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The storage battery is a necessary adjunct to your car. Therefore, it should be given attention frequently. Each time it is filled, clean the top with a damp cloth. Do not short it with a pair of pliers. This is detrimental, as it draws out excessive current, and remember that it is dangerous to .bring an open flame near the top of the battery at any time. Inspect the wire cable from tbe starter switch to battery and starter button occasionally. If these cables show signs of chafing, either wed or have them replaced. These wires are heavy in order to allow a full charge ot electricity to pass through them witli least resistance. Jx tney are allowed to become worn or chared there is danger of a short circuit Take curves on wet roads cautiously; vour motor may not skid, nut the one you meet round the corner might. Eighteen thousand communities are linked together in England and Wales by 3312 regular motor coach servicesChassis tightening should include, tightening spring clips ana spring 1/ bolts. If allowed to become loose, broken spring leaves may result. Keep your vehicle up to mechanical concert pitch. A neglected car or motor-cycle may be a danger to other road users, as well as to yourself. Inspect spark plugs frequently. Burned or pitted electrodes naturally set up an electrical resistance thattends to cause the motor to miss. Change plugs every 10,000 miles for better motor efficiency. The Royal Commission on Transport recommends the abolition of the speed limit for private cars. The pedestrian’s sense of sportsmanship lias long ceen outraged by the handicap under which motorists have laboured.— ‘Punch.” * Betore Icelanders can obtain a driving licence they have to pass 25 onehour tests at iv cost ot £io. Of the 18,2zl cars imported into the Dominion, during the first nine months ox i 929, 4283 came through the port; o* Auckland. For the first half of 1929 exports of motor-cars from the U.IS.A. increased oy bG.-i per cent, over the corresponding half of last year. The value of cars exported was £80,060,000. A new society, known as the ‘‘Long Lire Association for Drivers of Motor, Vehicles/’ has lately been lormed at. Aberdeen with a view to reducing the number oi road accidents.An automobile cluo restricted to women is being organised in London, it is Known as the \\ omen s Automo oile and Sports Association, it is mteuued to hold trials and races on Brooklands tl’ticiv *

The closed car is easily the favourite boay type for 1929 in .England, xiuring .June, new car registrations in England showed that 13,559 saloons had been placed on the roads, as compared with only 3132 tourers. The most expensive exhibit at the British Motor Olympia last month was a Duesenberg straight eight at £3,450. The chassis alone is priced in England at £2,380 and the exhibit had an American convertible sedan body.

An eight-wheel petrol-electric drive omnibus lias been introduced in Cineinatti. The front set of four wheels moves on a bogie for steering. A 35 ii.p. electric motor is mounted on the bogie and a 125 h.p. petrol engine drives a 40 kilowatt generator. The uogie motors are 250 volt types. The vehicle is quite low and is nearly 39ft. in length, the seating capacity being 35-