THE COMPLETED DASHBOARD

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 3491, 29 October 1926, Page 11

THE COMPLETED DASHBOARD

Consider Mrs Motorist at the wheel of her new brougham on her way to an afternoon of golf or bridge at the country club. A glance at a neat group of instruments on the dashboard tolls her virtually everything she wants to know about her car. She has four gallons of gas left, her motor is functioning perfectly, as is evidenced by the engine heat indicator, oil pressure gauge and ammeter, and by maintaining speed at the present rate she will reach her destination in plenty of time. 1 I

The road is’ none too smooth, but Mrs Motorist is scarcely aware of its irregularities, for balloon tyres, supplemented by snubbers, have taught her that all roads "feel” alike. She turns in the narrow gate and meets another car coming out, but does she blanch? Rather not. Instead, she lightly presses her fourwheel brake pedal, and what might have been a bad collision is easily averted.

On her way home dusk and a shower overtake her, but the automatic windshield wiper clears the windshield. Another car approaches and although a few years before Mrs Motorist would have had to dim her lights and "grope” to keep out of the ditch, she now- touches •the headlight two-beam control on the steering column, and the shaft of light in full density, it deflected, adequately lighting road and ditch, yet not confusing the oncoming driver.

As a result of these improvements Mrs Motorist uses the family car a lot more now than she formerly did.