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I read with interest in Backfire (CM27 Feb-5 Mar) that 75 years ago, one of the effects of the Road Transport Lighting Act would be to increase the safety of the public roads. Mull that one over.
I was talking to a young man about road haulage and mentioned that during the Second World War, haulage was nationalised. However, it wasn't very far into the conversation that, for all my many years of reading books, my knowledge of what happened and it's ramifications became pretty minimal. I mentioned about A, B and C licences but I was only a pup tipper driver in those days. Come to think about it, were they in operation when I started driving in 1969? My unreliable memory banks say that on a C licence you could go anywhere, a B licence covered a fifty-mile radius and I have no idea what the restrictions were for A.
Perhaps this might give you some ideas for future articles. Bob Terry
Editor's reply: Even though I have been on CMfor 25 years, Ft clearly isn't long enough to be able to comment with experience on the old A, B and C licences. However, I'm sure lots of CM readers do have the knowledge. So come on, what exactly did each category permit?