FORGETFUL OWNERS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20277, 11 April 1934, Page 11

FORGETFUL OWNERS.

Careless Habits May Cause Injuries.

** I have herd seyd, eek tyrnes twyes twelve. ‘ He is a fool that wol foryete himselve,” sang Chaucer, and so on occasions we must i lost of us confess to being fools, states the- “ Autocar.” Surely every motorist on the roads must be well aware of the danger of an exposed flame near petrol, yet every now and then a case is reported of someone who has struck a match to enable him to peer into the fuel tankAgain, all must realise that when the water in the cooling system is suspected of boiling it is the height of folly to remove the radiator cap suddenly. Yet only recently a well-known gentleman, noticing that his car was unusually hot, unscrewed the cap and was greeted by a fountain of boiling water which spouted up into his face. Exhaust fumes, too, are notoriously dangerous, but many of us have occasionally pottered about the garage for a minute or so after starting the engine without opening the doors sufficiently wide to eliminate all possibility of the gases giving us a headache, if nothing worse. Experienced mechanics occasionally make this mistake, and have even died as a result ol their carelessness. It is well for each to resolve not to “ foryete himselve ” in the elementary matters, at ; any rate, connected with the use of a