5 March 1960: The Noise Abatement Bill passes its second reading in the Commons
Maddened by more than seventy distinct and intolerable assaults on their ears, the people who have been sending despairing letters to Mr Rupert Speir, the member for Hexham, will no doubt burst into a chorus of praise at the news that his Noise Abatement Bill has passed its second reading with Government approval.
Choruses of praise were about the only noises, human or inhuman, that escaped condemnation during the Commons debate yesterday, possibly because nobody happened to think of them. Among the ones that did not escape notice were barking dogs, pneumatic drills, portable radios, slamming car doors, “Music While You Work” blaring above the noise of machinery through the open windows of factories, clattering typewriters, electioneering loudspeakers, ice-cream chimes, church bells, and bagpipes.
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