. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ucespeed he would force the result of the un-necessary jar upon the attention of theother occupants of the car and it is morethan likely that their remonstrances wouldhave a deterrant effect upon reckless orexcessive speed at this point. Fig. 4 causes four sharp turns in shortspace, and was devised by Mr. Chas. , health commissioner of Richmond,Cal. The four right angles have not onlyto be negotiated by the motor car driver,but the attempt has to be made under a february, 1917. RAILWAY
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ucespeed he would force the result of the un-necessary jar upon the attention of theother occupants of the car and it is morethan likely that their remonstrances wouldhave a deterrant effect upon reckless orexcessive speed at this point. Fig. 4 causes four sharp turns in shortspace, and was devised by Mr. Chas. , health commissioner of Richmond,Cal. The four right angles have not onlyto be negotiated by the motor car driver,but the attempt has to be made under a february, 1917. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. 59 notice to stop, almost thrust in the faceof the vehicle driver, and where a strongwoven wire fence adds difficulty to theunlawful effort to move straight along. Fig. 5, devised by Mr. Scott W. Alex-ander, of Long Beach, Cal., supplies anenforced detour around a most inhos-pitable sharp pointed cairn of stone andin face of an imperative notice to 6 shows a device by Mr. W. M. Hu-mans, of Los Angeles, Cal., whereby adetour is rendered necessary to get across. FIG. 5. the tracks. The island in the centerforces the driver to turn and thus provideshim with the fraction of a moment to sizeup the situation and if need be he canrun parallel to the tracks and so avoid acollision. These various devices have as an aimthe compelling of some action. Theyforce a driver to make appropriate move-ment or deflection in order to past
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