NEW MOTOR REGULATIONS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 4 September 1934, Page 5

NEW MOTOR REGULATIONS

TO' BE EXTENDED (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, Ist September. The announcement that the regulation forbidding the, use of horns or other warning instruments on motor vehicles after 11.30 p.m., will be extended to all roads in built-up areas throughout Great Britain has been well received in provincial towns. In accordance with a notice issued by the Transport Ministry, the new order will come into force on 16th September. Roads in built-up areas are defined as those on which there is provided a system of street lighting furnished by means of lamps placed not more than 200 yards apart.

In July, 1928, the subject of noise came prominently before, the British Medical Association at its annual meeting, and special mention was made of the serious position of city hospitals. Later in the same year, a deputation from the Medical Association and the People’s League of Health pressed the matter upon Mr Neville Chamberlain, then Minister of Health, who expressed a desire to have fuller data collected. Working on exactly that line, the National Safety Council of the U.S.A. concluded, after a three years’ survey, that noise is a directly contributing factor in accidents, while the Noise Abatement Commission of New York decided that strident sound impairs the hearing, strains the nervous system, causes exhausting sleeplessness, and 'generally makes for inefficiency of work. Three years ago. a Noise Abatement Association was formed in Britain, to he follow, ed and then joined by an Anti-Noise League. Only six weeks ago the two bodies, now practically one, held a conference at Oxford- no longer, as those who have visited it know, a city of cloistered calm, but a place from which Matthew Arnold’s ‘‘Scholar Gipsy” would fly to-day with redoubled speed. Tho English papers which wished that conference well were none too expectant of seeing very much achieved by rpcans of its ‘forts or any other agency.

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