YELLOW HEADLIGHTS AGAIN IN FRANCE
12th August 1949, Page 35
12th August 1949
Page 35
Page 35, 12th August 1949
— YELLOW HEADLIGHTS AGAIN IN FRANCE
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UST. of yellow headlights will become compulsory again on French roads from January 1, White headlight's were first prohibited in 1937, but a shortage of cadmium sulphate, employed in colouring the glass, d.evelOped during the war, under German occupation, and the rule has been in abeyance ever since.
The anti-dazzle effect of yellow lighting has long been recognized in France. I did a great deal of night driving between 1937 and 1940 (particularly at the, outset of war, when I drove a Renault lorry 19,500 kiloms, in five months), writes our Continental representative, and I can ,testify to a genuine reduction in eyestrain arising from the yellow-light rule.