NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 7 August 1926, Page 15

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

It may not occur to everyone, even with years of motoring experience, that it is advisable when a motor-car (new or used) is standing for even a few days, to give the engine a turn with the starting handle. One turn Avill do. This changes the compression on the various valve springs. If an engine is left too long with one of the valves open, the continued compression on the springs is likely to shorten the same a trifle, and this depreciates the power of the engine. liven the aftermath of the general strike in England shows the essential nature of motor transport. Great Bri tain still has the coal trouble, and all the railways have limited their services, in order, as they say to economise coal. Hence there is an abnormal demand for road transport, and this is gaining a position which must make the railway magnates envious. It would be impossible to have a hold-up in petrol comparable to that which now paralyses solid fuel users in Great Britain. For one thing the oil industry is prosper-

ous and progressive, and this in itself is a powerful safeguard against strikes and lock-outs. Then again, petrol is so easily transported, it. is so easily stored, and it is drawn from so many sources that, even if all the American oilfields and refineries went on strike, there would be good supplies from other sources. A prosperous British coal industry would have little labour trouble.