London to Brighton Emancipation Run mart Hammersmith Turnpike

Hammersmith Turnpike

No trace was ever found of Campbell

The spectators were only divided from the crash by a hedge

William Cooke and others

when it moved to a larger building on Fish Street Hill

London to Brighton Emancipation Run mart Hammersmith TurnpikeLondon to Brighton Emancipation Run, 1896. A huge crowd gathered on the street. In Britain in the 1890s, the law still required motor vehicles to be preceded by a pedestrian carrying a red flag to warn other road users, which effectively restricted the vehicles' speed to 4 mph. A number of pioneer motor car enthusiasts campaigned actively to have the law altered. In 1896 the Locomotives on Highways Act came into force and the preceding pedestrian was