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Sir, —I think Coventry was the first English city to introduce smokeless areas. Many English cities now have them. The first act of Parliament to compel the use of electricity, gas or smokeless fuel in the defined area was passed with difficulty but subsequently cities had little difficulty in passing an act as the benefits were so obvious. The areas are often quite small in a city centre, but the edges of the atmosnhere are clear-cut—one walks out of smog into a clear atmosphere. Here in Christchurch on frosty nights the citizens could voluntarily restrict their fuel to the above, keeping back the coal for a sou’-wester when the smoke would be swept away. But would they do this voluntarily? “By jove it’s cold Put on some more coal, George.” Yours, etc., SOOTY SLICKER. July 22, 1960.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29264, 23 July 1960, Page 3
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