HINTS FOR MOTORISTS

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6802, 4 January 1929, Page 5

HINTS FOR MOTORISTS

ADHERE TO TRAFFIC CODE. I/asb year there was a further decline in the overseas trade in American motor cycles, 17.860 machines being imported, compared with 20,51 Sin 1926. ***** One of the things the correspondence schools cannot teach is how to get out of taking your next-door neighbour to town in your car after you have once 'started the habit. * * * * * When dissembling ignition or light wires always mark them with ■ something such as price tags or coloured cotton ,and be sure to mark terminals in corresponding manner. ***** “You may know all about cars," said the blacksmith scornfully, “but how would you shoe a horse?” “I’d toot my horn till he got off-the road,” said the motor mechanic. ***** An Irish motor cyclist who made a policeman jump oat of his way told the magistrates that at the time of the offence he had just heard of his mother-in-law’s death. He was fined £l. ***** l “Half the market for American motor cars is virtually assured every year by the demand for replacements for worn-out cars,” says the American National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. *****

A new record for road construction has been set by America in the 195mile continuous stretch of concrete road laid in Alabama. The 135 mile section »f the Minnesota highway was previ-

ouslv rated as the longest in the world. ****** 9 A motorist who had been dining out and celebrating and had consequently collided with a lamp-post is reported ns saying to the constable who was taking down particulars: "Have you got the other chap's number as well?” * * * * « There can bo fewer countries in which riders have so wide an international choice of machine as Czechoslovakia. In a Prague motor cycle -journal there arc announcements relating to British, American, Belgian, German, Czceho-Slovakian, and French machines. ***** With the ever increasing popularity of motor vehicles, there must be a great number of youngsters living in the large cities and towns who have never travelled in a train. Only recently the seven-year-old son of a keen motor cyclist expressed the desire to travel by train, "just to sec what it is like. "

It is a tribute to the efficiency and ease of handling of the motor cycle that one very rarely hears of schools professing to teach people to ride, though there are, of course, many schools for embryo car drivers. After the > controls have been mastered, experience is the best tutor for the would-be motor cyclist. t

When replacing piston _ rings take three strips of tin sheet or brass about 4in. long and bend over about lin. from one end so that the short end will lie on top of the piston and the long side extend down sides of piston; the rings can then be slipped on their respective grooves without falling into the other grooves.

Always put nuts, washers, small bolts screws, cotter pins, etc., in a small boX/When dismantling any machinery, because if left lying on the floor or about the car they may be lost, or perhaps drop into some part of the motor and cause damage. Never leave one job to start another, because you may leave a screw or nut loose or leave a cotter pin out, which may ruin a valuable engine if they come adrift. * « * * *

The prosecution of several persons in a British police court for "playing a game of chance with coins," revealed the existence of a novel gambling pursuit. The game is called "Motor Numbers," and the destination of the "pool" depended- upon whether the last figure of a passing car or motor cycle was under or over five.