Thursday 24 January 2008

Leslie Hore-Belisha

A Belisha beacon is a flashing orange globe atop a tall black and white pole. They appear on either side of the road at zebra crossings in the United Kingdom, Ireland and in the former British crown colonies of Singapore and Hong Kong. They are named after Leslie Hore-Belisha (1895-1957), the Minister of Transport who introduced them in 1934.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belisha_beacon

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