TIME SAVED

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 5

TIME SAVED

EVERYTHING ELSE LOST

SPEED UNPROFITABLE

The old adage, "haste makes waste," is particularly true in operating motor vehicles.

Hasty driving and wasting fuel are running mates, besides which speed increases the hazard to life and limb. You save money and you avoid risk by not speeding. The following figures from the U.S. Bureau of Standards show the rapidly decreasing milage per gallon of gasoline consumption with increased driving speeds:—

10 miles per hour 20 miles per hour 30 miles per hour 40 miles per hour 50 miles per hour 60 miles per hour

.... 18.7 miles per gallon .... 18.5 mi'?s per gallon .... 18 mites per gallon .... 16.4 miles per gallon .... 14.6 miles per gallon .... 12.6 miles per gallon

It will be noted that up to 30 miles an hour the difference is not great, but thereafter consumption falls steeply. These figures, however, show only the fuel consumption. Oil consumption rises in a similar steep grade, and wear and tear give similar readings. Even on good curfaces, tyre wear, for instance, rapidly rises, and on bad going becomes exceedingly heavy. The worse the surface, the more reason from every point of view—not excluding safety—to keep down the1 speed.