PASSENGER SAFETY LIES IN STEEL O This photograph, taken at the works of New Zealand Motor Bodies Ltd , Petone, reveals what the public do not see the framework below the panelled surface of a bus. This framework is of great importance to every bus user for experience has shown that this is precisely where the greatest passenger safety factor lies IF IT IS OF ALL STEEL CONSTRUCTION: At the time of an acci- if accidents do occur dent, at the moment of passengers should have impact, nothing else the protection which can be SO important to all steel welded con- bus passengers as this strucfion provides: One factor all-steel Continued research into construction, for an all- steel welded framework the safety factors gOv- does not transmit shock erning bus body con- struction reveals that and damage is confined ALL-STEEL construc- to a small area around the point of impact; tion outweighs all other factors for safety: Buses are One of the safest forms of travel Safety very definitely but it is important that lies in steel.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 531, 26 August 1949, Page 2
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