"SILENCE NIGHT"
WHILE LONDON SLEEPS
NO HORNBLOWING ALLOWED
MOTORISTS WARNED
(British Oflicial Wireless.)
(Received August 28, 31 n.m.)
RUGBY, August 27.
Londoners are referring to tonight as "silence- night," for the Ministry of Transport's order, forbidding the blowing of motor horns within an area of •five miles of Charing Cross comes into force half an hour before midnight. For tho time being the police have, instruc tions only to warn thoso who contravene the order, but public opinion is strongly supporting efforts to make the nights quiet for Londoners to sleep in. It is not only hooters that are to be dealt with by the Ministry. They are considering measures to prevent thoughtless slamming of motor doors and to discourage clattering gearboxes and roaring exhausts. Meanwhile, with hornblowing prohibited, the Minister asks motorists and pedestrians to exercise especial care.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 50, 28 August 1934, Page 9
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