Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-09 | Page 35 | Auto Mechanics Take Big Stride Forward

BIG STRiDEJDRWARD Present Booklet Containing Rules for "Checking Up" Your Motor Upkeep. Tho Society of Automobile Mechanics haa juet issued a neat little volume containing con-taining rules and a guide map for a comprehensive record of the upkeep of your car. Few motorists have any Idea of the amount they spend annually on their auto; they know when they have to pay garage bills and bis repair bills, but as to the general expense they are Indifferent and seemingly careless. Now come the mechanius with a suggestion that It will make for more economical and more eano motoring if all motorists would keep an accurate account of what It costs to operate their cars. To make It easy they have devised a guide book (and set the price at ?2. In reference to the new book, the publishers, pub-lishers, the Monroe Press, 225 West Thirty-ninth street. New York City, eay: "Few people realize the amount of time and money that can be saved if they would only take proper care of thoir cars. In this time of need we must learn the meaning of thrift in all tilings. We are constantly confronted with conservation measures In food, coal and other essentials, essen-tials, find the conservation of money is equally important, patriotic and wise. Carelessness in the care of the car la the caust; of more than 50 per cent of the broken-down cars that are in the repair shops in the United States today. Auto-niohilo Auto-niohilo salesmen have impressed their customers with the importance of proper upker-p. Manufacturers have spent large sums of money for technical instruction books pertaining to the construction or their cars, yet the waste goes on. Who Is to blame? "The Blmple fact is that no concise and practical plan has been outlined, for the owner, to enable him to take proper tare of his car, either by himself or through his garage man. To outline in a simple and condensed form o. checking 1 system of upkeep- which will prolong tho usefulness of the car, to reduce the yearly sum expended for its maintenance and promote -a better understanding between owner and repair man, is the mission of thig little book."