JOY OF COASTING

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 7 January 1928, Page 13

JOY OF COASTING

CHANGING HACK INTO GEAR. Many motorists when touring in hilly country have slipped the geai lever into neutral and enjoyed the pleasure of coasting, -but when thet endeavoured to get back into gear iound difficulty in so doing, eonsemientlv they have given up the practice. A little knowledge in this direction makes the change back a simp.e matter. When the gear is slipped into neutral, the car will gather "ip most- delightfully, the shriek or the wind past one's ears drowning the subdued tick-over of the- engine. lhe speed should be well restrained according to road conditions, as its silence is deceptive. When the time comes to re-engage the gear, it is well to make dead certain that the engine is running; otherwise any attempt to

engage a moving dog with a stationary dog mav be extremely oost-iv. It the tick-over is so good that the engine cannot be heard, the oil gauge or ammeter will show whether the engine has stopped, or a touch oi the accelerator will make the exhaust audible. To get into gear, accelerate the engine till the forward dog( connected to the engine) is revolving at the same approximate speed as the rear dog (connected to the back axle), declutch, feel for the gears as you slip the lever hack into top, and then let the clutch pedal up again. There is obviously one difficulty about this procedure, i.e., to gauge the amount of acceleration required, especially as the degree of acceleration must vary with the speed of the car Two or three experiments will soon familiarise the owner, and he will admit that this change is easier to make than many of the others.

ROADSIDE LUNCH

HINTS FOR TOURING HAMPERS. Are you tired of the sameness of the picnic lunches provided bv the roadside f Certainly one does get “fed-up in one sense —but not in another with the usual ham sandwiches, oo:.d meat, tomatoes, tinned tongues, and pastry that are usually handed round at a picnic, and with a good picnic outfit at your command there should be no difficulty in arranging dainty and unusual luncheons on simple lines. Some attractive picnic menus are given, which tliei housewife could sometimes adapt to her larder's capacity. 1. 'Tinned salmon with mayonaisse sauce, potato salad, brown bread and butter, strawberries and cream 2 Pork sausage and hard-boiled eggs tomato and watercress, sliced peaches and cream sandwiches, cnees® and thin plain biscuits. y. Crab meat, French salad, rolls and butter, pineapple, salad, and cream. 4 Rabbit pies, brown bread and butter .lettuce salad, cheese and olive sandwiches, bananas. 5. Fish cakes, vegetable salad with oil and vinegar, bread and butter, blancmange and custard, rolls and C'tlGG'StS 6. Hard-boiled eggs fried in egg and breadcrumbs, bread and butter, tomato and cucumber salad, jam roll, apples. 7 Cold chicken with rolls of baoon, isparagus with oil and vinegar, wholemeal bread and butter, jam tarts and crystallised ginger. , 8. Rolled tongue, sliced tomatoes, rolls and butter, bread and butter custard, apricots and nuts. , 9. Individual steak and kidney pies onion and hean salad, brown bieacl and butter, ehooo ale blanc mange, •heose straws, apples.