DRIVING COMFORT

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 17 March 1928, Page 15

DRIVING COMFORT

ADJUSTABLE SEATING. Adjustability in the matter of the arrangement of seating and controls of cars is receiving attention nowadays in even cheap cars, and in a large number of makes it i : s no longer possible for the abnormally tall or short driver to complain that he- cannot seat himself comfortably at the, wheel. Adjustable seats, which can be moved to and fro for several inches, and in some cases can even be altered with regard to their angle with the floor of the car, brake and clutch pedals, which can be moved nearer to or farther away from the driver’s seat and steering columns, the angle «wid length of which are adjustable, are all to be found on different makes of cars. To the driver of average height, or within a couple of inches either way, it seems that the most necessary adjustments, however, are- in the pitch of the steering column and the length of the pedals. In a modern type of body, alteration of the seat will not always he necessary, if the pedals are adjustable in this way. and some cars provide a means of quickly adjust mo-t-heir brake and clutch pednls Severn.! inches, by the use of which the driver can make himself perfectly comfortable. A slight readjustment of the angle of the steering V-o-lumn will ebo frequently have the effect of considerably improving the comfort and rorfeotion of control of the oar.