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TIME TRAVELLER
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Our review in celebration of the universal
law...what goes around, comes around. 75 years ago: 6 March 1928
Lord Buckmaster told the House of Lords that the government should set up a committee to advise the public on the possible dangers of using petrol fortified with lead tetra-ethyl. The move came following reports from the United States that five deaths and 30 cases of lead poisoning had occurred in factories where workers were frequently exposed to the fuel.
50 years ago: 6 March 1953
The National Farmers' Union said that farming was the UK's biggest single industry. It provided hauliers with at least 5o million tonnes of produce a year to be transported, worth around Prom in freight charges. Mr Baxter from the NFU said that flexibility was the key to agricultural transport: When we talk about the transport needs of our industry, we mean something more than the physical movement between a given pair of points. We are also concerned with the extent of the terminal facilities provided for the handling of our traffic, the method of stowage within the vehicle, and of course the levels of rates charges."
25 years ago: to March 1978
More than 30 small operators had met with Operator's Licence committee chairman Christopher Foster to raise their concerns over the 0-licence system, the introduction of the Certificate of Professional Competence and new EEC legislation. The committee's assistant secretary Oliver Pearcey told CM that the meeting, which was the first of a series of countrywide public gatherings committee designed to get "grass roots' evidence from ownerdrivers and small hauliers, had been a success. This was a useful meeting. Now we have met the men who are looking at the industry." added one Canterbury haulier.
Old Chijournalists never die—they just turn up unexpectedly on press trips. At a mere 75, Norman Tilsley is still working as a freelance journalist and CMbumped into him on the recent Brittany Ferries press jaunt to France. Back in the 1960s, Norman was CM'S features editor and invented The Hawk, the avian columnist who appeared in Bird's Eye View, the column preceding Backfire in this space. After cutting his teeth at CM, Norman went on to launch Freight Management and Containerisation International. Today he is as busy as ever and looking very well on it. All CM can say is: "Keep on truckin', Norman."