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Newspaper
Wellington Times
Location
Wellington, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Jun 03, 1926
Page
3
A cautious guide urges motorists to obtain clear quotations before work, inspect cars closely after service, remove portable spares, and ensure engines and radiators are refilled. It warns against handing over control to garages, never admit liability after accidents, and cautions about hand cranking dangers.
Guidance from the Royal Automobile Club stresses warning signs, slow at crossroads, using mirrors, and watching faster traffic. Drivers should not pass on the wrong side, must honk to signal, yield to ascending vehicles, and anticipate children. Emphasizes courtesy, braking control, testing unfamiliar brakes, using lower gear on hills, and avoiding corner cutting on the wrong side.
Doan's Backache Kidney Pills are advertised as a remedy for backache linked to kidney weakness. A Wellington reader testifies the pills relieved severe back pain within hours and later remained effective for years. The ad urges buying from Foster-McClellan Co. in Sydney and warns to get DOAN'S.
An analysis shows 24 452 267 motors and cars globally with 19 843 096 in the USA, marking America as a leader. Last year’s US production reached 3 078 827 cars worth about £500 million, as design shifts toward closed bodies and six cylinder engines. In America 61.5 percent were closed, 38.5 open. fours 80 percent, sixes 20 percent in 1912. Australia follows with growing six cylinder use due to comfort and lower gear changes, price gaps narrowing between fours and sixes. Closed cars gain favor for business use in all weather, with recent contests in the state highlighting their rising popularity. For car brightening, send to J. G. Carveth for quinting at Maughan Street opposite the P.O.
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