HORE BELISHA STYLE
Representations made to the Railway Board by the Automobile Club and the City and Suburban Highways Board that the central pier of the Thomdon railway overbridge, against which a good many cars have come to grief, more than one with fatal results, should be clearly marked by a red "danger" lamp, or other arresting means, have their reply in the repainting of the pier ends in a pattern somewhat after the style of the Hore Belisha pedestrian crossing places in London streets. The pier is being painted white, and on that background is a sharply zigzagging stripe of black, standing out in contrast. With a sufficiently powerful light thrown upon it this warning should be much more conspicuous than the former white painting, made less effective by the grime and smoke of I years..
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Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 10
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137HORE BELISHA STYLE Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 10
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