When Westminster Complained About Neon Signs
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When Radio Met Neon in Parliament
Looking back, it feels surreal: while Europe braced for Hitler’s advance, the House of Commons was debating glowing shopfronts.
Mr. Gallacher, an MP with a sharp tongue, demanded answers from the Postmaster-General. How many complaints had rolled in about wireless sets being ruined by neon signage?
The reply turned heads: roughly one thousand cases logged in a single year.
Picture it: the soundtrack of Britain in 1938, interrupted not by enemy bombers but by shopfront glow.
Postmaster-General Major Tryon admitted the scale of the headache. The snag was this: the government had no legal power to force neon owners to fix it.
He promised consultations were underway, but admitted consultations would take "some time".
Translation? Parliament was stalling.
Gallacher pressed harder. He pushed for urgency: speed it up, Minister, people want results.
Mr. Poole piled in too. If neon was a culprit, weren’t cables buzzing across the land just as guilty?
Tryon deflected, basically admitting the whole electrical age was interfering with itself.
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Looking back now, this debate is almost poetic. In 1939 neon was the villain of the airwaves.
Eighty years on, the irony bites: neon is the endangered craft fighting for survival, while plastic LED fakes flood the market.
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What does it tell us?
Neon has never been neutral. From crashing radios to clashing with LED, it’s always been about authenticity vs convenience.
Now it’s dismissed as retro fluff.
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The Smithers View. When we look at that 1939 Hansard record, we don’t just see dusty MPs moaning about static.
That old debate shows custom neon signs London has always mattered. And it always will.
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Forget the fake LED strips. Real neon has been debated in Parliament for nearly a century.
If neon could jam the nation’s radios in 1939, it can sure as hell light your lounge, office, or storefront in 2025.
Choose the real thing.
We make it.
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Looking back, it feels surreal: while Europe braced for Hitler’s advance, the House of Commons was debating glowing shopfronts.
Mr. Gallacher, an MP with a sharp tongue, demanded answers from the Postmaster-General. How many complaints had rolled in about wireless sets being ruined by neon signage? The reply turned heads: roughly one thousand cases logged in a single year.
Picture it: the soundtrack of Britain in 1938, interrupted not by enemy bombers but by shopfront glow.
Postmaster-General Major Tryon admitted the scale of the headache. The snag was this: the government had no legal power to force neon owners to fix it.
He promised consultations were underway, but admitted consultations would take "some time".
Translation? Parliament was stalling.
Gallacher pressed harder. He pushed for urgency: speed it up, Minister, people want results.
Mr. Poole piled in too. If neon was a culprit, weren’t cables buzzing across the land just as guilty?
Tryon deflected, basically admitting the whole electrical age was interfering with itself.
---
Looking back now, this debate is almost poetic. In 1939 neon was the villain of the airwaves.
Eighty years on, the irony bites: neon is the endangered craft fighting for survival, while plastic LED fakes flood the market.
---
What does it tell us?
Neon has never been neutral. From crashing radios to clashing with LED, it’s always been about authenticity vs convenience.
Now it’s dismissed as retro fluff.
---
The Smithers View. When we look at that 1939 Hansard record, we don’t just see dusty MPs moaning about static.
That old debate shows custom neon signs London has always mattered. And it always will.
---
Forget the fake LED strips. Real neon has been debated in Parliament for nearly a century.
If neon could jam the nation’s radios in 1939, it can sure as hell light your lounge, office, or storefront in 2025.
Choose the real thing.
We make it.
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