§ Mr. HORE-BELISHAasked the Minister of Transport whether, in view of the urgent nature of calls made on doctors, he will consider allowing a distinctive sounding horn on their cars, as in the case of ambulances, so that the police in control of traffic will be thereby enabled to afford them special facilities for proceeding on their way?
§ Mr. HERBERT MORRISONFire engines and ambulances are vehicles which are readily recognisable, and both the police and the general public do what they can to facilitate their expeditious passage when answering a summons. There is no distinction in appearance, however, between a doctor's car and an ordinary private car; and I should deprecate any attempt to establish a priority of right of way by the use of a distinctive type of motor horn or any other2154W similar means, as such a course would be open to serious abuse.