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TIME TRAVELLER
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Our new column in celebration of the universal law... what goes around, comes around.
75 years ago 18 October 1927
Speaking at the October meeting of the Birkenhead Chamber Meeting of Commerce, Mr II) Hail, chairman of the transport section, announced that the proposed motor roadway from Birmingham to Bromborough would be a toll road. This meant that it was likely to be opposed. However, he added that they had always paid a toll, which was included in the carriage rate for railway transport.
5o years ago 18 October 1952
Some 400 delegates gathered for the largest conference yet held by the Road Haulage Association. National chairman Bernard Winterboftom issued a statement of policy on the Transport Bill. It outlined a compromise put forward to the Minister of Transport for use if the government was adamant on retaining a levy, part of which was to compensate rail for the growth in road transport. The RHA also condemned the proposals to amend licensing as "premature" and declared that only vehicles being operated by the British Transport Commission when the new Bill was passed into law should be licensed.
25 years ago 21 October 1977
Ian Brown, secretary of the Road Users group Transport Action Scotland, slammed the A75 Gretna-Strarnaer as "a goat track", saying it was more suited to horses and carts than the commercial vehicles that used it daily to transport goods between Ireland and Europe via the ferry terminals at Stranraer and Cairnyan.