USE YOUR CHAINS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18711, 17 May 1924, Page 30 (Supplement)

USE YOUR CHAINS.

'> : "V •' ■ ■ —••> ,rr . Every experienced motorist has seen a carl shunted into .the ditch from a.heavily cambered-.' road, ii'st , because ' the owner : Would not take, _ the trouble ,to put on 1 chains . when a sudden, shower came along.' : Ihe. .steep; pitch of the road caused ' & ,sideslip that landed the car in the 1 Hitch, which of us hasn't seen a col- ' ■ lisiorf'-'on -' wet asphalt '' during a summer 1 ihower.V The cars would; not . have, hit 1 . fxcept for the sUpperiness that came after I. rain on the smooth, pavement.. The . noral is that every;'car owner should . tarry his chains in ;. ; summer, spring, •• ~ • lutumn and winter., and should take the * , brief time needed to adjust them, when-. Tver , climatic conditions - make the going i . uncertain. v -, ■ fe-x V. Another instance in point; " every car i '3' Ihould be equipped with a wind-shield i ueaner,"%, No driver can uee through .-. a < . {lass ~ obscured .by rain-djrops, ; snow or . i >, hist. The only way .to insure & clear j is instai][;.an4;automatic tleaijisar : and set it going, whenever/ the it. t .Windshield 'cleiins- •' electHaty|bfc} by; vacuum ■ to driving, without -this- ( t it going -whenever the ] is it. Windshield cleans- j electricity or by vacuum < very low cost and there « for driving this-