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AND WORKSHOP
The G.V.9 Driver's Seat and Controls
A RigoiAIR ,comfort in a passenger 1-1. vehicle. is fine for the fare.-paying load who are at liberty to' relax, but for the long-distance driver comfort must be of a functional kind that will provide. maximum ease -of Control with the minimum of discomfort—not always an easy combination to arrange: As a'rule; however, the , manufacturer . hat Considered the long'and. short of the problem. and the. new end product is-functiOnall y right: Many vehicles today'require adjustable seats, and in the course of time and hard work these seats and frames will wear and relax, the sliding guides will become wide and the mechanism "sloppy ending in a seat that copies every move of the driver. In traffic, where quick but fractional amounts of everything are called for, a worn and loose seat is no help, and can be a definite hindrance to 'accurate control.
For years now in the world of high speed, motor-racing seats in cars or on motorcyCles, are tailored to suit particular drivers, with no place for wear, neglect or misfit—and with speeds now around the mile-a-minute mark in transport, a safe and comfortable seat is essential.
• 'Disregard or neglect of this item can find it quite rightly added to; or even originating, a G."V.9. Similarly, controls are looked at closely for excessive wear, lack of lubrication, floor obstacles, and so on. and no examiner is likely to accept a gear lever that wanders aimlessly around the cab, or where the bonnet side must: be almost moved to engage low gear. With such readily noticeable wear evident, be would almost certainly turn his attention to handbrake lever bushes, springs and triggers, to pedal bushes and even to pedal pad rubbers. This is where many, instances of neglected lubrication are to be found, as all too often the person concerned. with lubricittion will 'religiously couple to all grease nipples but may pay" little heed 1 the many jointg, bushes, sliding pawls triggers, and So on, .fOUliq below the cab floor .arid very Much in line With vvitter
and road debris. „
-In fair comment,not all these 510wmoving' moving but important parts are readily aceesSible, other than by :tising a 'Ong squirt oil can or .syringe, and all too often they are :rnisseck, -Nevertheless, when a vehicle examiner looks underneath a front wing he will not be impressed at the sight of dry and mud-caked handbrake parts, or rusted brake, clutch And accelerator motions, and will no dTubt find what he is looking for—that is. wear and neglect. On the other hand, he may well accept as safe, links, hushes, pins, pawls and the like that, although a little worn, are clean, well lubricated and obviously cared for.