11 FEBRUARY 1938, Page 40

" Visibility „ Where design lags is , in windscreens. What is

so Oddly called visibility (odd, Unless it is visibility of the road ahead that is meant) is still often poor, sidepillars cutting tiff essential - sections of the highWay at corners and low-dropped roofs causing—to this driver, at any rate---efe-strain. It must still be true that coachbuilders never drive in motor-cars. The sliding roof appears in nearly every specification without extra charge, and I am looking forward some day to seeing one used in a moving car. It seems to be the completely superfluous fitting; except during sunless heat-wave.