SPEED RESTRICTIONS
USE OF GOVERNORS IN UNITED STATES With a campaign in progress in the United States to reduce tbo motor accident toll the use of speed limiting devices on motor vehicles is being discussed with widespread interest. Efforts are being made to make compulsory the use of a mechanical governor—a small device placed on a vehicle to limit its speed—on all types of cars. Just as fervently the propositipn is being opposed as an ineffective means of preventing serious accidents. However, it is reported that tbo device is being voluntarily adopted in many places. All new trucks and passenger cars of New York’s Department of Sanitation, for example, are to be equipped with governors limiting their speed to 25 miles an hour, while in New Jersey a driver who has lost his license for speeding has won it back on condition that ho keeps on his ear a governor holding it to not more than <lO miles an hour.
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Evening Star, Issue 22413, 10 August 1936, Page 15
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160SPEED RESTRICTIONS Evening Star, Issue 22413, 10 August 1936, Page 15
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