Western Australia Police Department Traffic Branch Handbook

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Principal Regulations and Advice to the Drivers of Vehicles

By Authority of the Commissioner of Police

Perth, 1930

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The Principal Regulations issued by WA Police was a handbook published in 1930 to inform and educate Perth drivers as to what the traffic regulations were, in hope to make the streets safe.

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• Traffic lights didn't exist and intersections were manned by pointsmen's signals

• Hand signals were used by drivers to indicate which way they were turning

• Rules about one-way traffic

• Parking restrictions

• Speed limits

• Information about driver licenses

• Disposing of your vehicle

• Transfer of vehicle

• Identification plates

• Dazzling headlights

• Accidents

• Overtaking other vehicles

• Trams

• Intoxication

• Equipment and brakes

• Reversing

• Wet roads

• Railway crossing

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Download the WA Police Traffic Branch Handbook

 

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