Motor vehicle provided with extensible rods for passenger compartment protection

摘要

A pair of roll over bars (13) are fixed rigidly at their lower ends to a structural feature (3) in the vehicle floor. The bars are flexed through a guide (25) to take up a normally retracted position in the risers (9) which support the windscreen and are held there by a restraining cable (15) fitted with a release which is activated when a sensor detects vehicle roll over