FIRST "SILENCE NIGHT"
TRAFFIC SLOWED DOWN
LONDON, August 28,
Police reports indicate that London's first "silence night," in which the Ministry of Transport's orde. prohibiting the blowing of motor-horns within an area of five miles of Charing Cross came into effect, was generally successful.
There Avas. remarkably little hooting, though the primary effect was a considerable slowing down of traffic, motorists cornering slowly and using their headlights as signals on the drive through the AVest End. Hospitals especially benefited.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 51, 29 August 1934, Page 9
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