TYKE MILEAGE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 71, Issue 291, 8 December 1928, Page 21 (Supplement)

TYKE MILEAGE

Some motorists do not yet sufficiently realise the necessity for correct inflation of their tyres (says a tyre expert in the Goodyear News). And until the do fully realise this fact, they will not get the maximum mileage from tyres. Under-inflation causes rapid tread wear and fabric breaks, and also magnifies the effects of other forms of misuse. Motorists should always tesr their tyres every week with a reliable air gauge, and inflate them to the minimum pressure for their size or tyre. If the pressure is allowed to drop more than three pounds below that minimum rapid tread wear, fa brie breaks, and other tyre troubles result.

CLASH-FREE STARTER The Bendix starter drive has been replaced in the latest model of an American car by a combination mechanical and electrical control. A handle on the dash is pulled out, and it slides the pinion into engagement with the flywheel. When the handle is pulled to the limit, a switch is operated .-.nd the starter then turns the engine. Clashing is impossible, as the teeth are always meshed before the starter commences to revolve, MODERN WONDERS Successful experiments arc now being made for the production of motor spirit from fish. Spirit suitable for the modern motor engine can be extracted from waste fish by a special process. Excellent motor spirit is also being made from vegetables. So that, with the help of the herring and the had* dock and the common or garden potato, it may bo possible by and by to run a cart on fish and chips. With Shakespeare, it may be said about the ex liaust: “it hath an ancient and fishlike smell,” and obviously a fishtail exhaust would be essential. TRANSPORT TO SCHOOL The city of Glasgow has always been famous for the free education which is available for children. One of those interesting extensions of the education scheme is the arrangement which is made for the conveyance of cripplv children to the various board schools. The education authority of Glasgow owns a number of small buses or am balances capable of seating about 40 children, and these make regular tours for picking up the cripple children at their homes and conveying 'he children to the various schools. A rurse is in charge of each vehicle.