HC Deb 17 March 1908 vol 186 c399
DR. RUTHERFORD (Middlesex, Brentford)

To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether his attention has been called to one or two outbreaks of fire occurring recently upon the District Railway; and whether he will ask the directors to post up notices in the carriages, &c., telling the passengers what to do in case of fire.

(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) My attention has been called to several cases of fusing on this railway, which, however, can hardly be described as "outbreaks of fire." A notice of the kind suggested would, in the opinion of my advisers, be more likely to create alarm than to add to the security of passengers.