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TIME TRAVELLER
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Our anachronistic review in celebration of the universal law...what goes around, comes around.
75 years ago 17 January1928
The road haulage industry questioned an application to Parliament by the four group railways for general road powers. It questioned why the railways would demand this authority, and said they could not argue that the services provided by private enterprises were inadequate for the pub1k; the railways could only duplicate existing services, which would have a detrimental effect on current operators. CM called for the rejection of the application on its first reading, or for the Government to appoint the Royal Commission to consider the involved national issues which would arise.
50 years ago 16 January 1953
The Minister of Transport asked metropolitan borough councils for their views on his suggestion that local authorities should provide parking facilities for long-distance trucks. The move came following a complaint from the police force commissioner about the number of vehicles left overnight in the London area.
25 years ago 13 January 1978
Ten thousand members of the Transport and General Workers Union involved in the frozen food industry in Grimsby were laid off following a decision by 1,200 drivers to strike over the introduction of EEC regulations. The drivers were protesting against tachographs, the eighthour day and the 281-mile distance limit. A union official commented: "This strike isn't about money—we are arguing about other countries dictating to us what we should or should not do."
By the second day of the strike, workers in the frozen food industry employed by Findus, Birds Eye. Associated Fisheries and others had been made redundant.