§ 27. Mr. ALEXANDER RAMSAYasked the Minister of Transport if he is aware that specifications of road-traffic signals adopted by municipal authorities, and approved by the local representative of the Ministry, are submitted to the Ministry of Transport for further approval, involving in certain cases delays of many months; and if he will reconsider the procedure in order to expedite decisions?
§ Mr. PYBUSThe installations to which my hon. Friend refers are necessarily submitted to me for authorisation under the Road Traffic Act, 1930. Proposals of this kind require close examination, but I have already given instructions that decisions should be expedited wherever possible.
§ 28. Mr. RAMSAYasked the Minister of Transport if he will give an assurance that, apart from experimental apparatus, systems of road signalling authorised and subsidised by His Majesty's Government shall be of British manufacture?
§ Mr. PYBUSIn view of the enterprise and the progress which is being made by British manufacturers in this matter, I do not contemplate that any local authorities will desire to buy foreign equipment.
§ 29. Mr. RAMSAYasked the Minister of Transport is he is aware that there is a difference of opinion in regard to the relative efficiency of 12-inch and 8-inch lenses in road-traffic signals; and if he has conculted any optical or illuminating authorities to ascertain their views on the respective merits of such lenses?
§ Mr. PYBUSI am aware that there are differences of opinion on this question, which is at present under consideration by the committee which I recently appointed to consider traffic signs. I understand that they have consulted the National Illumination Committee of Great Britain and representatives of manufacturers of light signals in the matter.