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TIME TRAVELLER
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75 years ago 29 November 1929 The Mining Association teamed up with steam vehicle manufacturers to campaign for a cut in tax for steam wagons. The group said that it intended to approach Winston Churchill and draw his attention to the fact that steam wagons were helping the mining industry by using around a million tons of coal a year. The 12, 000 steam wagons and tractors in use throughout Britain were keeping around 3,000 miners employed; people should therefore be encouraged to use such vehicles.
o years ago 28 November 1952
Mr B Winterbottom, national chairman of the Road Haulage Association, said that private enterprise would buy back 25,000 of the vehicles it now owned. These, alongside trucks already in private hands and freed from restrictions, would be enough to run the country's road transport efficiently. He said that during the next few years private hauliers would not find it easy to make profits and must be prepared to work hard: -Road haulage has more to fear from bad roads than from the competition of the railways. This country needs a road system fit to carry the vehicles of the future. At the moment, it is a system fit to carry vehicles of 4o years ago."
25 years ago 25 November 1977
EEC Deputy Transport Commissioner Noel Coghlan announced that there would be a reduction in driving hours for British and Irish drivers by I July 1978. He said that although Britain had been granted a derogation from the full implementation of EEC regulation 543/69 (which would restrict drivers to an eight-hour day by 1980), the new system would have to be phased in during the interim period. The government would also be required to produce progress reports every six months.