Cambridge Daily News 15 Oct 1923: Noisy motor cycles

Major Stanley raised the question of motor cyclists. A good many ladies and gentlemen didn't realise they ought to have a proper silencer. He did not think that 10 per cent of the people had one. There was one “fiend" who went through Trumpington about 11 o’clock at night and made enough noise to rouse the dead. Dr Ellis agreed and said that in his village the speed was something terrific. They went through at 60 miles an hour and seemed to be proud of it. The chief constable said he thought he knew who the offenders were