§ Sir W. de FRECEasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that motorists parking their cars in London public streets and squares are not permitted by the police to lock the doors or leave their cars in gear with the gear locked; and whether, as this practice tends to increase theft, he will consider altering the Regulations?
§ Colonel ASHLEYI have been asked to answer this question. The London Traffic (Parking Places) Regulations, 1928, provide, inter alia, that when the person in charge of a vehicle leaves it on an authorised parking place, he shall leave it so that it can be removed or moved from one position to another by manual power. I do not think it right that vehicles should be left on these parking places, which are part of the public highway, so that they cannot be moved in case of emergency, or to enable another vehicle to get on or off the parking place.