TRAILER AND TAIL LIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 107, 2 November 1926, Page 16

TRAILER AND TAIL LIGHT

Does a lojrry-driver pulling a trailer require to mount a tail-light on the trailer? The question was raised at the last meeting of the Hawkes Bay A.A., when Mr. B. J. Duncan asked if there was any clause in the Lighting of Vehicles Act, which would allow of a lorry, with trailer attached, dispensing with the tail-light on the trailer. Several cases had como before his notice in which lorries with trailers were dispensing with such a light, the drivers stating that a light was not necessary. The secretary read the Act in question, which states definitely that tail-lights must bo carried on any vehicle, unless drains by hand. The matter was left in the secretary's hands to interview the drivers concgrned. '

Satisfactory progress is being made with the .construction of the traffic bridge across the M6kau River, and it is expected (states the "Taranaki Herald") that the bridge will be available for use at.Easter. In the meantime the Public Works Department is keeping the ferry in repair and the convenience of the travelling public is "being given every consideration. -

Another huge car specially built for the purpose of attacking the world records established .! recently by J. G. Parry Thomas, is illustrated in'"The Autocar." It is being built to the'order of the Egyptian motorist Prince Djellaledin, and it is intended to install a pair of engines, one driving the front wheels and the other the back, the two engines being linked up by one set, of controls. The frame members will constitute the body, and the highest part of the car will not be more than three inches higher than the engine. -The driving seat will be between the _ two engines. There will be two radiators, one in front and one behind, the two axles are bowed in a horizontal plane, and suspension is of double quarter elliptic springs mounted diagonally, front and rear. The engines are designed to develop more than 700 horsepower, and it is estimated that the total weight of the ear will be about 30 cwt. A speed of 200 miles an hour is expected from this monster.