§ 36. Major CHURCHasked the Home Secretary if he is aware that an effective and inexpensive silencer has been invented for adaptation to pneumatic road-drills; and whether, in the interests of the workmen using the drills and the convenience of the public, he will consider the desirability of making the use of silencers compulsory?
§ The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Mr. Herbert Morrison)I have been asked to reply. I am aware of the existence of a device for reducing the noise of pneumatic road-drills, and I understand that experiments are being conducted for the purpose of improving it. I have no power to make the use of any such device compulsory.
§ Lieut.-Commander KENWORTHYWill the Minister take steps also to silence other instruments of torture?