PARLIAMENTARY PUBLICATIONS. 



[Sept. 189G. 



evidence on the subject from 39 witnesses, including owners and 

 users of locomotives, representatives of the Local Government 

 Board, chairmen of county councils and road committees of 

 counties and boroughs in England and Scotland, and county and 

 borough surveyors in England, Scotland, and Ireland. They 

 have also received valuable memoranda and statistics from the 

 English Local Government Board, the Scotch and Irish offices, 

 the County Councils and Municipal Corporations' Associations, 

 and various local authorities, officials, and other persons interested 

 in the subject. 



The Committee have considered themselves precluded by their 

 reference from considering the user on roads of light locomotives 

 or steam or horseless carriages. This matter is now otherwise 

 under the consideration of Parliament, and would seem to require 

 somewhat different treatment from the user of heavy locomotives 

 or traction engines. 



The recommendations of the Committee are as follows : — 

 I. — That the limit of speed be maintained at four miles an 

 hour in the country, but be raised from two to three 

 miles an hour in towns and villages. 

 II. — That engines be authorised to be used with driving 

 wheels of any form of construction that may be 

 from time to time approved by the Local Government 

 Board. 



III. — (a.) That in addition to the two men in charge of an 



engine in motion, a third man should be required 

 to accompany it, not necessarily in advance or 

 on foot, but in such a manner as to be best able 

 to assist horses passing either from the front or 

 from the rear. 

 (b.) That the fourth attendant be dispensed with in 

 the case of trains consisting of three waggons 

 or less. 



(c.) That in the case of two plough engines with their 

 necessary gear closely following each other, only 

 five men should be required in attendance. 



(d.) That one of the three attendants be required 

 to remain with an engine while stationary on 

 a highway, and having its fires alight. 



(e.) That at night every engine or train of waggons 

 should carry a conspicuous red light in the rear, 

 and that all lights should be fitted with shutters 

 or screens. 



IV. — (a.) That a penalty not exceeding 101. be recoverable 



summarily for carrying weights on waggons in 

 excess of those authorised by 24 & 25 Vict, 

 c. 70. s. 4, without the consent of the county or 

 county borough surveyor. 

 (b.) That a similar penalty be recoverable for drawing 

 without such consent a number of loaded 



