Efficient Car Cleaning
W/HAT must be one of the most efficient car-cleaning establishments in the world has been opened in London. Interesting processes are employed. They are so good that a car is turned out spick span in half an hour, at a charge very much less than we in New Zealand are accustomed to pay.
When a car enters the laundry, it is placed on special jacks and raised to a height suitable for easy working. Men with high-pressure hoses wash away all dust and mud. It is then moved on to two other men, who spray it with soap foam —a Unique process designed to ensure the removal of oil and grease patches. The body is 4 hen dried with compressed air, which is an especially good process, as it removes water from such chromium-plated crevices as are found at the base of hinged quarter windows and ventilating panes. Every motorist krtotvs how quickly rust develops at these points, due to the virtual impossibility of drying them out thoroughly by ordinary methods.
The body is leathered down at the same time, and then body polish is applied in a fine spray by compressed air. The ear is finally polished by electric revolving mops. •
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 3 December 1938, Page 13
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