CAR BELT COSTS
Exploitation Complaint (NZ. Press Association) WELLINGTON. Aug. 22. Some members of the North Island Motor Union consider the motorist is being exploited by a maker of safety belts. At a meeting of the union council this morning the vicepresident (Mr W. J. Parlour) said be could make a safety belt to comply with the regulations set down by the New Zealand Standards Institute for £1 IQs. He had been making belts for some time and giving them away. “I can’t continue to see the motorist exploited,” Mr Parlour said.
The president (Dr. S. J. Thompson) agreed that belts were too expensive and told of his own efforts at designing a belt, the materials for which cost less than £l.
Mr T. M. N. Rodgers said that at present the cost of the belts, fitted, was rather prohibitive. He found that the average cost of fitting diagonal belts was about £1 10s.
On one make of car now on the market the cost of fitting four belts was in the region of 10s since anchorage points were already built in
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29908, 23 August 1962, Page 12
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