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MOTOR VEHICLES.
Motor 'Buses—Mud Guards; Heavy Motor Vehicles—Noise.
Motor 'Buses—Mud Guards.
In connection with the resolution of the Council urging the Commissioner
of Police for the Metropolis to require the adoption of a more
effective mud guard on motor 'buses, enquiries were received by the
General Purposes Committee from the Commissioner and from Borough
Councils as to the form of mud guard suggested. Inventors of mud
guards claiming to obviate the nuisance complained of, who had communicated
with the Council, had been referred to the Commissioner of
Police. The General Purposes Committee were of opinion that if the
Commissioner would insist upon the provision on motor buses of a mud
guard to prevent side splashing on to footways and pedestrians, no
practical difficulty would be found in meeting the requirements. The
General Purposes Committee recommended the Council that the Commissioner
of Police be again urged to compel the provision of effective
mud guards on motor buses.
The Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis intimated that no
efficient mud guard for motor 'buses had yet been brought to his notice,
but that experiments would probably be made in the near future.
The General Purposes Committee again considered, on reference back
by the Council, the letter from the Commissioner of Police for the
Metropolis on the subject of the provision of splash guards on motor
omnibuses, as follows, viz.:—
New Scotland Yard, S.W.
11th August, 1910.
Sir,
With reference to previous correspondence, I am directed by
the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis to acquaint you, for
the information of the Council, that, as a result of the tests recently
made of the only splash guard yet submitted to him, he does not
feel justified in requiring proprietors of motor omnibuses to incur
the heavy expense (probably from £8 to £10 per annum) entailed
in fitting guards to their vehicles.