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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Oct 18, 1929
Page
5
Practical advice on keeping battery tops clean and protected, jacking cars with wooden blocks, checking cone clutch springs, and replacing valve springs. Tips include using oil cloth covers, taper blocks for undercarriage work, checking torque with calipers, restoring hacksaw blades with an emery wheel, and makeshift fixes for broken valve springs with a spare set in the touring kit.
Prishane, Frank Pearce on Ins W265 Norton set new marks for one mile and a quarter mile on a dirt track at Davies Hark speedway. Pearce ran one mile in 74.15 seconds and quarter mile in 18 seconds while the Norton used Air Weather Tread tires, delivering solid performance.
The three teeth after the nick should be ground away at an angle. Ground teeth remove about three fourths of the first tooth, half of the next, and a quarter of the following one. This prevents the blade from digging in and allows smoother cutting when sawing.
A 1900s technique details flaring copper pipes by softening then using a bent hard nail as a forming tool. A light vise a hand drill and a finishing nail shape bend are used to grip and rotate the softened pipe so the tip flares outward to the desired extent.
Oil leakage from the crankcase is caused by internal pressure and petrol vapour. A copper pipe from the intake manifold to the breather, plus a tight breather cap, draws vapour into the engine, reducing crankcase pressure and fumes.
Willy-Overland introduces the Whippet Commercial Line adding a 14 ton Whippet Six chassis with four speed forward transmission and finger tip control. The new line rounds the 1929 Whippet commercial car program offering power speed reliability and low cost per ton mile for light delivery use.
W R King of Essendon Victoria led 227 riders at Colac in the 100 miles handicap to Melbourne. He won with a 4 hours 46 minutes 49 seconds best time amid head winds, earning the Australian Amateur Road Blue Riband 1929 as 169 riders finished within six hours. The list shows top twenty finishers and their times.
The article notes certain sugar factories owned by Chinese firms in Java are yielding to European control. It attributes this to Chinese capitalists’ reluctance to invest for modernization and to labor shortages and future wage expectations at sugar concerns.
Goodyear shows a 12 foot 4 inch wide all weather balloon tyre weighing about 1 800 pounds mounted on a four foot diameter rim. The giant unit, built in Akron, could cost around £1000 and carries a load capacity of 40 000 to 50 000 pounds. It is displayed behind a specially designed bus on a trailer across the United States.
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