AA award for safety bumper
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THE AUTOMOBILE Association's Gold Award for Safety has gone to the Quinton Hazel' company for its underrun bumper — as fitted to the Commercial Motor road test trailer.
The device was developed at QH's Colwyn Bay base and is the result of two years of research and development. It has been evaluated by CM and is now being tried in America by the US Government road safety agency.
The AA Silver Award goes to Berm Optical Products of Yorkshire for the Vanguard Wide View Reversing Lens mirror which reduces the blind spot at the rear of a reversing vehicle.
The mirror cuts by 80 per cent the normal blind spot behind a reversing van or bus with a vertical rear window by reducing the out-of-view area to seven feet behind the vehicle from 45 feet.
The mirrors are at present being evaluated by London Transport, with whom CM is involved in bus evaluation tests.
• See Steve Gray's feature "Simple gear to test operation," page 33