How To Drive A Motorcar
A Key To The Subtleties Of Motoring
År: 1915
Forlag: Temple Press Ltd.
Sted: London
Udgave: 2
Sider: 138
UDK: 629.113 How
Written and illustrated by the Staff of "The Motor"
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HOW TO DRIVE A MOTORCAR
another way, then, if that other way is an infinitely
safer one, it should be given preference. Let all
motorists, therefore, commence from now to practise
the proper grip for the starting handle. The writer
would exhort all his readers specifically to train them-
selves out of the ordinary bad habit, and see if they
cannot very quickly acquire the correct method for
gripping the starting handle.
How to Grip a Starting Handle
Be it known then by these presents that the right
way to grip the starting handle is as follows :—
Instead of surrounding the handle on the off side by
the fingers, with the thumb on the left (the ordinary
and instinctive grip), move the thumb over to the same
side of the starting handle as the fingers. The grip is
thus between the ball of the thumb and the fingers, the
thumb itself not being of any specific value for the
purpose of gripping the handle.
One has to admit that the grip, as described, is
neither so natural nor so easy—at any rate, just at first ;
but, on the other hand, if one makes a point of
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