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Show FOR SAFETY TO THE DRIVER Mirrors Installed en Streets of English h Towns Have Proved of Material ' ' Benefit. ; '- f : Mirrors at street corners to prnvlde ) . for the drivers of vehicles a view of ' the cross streets have been Installed ' '',' ..i In at least two towns In l-liigland. In i ' Folkestone there Is an acute angle ,' ' atreet crossing where one comer la ' ' 'I ' . built up close to the curb. On thla ' '" corner la placed a 24x114 Inch mirror , 1 , , supported on gna pi no atandarda at ft, aurh an angle that drivers of vehicles , coming toward thn built-up corner , from either of the two ( ppoalle at reels i ' ran aee up the lroi. at right nn- lies to thrlr path. ' The engineer In flinrgs. states that ' owing to Ihe Impi villillcy of motor- !. , tats seeing any cn iun!ng traffic aev . . 7 . - oral accldenta and narrow escapee -v' -ij- hsve occurred at tbat point. Since I t V "! .' the mirror baa beea fixed ho has not l -' v ', heard ot anything alproscliing an ac- 1 ';, . cldrnt. The damp, nitsl, rain or frost ' j ", have no III effect or the mirror, i p"- - w hich Is occasional! rwaned by a , I '" ' 1 passing Inmpllghter w hen clert,ltig his : " ' , lamps. f. , At Malmcahurg, In Wlltshls a mlr- j jv ror five by eight feet In else, support- ' ed on standards so that Its top Is 15 feet above the street, occupies sn an- 1 gular poeltlon (t the apes of a cloaed , f right-angle curve. TIip engineer In I charge Bays: "The mirror requires , I scarcely any cleaning; only a wipe I over once In about three muMha." I Knglneerlng News. t |
