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SAFE LIGHTS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

Glare is Dangerous and Useless.

METHOD OF FOCUSSING.

REAR NUMBER PLATES.

Does Law Compel Lighting?

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 1930.

case referred to the precise point SLOUGH & GROUCH. SIGNAL PUNCTURE, The patent is atted to each hub was ralaed, and the judgment of

the Court was that the objection Sit Straight and Smile. had been ill-founded,

The Lord Chief Justice. held that the term "power of any locul authority, or any other, authority, to make orders with respect to the carrying of lights shall cease could not be held to include the Minister of Transport

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Electric Tell-tale.

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of the car and connected, Nw electrical wiring to an instrument on the dashboard. Provision siss made for movement between the wheels and body and for steering, Tho fitting on the huba.carring a pressure gauge which can be 'ine spected by opening a protecting plate.

Four signals are fastened to tho dashboard-one for each wheel and should the pressure fall in any tyre the signal for that tyre shows. ignition with which the wiring of it, Immediately on switching on the the device is connected..

The tell-tale does not interfere wheel changing takes only 18 seconds. Tonger when the equip Iment la fitted.

Next time a motorist "leans out of his car to curse at you if he

With the latest English device thinks you are in the wrong, don't INTERESTING POINT..

cures back, but sympathise with for fitting to tyres, any drop in him. His bad temper is not caused pressure due to a puncture, leaking Sheriff Dudley Stuart at Cupar

The Sheriff said he was not by a nasty nature, but by pressure valve or blow-out is immediately Glaring lights not only are dan-up one lamp and test each separate.

Sheriff Court recently, issued hin. gerous when they blind or confusely.

instrument King's Bench, but It seemed to incorrect posture.

on the dashboard. other drivers, but they are of lesa Screw the bulb forward as far as judgment regarding an objection bound to any judgment of the on a nerve root due to sitting in an brought to the driver's notice by an

This is the theory of Dr. Arnold black spot will to a charge of failute to illuminate him undesirable to pronounce an

The device is a permanent ditting use to the motorist sitting behind it will go. A

was not in con- H. Kegel, city health commissioner have appear in a ring of light on the the rear identification plate on a opinion which 10 It impossible them. maximum road illumination when wall. Then screw the bulb back

matter of incorrect posture in driv part of the light rays are projected slowly until the black spot just dis-motor car, which was preferred formity with the judgment. His of Chicago (U.S.A.), who says the to all four wheels and is the in

Screw the bulb atillagainst David Johnston Evans, impression was to the contrary ng is of vital importance to motor vention of a Scotch motar engineer (with the inflation of the tyros and into the air at a high distance from appears." the ground. Motorists do not need further back and the black spot bus driver, 68 Peebles Street, effect. Seeing that the statute ists, or at least their tempere and who will market it under the names

and the orders made in it were health.

of Savoltyre. ring of light..Kirkcaldy, aerial beacons on their cars, but reappears In - a

equally applicable in Scotland as "Businessmen, salosmon; and the bulb forward for everybody's safety they do need Finally HC W

The objection of the agent on In England, it would be desirable (others who drive more or less con- again until the spot just disappears, properly focussed lights.

The reflector of a headlamp is a and the lamp is correctly focussed. behalf of the accused was. that that these interpretations should tinuously, should sit straight," he "Continuous sitting in the parabolic curve, and a lamp bulb Results other than these indicate the regulations of 1924, which prevall. If there was to be any say

prescribed that the rear plate judgment not consistent with the wrong position affects circulation, obviously will have all its rays that the bulb is unsuitable,

must be illuminated,

were can view taken by the Court of the digestion, elimination and resist reflected in parallel lines if the

celled by the Rond Transport Act King's Bench, it ought to be pro-ance to infection. A driver who Alament is placed at the focus of

of 1927, and that the Minister of nounced by a higher Court. swears at other motorists and the parabola.

snaps at his passengers, may be He accordingly repelled the quite good tempored in any other Transport had no authority make the amending regulations of 1928, under which the complain objection, and accused's agent trade while, his grouch in a car is jwas made

then tendered a plea of not guilty due to slouching behind the to the charge.

wheel."

If all lights are correctly focuss ed and titled slightly downward there is no need to dim lights, as the rays strike the road and any

rayance.

'Fllament's Purpose.

to

there was no statute under which a motorist was compelled to illuminate his rear Identification plate....

If the Alument is shaped like a Jelier. V the lamp socket should be set with the V in a horizontal pinne. The purpose of the V is to make the beam of the light cover that reach "the eyos of another more road surface. The ton of the The agent's submission was that motorist are ton weak to cause a light beam on the wall should be no higher than the top of the lump on the car. The latest cars have an Cause of Glare.

adjustable bracket for raising or When the filament of the bulb is lowering the light beam, but on

In his judgment Sheriff Dudley too far forward, the light rays the older models it is sometimes

the charge was cross, and diverge, producing a necessary to slightly bend the head- Stuart Bai strong glare from the lower half lamp brackets to get the beim founded upon the order which pro of the. reflector. If the filament down where it belongs, which in

jon the rear plate must is too far back, the late comes about 4 feet high at a distance of (vided that the identification mark from the upper half of the re- 20 feet.

After both lamps have been luminated, and the argument of. flector.

adjusted the lens may he replaced the respondent was "that the can rest assured order was without statutory au and the driver that his lights will not glare, Most thority. The objection was that

powers which were modern cars are equipped with the.

the Minister twin beam headlights. This type ferred upon

The simplest method of focusa- ing headlights is one which was developed by the General Motors Research Laboratoring, and is ex- plained below!--

Bulb Must be Free.

be

con- .of

The question was an interest-

of light works on the same principle Transport under the Roads Act of as the single beam, except that 1920 had been revoked by the there are two filaments in the lamp Road Transport Lighting Act of First, be certain the device for bulb instead of one. When the 1927. moving the bulb Inckward and fo beam is defected, the lower Bla ward in the reflector is free from ment, which is at the focus of the

and properly Jubricated. reflector goes out and the upper ing one, and his first impression Usually this adjuntament is made filament lights up. Then instead was that the objection had sub- by means of a screw, the head of of the rays being parallel and stance, and if his Impression had which is accessible from the wear horizontal, they are inclined down-been borne out in looking into of the headlight. Make certain ward. that the bulbs asid are capable

of adjustment in the lamp to which they are fitted. It is necessary to

Low Beam in Traffic.

the matter the result would have been to dismiss the complaint on the ground that the order founded upon was an order by the Minister

Parallel English Case.

This lower beam should be uned purchase a bulb in an emergency, when driving in trafe, or in Transport, who had no legal the position of the filament with normally lighted city and suburbanuthority to make it. relation to the prongs on the side streets. It provides. ie illumina- of the base is an important as the tion where it is required, im- voltage and candle power.

mediately in front of the car... For Place the car on level ground fast night driving, or on an open about 25 feet from a light coloured rond, the upper beam is the more blank wall and remove the head- useful, as it picks up objects, curves #ght lens unless they of and pedestrians within a safe dis- plain glas. Disconnect or cover lance.

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He had been a report of a case in the King's Bench in Englid, which had been decided by the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Avory, and Mr. Justice Swift. In that

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