DOWNHILL WORK
A HINT FOR MOTORIST?. Coming to :t strep grade. one motorist throws out his clutch and uses the brakes: another shifts into second 01 low and uses the braking power of h's engine. Tlie former thinks he is sarin" gasoline hr not linking the engine with the wheels; the latter believes it is safer and more economical not to rse his brakes.
According to tests conducted hv "m----"i peers, the motorist who uses the braking power of his engine is not only savin"” the brakes and playing safe, hut incidentally lie is also using no more benzine than the motorist who coasts. These tests proved, d m rl.,lined, that a car going downhill at go miles an hour in gear consumes n n more octroi than a car that is standing still with the engine running at its lowest idling speed, ft was fimthor found that the. car could travel downhill for an hour at that pace, using only a quart of benzine.
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Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 June 1931, Page 12
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165DOWNHILL WORK Hawera Star, Volume LI, 20 June 1931, Page 12
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