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By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent
INVISIBLE RAY SPEED TEST PURELY EXPERIMENTAL.
ASUGGESTION by a Lancashire Member to the Home Secretary that he should recommend the adoption, in Lancashire of the invisible-ray method of testing speeds of motor vehicles, because this system was probL ably fairer than the ordinary methods of police trapping, did not find official approval.
Si f John Simon understands that this Method ia being tried by the Chief Constable of Cheshire, but at present is still in 'an experimental stage. Further experience of its working would be necessary before it could be recommended for general adoption and in any event it could Only SuPplement, and could not fett-l.a'Cei Other inethOds Of enforcing the Speed -Etna "
DERESTRICTION AND " HALT " SIGNS.
THE Minister of Transport was asked by a Labour Member to issue instructions that there should be no derestrition signs on roads which did not accommodate at least three lines of
• traffic. Mr. Hore-Belisha replied that that was a matter which was governed by law.
He was also asked the number of
• prosecutions for non-observance of " Halt " signs since these were instituted, and whether he would Issue an order for the placing of 'Halt " signs on all branch roads leading to arterial roads. No official information is avail
able as to the number of prosecutions for this offence; but Mr. Hore-Belisha explained that the directions governing the placing of this sign provided for its erection at road junctions where the driver of_ a = vehicle, approaching ' major road, could not have a reason-' ably clear view, in both directions of the , major road before he entered IL SILENT ROAD DRILL EXPERIMENTS.
THE Ministry of Transport is interested in a number of experiments with road drills equipped with silencers, but as yet there is no development which would justify their use in public thoroughfares generally. Mr. Hore-Belisha informed Mr. W. Thorne, this week, that Westminster City Council arranged a test of a number of road drills on July 21 last, which was witnessed. by officers of his Department. Measurements of noise were made by the National Physical Laboratory. He understood that a report would be published in the near future.