AVOIDING NOISE.
NEW TYPE OF VEHICLE. .MEASURES IN BRITAIN. (United Press Association— Copyright). LONDON, March 21. The Minister of Transport (Major L. Hore-Belisha) revealed last night that as a result of the work of the committee of experts set up last July, there was every hope, of establishing a fixed standard of the maximum permissible noise to which road vehicles would be obliged to conform. It would be possible for a manufacturer to produce vehicles observing the standard and inoffensive to the public. The difficulty in enforcing the present law against excessive noise lay in the absence of any such fixed standard. He claimed that the silent' traffic zones at night had been of benefit to the population without increasing acci He was hoping further to reduce noise by the rapid 1 substitution of trolley vehicles for tramways and he announced that the London Transport Board hoped, within the next year, to make this change on 40 route miles of tramway— more than one-eighth of the total tramway mileage.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 138, 23 March 1935, Page 5
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