ROAD SAFETY IN BRITAIN
+. Week of Intensive Propaganda POST OFFICE GIVEN HUGE TASK (BHITISH OFFICIAL WISELBSS.) (Received July 23, 7.5 p.m.) RUGBY, July 22. The Post Office started to-day on the enormous task of distributing to every house in Great Britain a copy of the "highway code," containing a simple summary of rules for observance in the interest of road safety. The distribution of 15,000,000 copies of the code, which is expected to take five days, is part of the intensive efforts of the Minister for Transport (Mr L. Hore-Belisha) to reduce the number of road accidents. '
Other features of this week's campaign are the tour of a broadcasting va»» the release of a road safety propaganda talking film, the display of 300,000 posters in London, and a broadcast address at the end of the week by the Minister for Transport himself.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21533, 24 July 1935, Page 11
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