2 DECEMBER 1932, Page 17

THE MITIGATION OF NOISE

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sin,—As an artist working in a populous neighbourhood, I am very much interested in the question of noise. I suppose nothing can prevent one's sleep being shattered by the passage of heavy lorries in the small hours of the morning, when a little quiet might be expected. But why can it not be mitigated by the use of pneumatic tyres ?

Then there is the new-style milk-cart, whose rattling glass bottles are almost worse, for noise, than the milk-float of earlier days, with its cans. I am glad to see that some of these carts have lately been fitted with pneumatic tyres. It makes a good deal of difference to one's nerves. But if some,