More Safety Devices In Vehicles Required

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31007, 12 March 1966, Page 21

More Safety Devices In Vehicles Required

CV.Z.P.4.-Reuter— Copyright) WASHINGTON, March 9. The United States Government yesterday announced it would require more safety features on automobiles, trucks and buses it bought, starting from 1968, the Associated Press reported. The new standards require: Seat backs to be padded on school buses and other vehicles: recessed or relocated window and door controls; shielded ash trays and lighters and padded arm rests; front seat head rests for protection from whiplash injuries: marker lamps on the sides of vehicles and de-

foggers for rear windows; roll bars for light trucks and utility-type vehicles with soft tops, and non-rupturing fuel tanks.

Seat Belt Anchorages The General Services Administration also proposed revisions of many of the safety standards adopted last year. Among the revisions are that school buses have seat belt anchorages. Changes would be made in the requirements regarding recessed instrument panels. The collapsible steering column would have to withstand collisions of up to 30 miles an hour as compared with a present requirement of 20 miles an hour. Other items affected by the new safety requirements in dude door locking devices, braking standards, windshield wipers, the driver’s field of vision, mirrors and exhausts.

Air Pageant [ Only six of the Canterbury Aero Club’s fleet of 10 aircraft will be taking part in the Royal New Zealand Aero Club’s annual pageant at Levels Airport, Timaru, this afternoon. They are three Cessnas and three Pipers. The club will compete in the j finals of the navigation. I bombing 'and landing, and aerobatic competitions. The ; Minister of Civil Aviation (Mr McAlpine) will open the pageant and unveil a memorial to Richard Pearse who made the first powered flight in New Zealand in 1904.1