Tail Lights

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 17, 3 March 1939, Page 2

Tail Lights

LARGE NUMBER DEFECTIVE

SHOULD BE ATTENDED TO SAYS

AUTOMOBILE ASSN.

"The large number of defective tail-lights noticed on motor-vehicles, mainly older models, prompts the suggestion that owners should attend to them for the sake of safety and so as to avoid prosecution," say 3 the latest road safety message of the Automobile Association, Canterbury, Inc.

"These tail-lights are defective in various ways. The lights are not working through breakage of bulbs or other mechanism, through dust interfering with contact, or the connexions being faulty. The law is not concerned with the cause of de-

fective. tail-lighting so much as it is with the fact that the motorist created a breach of the law. It is the bounden duty of motorists to make sure by test that their taillighting equipment is in first-class condition at all times, and a wise | motorist will guard against trouble by carrying a spare bulb or two of the right size, of course. Lamp equipment may be all right at the; beginning of a run or tour, but a flying stone, or parking place "collision or knock may damage the equipment. A spare bulb may be needed. "The law requires that every motor-vehicle, including any trailer shall be equipped with a tail-lamp which shows a red light visible at least 300 feet to the rearward. Moreover, the registration plate carried on the rear must be so illuminated as to make the figues and letters thereon clearly visible at a distance of 60 feet by a white light, the beams of which are not visible from the rearward. "Quite a large number of taillamps do not come up to the standard required. Not a few instances have been noted of white lights showing to the rear, obviously through the breaking of the red glas3. A little I thought now and then for the taillight equipment will repay the safe motorist."