1950-05-27 — Page 11

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1950.

Hints on how to

by

BASIL CARDEW

buy a second-hand car

L

YOU CAN'T DO IT Without GETTING YOUR HANDS DIRTY

IL

the

OOK at the news flashes 1-tting doors; ranging of the

of the last month -

to drive enough would-be motorist off his head.

"Fewer new cars for the home year I won't turke; this

car for a bit. vet my no "More petrol for pleasure"-new I must get that rar. "Petrol up 9d, a gallon"--10 blazes with mujoring! And now "Fores must

י

why at

If neither is working properly then there will be trouble with the electrical system.

You can make only half-

'No, thank you!" hearted test of the brakes

HERE are one or two other by delving at 30 miles an hour

worn.

C1

Any more play shows undur whale body; the bannet won't ya on the transmission. shut down properly; the whole car appears to have a pot-belly. POINT THREE Body ent- roded body panels, Indications; signs you should note be- ud putting your foot on the The panels must

your pocket. For instance: eft or right the brake luings edges where they join the wings fere taking your money out of pedal. If the ear pulls to the and the Rude of the door open there are more than three or and even the brake drums may Outwardly pitted or feur inches play on the steering be worn. # you have to put in-

down on the bltered palatwork is 'n warn wheel, then the front axle and your foot hard ing.

with corroded Shering pear are bound to be pedal before anything happens, Main danner

If you

turn the fer the brakes are fully. Transport Com- body panels is when the fate wheel half-way round without Pay

Take off Wheels front arul body are made in one. Then

feeling the

pull of the cerrosion can cause the breaths, then the ear is dangerous. JOHN Kinery, chief engineer of

the springs and axles. Look at

a notoring organisation which the tyres. Uneura up of

tyres is an examines cars, told me that he Soch a rar enn fall to pieces at war in the front any time.

Indication that the front axle is wouldn't buy a secondhand car for out of true, and the car may without removing di wheels to by have buil Did crash. Say "No, examine the brake drums and

Thank you!

Jinings to make quite sure. When the battery is heavily

Mo second- Let's face it. with a whitish-green hand cars

the road today ulidae substance you can take have run their allotted spin, Sa it that it mord. to be renewed. be enreful how you buy. Or in Ty the lights and foods to the cl it may be cheaper and that the dynamo is changingt on The ammeter judges

mission."

That was yesterday's new

thousands of homes the Ti 44 P-or-nu-ray debate opens again in time for Whitsun. If it can't be a new car just yet. what about a zecond-hand fab?

POINT FOUR: Watch engine wear, usually shown

SIX BANGLE SPOIN: 4 Blue "moke from the exhaust ↑ 2. Damaged rear axle 2★ J, Badly erraded body panels T 1. Fractured chassis frante? 5. Broken springs? and 6, Cracked

The SOLAR ONE'S

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I hurt, The maalify.

"I am not would produce a son whom he [collaboration took the form of vert much moved," he said, could make his heir.

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nove The Rainbow to be nething for William to do but [FF well. destroyed, "I only curse them go on having neuralem and for ave Wages. Fick Tn there will be no fear of the all, body and soul, root, branch Emily who has been toying with welf #1 the door. Which red leaf, to eternal danimation." the fleas of madness, to get her-

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