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PART II.
1. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3 of this Part of this Schedale every direction indicator fitted to a vehicle in compliance with this Part of this Schedule shall be in the form of a lamp which, when in operation, shows a dashing light visible at a reasonable distance from both the front and the rear of the vehicle.
2. Every auch indicator shall be so designed and fitted that- (a) it is not more than six feet behind the base of the windscreen; (&) both the minimum illuminated area showing to the front and the
minimum illuminated area showing to the rear shall-
(1) be not less than three and a half aquare inches in extent in the case of a vehicle the unladen weight of which does not exceed two tons, or of a vehicle constructed or adapted solely for the carriage of not more than seven passengers, exclusive of the driver, and their effects:
Provided in either case that the vehicle is not being used, except in a case of emergency, to draw a trailer other than one with less than four wheels or a four-wheeled trailler having two close-coupled wheels on each side;
(1) be not less than twelve sqasze inches in extent in say other
case.
(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-paragraph (2) of this paragraph, in lieu of a direction indicator in respect of which the provisions of paragrapha 1 and 2 of this Part of this Schedule are complied witb. two indicators may be fitted to any side of a vehicle and shall be so designed and åtted that-
(a) neither of the indicators on either side of the vehicle shall be capable of operating unless the other indicator on that aide operates coincidentally with it;
(b) when in operation one of the indicators on one side shall show a flashing light visible from a reasonable distance to the front of the vehicle and the other indicator on that side shall, except when a trailer is being drawn, show a flashing light visible from a reasonable distance to the rear of the vehicle;
(e) every such indicator shall be so placed that the centre of its illuminated area is not more than sixteen inches nearer to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle than in the outermost part of the vehicle which is comprised in the overall width of the vehicle on the side on which the indicator is place):
Provided that in the case of an omnibus having combined rear and side entrances the near eide indicator showing a drabing light to the rear of the vehicle may be so placed that the centre of its illuminated area is not more than thirty inches nearer to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle than the said autermost part of the vehicle; and
(d) the minimum illuminated area showing to the front or the rear as the case may be shall be that prescribed in paragraph 2 of this Part of this Schedule.
(2) Whilst a vehicle is drawing a trailer the preceding provisions of this paragraph shall have offset subject to the following modifications- (a) there shall be carried on either alde of the trailer an indicator
so designed and fitted that either-
1. when in operation it complies with the requirements of paragraph 1 of Part I of this Scbedule, and the illuminated surface is visible at a reasonable distance to the rear of the vehicle; or
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II. (1) when in operation It shows a dashing light visible from a reasonable distance to the rear of the trailer: (1) it is not capable of operating otherwise than coinciden- tally with the indicator or indicators on the drawing vehicle visible to the front on the same side;
(i) the minimum illuminated area is not less than three and a half aquare inches if the trailer to which it is fitted has less than four wheels or is a four-wheeled trailer having two close-coupled wheels on each side and not less than twelve square inches in any other case; and (iv) the centre of the illuminated area is not more than. sixteen inches nearer to the longitudinal axis of the vehicle than in the outermost part of the trailer on the said side; and
(b) it shall not be necessary for an Indicator showing a flashing light to the rear to be carried on either side of the vehicle but each Indicator thereon showing a flashing light to the front shall be BO adapted as to be incapable of operating otherwise than coincidentally with the indicator on the trailer showing to the rear on the same side.
This sub-paragraph shall not apply where the trailer or the rearmost trailer as the case may be is of an unladen weight not exceeding two hundredweight or was constructed before 1st January, 1956, or is a broken down motor vehicle being drawn in consequence of the breakdown.
4. (1) Save as provided in sub-parograph (2) of this paragraph a direction indicator fitted in compliance with this Part of this Schedule and showing a flashing light to the front shall not be combined with nor obscure any lamp showing to the front a white light being a lamp required to be carried by or under say enactment,
(2) In the case of a vehicle on either side of which two direction indicators are fitted in accordance with paragraph 3 an indicator showing a dashing light to the front may be combined with an electric lamp abowing a white light to the front being a lamp required to be carried by or under any enactment provided that--
(a) the power of the lamp does not exceed seven watts; and
(b) the Indicator is fitted with a separate electric circuit and either a
separale electric bulb or a separate electric filament
5. The total power of the bulb or bulbs illuminating any indicator carried in compliance with this Part of this Schedule shall be not less than fifteen waits and not more than thirty-six watts.
6. Where a vehicle is equipped on any side with direction indicators in respect of which the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Part of this Schedule are complied with, an additional indicator may be carried on the side at the rear of the vehicle provided that any such indicator complies with the provisions of paragraph 3 of Part 1 of this Schedule.
7. Every direction indicator shall be at a height of not more than seven feet six inches nor less than one foot five inches above the level of the ground:
Provided that a direction indicator fitted to any side of an omnibus in accordance with the provisions of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Part of thle Schedule may be fitted at a height of not more than eight feet six inches above the level of the ground if on the same side of the vehicle and at a height of not more than six feet six inches above the level of the ground there is also fitted an additional direction indicator which complice with the provisions of paragraph of this Part of this Schedule,
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