§ SIR THOMAS DEWARI beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home 641 Department whether, in view of the number of accidents in the streets of the Metropolis caused by covered vehicles, he will consider the expediency of introducing legislation to require the proprietors of these vehicles to have them so constructed as to enable the drivers to see passing and following traffic.
§ *MR. AKERS DOUGLASThe desirability of some remedy on this point has long been felt by all those concerned in the question of street traffic, and an attempt is now being made, as no doubt the hon. Member is aware, by the London County Council to deal with the matter by a by-law which they have submitted for my approval, and which is now under consideration. Objections have been taken to the by-law, and pending the result of this attempt it would be premature to enter on the consideration of legislation.