"INVISIBLE TRAFFIC COP”
The “Electronic Speed Cop” which the Transport Department had sent on tour of the North Island, would soon lie outdated, said (lie county engineer, Mr. H. Murray Reid, at the monthly meeting yesterday ot the Rangitikei County Council. A new device had been invented overseas which would not only record the speed of a passing motor vehicle, but photograph it as wei! it the speed limit were exceeded. This invention, which he understood would soon be used in New Zealand, did not require manual operation or a traffic officer being in attendance. It was simply concealed on the side of the road and Ihe device automatically prepared photographic evidence against sieeding motor vehicles which would enable the department to take action. The acting-chair-man, Cr. A. S. Coleman: “Does the motorist receive a nhotogranh, too?’’ The engineer said that the device would not be kept in the same place twice, bull would be shifted from dav to day. A councillor: “It would have to be. or somebody would blow it up.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 6 May 1949, Page 4
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