Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1923-06-01
FRIDAY, JUNE 1. 1928.
Laws Covering
keadIiohts on Autos

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az j. M. Haynes, Chief Clerk in
the State Automobile License De-
partment of Virginia, directs
of automobile, truck
aud motorcycle owners to laws
regulating lights on motor driv-
Ell vehicles. The amendment and
re-enactment of Section.No. 2. Al
3. Code of Virginia, providing
for the use of lenses. or non-glare
devices in all headlights, was
approved on March %. 1923, and
will become operative OH June q,
of this year.
The above law requires that
no motor driven vehicle shall.
whether in use or not in use, be
equiped with lamps having a
plain glass. II also provides that
it shall be unlawful for anyone
TO use. sell, or have III his or her
possession, any headlight, or
other lighting device, designed
for use on motor driven vehicles
III this State, which has not been
approved in accordance with the
law. The law provides that all
makers of lighting devices submit
samples for test and approval to
the Secretary of the Common
wealth, and that the Secretary
issue certificates of approval COW
ering those devices which con-
form to the requirements of the
statute.
A list of electric beadlighting
devices was approved at con-
ference OF Motor Vehicle Ad-
ministrators which assembled
April 81, 1928, at Hartford, Con-
necticut, States represented at
this conference were: Maryland,
New Jersey, PENNSYLVANIA, New
York, Vermont, Connecticut,
Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode
Island and New Hampshire.
Lighting devices adopted at this
conference have been approved
for universal use IN the States
named. This makes it possible
for the owner of an automobile
in.the State of Mary!aud to drive
his car through to Maine without
being molested on account OF
conflicting State headl;ghting
laws. There is a movement on
foot. which is being fostered by
the Bureau of Standards at
Washington, and the States
mentioned to have national
lighting laws adopted that are
uniform, which would prove of
very great assistance to motor
lists in general.
The following lighting de-
vices have been adopted by motor
Vehicle commissioners represent
ing the ten States mentioned: |
Automobile sizes--Alpheco, IS Is
inches only; Bausch and Lomb,
Benzer, Type A; Conaphore.
Type F. (clear and amber color
ed); D. B. dodge Brothers.,
6 8 inches only; Dillon, Type
T; Giintex' Ford H. g Is inch
Is only {; Lee Knight, Legalitc,
ID III. Liberty, Liberty, Type
D: Miro-Tilt, headlamp. wills
ST. Cloir; Monogram: Osgood b !
q; Patterson. Parail-O-Lite, II
Type f. w. Smith. The Mou-
,gram light was adopted for all
motorcycles sizes.
The present lighting law oil Z
Virginia was passed by the last G
General Assembly by majority |
65 to 81, the first intent being 4
o make highways safe for the
Ise of all motorists. Checking [
tations are to be established in
arious centers throughout the I
tate, where motorist can liavel
ghts properly focused and adj I
listed to meet requirements of
f the law, which are to be right a
! enforced. a
It is the intention of the Vir. n
inia State officials to have their
st of lighting devices approvals Il
inform as nearly as possible a.
18th the requirements of the law )
! the ten eastern States enume-
tied, so that Virginia motorist m
In drive during the summer ST
onths through a large number M
northern States without unnec- A
sary molestation.