LAMP LAWS IN FRANCE
A great deal has been said in New Zealand for and against dimming of head lights when meeting another vehicle. Many condemn the practice of dimming, but in France the lamps must be dipped, dimmed, or extinguished altogether upon meeting an on-coming car: and as the roads are so straight one is deprived of the use of the lamps for many miles together. The remedy to make driving more comfortable is a spotlamb, with, its beam trained on the right hand side of the road on what would be a “ blind spot ” when meeting another car. The French often fit this lamp high up at the rear on the right of th'eir cars (cars keep to the right in France) so that its beam has no chance at all. of dazzling other drivers. The ideal way of operating this essential spot light is to have a switch-which automatically brings it into play when the head lamps are extinguished —quite an easy matter to arrange. Driving mirrors also, it should be noted, are compulsory.
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Shannon News, 10 June 1927, Page 3
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177LAMP LAWS IN FRANCE Shannon News, 10 June 1927, Page 3
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