Section 9.4: Roads & Road Control

9.4.2 Speed Limits

• See Part 1. The Early History, Section 11.2 (Britain’s Red Flag Act).
  
  
• In Britain in 1903 the speed limit was set at 20 mph.
  
  
• Up to 1914 in the USA the speed limits were mainly 8 mph in towns and 15 mph in the country.
  
  
• 25 mph limits applied in certain situations in Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin.