When Westminster Complained About Neon Signs
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When Neon Crashed the Airwaves
On paper it reads like satire: while Europe braced for Hitler’s advance, the House of Commons was debating glowing shopfronts.
the outspoken Mr. Gallacher, stood up and asked the Postmaster-General a peculiar but pressing question. Were neon installations scrambling the airwaves?
The answer was astonishing for the time: around a thousand complaints in 1938 alone.
Think about it: the soundtrack of Britain in 1938, interrupted not by enemy bombers but by shopfront glow.
Major Tryon confessed the problem was real. The difficulty?: the government had no legal power to force neon owners to fix it.
He spoke of a possible new Wireless Telegraphy Bill, but admitted consultations would take "some time".
Which meant: more static for listeners.
Gallacher shot back. People were paying licence fees, he argued, and they deserved a clear signal.
Mr. Poole piled in too. What about the Central Electricity Board and their high-tension cables?
The Minister squirmed, event lighting London (official statement) admitting it made the matter "difficult" but offering no real solution.
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Looking back now, this debate is almost poetic. Back then, neon was the tech menace keeping people up at night.
Eighty years on, the irony bites: the once-feared glow is now the heritage art form begging for protection.
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What does it tell us?
Neon has always been political, cultural, disruptive. It’s always pitted artisans against technology.
In truth, it’s been art all along.
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Here’s the kicker. We see the glow that wouldn’t be ignored.
That old debate shows neon has always mattered. And it always will.
---
Ignore the buzzwords of "LED neon". Real neon has been debated in Parliament for nearly a century.
If neon could shake Westminster before the war, it can certainly shake your walls now.
Choose glow.
We make it.
---
On paper it reads like satire: while Europe braced for Hitler’s advance, the House of Commons was debating glowing shopfronts.
the outspoken Mr. Gallacher, stood up and asked the Postmaster-General a peculiar but pressing question. Were neon installations scrambling the airwaves?
The answer was astonishing for the time: around a thousand complaints in 1938 alone.
Think about it: the soundtrack of Britain in 1938, interrupted not by enemy bombers but by shopfront glow.
Major Tryon confessed the problem was real. The difficulty?: the government had no legal power to force neon owners to fix it.
He spoke of a possible new Wireless Telegraphy Bill, but admitted consultations would take "some time".
Which meant: more static for listeners.
Gallacher shot back. People were paying licence fees, he argued, and they deserved a clear signal.
Mr. Poole piled in too. What about the Central Electricity Board and their high-tension cables?
The Minister squirmed, event lighting London (official statement) admitting it made the matter "difficult" but offering no real solution.
---
Looking back now, this debate is almost poetic. Back then, neon was the tech menace keeping people up at night.
Eighty years on, the irony bites: the once-feared glow is now the heritage art form begging for protection.
---
What does it tell us?
Neon has always been political, cultural, disruptive. It’s always pitted artisans against technology.
In truth, it’s been art all along.
---
Here’s the kicker. We see the glow that wouldn’t be ignored.
That old debate shows neon has always mattered. And it always will.
---
Ignore the buzzwords of "LED neon". Real neon has been debated in Parliament for nearly a century.
If neon could shake Westminster before the war, it can certainly shake your walls now.
Choose glow.
We make it.
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