THREE-TONE HORNS
Use May Be Offence (Special Crepdt. N.Z.P.AJ LONDON. June 26. Fifteen thousand motorists in Britain who have threetone alternating hoims on their cars may be committing an offence in the light of a test Court case in Essex this week. Ministry of Transport regulations prohibit ordinary vehicles being fitted with “a gong bell, siren, or two-tone horn.” These are reserved for emergency - service vehicles, such as fire engines, ambulances, and police cars. A motorist was fined £2 for improper use of a warning instrument—a born which has three notes alternating at a rapid speed. The prosecution said it made a noise similar to a two-tone horn on a police car. After listening to a horn produced in Court and the horn on a police car, the Magistrate agreed.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31096, 27 June 1966, Page 6
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