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FORTHCOMING RELIABILITY TRIAL.
Name
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ROAD LIGHT PUZZLES.
Confusing the Motorist.
By Chiltern
In the "News-Chronicle"
There is urgent need for In the lights intended to motorists un tay roads at especially in towna.
WE MOTORISTS.
Can be Our Own Traffic Police.
By Sir Malcolm Campbell
Kent's Good Record Kont has for years past act a goud example to the other counties in road reform matters. In the
days when Sir Henry Maybury was county surveyor, Kent led the iny with the dustlesa rond surface when dust was the bug- bear of all who used the roads or. All the observations I was able lived within half a mile of almala to make during the recent Bank highway. Under the present sur- Holiday week-ond tended to conveyor, Mr. H. T. Chapman, the irm me in the view I have several county maintains ita old-time re- times expressed: that the stand-putation for progress in all road ard of driving by motorists is definitely improving.
Of course, I saw a good many examples of rank bad driving, and suppose there is not a single one of the rules of good road be- haviour that I did not sea broken, but it is satisfactory to be able to say that theso breaches were nothing like as frequent as they were a year ago. I saw only one ense of what I would call really
dangerous driving.
The Press Has Helped This improvement in driving and in road manners is, I firmly velieve, due to the causos I have more taan once discussod in these pages. They are, arst and most important, the growth of what i would call mass road experience, and, secondly, the intensivo pro-
paganua Waich DOS мед cuЛ-
Inatters,
Kentish roads are among tho beat engineered and beat sufaced highways in the country, and the county is intelligently sign-posted, which is more than can be said of there is one small reform that some. In this matter, however, might be effected: the time has
warning all and sundry that it is come to dispense with the notices dangerous to exceed a speed of eight miles an hour through practically every village in East Kont. By all means let there be warning notices, but not theso anachronisms, which were erected, I believe, owing to certain specific circumstances which arose more than twenty years ago!
A properly directed missionary vilort can do much to impress upon all drivers tno necessity of oneufence the recognisea cauanu
Another excellent Ides first put of the nighway, but very muca cun ve uoce by motorists themselves ng of guard fences in black and into practice by him was the paint- Lowards the suppression of the
white bands, and similarly paint- dangerous driver. The motoringing the parapet walls of bridges urganisations should constuer the
where they are narrow or out of alignment. He also was the first to place red flags at both ends of sections where roadmen were at work. Now Mr. Chapman 18 oncaged upon the erection of sign- posts with the arms low enoug.. tn he caslly read at night.
The road user owes a lot to the However, that is by the way.
prescat county surveyor of Kent. uucted against bad and incon-line" and the painting of the It was he who initiated the "white siderate driving by the motoring words "Slow" and association and by the Press,
"Stop" ou whitening of kerbs and marking county highways, and also the them black and white at junctions and cross-ronds.
buity of setting an example taking action in cages of driv- inconsiderately or dangerous-
Prevention is Better- Their scouts must sco many cases in whice some sort of action Before these traffic lights are might be taken, but so far as inm xtensively increased, as proposed ward nesther the .A.. nor the by police authorities, the size, shape.A. have any system which calis of lens and typo should be etan-for reportarof such canca to iardised, as well na the position in made to nesúquarters,
.cat.
If some other counties would take a leaf out of the book of Kent this country would-be a bet- beter and
clation to traffic. By their posi I know they are informed of
Un some road works
gafer place for the
tourist and the traveller,
See To Your Brakes
My correspondent goes on to suggest that it should equally be an offence to use a car with dan
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SPARK TIMING.
New Type Six-Cylinder How It Affects Engin
Fire Engines.
The introduction of two light six-cylinder fire engines of a new
ongines.
Compression.
How.spark timing affecta conè ression is. little understood 5" te average motorist, yet itNTY asily explained.
Since petrol vapour requires acasurable period of time to burm .* is customary to time the spar The two new models are a light in the cylinders to ignite that Are-engine with a pump capable before the pistons reach the of delivering 200/600 gallons per
of their compression - strekk carrying chemical extinguishers.hough gas should start burn minute, and a fast, light tender With the spark properly advanc first-aid equipment, an extension fadder, and other useful zency equipment,
emer-
reformn doubts. The size of the lenses, now guide mostly of 8 inches diameter, is too migat, smail, it seems to die. For modern uy
raille 12-inch lenses would not be In the course of a long tour re-too large when you consider
they. contly in which 1 saw thousands of angle at which so many of them motorists driving to holiday play must be viewed from the driving grounds I spent many hours on the road at night, and I do not think the need for reform of the warning nights has ever been so much im- pressed on me.
During the last three months u departmental committee has been inquiring into traffic lights. Its on seme of the lights are pm- serious accidents which are wit- Licely useless, and they are even laessed by their scouts or in which
A correspondent calls my atten- tion to the fact that during 1931 report-contrary to statementa con stantly being made is not likely to langerous, because they can be he latter have been called upon fines were imposed in 17,771 cases be lu the hands of the Minister of slly missed by careful drivere. to render assistance, but what is
It would be useful, too, if the desirable is not so much to report adequate brakes on motor vehicles. world, especially those who have
for the offence of having in-type will not be without interes until October..
to the many brigados all over the Transport as the result of this Transport Ministry tackled the accidents as to prevent them. I am pleased to know that the for many years used Leyland fire committee's work, a number of uro-question of the warning red lights am not counselling indiscriminate authorities are alive to the nocas posals will be made, but from the used when rond repairs are in pro- prosecution in such cases as migatsity of insisting that all motor point of safety on the road I think gress.
the be reported, but I think cases in- that unless they deal with the light multiplicity of red lamps made it volving real danger and in which brakad.
vehicles should be properly dangers at night their job will be impossible for me to see which was independent witnesses are avail- only half done.
the road left open for vehicles. At able should be so dealt with. Aout a motor vehicle with defective The person who takes or sands others and at two of them I nearly tow prosecutions undertaken by hrakes deserves all he gets at the Confusing Road-lights In my holiday drive I went had an unpleasant experience the he motorists own.organisations hands of the law.
to further compress, ita" unBurir through many towns, and passed lamps were placed in such a mis-
would act as a vory salutary warn-
portion, so that when the pikt" hundreds of jupetions, including leading way that two traffic "lancs"
ing to the habitual roau-nog and
Lart down on their power teok quite a number of the "round-were Indicated, though, actually would go far to convince the non-
The Are engine to mounted with chey do so with greater forde about" type. I was struck by the there was but one atrip of the road
the orthodox type of body, provid-too-much gas starts burning motoring public that the majority
If the apark is too sarlýs unwise permission given for the left open.
10. drivers are not merely paying erously worn tyras. Apart from ing ample acommodaction for hose endency. is for the pitJEN T erection of illuminated signs, other
Refuges na Danger Spots lip-service to the principle of safe being dangerous, it is falte econo- and other apparatus, and fa than road warnings, which made
Another danger arises from the ty
my to endeavour to get the last equipped with the latest type of prevented from reaching th matters so confusing that many
The manner in which abould mila out of a set of tyres. They Roca-Roturbo two-stage pump con- of their compression. times I had to slow down, while at strect refuges in big towns, A
are cheap enough nowadays. and structed of gun metal throughout, this causas pronounced knock other times I had to atop altogether large number of these refuges with like to sea that matter to discover what I was supposed to wide bases and metal poste at their would be somewhat as follows: we got phenomenal mileague from with the exception of the stainless and during cranking sulta
ends are found an streets with All road scouts should be instruct them without reaching the danger steel main spindle. It is driven Jack-fringed lamps of low power. Frequently ad to make a report on cases of point. The wise motorist scraps direct from the goar-box, and can The faster the engine rung? At оло place there wero Illuminated direction
these refuges are in patches of dangerous or inconsiderate drive them the moment there is a doubt.be controlled from the driver's more within limits, the spark "plates,"
Chadow beneath the street lamps,ing coming under their notico, But I cannot agree that it seat. The actual output capacity be advanced with safety in direction arms from posts, "stop" arms with posts illuminated by red and it is surprising that thrre are with the registration number of should be made an offence to use. figures, using no lift and the mini-efficiency. In this way the ign globes, refuges with pinques of ant more crashes at these spots. the offending car. The report worn tyres. If there
mum length of suction hose, ing of the gas charge itself affe The powers of the Committee in-should be accompanied,
if pos-
concoivable standard by which the aro:---
compression, and power. ambor yellow, illuminated adver-
500 g.p.m. at 75 lb. per sq. inch. knowledge la elementaryi leements, and many fairy lamps.quiring Into road signs do not cover aible, by a precis of the evidence border line between safety and
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owners studied its effects To make confusion worse, there the question of street lamps, but it of witness. On this evidence a danger could be determined, I were red lamps guarding carts, would be in the Interests of public letter should be written to, the should agree, but I cannot see how
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would obtain, better performan There are two, suction pipes from thoir cars. rond-making material and road im- safety for the Ministry to make a owner of the car concorned, detail-any satisfactory standard can be
communicating from the pump to provement work. Official warning special investigation Into the preing the circumstances and warn-fixed.・・
the offender that should
Speed Limit Iden
the rear, and a total of 321t, din. tors, and unofficial signs combined et lamps shed too much of their another report be made a prose makes is that all lorries, motored, in four longtha, together with ng sye for hauling a trailer lamps Illuminated bus-stop indieniem this winter. At present our ing
Another suggestion this reader of flexible austion pipes is provid-ful feature is the fitting of a to make a confusing maze of lights Hight into the air rather than on to cation would be begun.
Tho chassis, identical for I believe that action such as coaches, and other vehicles which a shoe strainer. The delivery In which it was difficult to pick out the road. the real signal.
When the Ministry's investiga- this would go vory for towards are still subject to the speed limit pipe has two branches, the ende medble, has many intere The committee ought to make tion of road accidents onde in De- restraining the habitually incor-law should carry on the back of being fitted with instantaneous features, such as a 67 bhp drastic proposals regarding trafic ember I fancy one surprise will saorate driver, because there the vehicle a large, clock-face couplings, the valves employed cylinder engine, with he control lights. A uniform method be the number of accidents which could be no question of anti-spoodometer so that the actual being of the Leyland quick-closing bearing crankshaften. Zinila
reaulted la serious injury and mor prajudire entering into the rate of travel could be soon at a type. The Is cartainly needed.
vacuum liners and valve seater: Dual. motorists doubt loss of life through motor vehicles matter, and the moral effect of glance and, presumably, proceed-gauges, and prossure gauges are and magneto: Ignition le pagy!! Then many whether we have the boat shape of colliding with street refuges AULA a rebuke would be very lugs brought 'in every case, or an located on a panel at the rear ofand cooling is by pump, Zan lens or the best form of lights for which were inadequately Indicat
excess over the legal limit of the vehicle. A separate recipro- still tube radiator; there fa a powerful: the signal lights, and I share those ed by street lamps."
speed.
eating pump, operated by a hand by-pass arrangement fromĄ It may be that the associations
There is no technical difficulty lever, is used to primo, the main main pump, SIN would lorena 'fow members' as a in Installing such an Instrument, pump, The gear box has fouly consequence of taking such action, but it would probably have the The equipment of the tender is speeds, and Incorporates but they would be members that same effect as the old twenty miles comprehensive, and includes, a take-off to the puma the organisation affected could an hour limit had in the case 40-gallon first-aid a tank, – pump, from the-drivi cases or whare the same driver is the private more attention of moslo, two chemical extingul of the true feathe woll do without. Indeed, in bid motorist to concen12012. of hose with hess reel and axle has
do.
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Sixty-two per cent of all Statistics has found that the cone in the United States or on the Cubject of more than one ro- the police, on technical infractionthers, and 38ft extension ind- head worm drive.
by persona port I would advocate cancellation whead law and too little onder.A 50ft. Indder L. available road spood is appro averavo pay for a gasolino atation, with
83000 or. of his membership of the organisasida oranlly dangerous driving at a slight extra charge. A use!pg P employee is $23.89 a we
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