CAR LIGHTING

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20572, 4 June 1941, Page 10

CAR LIGHTING

THE NEW RESTRICTIONS APPROVAL OF PROVISIONS ■General approval of the new restrictions on motor vehicle lighting in black-out areas was expressed in Auckland by representatives of motoring organisations, who considered the regulations offered a reasonable solution of an admittedly difficult problem. Mr. A. Grayson, vice-president of the North Island Motor Union, said the executive of the union had recently approved a draft of the regulations, which were not so drastic as they appeared at first sight. At normal times in the greater part of the black-out areas ears would show a dipped left-lhand headlamp and a right-hand parking lamp. In certain areas visible from the open sea parking lights only would be allowed. So far as emergency periods were concerned, the regulations laid; down a standard for obscuring material to be used on parking and tail lights. Motorists would have to exercise their own ingenuity -in finding means of reducing their lights to this extent. The secretary of the Automobile Association (Auckland), Mr. G. W. Hutchinson, said that during an emergency alarm few private motorists would want to use their cars. The limitation on the power of parking lamps applied normally only when cars were used in the defined special areas. Seven-watt bulbs, the most powerful allowed in the circumstances, were unobtainable, and 5watt lamps would have to be used.