NOTES OF INTEREST

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XX, Issue 269, 1 November 1930, Page 13

NOTES OF INTEREST

Wheu driving over rails or other obstructions across tho road take them diagonally. This lessons tlie jar, ... There are now, it is reported, petrol filling stations at almost every oasis in tho Sahara. * * • it A turntable is built flush with a narrow street in Paris, France, to facilitate tire turning round of motorcars. It is operated by an electric motor. The plan is expected to speed traffic and prevent congestion of vehicles. ... A clogged muffler will cause exhaust fumes to get into tho car. To overcome this condition, tho muffler should either be replaced or cleaned. Shop Foreman; How do you convince a customer that you have thoroughly lubricated his car? Applicant for job; 1 smear a little grease on his steering wheel. Foreman; You’re hired. Start in now. When tho Westshore road, from Napier to Bayview was laid down it was a mistake not to have done it in bitumen. The surface of the road is now breaking up in many places ... Tho strengthening of Farndon Bridge is completed and traffic to Napier via Clive is now restored. The new decking of the bridge is a great improvemerit on the old bumpy surface which had previously to be negotiated.

She was having her first driving lesson. “The hand lever,” said her instructor, “brakes the rear wheels only, and the foot pedal brakes all four. Is that clear?” “I—Yes,” replied the learner doubtfully, “but I’d rather not have any of them broken.” As warmer weather ap;roaches, have the charging rate of year generator changed for summer conditions. W uen batteries overcharge, trouble results. • e • The motor-cycle is essentially a machine for youth, but a Hastings motorist visiting Wellington last week opened wide his eyes with astonishment when, at a steep corner in the city, ho had to give way to a grey bewhiskered patriarch bowling merrily along on a two-wheeler at a pace that would have tested the nerve of a juvenile i+tler. The highest speed ever recorded by a woman motorist has just been achieved at Montlhery, France, by an Englishwoman, Mrs G. M. Stewart. Driving an eight-cylinder frontwheel drive Miller car, she lapped the famous French racing track at just over 130 miles an hour. The fastest speed by a woman at Brooklands was Mrs W. B. Scott’s 120.88 rn.p.h, in September. 1928. Mrs Stewart also captured the five-kilo-metre cycle-car record on her Morgan at 113.52 rn.p.h. This is faster than a three-whcelcd ear had ever been driven, before.

A motor dealer in New York recently offered a wireless get with every second-hand car he sold. It is estimated that 500,000 people witnessed tho 1930 Tourist Trophy race. There was a larger number of cross-Channel and Southern Irish visitors than on the two previous “T.T.” events, whilst local interest is, if anything, keener than ever. Nearly half a million passengers were carried oa tie Belfast trams on race day, the increase over last year’* figures being 15968.