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Show FOR SAFETY TO THE DRIVER Mirrors Installed on Streets of English Towns Have Proved of Material Bonefit. Mirrors at street corners to provide for the drivers of vehicles a view of the cross streets have been Installed In at least two towns In England. In Folkestone there is an acute angle street crossing where one corner is built up close to the curb. On this corner Is placed a 24x24 inch mirror supported on gas pipe standards at such an angle that drivers of vehicles coming toward the built-up corner from either of the two opposite streets can see up the streets at right angles an-gles to their path. The engineer In charge states that owing to the impossibility of motorists motor-ists seeing any on-coming traffic several sev-eral accidents and narrow escapes have occurred at that point. Since the mirror has been fixed he has not heard of anything approaching an accident. ac-cident. The damp, mist, rain or frost have no ill effect on the mirror, which is occasionally cleaned by a passing lamplighter when cleaning his lamps. At Malmesburg, in Wiltshire, a mirror mir-ror five by eight feet in size, supported support-ed on standards so that its top is 15 feet above the street, occupies an angular an-gular position at the apex of a closed right-angle curve. The engineer in charge says: "The mirror requires scarcely any cleaning; only a wipe over once In about three months." Engineering News. |