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Show HAVE AN EXPERT ! TEST SPEEDOMETERS Accurate Register of Mileage Mile-age Depends on Occasional Occa-sional Overhauling! This is speedometer repair time, ac-conliuR ac-conliuR to C. M. McDonald, maunder of the service stations of the luter-Moim-tain Electric company, who says that police activity in the matter of violations viola-tions of the speed ordinance has caused ! a sudden longing on the part of auto- ' mobile owners to really know how fast they are going. j 'A good many automotdlists have fixed their own speedometers when a ' part got broken, by buying a new part and putting it iu themselves. As a result, re-sult, some of them travel along at a : thirty-mile pace when their speedometer shows only twenty miles. This is be- : cause Hiey haven 't put in right the new-parts new-parts and have not maintained the j proper ratio in the gears. ' i Another cause for a speedometer's' not registering correctly is lack of lu- brication. If it isn't properly oiled it: gets sluggish and is apt to get the owner iu trouble," continued Mr. McDonald. Mc-Donald. "At our btewart-Warner service station we are, glad to examine the speedometers of .anybody that conies along and determine whether the ratios ra-tios are correct. This can generally be done without removing the instrument, and unless we do have to take it out we make no charge whatever for telling 1 them whether it is all right. ' 1 Automobilists generally," said Mr. McDonald, ' 1 have conceived a deep respect re-spect for the speed laws during the past few days, and a great many owners have decided that it is better to have a new speedometer installed on their car than it is to try to have an old instrument instru-ment which never has given them satisfactory sat-isfactory service fixed up. As a consequence, con-sequence, the Stewart-Warner end of our business is unusually brisk just now. They are a lot cheaper than a couple of days in jail." Mr. McDonald says that in discussing the speed law enforcement with the hundreds hun-dreds of motorists who come to the Inter-Mountain Electric company's store, he has found that they are unanimous in their approval of the determination of the police to punish infractions of the law, and their desire to have dependable de-pendable spedometers is due to their determination not to over-speed, even inadvertently. |