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The outstanding feature of American models in general for 1939 is the abolition of the gear shift lever from the floor. Most of the cars carry the gearchange on the steering column beneath the steering wheel. In some cases it is under *the instrument panel.
Many expensive repair Jobs could be avoided if motorists making long, trips all realised the fact that the engine ordinarily consumes oil much more rapidly at sustained high speed than at ordinary' speed or occasional highspeed driving. When driving long distances check and replenish the oil supply every time the fuel tank is filled.
Although street and highway fatalities in the United States last year totalled 39,700, an increase of .4 per cent, over 1936, the traffic deaths per 1000 miles of travel showed a decline of 3 per cent. In other words, it was safer tp travel despite the rise in the number of accidents.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 5
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152NOTES Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 5
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