DRIVING-MIRRORS
AID TO SAFER MOTORING ;. Certain accessories come under the important heading of necessaries, and. as an aid ' ( > safer motoring, the side mirror enjoys a unique positon, remarks “The Bight Car and CycleCar.” We all know, that on the closedin car, of the commercial type, the fitting of a mirror is very necessity to reduce the inconvenience of other traffic, but the light car owner fits a side mirror mainly for his own convenience. The minor has three important uses’. First of all it reveals the presence of a faster vehicle which desires fo pits*; secondly, it may be used as a reflector for the diverting of head or side-lamp rays at nighttime on to any part of the mechanism which it is desired to examine; and, thirdly,-it puts the finishing touch to a car which, in the opinion of the woman driver, would be but poorly equipped without the ever-necescary lookingglass!
T'nder 1925 competition rules in TJ.S A. professional men have been divided into two classes, A and B. Every race meeting must include one class B and one '-amateur event. By this method the B men, as they improve in technique and expertness in handling their machines, graduate into class A. and provide a nuclei’s from which the leaders are constantly built up.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LII, Issue 12181, 4 July 1925, Page 18
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