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Show Backing: Light for Car Helps Driver at Night To facllltnte backing au auto out of a parage or over a winding drive at "Iglit fasten a small spotlight under the running hoard on the driver's side of the enr, ns shown. An ordinary flashlight ciin he used for this purpose; pur-pose; It may be held between two spring clips, screwed te be underside of the running board. A permanent Installation is, however, more convenient. con-venient. A cheap reflector and a bracket of the kind designed to be at- Small Light Under Left Running Board Facilitates Backing Up at Night inched to a single dry cell are used The bracket Is straightened out so that It cun be clamped under the rear runnlug-board brace. The leads to the socket in the reflector are connected to a switch on the instrument board Hnd to the storage battery, and a lamp suitable for the voltage of the battery la Inserted In the socket. The light beam will Illuminate the entrance to the garage sulllclently to steer the car Into it without trouble. Walter C. Harris, Brooklyn, N. V., In Popular Mechanics Magazine. |