OLD CARS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 19889, 28 March 1930, Page 9

OLD CARS.

getting them off the ROAD. WHAT U.S.A. IS DOING. A plan is under way in the United . t0 spent 15,000,000 dollars this vcar in the removal of unsafe cars from the roud. In the campaign to reduce accidents, the motor companies will scrap 400,000 old cars during the present year, in addition to the normal scrapping which is constantly under way. The highway safety plan sponsored e /^ e Automobile Chamber ot Commerce.proposes that the manunieturers provide a fund to remove permanently those cars which menace the of others who us© the highways, is widespread experiment will strisc right at tho heart of the unsafe vehicle problem by eliminating a huge block of those cars which are in the poorest condition." said Alvan Maca > V i President of tho automobile chamber and former chairman of its street traffic committee, in commenting on tho programme. "The rattletrap car is only one factor in the accident difficulty. Unsafe, incompetent, and reckless drivers, as well as reckless pedestrians, cause a largo proportion of the accidents. Blind curves and other highway defects are also to blame. "The industry hopes, however, that the safety features of modern automobiles, pins this drive for the extermination of unsafe cars, will set a standard of action which will be helpful to the entire situation.

"The expenditure of 15,000,000 dollars will ty>t clear away every unfit old car, but it is perhaps the greatest single safety move in industrial history.''

The highway safety plan will bo worked out by each company participating, in line with its general sales policies and tiro volume of its production.

Clutches are designed for easy operation, and_if the engine ifl speeded beyond the point where the car itself can immediately follow, the clutch plates will slip. This heats. them up and may permanently damage them. Often when a clutch slips it will heat up and expand, resulting in sudden grabbing.