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j Do not monkey With the car petrol : • pump unless you know exactly what j j you are doing, is the advice of an : I owner-driver after a recent sad experi- j | ence. He noticed there Was a bad : i leak from the pump and as he could j | not lay up his car and the garages j 1 were closed, he plugged the leak with : • chewing gum. He learned later that j j he had closed a vent put there by { j the makers as a precaution against • • a broken diaphram and thai the j : petrol, noticed leaking on to the road, j ■ had gone down into the oil sump, j j Apart from repair costs he lost prcci- ; : ous petrol and one gallon of brand j j new oil. j
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23839, 14 December 1940, Page 8 (Supplement)
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