Sir,
COPY OF LETTER SENT TO THE HON. MR. E.D.C.WOLFE, CAPTAIN SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE, HONKONG, DATED
4TH FEBRUARY 1929.
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"RAY" REFLECTIVE SIGNS.
We have the honour to refer to our letter of the 15th January with which we sent two traffic signs fitted with reflective lenses for trial purposes, and if the se signs ave been erected for road service, we shall be very pleased indeed to hear that they meet with your kind appro val.
In connection with the Ray Signs, we beg to place before you a proposal, which, apart from expanding the scope of advertising in the Colony, will be a service to the benefit of the increasing motoring public.
We offer to take over the traffic signs in the Colony, and fit then with reflective lenses, free of charge.
Our offer also includes the erection of additional traffic symbols anywhere in Hongkong, Kowloon and the Hew Yerritories, providing we have the advertising matter to attach to such additional signs under your directions, with no cost whatever to the traffic department, we absorbing the expense. In return we suggest that permission be given
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us to erect mall commercial advertisements below the traffic signs, the revenue thus derived by us offsetting the expense involved with our offer. The advertisement signs will in no way conflict with the traffic signs.
Our contemporary in Singapore has an
arrangement on a similar basis with the Singapore Automobile As soc is tion, and we may say that the Association is completely satisfied, the arrangement proving very successful.
As already auvised, we are not as yet in
a position to turn out these reflective signs properly finished, but we are presenting our offer to you in advance, so that we may commence immediately the necessary machinery arrives.
We look forward to the approval of our proposal, and should a discussion over this matter be feasible, our representative is at your service.
Thanking you in antici pa ti on.
We have the honour to be,
For,
Sir,
Your obedient servants,
DAVIE, BOAG & CO.,LTD.,