MOTOR SPEED CHECK.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 95, 19 May 1909, Page 4

MOTOR SPEED CHECK.

QUEST R)i{ NOVEL AUTOMATIC JJEVJ.UE. AUDJUiiTTvAKXIXU. '4" n* , J , loUsc of Cu K'"i«us o« April <th, he Home Secretary, in answer to ill. Hees said that the speed at which motor-cabs habitually travel was engaging the attention of the polite authorities and himself. "The Commissioner," continued Mr. l.Jadstone, "has under consideration the question of providing additional safeguards for the public, and hopes to be aide to. check ilie excessive speed of public- motor vehicles by rcquiriii" the use of an apparatus which will give audible warning when the speed limit of the vehicle is exceeded.",

\\e understand that the police authorities intend to issue a formal notice to the licensees of motor-cabs and motoronmibuses (following on the one alreadyissued on the subject) stating the date after which no motor vehicle will be licensed unless it is provided with a device which will audibly denote! when the speed limit is being exceeded. Al present the police authorities have a perfectly open mind as to the form which the device should take, although they have demonstrated the practical-j bility of making such a machine by constructing one. They will not, however, require the model to be adhered to, but will license any which is submitted to them provided if performs its rcquire.l function. It is suggested, however, that the ringing of a bell would be the best means to adopt for giving the signal when the speed limit is exceeded. The managing director of thcKleclrobus Company said, in an interview, that cleetrolmses had always been lilted with speedometers which registered mi a dial ill full view of the driver, liy a very simple device this spcedomelcr'could lie altaehedvjiy governors to a bell. "We have had this apparatus under consideration' for a couple of months." said the managing director. "We fully expected some such regulation, and so were! prepared for it. It should prove a. solution to the speed question so far as liiotor-oinuiliuscs are concerned. The appliance will cost something under £5 per vehicle."— Jjondon Daily Mail.