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...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...
...restore to London what he called "the priceless boon of sleep" he issued a dread ukase that no horn may be sounded between 1.1:30 p. m. and 7 a. m., another compelling horns to be sounded in certain specified emergencies. Jail sentences caused Punch to cartoon a motorists' prison for hornblowers and non-horn-blowers (see cut). Other Punch cartoons depicted the predicament of a motorist with a cold whose nose-blowing sounded illegal to a London Bobby (see cut, p. 19); and the instruction given by two parents to their infant son as to his rights under...
Baltimore, Oct. 1--Science has come to the aid of the erring motorist who finds a traffic ticket on the windshield after the movie...
Ordered to pay a fine of 100 francs ($6.60), Motorist Moe gestured his disgust, called the French a race of welchers and flatly refused to pay $6.60 to any French court until President Roosevelt receives the total War Debt payment now due from Paris...