NOTES AND HINTS

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 124, 21 November 1931, Page 17

NOTES AND HINTS

Now that the main North road has been shortened by straightening out tlio many bends between Porirua and Paremata, the distance as marked on the signposts from Wellington to Auckland will not be the correct one.

A diesel motor has been designed which will run at speeds in the vicinity of 4000 revolutions per minute. The usual speed for Diesel motors is about 1000 revolutions per minute.

A dirty windscreen is a danger at all times. Visibility is lessened to a considerable degree, and on driving against a setting sun the driver may be temporarily dazzled by the sun's rays striking the windscreen.

Sudden application of the brakes is extremoly unwise. Severe strains are imposed on the tires and braking mechanism, and even the car chassis and body are subjected to unwarranted strains and stresses. Especially in wet weather, when the roads are greasy, violent application of the brakes may cause the car to skid sideways and even turn round several times.

Now that evenings are drawing out and the car lights are not nearly required so much, the charging rate on the generator can be reduced.-A battery can be damaged just as much by over-charging as by heavy draining of current from it.

Fa put his pipe upon the shelf And, as he held his head, Said sadly to the family round, "My taste for smoking's dead; 1 cannot smell the fragrant weed; My head's bad too, be sure." (He's smoking well to-day, I knowTook Woods' Great Peppermint Cure:) —Advt.