FREE-WHEELING.
BAN IN AMERICA.
"DANGERS OF COASTING."
Automatic free-wheeling for motor vehicles, of a design which does not permit the driver to retain optional gear control of his car, will ba prohibited ill the thirteen States of America.
The resolution against '"100 per cent free-wheeling" was prepared by Benjamin G. Eynon, motor vehicle, Commissioner of Pennsylvania. It reads as follows: — "Resolved, that no free-wheeling device be allowed in the States comprising the Eastern Conference of Motor Vehicle Administrators unless it is of a design that gives the operator full control of all gears in all ratios as he desires." The interdiction is not aimed at those designs which permit quick changirg from free-wheeling into conventional gear control. Opposition to "100 per cent" free-wheeling is based, according to a. statement issued by Harold G. Hoffman, New Jersey's commissioner of motor vehicles,, on the point that "the danger of coasting is accentuated by the fact that vehicles fitted with this type of free-wheel unit are not designed with that excess of breaking capacity essentia] to safety."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 230, 29 September 1931, Page 14
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