SPEEDING THROUGH

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 260, 24 January 1928, Page 6

SPEEDING THROUGH

“What is your car, a five-passenger?” “Yes, but I can get eight in it if they are well acquainted.” Nervous Wife (to reckless driver): “Oh—oh —Jin#—don’t go any faster!” Jim: “I can’t.” A garage in Hamburg, Germany, has a capacity of 450 cars, each of which i 3 stored in a separate compartment with practically air-tight doors. * * * “I waved and she saw me, but she didn’t stop,” said a policeman, giving evidence against a fair motorist. Evidently she wasn’t that sort of girl. Canada constructed nearly 6,000 miles of new roads in 1926. The 1927 programme shows signs of equalling this. Expenditure is expected to reach £9,000,000.

A “motor hotel” of the skyscraper variety, 29 storeys high, and affording accommodation for 1,050 cars, will be erected in New York. Plans include a modern automobile laundry,, space where drivers can make minor repairs, a large room for chauffeurs, and waiting rooms. • * • Owning a motor-car in China is distinctly a luxury. Licence fees in one city cost £7 10s a month, and when petrol is cheap it is 6s a gallon. A jaunt off the main thoroughfare requires the services of at least four attendants. France is experimenting with heavy iron plates, as thick as those used to build battleship hulls, to see whether iron will help to solve the problem of keeping paved roads in condition under the strain of growing motor traffic. The plates are riveted to a concrete base. * * * Friend (doubtingly) : “Do you mean to tell me that you drove across a ploughed field at 50 miles an hour?” Motor-cyclist (significantly).; “If you don’t believe me, ask my mother-in-law—she was in the side-car,”

The automobile salesman chooses a wife:— Speedy; latest model; smart, stylish new body lines; brilliant colour finish; quiet, free from squeaks and chatter; low maintenance cost; dependable; easy to handle in traffic; small monthly payjnents. The motorist’s small son, seated for the first time in the dentist's chair, was asked how he came to break his tooth. “It happened when I was changing gear on a bull's eye,” he answered. * * • Don't get angry because the man you ran over failed to apologise. Remember he may be a gentleman, but for the nonce too rattled to think of an apology. * ♦ * When out of petrol- don’t stop, but hurry right on to the nearest garage. This will save delay. • * * Remember that “running on the low” refers to the mechanism of your car, and has nothing to do with the financial side.