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A great deal of publicity by the national and local Press, on both
B B.C. and I.TV channels and in the B B.C. News and Radio Newsreel, and
information broadcast to many parts of the world on the B.B.C. Overseas
Programme in 57 languages has undoubtedly influenced public opinion.
The results of such publicity have been so encouraging that the Board of
Trade expressed great satisfaction that this British Product was receiving so
much attention overseas.
The interest shown throughout this country is very evident in that
requests for information and demonstrations came from many areas including
Glasgow Gloucester Leeds Bath Bristol and Brighton and it is encouraging
to note that several London Boroughs together with other local authorities
throughout the country have followed the example of Shoreditch in inserting a
clause in all contracts let out by them that pneumatic road breaking equipment
shall be provided with effective silencers.
So much success being achieved in the field of road breakers that
attentions have now been turned to reducing annoyance and irritation from
compressors and several important manufacturers are now producing compressors
capable of operating at maximum output immediately adjacent to premises with
little nuisance.
Subjective tests carried out by the Chief Public Health Inspector have
proved beyond doubt that it is possible for normal conversation and working to
be carried out in offices when compressors are working on the road immediately
outside the premises
It must be realised that although so much success has been achieved in
the reduction of unnecessary noise from road breakers by the application of
noise converters and like equipment, efforts must still continue to devise
some other form of road breakers which will reduce the noise at the source and
no longer require the application of suppressing equipment. At the same time
one must realise that we must do all we can to silence existing equipment
until such new designs have been developed and applied