§ 30. Mr. MARJORIBANKSasked the Minister of Transport whether, having regard to the fact that tramcars in London and elsewhere stop without giving any warning to other traffic, he will take powers to make it a matter of obligation on all tramcar undertakings that warning shall be given of the stopping of every tramcar by lights or otherwise?
§ Mr. HERBERT MORRISONI am watching certain experiments that are being made in this direction, but I am not yet satisfied that it is desirable that tramway undertakers should be obliged to exhibit such warning signals.
§ Mr. MARJORIBANKSWill the right hon. Gentleman say why the most clumsy, least mobile, and in many ways the largest vehicle on the road should have special exemption with regard to a precaution of this kind?
§ Mr. MORRISONI cannot agree with the descriptive epithets which the hon. Gentleman applies to tramcars, and therefore I am afraid that the second part of his question does not arise.
§ Mr. MARJORIBANKSWill not the right hon. Gentleman agree that there has been a considerable number of accidents caused by tramcars not having this signal, and will he make an investigation to see how many such accidents have occurred?
§ Mr. MORRISONI question whether the wholesale assertion of the hon. Gentleman is borne out by the facts.