 On 28 January 1896 Walter Arnold, of the Arnold (automobile) company of East Peckham, was summonsed for travelling at in a motorised vehicle, thereby exceeding the contemporary speed limit for towns of .He had been caught by a policeman who had given chase on a bicycle.He was fined 1 shilling plus costs, the first speeding fine in England, thus he achieved the sobriquet "the first person to be convicted of speeding in the UK".