A REAR-VIEW MIRROR FOR COMMERCIAL MOTORS.
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Tr HE usefulness of the rear-view mirror is such that we are eternally surprised that drivers of heavy vehicles, which are constantly being overtaken on the road, do not universally ask for them.
A new mirror just produced specially for the heavy vehicle, is made by Oisbornes, the well-known musical instrument makers, of 28-32, Longmoi e Street, Birmingham, and is marketed in London by Ernest A. Woodcock, of 9, Upper John Street, Golden Square, W.I. It consists of a curved diminishing glass 6 ins. by 3.1 ins., held in a cast aluminium frame with rounded moulding and rounded corners. The back is flush and is held in place by four screws, so placed as virtually to be invisible. Moisture cannot attack the mirror because the glass is ,embedded in rubber and backed by asbestos.
A ball is cast in one with the frame, and this is clipped in a socket the other end of which can either B38 be used to grip a pillar of the cab or a bracket which is supplied with the mirror to screw on to a pillar or panel. The weight beyond the fulcrum point is extremely light. The mirror can be supplied in poliEthed aluminium and nickel, or a]i black, or in aluminium and black. It is priced at 16s. retail.