International Experts Discuss Lighting
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T IGHTING and 'signalling were
J—t discussed this week at a conference of the automobile committee of the International Organization for Standardization, a body composed of the national standards organizations of 37 countries, Sixty delegates from 14 countries were received on Monday by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. They were welcomed by Mr. A. B. Waring, a past-president of the Society, and Mr. E. G. Grinham, chairman of the S.M.M.T. standards and technical board.
From Tuesday until today the delegates have been meeting at the British Standards Institution to consider recom mendations resulting from years of research in many countries. They have discussed rear lights, direction indicator lights, head-lamp meeting or passing beams, fog lamps, parking lamps and reflex reflectors.
Among the 14 countries represented at the conference are Russia and Czechoslovakia. The British delegates are Dr. J. H. Nelson (Joseph Lucas, Ltd.), the leader, Mr. H. A. Dean (Vauxhall Motors, Ltd.), Mr. E. Woodbridge (S.M.M.T.), Mr. G. Grime (Road Research Laboratory), and Dr. H. F. Gilbe and Mr. H. A. Lovell (Ministry' of Transport).
TECALEMIT TO MAKE AMERICAN HOISTS
INDER a new licence agreement 1.--1 with the Globe Hoist Co., Philadelphia, U.S.A., Tecalemit, Ltd., Plymouth, will manufacture and sett Globe car hoists in the U.K. and all parts of the world except the U.S.A. The Globe company are said to be the largest manufacturers of hoists in the world.
A Plymouth-manufactured prototype of the new Tecaletnit-Globe frame contact lift, which is specially designed to deal with vehicles having independent suspension, is being installed at the premises of A. C. Turner, Ltd., Plymouth, for proving.