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That was the year...
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CM was launched in 1905; for our centenary year we're bringing you stories from years gone by. This week we're back in 1912 and 1962.
1912
A large ship called the Titanic hit some ice and sank inApril, unfortunately helping Leonardo DiCaprio save his career 85 years later.The first self-service food store opened in California and Dr Gaston Odin discovered the cancer microbe.
Horse power vs horsepower
Horse vs Motor— Can YouAfford to he the Last to Change? asked CM. But there was reluctance: "The claims of motorvans were under discussion, and the individual who proved himself so ready to cling to the animal was really warmed up," was our response to one keen adherent of horse transport.
A good man's hard to find
The letters pages were also posing questions, but these were answered by readers, seventy years before political correctness. "Is driving easy?"we asked."The makers of steam wagons... so often state that any man with a small amount of knowledge is capable of driving," came one reply."We write, as one of those who have suffered from a driver with a small amount of knowledge, and who was very dissatisfied... We now have a good man,whom we can rely on."
Road vs rail
-It would be ridiculous to pretend that road-motor transport... in any state of development which can be foreseen, is suitable for the total replacement of railway haulage," we brayed,poopooing the very thought of road transport being worthwhile. "Today.. were a sufficiency of road motors available, which is not the case, owners could not obtain delivery of loads in an enormous total of instances..." How times have changed.
1962
The year brought the most dangerous passage of the Cold War when the CIA produced photographs of Soviet nuclear missile installations under construction in Cuba and the world hovered on the brink of nuclear arrnageddon.Another bombshell,Marilyn Monroe. died of a drug overdose aged 36.
Channel chatter
M Vergaud, assistant to the French Minister ofTransport, rolled into London along with a bunch of experts to announce there would be no decision favouring a "Channel bridge or a tunnel" for another six months.The French team had "brief ' talks with Ministry of Transport officials before leaving, predictably happy lobe avoiding closer ties to the English.
Dire warning
"The outcome could be so that one day we shall say that vehicles are too numerous and too fast for safety, and that we must curb production," said Ashford Tory MPWF Deedes, in a desperate attempt to scare everyone about the government's lack of decisiveness on road building. Oh, as if...
Watching the girls go by
The Midland General Omnibus Co surveyed bus users throughout Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire and found the fairer sex "are more likely than men to have accidents while travelling on buses, particularly if they wear heels" (it's not clear how they fitted buses with heels).A possible reason for the female plight could have been" young men who smashed windows by tapping too hard to attract the attention of young girls inside". It's damn hard to run away in high heels.