INEXPERIENCE
LOSS OF POWER DUE TO SIMPLE CAUSES. How one learns to hate the inexperienced owner who expects his veteran acquaintances to dogmatise on the spur of the moment about a fractional loss of power in a fairly new engine. You take the car on the road, probably without quite knowing what its typical performance should be; it strikes you as a trifle woolly, but there are no symptoms to guiid'C you. You stop it on a level patch, and see if you can push it one handed with everything in neutral. In nearly every case the cause turns out to be either plugs which are sparking high up inside their shells inst ad of across the points; or one or more broken valve springs, and arc also much more common than when a single substantial spring was used.
In a recent noise prosecution case a police witness had to admit that a local constable rode a machine similar in every respect to that used by the defendant. The superintendent remarked, rather grimly: “I will look at his machine myself.” The case was dismissed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 9 (Supplement)
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184INEXPERIENCE Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20168, 9 June 1928, Page 9 (Supplement)
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