Mr. CATHCART WASONasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether, in view of the fact that motors were prohibited from a speed exceeding twelve miles an hour in the parks, and in consequence of the numerous accidents in the public streets, he would take into consideration the advisability of refusing licences to any motor omnibuses or taxi-cabs which were not geared down to a speed of twelve miles an hour.
§ The SECRETARY of STATE for HOME AFFAIRS (Mr. Churchill)The Local Government Board regulation for heavy motor cars limit the speed of motor omnibuses to twelve miles an hour, and the police have endeavoured to make it a rule that motor omnibuses shall be so geared as not to exceed that limit, but it has not hitherto been found practicable to compel makers to conform to this requirement. As regards taxi-cabs, there would appear to be no power to fix by regulation a lower maximum speed than that fixed by Parliament, namely, twenty miles an hour.