FOILING CAR BANDITS
INGENIOUS HIDDEN SWITCH Patents have been obtained in Britain for a novel invention to trap motor bandits! The invention is the work oi two unemployed ex-servicemen, H. F. Websdale and E. James. The gadget, which can be fitted to any make of car, is claimed to be completely fool-proof and thief-proof. Immediately any unauthorised person starts driving the car more than four miles an hour, two red electric signs shoot out above the front and rear number plates. On these are written, “ This car lias been stolen.”
If the bandits still try to escape, they can easily be caught by pursuers, for at a speed of 24 miles an hour the engine cuts out completely. The secret of the ear’s uncanny ability to detect bandits lies in a concealed electric switch known only to the owner. When the switch is turned on the car becomes automatically “ bandit conscious.”
“The beauty of the thing is that no bandit has time to search all round a car for a small electric switch,” said one of the inventors recently. “It can also serve a secondary purpose, that of guaranteeing a maximum speed to certain cars.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22356, 1 September 1934, Page 12
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