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Our anachronistic review in celebration of the universal law. ,what goes around, comes around.
75 years ago: 17 July 1928
Lord Lamington, in the House of Lords, asked the government for information about the effect of introducing one-way traffic systems on reducing accidents. He said the number of fatal accidents had risen from 628 in 1923 to 1,078 in 1927, and that he believed one-way systems were a major cause of the increase. The capital's pedestrians were now having particular problems crossing between Victoria underground and Grosvenor and he requested more police be implemented in order to give them greater security.
50 years ago: 17 July 1953
Labour MP G Pargiter, supported by his colleagues, continued to try and persuade the government to remit 6d per gallon of the tax on oil fuel for road vehicles. Pargiter proposed that the concession should be limited to public service vehicles. This claim was unsuccessful so he then pressed for the rebate for all road vehicles. The government refused to move on the issue, saying it could not afford to forgo revenue of f8m a year, which the concession would involve.
25 years ago: 14 July 1978
Port users at Dover issued Customs and Excise with a seven-day ultimatum to improve the clearance system of incoming freight or else action would be taken against them.
Dover Freight Committee chairman Mike Llewellyn told CM that this could include refusing to call out Customs officers to clear night arrivals and allowing incoming vehicles to pile up, which would see Dover jammed solid within 24 hours.
"We realise it would be nice for the Customs people to have one system operating in all the ports but they have got to realise that Dover is special," he said. "There is no other port with its traffic flow. We are coping with 1,5c o trucks a day—you can't compare that with ports like Harwich."