An automatic motor-car horn, operating, from the engine control, is said to be the invention of a resident of Palmerston North. A very simple apparatus causes the electric horn to be sounded, automatically as the engine is slowed down on approaching a corner or street crossing. I'ne driver is thus enabled to keep "both hands on the steering wheel, and, since the sounding of urn horn is automatic, it is impossible for the car to swing put of a side street without a warning .oi its approach. Apart from the fact that the invention may be the means of saving life, it should certainly/ be the means of earing ance in the courts for breachee of the "sounding the horn" by-lawa-
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Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17702, 2 March 1923, Page 12
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