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SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1928.

BUYING A SECOND-HAND CAR.

The Stethoscope Test to Detect Faults and

Others.

·EASTER TRAFFIC.

Census by A.A.

EFFECT OF HIGH TAX.

The census of road traffic always Let there be no prejudices your own investigations." First taken by the Automobile Associa against the buying of a second-comes the appearance of the car. tion during the Bank Holidays hand car. To be sure, it can be You know, or should know by this shows that, during the five days of an adventurous business, and one time, the year of manufacture; in the Easter holidays, 248,810 mem- highly speculative in other than athis light appearance is some elus bers received assistance in various financial way, but if rightly gone to the usage the car has received. about it can bring motoring and Tyres do not tell much; they may ways from the A.A. Road Patrols. car ownership down to a level be the original set, or they may

287,086. enquiries concerning road really économical, It is the be the second or third set. Information were dealt with. The cheapest introduction to motoring: More particularly, and more

Patrols obtained running supplies, to the newcomer, who to-day is]

Buch petrol, oil, water, the man with limited means, and it important, is to detect as well as

tubes and other small affords the experienced small-car you may the wear and tear of the covers, man an opportunity of acquiring a and the power of the ongine. In while 4,900 members were assisted working parts of the machinery accessories for. 1,818 mombers, car of high class, of a quality that this latter connexion you will need, in connexion with roadside break- will endure for a generation, at a

n road test, and in the course of price within his reach..

that test you will put the car at There are snage in the way, and a hill you know well. When In addition, a large number of because of this the second-hand making this particular trial don't members were assisted by the Em-] car business has not the sweetest fall into the mistake that even ergency Twenty-four hour Service of reputations, but none the lesa trade representativos make. It is possible to acquiro a real.

maintained at the London A.A. sound machine at a bargain figure:

The accepted thing is to see Headquarters (open day and

tion. One reason

downa,

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and to get years of satisfactory what hills a ear can climb on top night). work out of it.

gear, and usually this means put- The two chief ting it at the gradient at a good reasons why used cars come on rate of engine revolutions. This comparison with Easter last year, It is interesting to note that by to the market support this proposi-

is financial is not the best test. If the robust these figures indicate that fewer stringency, and down this avenue,nes and the responsiveness of the motorists used their vehicles during in the main, come the quality cars,

engine are to be learned, the way the possession, of which is a real to go about it is to see how slowly the recent holiday.

It will climb the hill on top gear, The contributing causes to thle if at ally If it does well on a hill, decrease may either be the bad; The other reason is that the if it displays sturdiness, it will weather which prevalled up, to

joy.

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All advertising to be inserted in this Mótor Supplement, must be delivered not later than 2 p.m. on the the Wednesday of week of publication.

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Prices from the Sole Agents,

original owner is following that be all right on levels and on the wants or it continued effect of KELLER, KERN & Co., Ltd.

well-worn track which leada a motorist to get rid of his car in order to buy one of higher power and with more refinements.

Not. Worn Out.

undulating surfaces.

A Stethoscope Examination.

There must be tests for wear of pistons, gears, and back axle. Not always can these be detected As machines the cars thus offer-when on the road. A good way ed are far from being worn out is to make for yourself an im- They will bear external signs of provised stethoscope. Cut a piece usure, they will be out of date in of wood about, eighteen inches respect of small detail matters, but long, and up to an inch in thick ng vehicles they are still road-ness. An old broomstick will worthy and good. There are serve very well. Start the engine, qualifications to these statements,put one end of the atethoscope to. and these will be dealt with. But each cylinder in turn, your car at first let us rid ourselves of the the other.. Get someone to operate prejudice against used cars. the accelerator pedal, and listen

The chief qualification bearing closely to each cylinder as the apon the condition of a used car engine is raced up and dropped is the personality of its late owner.

down. The more you hear, the The more you can learn about him worse the condition of the engine. as a motorist, the more you will Test the clutch the same way by know about the car he wishes to placing the stethoscope on the dispose of, or, by process of part clutch cover. Then the gearbox, exchange for a new car, has and lastly the rear axle. Open up already disposed of. If he was a the gearbox and examine the good driver and took care of his teeth. Then turn to the wheels. ear, then, taking into account also Jack up each wheel and try for the date of manufacture, you may play on the axle. Get some one, arrive at a fair estimate of its to drive the car at quickly vary roadworthiness..

fng speeda along the road whilst

are

An alternative method is to you watch the wheels for wobble. learn, if possible, how many times, You will, of course, try the and for what reasons, the car has brakes; don't forget to note how been in for repairs. Here the much of the adjustment has been methods puraued by some makers taken up. If the adjustment in up atrikingly useful. These almost to the full, new brake makers produce high-grade Hnings, will soon be needed. The machines, and have their own steering wheel should be tried for depots up and down the country. any play, and application of the grease gun at one or two points To one or other of these depots should tell you, by the colour of the wise owner turns whenever his the old grense squeezed out, car needs seeing to, and every time whether this essential business it enters the doors the date of its has been well attended to or only visit, the reason for it, everything intermittently..

that is done to It is booked down. Here in black and white, is the car's history, and a useful one to know when you contemplate| acquiring it..

A Turn at the Wheel,

A good turn at the wheel will

tell you ́not only something of the car's behaviour, but how you and If the manufacturing industry the machine are going to mergei as a whole could so organise its identities, which is an important. arrangements, could keep such matter.

record, then there would be a All these things take time, but brisker business in second-hand it is worth all the trouble you take. cara, Lacking this, it is still They also demand some knowledge worth while knowing, if the in- of cars, and this knowledge in not formation can be obtained, that yet general. For those who have the car was lately the property of neither time nor knowledge and Mr. So-and-so, and getting to know who seek entry to motoring by something of his reputation as a means of a second-hand car there driver.

is another and quite a good way; it is to buy a used car from a

At least it should be possible

to learn from whom he bought it, reputable firm of dealers who and as after-sales service is now make a practice of overhauling an established thing with all fieme and offering them as sound and machines taken in part exchange of repute, and as most men turn

in ears for attention to the firm roadworthy under a short guuran- from whom they bought it, they

tee. This is a practice which is should be willing to supply a list growing, and to the novice it opens of all the things they have done ship. Such firms are ready to tell reasonably safe way to owner-

to it.

Appearances Often Deceptive.

You

all they know about the car, Its previous ownership, date of manu- facture, and the file, and their "On these lines there is some assurance that the overhaul hoa need for organisation among the brought the car up fo mechanical distributors; it will help them con- soundness can be accepted. siderably in disposing of cars they miss much of the fun of trying have taken in part exchange for out things for yourself, but lack- ing the necessary knowledge it is Information of this kind is not better, safer and, more economical in itself sufficient, but it is valu-to bank on the reputation of the able as a basis on which to start}firm.

new ones,

THORNYCROFT ·

SALES.

Repeat orders for various types of Thorycroft vehicles have been placed recently by other large usera, and amongst orders of interest from overseas are two 8/5 ton rigid

traflers for the Córdoba Centrali Railway,

Many Repeat. Orders. six-wheeled chassis with three-ton

OVERSEAS INCREASE.

The figures recently published summarising the registrations of An extension of the Southern commercial motor vehicles in Vic- Railway Company's motor road ser- torla, Australia have divulged the vices is indicated by a repeat order interesting fact that Thorycrofts they have recently placed with John are the only British make showing I. Thornycroft & Co., Ltd., for a progressive increases for: 1926-7 further 19 two-ton lorries:

and 8.

high taxation.

'BUSES PREFERRED.

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