From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Reprint of a 1919 article from 'The Light Car and Cyclecar' discussing anti-dazzle solutions for car headlights.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 61a\1\ scan0040 | |
| Date | 4th January 1919 | |
| Reprinted from “The Light Car and Cyclecar,” 4th January, 1919. of side and headlight will be the probable solution, having a small “pilot” bulb for use when standing or in town. An alternative to anti-dazzle devices (which involve waste of current) that appeals to me very much is the “dimmer” consisting of a small variable resistance in the headlight circuit enabling the light to be. reduced to a dull yellow glow at will. This device is inexpensive compared to most anti-dazzle devices, but is most effective in use, and has the additional very great advantage that it can be used with existing headlights without alteration. A law making its use compulsory would obviate the necessity for any argument as to the power of lights necessary, and all roadside inquisitions by police when one’s lights happen to be extra well focussed or the volts a little “up.” Once cars were fitted with such a device, every reasonable driver would use it consistently; as to the others, the “light hogs” previously mentioned, well, there are means of stopping them! One thing I am certain of, and that is unless motorists and “makers of light” get together and find some means of impressing their views on the authorities, we may be saddled with legislation which will cause the maximum of inconvenience without achieving the desired result, such as, for instance, the beautiful war-time order when the “length of beam” rested on the opinion of the village constable! Let us get together, therefore! BAY-HEAD | ||