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Speed Limits
On 1st Dec 1922, the Chief Constable of the Birmingham Police Force, speaking at a meeting of the Midland Car Club said:
βA new Motor-car Act was coming along as well. The Act of 1903 was out of date. the section limiting speed to 20 miles was to be abolished. There was to be no speed limit, for to put the limit at say 20 miles suggested to some motorists that that was the speed at which they were habitually at liberty to travel. In Birmingham he could say now that the old Act was likely to come to an end, they had never laid a speed trap. When the 1903 Act became law he issued instructions to the police that they were not to prosecute persons under the speed limit section, but to rely entirely on the first section dealing with driving to the common danger.β
Sadly such common sense from the police has long since been thrown out of the window.
