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If your eyes could penetrate cold cylinder walls some wintry morning, when your battery is vainly, trying to turn your engine over sufficiently fast to start it, you would see tears—big, liquid drops of unburned petrol trickling past the piston rings and falling into the crankcase. Your car is crying, in the agony of hard starting. Most pain is an indication that something has gone wrong, that more serious results will happen if it continues. If you allow your car to shed too many of these tears, very serious results will happen to your engine. The remedy is quite simple. Your car has been crying out for the correct grade of winter lubricant. Such a lubricant must be of great fluidity at the coldest temperatures. It must not clog or drag, but must allow the engine to be turned over readily. But that is not everything. It should be a double-range oil. That is, it must maintain its body after the engine has thoroughly warmed up, and even when it is being driven as hard as it can possibly be driven.

That speeds on the road consistent with safety have vastly increased during the last year is evidenced by the fact that the M.G. Car Company who recently have been so successful in the racing field have announced a 12 h.p. model known as the M.G. Magna L

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Southland Times, Issue 22038, 10 June 1933, Page 13

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Untitled Southland Times, Issue 22038, 10 June 1933, Page 13

Untitled Southland Times, Issue 22038, 10 June 1933, Page 13

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