MAXIMUM OF NOISE .
FIXED STANDARD FOR TRAFFIC. SCHEME OF BRITISH MINISTER. (British Official Wireless.) Rec. 5.5 p.m. Rugby, March 21. The Transport Minister, Mr. L. HoreBelisha, revealed last night that as a result of the work of a committee of experts set up last July there was every hope of establishing a fixed standard of maximum permissible noise to which road vehicles would be obliged to conform. It would be possible for manufacturers to produce vehicles observing the standard and inoffensive to the public. The difficulty in enforcing the present • law against excessive noise lay in the absence of any such fixed standard. He claimed that the silent traffic zones at night had been of benefit to the population without increasing accidents. He hoped further to reduce noise by tJje rapid substitution of trolley tramways, and he annotated London Transport Board hoped within" the next year to make this change on 40 miles of tramway, more than onetic'll th nt th<» total tram wav
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 March 1935, Page 7
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