Legalize Winking Lights
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AS a pioneer in Great Britain of direction indicators, Trico-Folberth, Ltd., Great West Road, Pen i vale, Mddx, is strongly in favour of the legalizing 017 flashing or winking lights for directiori signals, in addition to the ordinary swinging-arm types.
Mr. Paul Matton, the managing director, points out that at the 1949 Geneva convention of the United Nations conference on road transport, a recommendation was made for such lights to be permitted generally. Mr. Matton suggests that flashing lights should also be allowed in signalling arms when they are in their operating position.
These lights are widely used on the Continent, in the U.S.A. and many other parts of the world, and it is claimed that they are the best type of direction signal. At present, indicators are not compulsory but if used must be of the arm type, and recent rulings by magistrates have proved how essential it is for the law to be changed without delay.
The Trico-Folberth concern has been exporting the flashing-light indicators for nearly four years, and what it terms the " semaphore " type, has been marketed since 1932.