ELIMINATING GLARE

NZ Truth, Issue 1199, 22 November 1928, Page 21

ELIMINATING GLARE

Ingenious Anti- Dazzle Device For • '.■•■■ . . , • r\ \ ..■■.-.■ • . . . * . vdl Lidill|lo

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Dunedin Representative.) UOR years the problem of how to eliminate the dazzling 1 effect of an approaching car's headlights has worried motor experts and traffic authorities. Multifarious suggestions and devices, concerning color schemes, shades and electrically-operated sliding lamps, have proved futile, and motorists perforce have reconciled themselves -to -the customaiy precaution of ' 'dimming. "

•PHE soundest and most promising 1 anti-dazzle device yet, seen by "N.Z. Truths motor representative is the invention of J. E. Robertson, a Dunedin hairdresser. <■' - For the past ten years. this inventor has "been interesting himself m headlight glare. Unlike, the majority.' of anti-dazzle devotees, ■ Robertson disregarded the actual lamp lightings, and centred his attention upon a new design for the. lamp shell. The ' result is ah . ingeniously designed set »of headlights offering a very practicable ■ solution of the dazzle danger, and which may yet revolutionize the manufacture of car lamps. The' lamps are situated m the usual position of headlights, the TSfick portion of the lamp shell, -wherein is located the light bulb,! being identical with the ordinary pattern of head-lamp. Projecting forward from the back part of the lamp is a cylindershaped shell elongated on the out- r side. The 'face of the new lamp takes the form of an oval lying horizontally and .facing inwards. The whole of the interior of the lamp is lined with a reflector. lßy means of simple attachments both lamps may be variably adjusted upward, downward or across. The primary object of the lamps is j to~ obviate the dangerous necessity of having to dimj lights for approaching vehicles. 'For this purpose the "passing" light, or driver's side lamp, is set slightly downward, the side" reflector casting a full-power glare on to the •left 1 side of the road. The full service 1 of the gajwe lamp

for straight-ahead lighting is maintained by the back reflector, but protection is given to the approaching .driver by „ the' shadow cast by the 'elongated side of the lamp shell. ■ In traffic the left-hand lamp is 'kept dimmed, but is. brought into valuable commission on the open road by doubling ■ ■ »