News From Overseas

Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7271, 26 September 1933, Page 9

News From Overseas

Malaya has been experimenting with a fuel mado from rubber, and results arc said to be fairly satisfactory. It requires tho equivalent of 150 horse-power to bring a 30ewt, car to rest from 45 miles an hour iu a distance of 90ft.

Moro than fourteen billion gallons of motor fuel furnishes power for tho motorists of the United States during 1932, according to information gathered from State authorities.

At an inquest at Southhampton on a motorist who was killed when his car collided with a train at a level-cross ing tho jury decided that death was duo to tho train being negligently driven.

In tho latest pattern rcfuse-colloc-ing machine, made by an English firm, tho dustman walks into the vehicle, which has a closed metal body, to deposit his load. This method prevents refuse being dropped or dust and microbes being blown about.

Ono of the latest vehicles for passenger transport across the desert is a specially built machine to be used between Bagdad and Damascus, thence w> Beyrout and Haifa. The journey entails crossing tho Syrian Desert, and special wator tanks are fitted in tho roof.

The latest addition to tho range oi flying mascots takes tho form of a goose cn wing. When the car is In motion, wind currents cause the wings to flap in a realistic manner, and they are mounted upon a carefully balanced mechanism which ensures steady motion.

A motor-car racing track made entirely from grass is under construction in Czecho-,Slovakia. Tho surface is to bo composed of grass specially prepared with a substance w'hich will prevent it breaking, and at tho same time pro vent cars from skidding. The grass will be poured on in liquid form.