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Our anachronistic review in celebration of the universal law...what goes around, comes around.
75 years ago: 26 June 1928
Government figures showed that introducing a number of one-way traffic systems across the country had helped to reduce fatal street accidents. The Home Office said that over the past year, the number of fatal accidents at places where roundabouts or one-way systems where now in place had fallen from 17 to 6. However, there had been a marked increase in the number of non-fatal accidents, rising from 617 to 842 in the same period.
50 years ago: 26 June 1953
The Minister for Transport said that he saw no reason to raise the speed limit for trucks from 2 omph to 3omph. Over 200 MPs of all parties signed a motion urging the raise in March 1951 and there was a succession of meetings between Ministers and officials. But despite the continued lobbying from operators (on the grounds that speed limits needed to be raised to increase productivity, which would result in higher exports of trucks making the UK more competitive with other European states), no government had been bold enough to take the action.
25 years ago: 23 June 1978
Detectives were investigating allegations of ballot rigging at a branch of the Transport and General Workers Union. Despite his resignation as branch secretary, Alan Law retained his power base as Midlands Trade Group secretary and leader of 4,5oo truck drivers in the West Midlands. The allegations arose from the allocation of a block vote, which was placed in an election without direct reference to the membership of the branch. Law said that his office was overloaded with work and could not issue the necessary ballot papers.