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EYESIGHT TESTS FOR MOTORISTS:

OPINIONS AT THE OPTICAL CONGRESS.

PROPER WHEEL ALIGN= MENT.

IMPORTANT FOR THE TYRES.

Proper wheel aligament is still one of the most important factors "Peoples whey have no ability to conducive to good tyre wear and estimate distances, much less speed, should be watched very closely. It are given driving licences in this is a fact that misalignment has a country" said Dr. L. S. Palmer, tendency to wear the rubber, off a of the College of Technology. Man-balloon tyre somewhat differently chester, in a discussion, at the In- than was experienced in the old ternational Optical Congress at high pressure type. It is more Oxford on eyesight under modern rapid and may be somewhat traffic conditions.

spotty.

“I know someone who is driving

Front wheels, says one expert, a car at this congress who is not should be toed in so that they are approximately one-eighth of an competent to do so.”

Legislation to deal with this inch closer at the front than they are at the back, depending on the matter is sure to come, said Mspecifications of the car manufac J. F. C. Hunt of Bull. It is turer. The reason for having them the business of ontidians to take closer at the front than at the rear the matter in hand

is to compensate for any play that might be which will allow the front wheels in the spindles or in the bearings to spread out when they are in motion.

We ate speeding up, writes the motoring correspondent of the Erening News Engines are bet ter, cars are lighter (in relation to their engine power), tyres are in credibly better, brakes are better and, therefore, a given speed is twice, four times, as safe to-day at hit was 23 years ago. It is however, still difficult to improve upon a 20-m.p.h. average, and the differEvery parson who desires to be come a driver of a motor vehicle ence between 30-m.p.h. and 40: should be compelled to have himself mph. makes all the difference in examined by a specially trained and regard to comfort, due considers quipped optical specialist, and, further, should be re-examined 'at tion for other road-users, and the intervals of three to five years, safety of the fast car's own driver and passengers.

We may say that pace, safe pace, has doubled in 25 years. That is why I am impatient when people { ancer, as they do, at the mentality of the legislators who laid down 90-m.p.h. as the legal limit in 1933.-

In that year the number of men abo could safely drive 2 to 3.tons of motor car at more than m.p.h was very small. In that year 20-m.p.h. was, therefore, a per- fectly reasonable limit. It is the

This was the contention of Dr. Minct director of the German School of Optics, Berlin, in an ad- dress on Eyesight under modern traffic conditions in large citiça.

Glasses Compulsory.

The ideal position, however, for front wheels to be running is exact ly parallel and if they can be spread apart further than a paral: lel position by exerting pressure, an both front wheels by standing be tween them and pushing out, there is too much play and this should be corrected at once because it will wear the tread rubber off in a hurry from the dragging action and at the same time it will cause hard steering and perhaps iimmy.

The number of drivers," he said, "in every large city who on account of their imperfect vision are completely or partially unsuit- able for driving is very high. In

Before making any adjustment certain cases it should be demand-on front wheels, however, be sure that the rims are on true and that ed that the driver should wear, spec 2tacles, not pince-nes, and that they rapid tread wear has not been should be worn continually during caused by some condition "other driving.

than misalignment, Irregularly applied rim and under-infation "Besides these reserve pair will also cause rapid tread" wear should be continually carried,

motorists' own affair that the imit Should a person be the victim of which in balloon tyres has a similar a passing illness he should be disappearance to s tyre that has been qualified as a driver during the run out of alignment. period of the illness.

has not been extended. They have grumbled among themselves instead of making representations in the proper quarter. Being human, motorists always did, always vill, grumble.

The wearing of the prescribed glasses and the carrying a reserve pair might be enforced by making the appropriate entries on the driv ing licence, which the driver should always be compelled to carry with him.

Should it be established through control, accidents, etc., that the driver is not wearing his correct glasses he should be special miniabed for driving without due regard to safely."

Britain And The Grand Prix, We grumble about the foreigner whacking us at this, that, the other sport. Then comes a British Grand Prix race, one of the series constituting those for the cham-ly pionship of the world in 1997, and all we can table are one Alvis and two Thomas Specials! Really, we might as well, tell the world that we have gone out of business, so far as motor racing is concerned, and are content" to 1st France, Italy, and the U.S.A. fight things out among themselves.

What is wrong Is our sport manship losing its pep," or 15 simply that racing does not pay 1 It does, and it does not. It is very expensive, of course. A racing car of one particular English make may easily cost anything up to £10,000,

And there are only three places in motor racing. Even the second and third place are three a penny, in the eyes of most people. Thus, unless a firm is very wealthy and knows it can start with reasdanblé chance of getting at least one of its team home, racing is rather a risky, as well na an expensive, affair.

But then

if it does not pay, why do the Bugatti and De- lage people, in France, the Duesen berg people in America, and the: Fints in Italy, engage in racing? The French and Italian firms sure- ly have no more money than ours have.

The Fruits Of Victory,"

If racing can be made to pay the constructors of other countries it could be made to pay ours, ap- proached in the right way.- British manufacturera must, surely, see that participation in racing con- aritates useful publicity, that it fires the acquisitiveness even of sober old crocks like myself. ⠀⠀

For a foreign ear to win the British. Grand Prix on the eve of Olympia's opening, or to win the 200 mile race of the J.C.C, on the firat Saturday during which the Olympia Show is open, is for the British agents for that foreign car to have a satisfactory exhibition.

Segrave's record speed perform- ance in Florida this year must have cost the Sunbeam Company. anything up to £25,000. How many purchasers of Sunbeam cars. would ever wish to travel at 207 m.p.b. for one second 7 But psycho logy is such that everybody who owns & Sunbeam is rather back- ed" to own a car built by the firm who created Segrave's 1,000-h.p. monster a car so monstrous, so useless except for that our job, that Segrave himself had a very bad quarter of an hour driving it at Brooklands, in the demurek sedatest fashion in which it could | be driven [...

Colour Blindness, mo "When we consider the different tion of trafic Thesis sufficient coloured signale used fir the regula sensitiveness to colour must also demanded of drivers Extremely (Continued on next Column.)

To properly check the alignment be used so that they can be set to of wheels an accurate device should the proper allowance without any guesswork.

of these questions are fairly prevalent among the public.

Steel spectacle frames аге prone to cause skin affectione," said Mr. G. D. Roeser, of the Had- ley Company, Limited, London, in' a paper on modern eyewear, "For metal frames, gold and rolled gold, when properly made, are the only ante protection against corrosion. extended vision is obtained, nee Modern opticians, realising that

large round, eyes, and have virtual- discarded the older form of small oral ones."

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