RichardB Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 Bernard Farman, 11 Harbord Road, five and a half miles per hour on Chesterfield Road. Fined 20/-. Percy Vamplew of 231 Chesterfield Road fined 40/- fine - nearly six and a half miles per hour. (Bet his wife Eliza kicked his teeth in when he got home ... ) Alfred Gosney, Rivelin Glen, nearly 7 mph on Langsett Road. 40/- fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bayleaf Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 In 1979 I was working at Hillsborough Library, and it was the bi-centenary of Hillsborough Hall where the library is situated. We put on a whole series of events and exhibitions, and asked people to bring in any items they might have of interest. One person brought in a policeman's note book from the turn of the century, and among other entries was one for a certain person arrested for 'driving a horse and cart furiously in Penistone Road', an offence for which he'd had previous warnings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 21, 2010 Share Posted February 21, 2010 In 1979 I was working at Hillsborough Library, and it was the bi-centenary of Hillsborough Hall where the library is situated. We put on a whole series of events and exhibitions, and asked people to bring in any items they might have of interest. One person brought in a policeman's note book from the turn of the century, and among other entries was one for a certain person arrested for 'driving a horse and cart furiously in Penistone Road', an offence for which he'd had previous warnings! Speed limits for steam road vehicles were always lower, even after the notorious "red flag act" was abolished which had required a man to walk in front of a steam powered road vehicle waving a red flag to warn people of its approach. Obviously the speed of the vehicle at that time had to be less than that of a walking man with a red flag (4mph). One reason for maintaining low speed limits was that those who passed such laws frequently owned horses and horse drawn vehicles and they saw the steam powered vehicle as a threat to their prefered form of transport and so legally restricted it to "a mechanical vehicle which replaces the work done by a horse and therefore should travel no faster than a horse" Although the power of steam has been exploited for a long time its speed never really was, except on the railways. The last generation of Sentinel steam Waggons could equal in performance those of its contemporary Diesel equivalents. - but other factors rather than speed lead to steam being replaced by internal combustion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest RichS Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 how did the police judge the speeds ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 how did the police judge the speeds ? Elasped time over a measured (short) distance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted February 23, 2010 Share Posted February 23, 2010 Elasped time over a measured (short) distance. For a comical view of how this method works watch the film "Ask a policeman" starring Will Hay and Moore Marriott. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted February 23, 2010 Author Share Posted February 23, 2010 For a comical view of how this method works watch the film "Ask a policeman" starring Will Hay and Moore Marriott. Can't take much spotting someone doing twice the normal walking speed. Don't know the film Dave, but I can imagine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 For a comical view of how this method works watch the film "Ask a policeman" starring Will Hay and Moore Marriott. <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Great find vox, not exactly the scene I was thinking of but within a few minutes of it in the same film. Still a funny clip though from a funny film Hey and that "vans are brilliant" signature of yours is wrong It should say "vans are Dutchmen" lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vox Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Great find vox, not exactly the scene I was thinking of but within a few minutes of it in the same film. Still a funny clip though from a funny film Hey and that "vans are brilliant" signature of yours is wrong It should say "vans are Dutchmen" Ergo: Dutchmen are brilliant. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveH Posted April 14, 2010 Share Posted April 14, 2010 Ergo: Dutchmen are brilliant. Hertz Van Rental was a brilliant Dutch artist! lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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