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A motor-cyclist and motor-car i . driver had a healed argument in Ox- j ford terrace on Monday, the while the petrol from the car gurgled merrily out of the damaged tank. The motorcyclist, a well-known jockey, was driving some friends out to the trots in hi 3 side-ear. and was proceeding alon the? terrace behind a car. The driver j ot' the latter evidently thought he was i the last man going to the trots that day, l'or he stopped dead without giving any warning to the following traffic, of which there was a eon-idi.rai.de stream. The sharp-pointed side-ear body torpedoed the petroi lank of the ear'but itself was undamaged. The motorist vras considerably ''peeved'' at the mishap, but the jockey appeared to fully hold his own in the subsequent . argument. The widespread use oi' the motor-cur ' hasj perhaps never been brought out more startlingly than in the following excerpt from tlie ".Rural Ncu Yorker": —""We have a report from one New England town where it was found necessnrv to send a certain family to the poorliouse. They went in their own car! It was a battered tin pan of a ear, but it had au engine | which would work on occasions." j i A number of miniature motor lorries. ! motor-cars, and tramcars were presented to the Magistrate's Court a few diivg ago by a collision expert, who was giving evidence in a case before Mr F. Iv. Hunt, S.M., states the "New Zealand Herald." The models were all made to scale, and were small enough to be placed on a plan of the scene of the collision. In accepting the gift, the Magistrate said that the little vehicles would nupply a long-felt need of the Court, as it frequently was found that verbal descriptions of the progress of vehicles concerned 111 collisions were very confusing. By means of the models it would bo possible for movements of vehicles to be understood. | Twelve thousand gallons t)f Gargoyle Mobiloil 'B" were supplied to the U.S.A. War Department for the world . aeroplane llight. j i