Motors and Motoring
Anti-Duzle and Signalling—A Useful Garage THE matter of anti-dazzle has been one pressing for solution for several years now, and with the traffic on the roads after dark continually on the increase, the subject becomes of more and more importance, from the standpoints of efficiency and highway travel, which must always be judged largely by average speed. There has been considerable progress made in anti-dazzle devices in recent times, but I do not believe that the problem will be solved until we get some form of standardization in devices of this kind. Not long ago the Royal Automobile Club held a demonstration in Richmond Park of anti-dazzle devices and car-direction indicators. This demonstration was far more comprehensive than those pre- viously organized, and there were over a hundred and fifty demonstrators, more than fifty of whom were connected with anti-dazzle arrangements. The demonstration was not intended to be competitive but informative to a large number of public officials who were invited. The question of indication sig- nalling is an important one—the more so with the growing popularity here of the closed car. In America and
the open type has steadily given way to the shut car since 1916, and by the returns of 1927 the percentage of total production for that year was 82.8 per cent. for closed cars. There is no doubt that the United States motor production exercises con- siderable influence upon the industry of this country, and although the type of body which can be run open or shut is finding popularity in Great Britain the fact remains that the ordinary open touring car is almost becoming a thing of the past. With the closed or partly closed car it is not only more difficult for a driver to give correct hand signals of any intention to change his direction or speed, but it is all the more needful that he should do so.
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