ITEMS OF INTEREST

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 15, 24 February 1939, Page 2

ITEMS OF INTEREST

Japan proposes to make herself self-sufficient in an emergency. One of the industries covered is that of motor manufacturing.

Driving test failures in Britain now amount to 39 per cent of those tested.

An anti-dazzle campaign has been started in Germany, and severe penalties are in store for "dazzlers."

A New Zealander sent an inquiry to an English motoring publication asking particulars concerning the cost of importing a car for himself into the Dominion. He was advised that preparing the car for export, packing it in a strong waterproof paper-lined case and freight to New Zealand, including all minor shipping charges, would cost about £40. The insurance would cost about 7/6 per cent.

Fences have been erected on various corners in Denmark, so designed that if you cannot get round, you are automatically diverted to follow the curve of the fence and ultimately carried back to the normal road. This scheme has the approval of the Danish Ministry of Public Works.

Parking accommodation for 25,000 cars has been planned for the 1942 World Exhibition at Rome. The necessary road-making and levelling are now nearing completion. A new highway will link Rome with the exhibition site, which lies between the capital and the ancient port of Ostia. An airport for land and seaplanes is being built one and a-half miles from the exhibition.

Photographic evidence against traffic violators is obtained in a novel way by a Chicago insurance company. An enlarged speedometer is mounted over the left front wing of the agent's car, with its dial facing the driver, and a camera is affixed to

the windscreen. By pressing a button the driver can take a picture that shows the offending vehicle ahead, as well as its speed, the condition of traffic and any sign, intersection or 'feature of the road.