TRANSPORT/QUIRKY: UK imposes new 30 mph speed limit (1935)

GAUMONT BRITISH NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit United Kingdom's new thirty mile per hour speed limit enforced in built-up urban areas Full Description: SLATE INFORMATION: The Great Slow-Down! Motto: Send husband to business (?) early. ENGLAND: EXT Actor Gordon Harker plays Leslie Hore-Belisha (1st Baron, British politician) in this quirky commentary on the newly imposed 30 speed limit in the UK. Funny soundbite - the use of uniformed female officials is suggested to “provide something worth slowing down for“. Cars, vehicles, motoring, driving, speedometer, girls, women, officers, politics, road safety, transportation, 1930s, 1930's, nineteen thirties. Background: United Kingdom's new thirty mile per hour speed limit enforced in built-up urban areas FILM ID: VLVA86DNB2PKOFJZAIR4OFF11W0FB To license this film, visit