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Thames Star, Volume LIX, Issue 16644, 14 November 1925, Page 3

There being no standard rule loe deciding at cross and side-road? which ..vehicle should proceed and which should give way to other traffic, was referred to by Dr. Pinfold at a meeting of the Hamilton Automobile Association. The speaker said that the underlying principle of the off-side rule was that every user of the street was made responsible primarily for avoiding collisions with any vehicle or person on his right hand. Applying the principle to cross-roads-, a driver should wait for and pass behind any vehicle approaching from his'right, and where a driver cuts in from his near side the oim s would be upon him, presumably, the near-side driver to explain his reasons for so-doing should an accident occur. The rule briefly was, other things being equal, to give way to traffic from the right..