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Britain’s Pre-War Glow Problem
It sounds bizarre today: in the shadow of looming global conflict, MPs in Westminster were arguing about neon signs.
Gallacher, never one to mince words, demanded answers from the Postmaster-General. Was Britain’s brand-new glow tech ruining the nation’s favourite pastime – radio?
The reply turned heads: roughly one thousand cases logged in a single year.
Imagine 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. But here’s the rub: 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".
In plain English: no fix any time soon.
Gallacher pressed harder. He pushed for urgency: buy neon signs London speed it up, Minister, people want results.
Another MP raised the stakes. If neon was a culprit, weren’t cables buzzing across the land just as guilty?
The Minister squirmed, basically admitting the whole electrical age was interfering with itself.
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Looking back now, this debate is almost poetic. Back then, neon was the tech menace keeping people up at night.
Jump ahead eight decades and the roles have flipped: the menace of 1939 is now the endangered beauty of 2025.
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What does it tell us?
First: neon has always rattled cages. It’s always forced society to decide what kind of light it wants.
In 1939 it was seen as dangerous noise.
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The Smithers View. We see the glow that wouldn’t be ignored.
So, yes, old is gold. And it always will.
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Ignore the buzzwords of "LED neon". Real neon has been debated in Parliament for nearly a century.
If creative neon signs London ideas could jam the nation’s radios in 1939, it can sure as hell light your lounge, office, or storefront in 2025.
Choose glow.
You need it.
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