Motoring Notes
A x-Ew parking light which tills a long felt want is made by the Cooper-Stewart Engineering Co. When a ear has to be parked for any length of time it is most annoying and very detrimental to the batteries to leave side and tail lights on and yet even in a well-lighted parking place police regulations insist, on a white front and a red rear light being shown. This device is fitted on an extending aria to the side of the wind screen. It has a patent joint which allows the arm to he turned Up alongside the screen when not in use and this action automatically switches off the light. The price is very small and the little parking light in no waydetraetX from the appearance of the ear.
Celluloid side screens, as everyone knows who has used them, become a dingy yellow shade in course of time and almost impossible to see through on account of scratches. A good polishing with Brasso will work wonders, curious as it may seem. The screens should be laid Hat on a table with some fairly soft rug or blanket tinder them. Other brass polishes may be just as good, but Brasso is the only one I have tried.
* * * * The compulsory third party insurance scheme at present under consideration will probably only affect commercial vehicles, at any rate to begin with. I7ndoubtedly, however, a time will conic when there will be it law compelling every motorist to be covered for third party risks.
* * * * Such a scheme has been in operation in Massachusetts for some months and it is pending in twenty-three other American States. So far, there has been much grumbling front the motor trade insurance companies in New England and silence on the part of the private motorists, who were probably insured in any case. Owners of fleets of cabs and lorries who used to get low rates of insurance for the whole fleet and who now have to pay the same rates as anyone else have apparently a real grievance.
* The Almagam Mills, of Harpenden, Herts, offer to retread any make of balloon tyre (and a considerable range of high- pressure tyres) free of cost, provided a new tyre is purchased either at the same time or subsequently. Suppose you pay 35s. 9d. for a re-tread. When next ordering a new tyre frOm them, you are entitled to deduct 35s. 9d. from the price of the new tyre. * * *
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