HERE AND THERE

Evening Star, Issue 20150, 15 April 1929, Page 12

HERE AND THERE

A wire brush is effective in cleaning llit* lluted aluuiiniuin beading on running boards. * * * * An electric torch is a handy accessory to carry in a car, hut it is not always easy to find a convenient location for it. A good scheme, it the torch is of the tubular type, is to clip it to the base of the steering column by means of bicycle pump clips. * * * * A, sledge driven by rockets in much the same way as the now lanious tierman rocket ear was successfully tried out recently on a Irozen lake, in the bavarian Alps. A speed ol _ nearly seventy miles an hour was attained. * * * * AVitb a view to incorporating in an internal combustion engine suitable lor motor car propulsion, the crankles® principles of the X engine, invented bv Mr Kenneth Turner, of Melbourne, several automotive engineers, representing American interests, recently investigated a small marine engine utilising the new system. Motor cars have been defined _as “ media ideal extensions of the physical capabilities of the human body in the matter of movement from place to place.” It is an important salety measure to see that the brakes are compensating properly. Uneven application is fraught with considerable danger when an emergency stop on a slippery mad surface becomes imperative. Steering-gear delects arc not inlrc- | quentlv caused as the result, ol running a front wheel bard against the herb when parking or ‘‘ imparking.”

In the ‘New York Herald Tribune’ appears this ad. Wanted, chauffeur; must be competent, honest, clean mechanic, careful, economical, punctual, thoughtful driver: courteous, neat appearing, well acquainted, city and suburban territory. Brake jammers, car jerkers, clutch riders, fender crushers, gear strippers, motor racers, one-track’mind traffic crowders need not answer.—Box 260, 5.016 Third Avenue.