SMOKING INSIDE BUSES

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1931, Page 7

SMOKING INSIDE BUSES

BANNED IN LONDON.

RESULT OF NEW ACT. “No smoking” notices were lately posted inside all the 4900 London General Omnibus Company’s buses on the streets of London. •The Public Service Vehicles (Conduct of Drivers, Conductors, and Passengers) Provisional Regulations of 1931, made by the Minister of Transport under the new Road Act, are now in force. And these regulations give the company powers to prosecute any passenger who insists on smoking inside an omnibus. The London General .Omnibus Company had “no smoking 1 notices inside omnibuses until 1924. Their right to enforce the order was challenged in a test case.- The smoker won, and when the company found they had no legal authority to prohibit smoking, notices were removed. "Our conductors were powerless before the new regulations took effect,” an official of the London General Omnibus Company stated. "Their instructions were to request anyone smoking inside an omnibus to ‘go upstairs/ but, if the smoker declined to do so, the conductor could no nothing.” The London County Council tramways department is not affected by the new regulations. Smoking inside tramcars is prohibited under a London County’ Council by-law.