Within tho next ten years the motorcars in Britain are .expected bv Sir Henry P. Mnybury, Director-General of Roads, to increase till there will bo one car to every twenty of the population. An electrical safety device, which not only warns a train driver of an obstruction ahead, hut automatically pulls the train up if tho driver is incapacitated from any cause, has been invented in America. An accumulator small enough to be carried in the waistcoat pocket and yet with sufficient power to drive n motor-car for ten days, has been invented by a Russian scientist. As vet it is only in tho experimental stage.
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Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 97, 19 January 1926, Page 8
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