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HOW TYRES TELL. Jections is worn round and the will be feathered. If the toe-in is the others, causing the tyre on opposite edge is fringed, this has not sufficient or is negative, the that wheel to wear too fast. It been caused by the tyre's sliding wear is opposite, with rounded is not necessary for a tyre to slide When the brake is Reveal Driving Faults and is the result of edges on the inner side. Rapid to wear.
wheel misalignment.
tyre wear is the principal result applied even moderately the wheel A tyre is slowed down and a resistance is Front wheels of most automo. of wheel misalignment. biles are toed in, the amount can be worn out in 200 miles or set up between the tyre surface HELPFUL FACTS.
depending on the type of wheel, less of driving if the alignment is and the road. This causes little not correct and rigid. Wheels pieces of rubber to be torn from Automobile tyres are much like axle and the like. That is, the should be realigued every three the tread. On cars having four-
with Are mis- measured distance between the
months.
normal driving. wheel brakes wear caused by behaving they frequently can be two front wheel tyres is less in Accidents, rough roads, striking brake dray usually is even around
criminals.
If they
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MARTHA'S LUCK.
Claimed in Time
MARRIAGE STOPS DAMAGES.
EASY STARTINGA
A Healthy Ignition.
KEEP PLUGS CLEAN.
enough fit in their guides to pre- vent air being drawn past them instead of through the carburettor. Secondly, all suction must be
Because there is no legal tie be-Primarily good petrol must be used because before the engine can tween fances unless a breach of start there must be an easily ignit promise action looms, Martha Ash- The Government of South Aus-on, of London, was able to sue able vapour of air and petrol in the caught through a study of their front of the axle than back of it of wheels against curbs, and the circumference of the tyre, tralia. finding that the term successfully her fiance for $1350 cylinders. There are many other
The difference generally is from similar incidents will destroy "Anker-printa," although
zero ta one-eighth inch.
Sometimes the driver finds that motor taxation" is not popular damages as compensation for loss! factors. There must be sufficient alignment. "criminal" la nearly always the near
one of his tyres is wearing in one has decided in future to discard it of an eye by an accident in his car suction, set up by the pistons, te The purpose of the toe-in is to driver and not the tyre.
bring the tyres' parallel when the If front wheel tyres are wearing or two spots and that the wear
in favour of motor registration Martha acted just in time, or the draw in air-petrol vapour from the A tyre's fingerprint is its track car is in motion. They normally faster on one side of the tread is rapid. This indicates an egg-
accident happened at a propitious jet and carburettor. To achieve in the mud, snow or other surface have a tendency to move outward. than on the other and that wear is shaped brake drum, or one that over which it rolls. Because of If the toe-in is too little or too uneven, the camber the angles has a high spot on it. Truing the
After a loss of £14,000,000 in moment for her, because if she had this the pistons and their ringa the large size of tread details it great, one or both of the tyres will at which the wheels are tilted-is drum in a lathe is the recommend-1928, the Ford Motor Company has lost the eye after marriage she could must be a reasonably good fit ta not have brought the action- As the cylinders, the exhaust valves usually is easier to study the tyre be subjected to a dragging or faulty. Normally the tilt is such ed remedy.
If an examination shows that the minds a pront of approximately compensation, it might be said that must be properly closed, and tha surface itself rather than the sliding action which rapidly wears that the king pin points approxi-
like a "come back." track A tyre's most revealing away the trend.
tled, thep. This can be mantely to the centre of the tyre tyres are all wearing out more 0 in 1929. Something she would have her husband safely inlet valve stems must be a good evidence. Is tread wear. If detected by examining the tyre when the latter is inflated to the rapidly than should be expected
The results of the first two view of the matrimonial situation, That, apparently, is the legal examination of the front tyre surface closely, If the toe-in is correct pressure, although the the criminal is usually the driver. shows the tread worn sideways too great, tread projections will tendency among manufacturers If an owner analyzes his driving Across the surface of the caslag) be worn so that the outer edges recently is to use less camber he may discover that he likes to months of 1930 tend to confirm the for a disfigurement before mar directed to the carburettor, as aby while one edge of the tread pro-are rounded, while the inner edges The camber should be checked if be the first to get under way when estimate that this year's produc ringe might ruln the lady's chances leakage has, a serious effect on easy wear seems too rapid. Reversing the traffic light signals "go," that tion of motor vehicles will decline
tions been reversed, the man could wide there is not sufficient suction tyres every few thousand miles he takes turns at a fast rate of 25 per cent compared with the of becoming a wife. Had the posi- starting. If the throttle is opened
speed, races along straight record output of 1929.
have sued Martha before marriage, on the jet to draw up the petrol in offsets the effects of camber wear,
but not after.
the quantity necessary to provide and obtains maximum service from stretches and stops at the last
possible. moment. All these A motor dealer has had to pay
Probably, an insurance company an Ignitable mixture. The engine (them.
things cause tyres to wear out for the somewhat unusual paid the bill, so that the young man must be rotated fast enough to An automobile is a four-fingered quickly. but there several offence of altering a registration obtained a disfigured wife plus create the necessary auction. animal, and so there are four others equally bad. They include book so as to make the machine £1350, instead of an unblemished
on "younger than it really was.
Finally, the ignition must be fingerprints to inspect. If, on high temperatures, driving
helpmate without a dowry.
healthy, a good supply of current comparing all four prints, it is gravel, crushed stone, slag, broken
In law, marriage seems to be a found that one tyre is rapidly hard surface road or hilly and The "Methodist Recorder" is stronger tie than blood. Husbands to the plugs is vital, and the plugs themselves must be reasonably Yosing its ability to make tracks, stony dirt roads. While some of the latest to fall to the lure of and wives can claim domestic im- clean, their gaps also adjusted to brakes should be examined. One this wear is to be expected, much those imaginary Japanese rules of munity from each other from ac- the setting laid down by the of them probably is tighter than can be avoided by careful driving. the road which were published in tions for damages caused by motor
1918. This time they "have been accidents, but parents may sue their makers. prepared by the Tokyo police with children and children may choke whereby an extra rich mix
Most cars have some form of commendable thoughtfulness."
their parents. Grandparents and grandchildren also, are at liberty ture can be made, and it is pos- A prize of $100 was offered by to engage in such legal quarrels: sible to overdo their use and so Sir Robert Hadfield in his addréss Husband and wife are regarded get such a lot of petrol vapour into to the shareholders of Hadfields, by the law as being one person, and the cylinders that ignition cannot Ltd., the Sheffield. steel and eng- a person cannot sue himself. Child- take place until further air has ineering firm, for the production ren are individuals who are not been introduced.
It is not generally appreciated of a British car head lamp of bound by any such tie. They can efficiency equal to or greater than not injure their parents nor each that alr-petrol vapour is only that of the best foreign make. other with impunity to the Inaur ignitable over a very small range ance companies, but if an Irate hus- of proportions and that a petrol Interesting facts concerning the band empties a back-seat driving engine will only work over a range number of cars registered in wife from his car by running it into of 8 to 20 parts of air to one of Spain during January, 1930, are a post, insurance assessors do not, petrol by weight.
Outside this raugo a start can- to hand. The Ford would ap- need to worry about the bill for
not be made, and that is why, if pear to have been the most popular personal damages.
the choke or strangler has been vehicle, 335 garsof this makel
to beat the mis-used, the engine has to be having been registered during the This figure is said period in question, while the existing record for the run by no rotated for so long before it will Chevrolet occupied second place fewer than 66 m.p.g, and it is fire again-in other words, air has with 175, Citroen third with 173, believed that never before has set to be pumped through until the and Fiat fourth with 140. The great a mileage been covered by af mixture strength becomes correct highest figure for an English car motor cycle on a gallon of petrol. again.
The right petrol fa vital to easy A net pront of £201,706 2s. 6d. starting. However perfect the me shows that Rolls-Royce, Ltd., did chanical conditions, the petrol must for, say, three or six months Even the mouths of: h.p. car remarkably well for the fourteen be volatile and vaporize readily at can buy one on the definite under-owners must water at the ex-months ended December 31st, all temperatures, standing that it will be taken off traordinary story of petrol con- 1929. It was decided to pay a their hands at a pre-arranged sumption told in the "Motor dividend of 8 per cent. per annum
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CHEVROLET.
The Position of General Motors, Ltd.,
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Few of the thousands of over-jand every sort of driver. On the acas visitors who visit Britain are other hand, if he buys a car able to bring their cars with them.without previously making ar
rangements for selling it again he Ardent motorists at home, they wi
almost certainly waste would naturally prefer a motoring precious time in efforts to dispose holiday, but, rather than face the of it, which he will probably only expense nad inconvenience of succeed in doing at a heavy loss. either hiring a car.or of buying it is to help such temporary and selling one, many prefer to motorists that several of the bigger distributors have evolved remain without one altogether.
guaranteed repurchase schemes 13. Hiring a car generally costs whereby those who want a car mach too much for the man of average means. Furthermore, he has either to suffer the company of a chauffeur wherever he goes or else be content with which has been handled by any
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was in the case of the Austin, withi
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TAX FIGURES.. a car they are fully entitled to accept a test organized by the Natal M.C.C. cent. per annum, to transfer
better offer elsewhere. Among from Durban, to Maritzburg and £105,000 to reserve funds and to Motorists spent more than $930,- such firms Rootes, Ltd., occupy a back. D. Donaldson, riding a 300 carry forward £66,076; the carry-000,000 for motor vehicle taxes high place both on account of the c...JAP-engined O.K.-Supreme, forward available from the results during 1929, according to the Na facilities they offer the would-be
is stated to have used, petrol at of the previous year amounted to tional Automobile Chamber of purchaser, and also on account of the rate of 367 miles to the gallon.) £64,686.
Commerce. the service they can provide after a sale is made.
They are in the first place the largest distributors and exporters of British cars, and can, therefore, offer a very wide range of makes and models Secondly, their terms are extremely generous, They guarantee repurchase at 70 per cent, of the then ruling catalogue price after three months use, or 66 per cent. after six months. Such terms it would be difficult to equal, much less better, in the open market, and then probably only after 'protracted negotiations. Even when all charges, such as registration, insurance, licence, and so forth are included, the net weekly cost is less than that of hiring, while, of course, the buyer enjoys all the advantages of definite ownership.
Last, but by no means least, comes the all-important question of. service. Between the Lakes; and the South Coast of England, Rootes possess eight fully equip Red service stations, while there are in addition no fewer than 200 service agencies. Agencies, too, have been established all over the Continent.
At no time is the delay involved in repairs or adjustments so gall- ling as when one is on holiday. But not even the best regulated car can be guaranteed faultless. To reduce these delays to a mini- mum, therefore, it is essential that service shall always be within easy reich, and this, with. their eight depots and their 200 agencies, Rootes are fully able to guarantee. Furthermore, at any of these eight depots cars will be inspected free every month so that trouble may be forestalled.
So much for touring in England, Many an owner, however, is loath to part with his car at the end of his stay. Should he decide to take it back with him, he will discover yet another reason why it is worth while dealing with a firm with world-wide ramifications, for this ⚫firm will pack, ship and deliver his car without any further trouble on his part..
ASKS SPEED LAW.
Since the: 40-mile speed limit on Indiana roads was lifted; accidenta on rural roads increased 60 per cent, according to R. L. Humes, chief of the state police départ ment. He advises the setting of s 60-mile limit to cut this accident Increase.
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