SPARKLETS.
To save good clothes carry the sleeve of an old coat, or shirt, in the pocket of the car, to be used when working around the motor. If the engine does not conform with the speed of the car when the throttle is open, look for a slipping clutch. Adjustment should be made at once for clutch plates will be damaged beyond repair. It is advisable to change the water in the radiator of a new' car several times during the first 1000 miles of driving. Any foreign substance which may be in the cooling system will be eliminated in this manner. Last year in America there were 10,150 vehicles in fatal accidents, and 9500 in non-fatal accidents, due to glaring headlights or one or both headlights being out, according to J. R. Crossley, a vice-president of the New York'Automobile Club. He added that there were 4140 _ vehicles in fatal accidents, and 4000 in non-fatal accidents caused by tail lights being out or obscured. “For every instance you see of recklessness on the part of a motorist you may count half a dozen examples of Jaywalking on the part of pedestrians.” Few will disagree with this comment from a London paper. Considerable support has been received of a suggestion made in Great Britain that no person should be granted a motor-driving license until he has qaulified in an elementary course in first aid. Of a total of 339,144 police prosecutions of motorists in England in
1931, only 15,333, or less than 5 per cent., were for serious offences, the others being purely technical breaches of motor law, some not even being committed by motorists at all. Many British motorists urge that the fitting of automatic signalling devices for the guidance of following traffic should be made compulsory on all motor cars. These signals, it is contended, are much more precise in the indications which they give than are carefessly given hand signals. Moreover, they can be operated with great ease, and hence do not tend to divert the attention of the driver from the road.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3448, 22 November 1932, Page 3
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346SPARKLETS. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 3448, 22 November 1932, Page 3
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