will last much longer than if used carelessly. Do not get in' the habit of letting, the foot brake do all the work; make the hand brake do its share as well. Ton will get better service, and when. they do wear out they will do so together, and can be repaired at the same time.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 269, 13 November 1928, Page 22
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