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Show oo Bay State First to Create Rules for Rear Lights (Bl Ni:. Service) BOSTON, Sdaae Hoadllejhte having come under peneral supervision by the various Bt.ites motorists now are In for a series of tall-llght regulations. regula-tions. Tho first stale to open a campaign for proper rear lamps is Massachusetts Massachu-setts beginning Jan. 1. motorists of this stale will nave to comply with certain specifications laid down r.y the legislators hTe. These specifications are Tho rear lamp and license plat.i must be together, and In the center of thu car. The lamp must be directly above the center of the ag. The slot from tho lamp must be of sufficient slz' to allow for liluml-natlon liluml-natlon of tho whole tag and must bo covered wltb glass The lamp must be o ftwo crmdlc-power crmdlc-power and must be such that it will make the number plato visible at a distance of GO fe I TKfiT MADE. These, rule wi re formulated by Alfred Al-fred W, Devlna of the Illuminating Engineering society and approved ry Frank A. Goodwin, state registrar of motor vehicles. They were composed after an Investigation of tall light ef-fleney ef-fleney In several cities. Out of L'06 crirs whose rear lights were tested, only one conformed to the new regulations. In 176 cases tho lamp was improperly located, in 124 caaes tho lamp had defective celluloid cel-luloid or no covering of the lamp slot nnd In 97 Instances the 6lot was too small. The national automobile chamber of commerce has taken up tho Massachusetts Massa-chusetts tall lamp lnw and has advised ad-vised manufacturers to adopt Its proposals pro-posals before the law goes Into ef-fei ef-fei t if this advice is followed the law will have Its effects not only within with-in ths state, but throughout tho country. coun-try. Individual taates, however, have interested in-terested themselves in this law and are contemplating following the example ex-ample of Massachusetts. This Is one of the 10 states comprising the Interstate In-terstate conference of motor vehicle commission-ra. which include, the x New England states, besides Now York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. It Is presumed that this interstate conference will fall in lino with Massachusetts Mas-sachusetts and that, later on, other states will follow. OO |