Light and lighting . he Draft StandardSpecification for Street Lighting has amoei important bearing. I should Liketo mention that the nature of thisSpecification was exhaustively dealtwith in a recent paper by Mr. Trotter18 before the Dluminating w Ilium. Bng. (LoiuL), May and June, L913. E . ineering Society, which gave riseto an in at two joint meetings with the Institutions of Gas andElectrical Engineers and the Instituteof .Municipal and County EnginiMoreover, as was pointed oul in the recentInternational Roads Congress, there arecertain highways running out of Londonwhich constitute
Light and lighting . he Draft StandardSpecification for Street Lighting has amoei important bearing. I should Liketo mention that the nature of thisSpecification was exhaustively dealtwith in a recent paper by Mr. Trotter18 before the Dluminating w Ilium. Bng. (LoiuL), May and June, L913. E . ineering Society, which gave riseto an in at two joint meetings with the Institutions of Gas andElectrical Engineers and the Instituteof .Municipal and County EnginiMoreover, as was pointed oul in the recentInternational Roads Congress, there arecertain highways running out of Londonwhich constitute arteries of traffic and de-serve special illumination. It has Keen BUg- ed that the Lighting of such * artiof traffic should be the care of theState, and that it should not be left to theparticular parishes through which they happen to run. Such roads are now used for speedy traffic, no longer fox slow-moving local vehicles. Surely, therefore,some portion of the revenue derived fromthe taxation of motor-cars might be. Pig. i:. Showing how the old oil-lanterns were suspended on ropes and lowered at theside for cleaning, &c.—Allentagnc, p. 457. THE ILLUMINATING ENGINEER (march) 131 applied to the lighting as well as thegeneral upkeep of such roads. Open spaces and squares of architec-tural and historic interest also deservespecial artistic treatment. Continental
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