HC Deb 28 February 1902 vol 104 cc2-3

Ordered, that it be an Instruction to the Committee on the Manchester Corporation (General Powers) Bill, to leave out the following sub-sections of Clause 25 of the Bill:—

To exclude from Market Street and Cross Street all or any carts, waggons, lorries, vans, or other heavy and slow-going vehicles of any description, and for preventing unreasonable obstruction in such streets in any case where the same may be thronged or liable to be obstructed by reason of the amount or nature of the traffic.

To prescribe and regulate the several routes to be followed, and the particular streets or portion of streets other than Market Street and Cross Street to be used, by all or any carts, waggons, lorries, vans, or other heavy and slow-going vehicles of any description, worked by any power other than by horses, or drawn by more than one chain horse, in front of a shaft horse, between the hours of nine in the morning and seven in the evening, and for preventing unreasonable obstruction in such streets in any case where the same may be thronged or liable to be obstructed by reason of the amount or nature of the traffic.—(Mr. Galloway.)