The origins of Modern Police Speeding Traps?
The origins of Modern Police Speeding Traps?
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XMG5

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1,082 posts

257 months

Thursday 26th April 2007
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This is reported to be the first trialled Radar Speed Trap in the USA in 1955 driving





This is the in-car speed recording device used to record the speed of offenders caught by the Speed Trap.readit

My thanks go to The New York Times for the pictures and PH'er percy flage for advicing me how to import them into this post.thumbup





Edited by XMG5 on Thursday 26th April 12:21



Edited by XMG5 on Thursday 26th April 12:23

Big Rod

6,265 posts

246 months

Thursday 26th April 2007
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So is that the copper manually writing out the NIP then?

Kerrching!

Dibble

13,286 posts

270 months

Thursday 26th April 2007
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Old pics like this are brilliant - W Heath Robinson would have been proud of the bracket, never mind the device itself!