ROOM!" ROOM!

NZ Truth, Issue 1127, 7 July 1927, Page 16

ROOM!" ROOM!

Body Styles arid Safety In connection with the new modejs which are \ now being shown, with low built bodies and • ' long rakish lines, an English journal, comments- that whilst this is. mak- t ing ah improvement m appear- \ ance, the thing can be overdone, and the headroom reduced to a .dangerous extent.; •■' ,; J7XCE3.PT m one or two, cases, these ; low. built saloons have not been seen much m New Zealand, but we have, ourselves, noticed one/fault m design from which a great many cars suffer. , . •;.,;... This is the badly ' designed pgsition of the hood bows m the. majority of open tourers. • ■...' Here, again, \ we suppose that the appearance of the hood has to be considered, but. there is no douijt that over some of our. roads there is. considerable danger of ■"■ the. driver being ■ thrown into the air enough ,to reach the hood: . In fact we have seerr it happen when taking a roUgh stretch of road, at a fair speed. - Yet the. front hood bow is usually placed directly over , the heads of the front passengers! '/ :■ . .. v ; A blow on the head from this bow may be a very serious. matter, and here is one of those small details of design which- still need attention. This is, of course, largely a matter for the , factories concerned, but New Zealand is building up a very healthy little: bodywork industry of- its own. Those of us who are lucky enough to be able to have our coachwork .madfr to order m the Dominion, . might do worse, than pay' attention to the position of obstructions m the roof; and to the provision of adequate headroom. -. '■...'. y. ■.'■.-■..■■'. ... ■■:■■'■; ■• ..