§ Mr. WATTasked the President of the Board of Trade whether Regulation 1 (a), dealing with Glasgow Corporation tramways, which requires a speed indicator to be fitted on every car, has ever been put in force by his Department; and, if not, will he say how he can ensure that the maximum speed of sixteen miles per hour allowed the tramcars is not often exceeded, especially in view of the fact that the corporation encourage motor cars in their streets at twenty miles an hour?
Mr. BUXTONThe regulation referred to requires that a speed-indicating apparatus should be fitted to the tramcars, if and when required by the Board of Trade. The Glasgow Corporation have not been required to fit such an appliance owing to the difficulty of procuring a reliable apparatus and the cost thereof, but I understand that improvements in speed-indicators have been made, and the Board have recently suggested to tramway authorities that indicators should be fitted to a certain number of their cars for the purpose of educating motormen in estimating speeds. The responsibility for seeing that the speed limits in Glasgow are observed by the motormen rests with the corporation, and no complaints have been received by the Board of Trade that these limits are exceeded.