IS THE ROAD SLIPPERY
Writing in the “Light Car and Oyclecaiy “Focus” says: “Motorists sometimes ask me how, when they are driving along, they can discover whether the roads are slippery or not and so make up their minds whether it is safe to speed up a little. Those of Us whose motoring experience goes oack some years rarely find ourselves faced with such a problem, because, even if the appearance of the road is not a sufficient guide to its slipperiness or otherwise, a twitch at the steering wheel, without reducing speed, will tell us all that we need to know about it. “The only more definite tests of the state of a road surface which I can suggest are slowing down to about 10 m.p.h. and then applying the hand brake hard with a view to ascertaining how readily the wheels are locked or .alternatively, slowing to a crawl and then accelerating violently in first gear to see if the wheels can be made to spin.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 March 1929, Page 13
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168IS THE ROAD SLIPPERY Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 2 March 1929, Page 13
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