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my verdict on the 1987 edition of the quaintly-named Highway Code. I am pleased to report that it does contain some useful new advice on safe driving, but anyone expecting something revolutionary between its trendy new covers will be disappointed, I fear.
Great lumps of the content have been lifted, complete with superannuated illustrations, from previous issues. Fans of Noddy will, no doubt, be pleased to see Mr Plod still demonstrating hand signals in his '50s helmet, and old car enthusiasts will be delighted that the most modern vehicle shown in the whole tome is an M-registered Triumph 2000.
The biggest surprise, however, is the price: at 60p it is ten times more expensive than my collector's item ("between elegant soft green card covers, mint condition") from 1978. This increase, it appears, has shocked even the book's publisher which, as you can see from the extract from its own daily price list, has valued its wisdom almost above pearls . . .