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TIME TRAVELLER
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Our anachronistic review in celebration of the universal law...what goes around, comes around.
75 years ago-13 December 1927
The magazine weighed into the heated debate over the use of three-axle trucks— what it termed the "six-wheeler controversy". It laid to rest one of the fears of those against this new breed of truck, namely that it would be too fast. It says: "Certainly powerful engines are usually employed; power however, does not always mean high maximum speed, but the more useful quality of rapid acceleration.
"As a matter of fact the six-wheeler is not made for speed. It possesses better qualifications, of which, in our opinion, the most important is its freedom from sideslip and wheelspin, owing to its greater holding power on the road." It finished by asking if anyone could deny that the principle of the six-wheeler was correct.
50 years ago-12 December 1952 Commercial Motor bemoaned the fact that the Export Credits Guarantee Department had effectively lost a British manufacturer a large vehicle order to Turkey by not extending sufficient credit. Instead the Turks choose to order from a German firm, a move that the magazine feared would lead Turkey to standardise on German vehicles, closing the market to the UK. it says: "Export or starve, successive governments have told industry. The commercial vehicle industry has responded magnificently to the call, but, with government assistance instead of exhortation, its performance would have been even greater."
25 years ago-9 December 1977
The lead story centred on the Road Haulage Association's decision to abandon its 30year-old practice of recommending a scale of charges to its members under pressure from the Office of Fair Trading. It ithad not done so it could have faced an appearance in the Restrictive Practices Court. It reads: "The move is seen as an attempt to stimulate competition, although the Association has made it clear it does not believe this will really be the effect."
The association added: "We don't think it will have a devastating effect on prices. We merely provide guidance."