WIRELESS ON MOTOR CARS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15141, 4 November 1912, Page 8

WIRELESS ON MOTOR CARS

AN ENGLISH INNOVATION.

'.Fin; rapid development of wireless telegraphy, and its adaptation in many strange ways and places has led an English, engineer to complete a small installation which is able to be fitted to an ordinary private motor car. An Auckland motor firm lias decided to import ono of these plants, more for the novelty of the invention rather than to put it to any use.

A I£>:ru.i> representative learned on. Saturday that the plant would bo capable of sending and receiving messages over short, distances. The makers claimed that it was very compact and cheap, and quite easy to equip. It would be able to send messages to similar small stations up to a distance or 20 miles, while it would bo able to receive up to 50 miles under good conditions. The power is obtained from a set of batteries carried underneath the body of the car, and charged by a small dynamo driven from tho rear axle. The actual receiving and sending apparatus would be attackable to the dashboard,' while a collapsible aerial would bo fixed to the body of the car.

The only possible use. which this plant can bo is to communicate with the oarowner's home, whore a similar installation must be fixed. It is pointed out that such small installations will not interfere with the Government .stations, and that there can be no objection to their use.