HC Deb 19 October 1908 vol 194 c706
MR. MACKARNESS (Berkshire, Newbury)

To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he can state by what law power is given to limit the speed of motor vehicles to ten miles an hour in the London parks, and for what reason the power is not exercised to impose the same limit of speed in the crowded thoroughfares of the metropolis.

(Answered by Mr. John Burns.) The authority for the limitation of the speed of motor cars in the royal parks in London is the Parks Regulation Act, 1872, and the statutory rules made thereunder. The Act only applies to "the royal parks, gardens, and possessions, the management of which is for the time being vested in the Commissioners" of His Majesty's Works, and the powers conferred by it could not be exercised as regards the speed of motor cars in the streets.