JOTTINGS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20127, 21 April 1928, Page 21 (Supplement)

JOTTINGS

A stone panel in a bridge in Dorset which was erected in the reign of George the Fourth bears the following warning: “Any person wilfully ing any part of this county bridge wM be guilty of felony, and upon conviction is liable to be transported for life.”

A clogged hole in the cap on the petrol tank will interfere with the flow of petrol sufficiently to stop the car. Petrol can get out of the tank only if air can got in to take its place. A clogged <ap vent bole is often the cause o* very troublesome and baffling road trouble.

At the automobile show recently held in New York (UKAJ 48 per cent of the cars had wood wheels, 42 per cent wire wheels and .10 per cent, disc; <B6 per cent, of the cars were closed and 14 per cent open; 58 per cent had intornai brakes all round: 25 per cent external brake.-, all round, and the balance some sort of internalexternal combination.

A simple gauge for measuring brake efficiency is now selling in Great Britnin for a few shillings. It is attacfed to th ( » dashboard, but a more expensive model combining a mascot may be fitted on the. radiator or bonnet. The principla Is simple. An inclined tube with a glass sight carries a ball w.hlch rolls up the slopo to a degree which varieti according to the suddenness with which the rar. alowa d-own.