SPARKS!

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 2513, 13 December 1927, Page 2

SPARKS!

Many a motorist has discovered that owning a hammer doesn't make a man a mechanic.

If you are running into a head-on collision don't get excited. You need a level head to get past St. Peter. • Richardson: I don't know what to

do —buy a car or a house. Bobberton: Simple. Buy a house and mortgage it to get. the car. Then you'll have both.

Only one delegate to the North Island Motor Union did not agree with the resolution carried last week asking that the off-side rule should be applicable to tramcars.

A man summoned at Enfield recently for motoring without a license explained that he bought the car for £6 15s, and was so astonished at making it go that he took it for a trial run before obtaining a license!

She: How did your father find out we were out in his car? He: You know that chap we ran over? She: Yes. He: That was him.

Nearly all the tyre difficulties met by the motorist may be laid to neglect. Tyres should be inspected at least once a week for cuts in the side walls and treads. At the same time the pressures should be tested. Do not guess at inflation pressures.

Motor campers will be required to take precautions against overhanging luggage this summer. The regulations which have been formulated by the Public Works Department will make it an offence to carry leads which are likely to prove a nuisance on narrow roads.

The North Island Motor Union has urged the Public Works Department to make it compulsory to carry tail lights. The suggestion has been made on account of the frequent use of unlighted horse vehicles on both city and country roads.

In its comments on the draft regulations under The Motor Vehicles Act, 1924, the committee set up by the South Island Motor Union expressed the opinion that it was not necessary for a motor-cycle, with or without side-car attached, to be equipped with a reflector or. periscope.

The advancing of the clock is nothing new in principle to the motorist. He soon learns when talking of speed achievements that he is well in the background unless he adds a few more miles to his speedometer recordings. One also meets the occasional motorist who confesses that before selling the old car he performed the rather delicate operation of subtracting a few thousand miles from its tell-tale record.