NOTES AND NEWS.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 2 June 1928, Page 14

NOTES AND NEWS.

“When I started to develop my new model Ford motor-car I had 350,000,000 dollars (£70,000,000) in the 1)3011. I hale n).. .w,d00,000 (£50,000,000).” Mr. Henry Ford made this statement in the course or an interview. It appears, therefore, that his new model has cost him £20,000,000.

A lot of vacuum tank trouble can be attributed to sediment in the motor spirit. A little dirt will clog a valve and cause a stoppage on the road, so it is a matter of double protection to filter the spirit before it. reaches the tank by fitting a special visible filter. If you start with a clean tank and a clean fuel line from the tank to the curburetter a second filter may not be necessary, , but as an extra safeguard it is worth using.

An easily learned method of proper parking in limited space is to pull up parallel to the kerb, alongside and close to the. vehicle behind which you are going to park, so that your rear axle is level with the rearmost part. Turn the front wheels sharply to the kerb and back slowly until you can see that by swinging the fiont wheels over to the right your leit.mudguard will just clear the rear of. the vehicle ahead. Turn the t ironi- wheels fully to the right and back! to your position at the kerb. This method! once you know the positions tit. which extreme turns are to lie madb, "'ill park you at the proper distance from the kerb and other vehicles in one backward movement. " " : * '-Vv-: *

Motor re-registrations, are coming in faster than last year, and to date there are roughly 140,000. Last year the total of motor vehicles registered was .171,006'.- Some 6000 motor vehicles which have not been used for two years have been cancelled-out-of the list of those still not re-registered, and it is estimated that the number of re-regis-trations still outstanding for the current year is about 30,000. While the temporary depression may have had something to do with ears going out of use, it is also probable that .quite a number of the cars still not reregistered for the current year require an aggregate of minor repairs which totals ij.'X'dngiderhble,sum, and as their ownefs'.do not contemplate using them until the spring, they are not going to the expense in 7 the meantime. It has been noticed that every year there is a rush of registration in the spring. ,

For a long time American cars have been fitted with aprons over the front dumb-irons and extending rearwards a - s as i'he radiator. More recently Bntxkh manufacturers have started to fit them as well. It is hard to understand why such aprons are not almost universally adopted, because if well made and carefully fitted thev are absolutely rattleproof, and they do certainly clean up the front end of the car. The cost of making is low and they seem to he desirable from every point of view.