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Spunky British motorists last week struck back at spectacular young Minister of Transport Leslie Hore-Belisha, sponsor of the hated "Belisha Beacon...
...beacons are pale orange globes fixed atop seven-foot poles at intersections too minor to rate a stop-&-go light. They glow continuously, drive motorists wild by giving pedestrians continuous right of way. To get past a Belisha Beacon one must drive at a crawl permitting instant stops should a pedestrian wish to cross. No other subject in years has so roused Punch, which now prints an average of two Hore-Belishing cartoons a week. Asks an irate female motorist in a recent cartoon across which smug pedestrians stroll (see cut): "Don't you loathe these beastly Belisha faces...
Suddenly in the dead of night last week motorists in open sport cars began dashing about London on a Belisha Beacon hunt. Passengers with air guns pinged at the big orange globes which burst in showers of tinkling glass. When Scotland Yard counted up next morning 26 Belisha Beacons were out and no motorist had been caught...
Lately Minister Hore-Belisha, who is a light sleeper, has turned his attention to the problem of what to do about motorists who insist on sounding their horns, or hooters, late at night. Last fortnight Leslie Hore-Belisha sent bobbies out on their beats with orders to warn all motorists who hooted their hooters between 11:30 p. m. and 7 a. m. within a radius of five miles of Charing Cross. Last week he sent them out to arrest. Magistrates were told that it will cost scofflaws just $10 a hoot...
Fourth night of the new order Leslie Hore-Belisha spent driving up & down the streets of London with his ears pricked. He was delighted. Even taxi queues at the theatres were hootless. Home to a bath and breakfast, he announced to the Press that effective Sept. 16 the hootless night will be extended to all London and other urban areas throughout Britain. Explained...