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The excellent and well-reasoned article by Ron Douglas concerning public
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attitudes to the so-called "juggernaut" can only be applauded, if for no other reason than its illustration of the fact that there are sensible voices on "our" side of that thorny problem.
There is one small error however; it is incorrect to blame the unfortunate Patrick Mennen for coining the term "juggernaut in connection with the heavy road vehicle.
In 1897, the year after the Locomotives on Highways Act, removed the need for the man with the red flag in front of road vehicles, The Daily Telegraph published an impassioned article about ". . . these libertines of locomotion who, they claimed ". .. become every day more arrogant, more reckless, more indifferent to everyone's inconvenience but their own. The danger to personal security has become a genuine one, the question of damage to public property and private assets cannot be disregarded. The particles upon the surface of the road are pulverised by the incessant grinding of these juggernaut wheels" That may not have been the first use of the term in relation to road vehicles, but it is the earliest I have come across. PATRICK M. KENNETT, Director, Transport Know-How, Higham, Derbyshire