MOTORING IN BRITAIN
ROAD TRAFFIC ACT REVOLUTIONARY CHANGES (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) LONDON, 30llt December. A very big revolutionary change in motoring in England comes on New Year’s Day, when laws operating since 1903 end and a new code operates. Speed limits for private cars are abolished. but a limit of thirty miles an hour for heavy vehicles, motor lorries and motor coaches will be rigidly enforced. Applicants for road licences for the Now Year must produce a certificate showing third party insurance, otherwise they will not be licensed. The certificate must be carried in the car. ABOLITION OF SPEED LIMIT MOTOR CONTROL BY POLICE PATROL (British Official Wireless) RUGBY, 29th December. The provisions of 'the new Road Traffic Act, abolishing tho speed limit and establishing compulsory third-party insurance, conics into force on Thursday next. To deal with offences such as dangerous driving and the neglect of signals, a special force of police, mounted on motor-bicycles and fast cars, is being organised. A thousand patrols are expected to be in service by Ist January, and about 300 will be oil the roads in the London district to-morrow.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 2 January 1931, Page 6
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