MOTORS AND MOTORING

NZ Truth, Issue 1030, 22 August 1925, Page 16

MOTORS AND MOTORING

TWO EXTREMES IN CAR OWNERS

HELP FOR THE VAST BODY IN BETWEEN This week we commence a new series of articles dealing with motors and motoring. There are two extreme classes of motorists, those who know nothing and care less about their cars and those who are always tinkering with something or other about their vehicles. The first are those helpless people we" sometimes meet on the broad highway, looking up from the open bonnet of the stranded 'bus witii that "Can you tell me V look. Many of these folk are really not interested m mechanical matter's and -to them we can only offer oho word of advice— get a good reliable car, have it periodically overhauled, adjusted, greased and oiled by the local garageman and good luck be with you on -the road. But between these two extremes is the vast body of private car owners who have a hazy idea of the general principles upon which the engine operates, who can clean a sparking plug 1 or clear a choked carburettor jet and generally manage to potter along until something more serious puts the car into dock.

IT is to this class that these columns are mainly dedicated. The section "For the Novice" will contain from week to week articles dealing with the mechanism of the automobile similar to those , which may be obtained m bulk m the ordinary motoring textbook; but we think that weekly doses

will be found more acceptable to the ordinary car-owner than the masses of information which are to be found m the usual books on motoring. QUESTIONS of general interest will be welcomed, and should be addressed to "Motoring Notes," c/o "N.Z. Truth."