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).
Page of regulations concerning vehicle lighting, reflectors, and their usage.
| Identifier | ExFiles\Box 167\1\ img020 | |
| Date | 30th April 1936 guessed | |
| 4 Extinguishment when stationary. 12. No electric bulb of a power exceeding 7 watts in any lamp showing a light to the front fitted to any vehicle shall be kept illuminated while such vehicle is stationary on a road: Provided that this Regulation shall not apply— (a) to lamps used— (i) on any vehicle during an enforced stoppage of the vehicle; (ii) on any public service vehicle when stopping to pick up or set down passengers; (iii) for the interior illumination of any vehicle; (iv) on breakdown vehicles or tower wagons when in use for the special purpose for which they are intended: (b) to searchlights or other special lamps fitted to any vehicle used for naval, military, air force, police or fire brigade purposes. Position of rear lamp. 13. Save where in accordance with the provisions of the Act and these Regulations, a separate lamp showing a red light to the rear is not carried on any vehicle, the lamp showing to the rear a red light required to be carried on any vehicle under the Act and these Regulations shall be so fixed that it is either on the centre line or on the off-side of the vehicle, and that no part of the vehicle projects at any time to the rear more than 6 feet measured horizontally beyond such lamp. Additional reflector and white surface. 14.—(1) As from 4th October, 1936, no lamp showing to the rear a red light in pursuance of the requirements of Section 1 of the Act shall be fixed to any vehicle other than a public service vehicle so that its centre is at a height exceeding 3 feet 6 inches from the ground unless, in addition to such lamp, there are also fixed to the vehicle so that their centres are at a height not exceeding 3 feet 6 inches from the ground a red reflector and a white surface, which comply in all respects with the requirements of Regulations 15 and 16 hereof respectively. White surface on pedal cycles. (2) No pedal cycle shall be exempt from the obligation to carry a lamp showing a red light to the rear in accordance with the provisions of Section 5 of the Act and these Regulations unless, in addition to a red reflector, there is also attached to or carried on the vehicle and facing to the rear a white surface which complies in all respects with the requirements of Regulation 16 hereof. Rear reflectors. 15. Every red reflector carried on any vehicle in pursuance of the provisions of the Act or these Regulations shall comply in all respects with the following conditions :— (a) The reflector shall be so constructed that, if placed 100 feet away from and squarely facing a source of light throwing a beam of white light of 2,000 candle power in the direction of the reflector, the reflector when turned in | ||