Effects of 30 m.p.h. Limit

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18757, 13 July 1935, Page 9

Effects of 30 m.p.h. Limit

Q!NE outcome of the 30 miles per hour motor speed limit in builttip. areas in Great Britain is the -direction of -more attention to supercharging-.

Evidence of the growing interest Which is being taken in England in “blowers” was a recent discussion on supercharging by members of the .Institution of Mechanical Engineers in London, when litany leading authorities.took part in a lengthy and frank discussion in camera. The opinion of some automotive experts, in < 1 rent Britain is that, if the 30 miles per hour limit is to be permanent, then cars will be geared to provide greater acceleration, and thus enable motorists to main<taiu a higher.average speed on the highways. A rather unexpected result otf this speed restriction .ig Britain is tlf,at tho limit has so reduced rite average speed in built-up areas, tHat motorists have seemingly turned to car radio as a. means of lessening the tedium of “processional”.- driving and traffic delays.. There has Ween an abnormally .increased demand, for ear radio sOI;s; Tii fact, .so. great is, the call for this ecfnijiiircnf in England that tocord sales :tre announced by: the leading radio, manufacturers, i who, it. ; is said, have Jto dhtibt that] the' unprecedented, demand has been 1 created by tho imposition of. the speeid limit.