SPEEDOMETERS FOR ALL
The decision in England to enforce the.fitting of speedometers on .all motor vehicles travelling at more than 20 m.p.h. is no work of superogation (writes the London correspondent of the Melbourne ‘ Age • Speedometers are, of course, standard on. all .private cars, although, even so, if they go out of order many drivers neglect to havo them repaired. There are, however, whole catalogues ”of vehicles limited., to a thirty-mile speed even on the’ open road—the bus, the motor coach, and the lighter types of goods vehicles among them —and it is essential that' the drivers of these should have no excuse for not knowing when they break the law. The recent analysis of the causes' of a year’s road accidents, with its clear indication of tholarge part excessive speed plays, makes. it essential .that all who use the toad should at ileast know at what rate they are travelling. It is not an engineering impossibility- that in future speedometers will ‘chart the speed travelled, so that undeniable evidence can bo produced when- a driver has been proceeding excessively fast and has later disputed the fact, ' (
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Evening Star, Issue 22460, 3 October 1936, Page 2
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187SPEEDOMETERS FOR ALL Evening Star, Issue 22460, 3 October 1936, Page 2
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