ENGLISH SPEED TRAPS.

Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20551, 20 May 1932, Page 6

ENGLISH SPEED TRAPS.

POLICE IN PLAIN CLOTHES. The English police are planning a new kind of speed trap for furious and reckless drivers of commercial lorries and other utility .vehicles. Squads of motoring officers in plain clothes have been detailed for this duty. s The efforts of the motor patrols have been largely negatived in the past by the fact that offenders have been able to receive timely warning through seeing the uniforms of the officers. There a-re tactical difficulties in tho way of these road deteetives trying to pull up drivers, so tbey will follow the reckless motorists until they are ready to tell uniformed men to stop the vehicles. Lord Trenchard, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, has issued orders that special attention is to be given to the enforcement of the law regulating the speed of heavy commercial and other vehicles. The latest development in tfee perennial discussion of a car race in the Isle of Man is that the Manx Motor Cycling Club, which -organises that fine amateur race—the Manx Grand Prix for motor cycles—has set up a subcommittee to consider the possibilities of staging a light car race over the,'famous niountain. circuit,.