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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 21 February 1928
MP Smedley Crooke proposed to Parliament that drivers' hours should be limited by legislation to eight hours a day. His move came in response to an increase in the number of accidents caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel. Colonel Ashley MP said that, while he was aware that the accidents were allegedly due to fatigue, he did not think that conditions of service could appropriately be dealt with in legislation connected with the regulation of vehicles and of traffic on the road.
50 years ago 20 February 1953 Six trade unions, including The Transport and General Workers' Union, protested to the Chancellor of Exchequer over the level of taxation on oil and demanded an immediate reduction. Lord Sandhurst, chairman of the British Road Federation said that a cut in fuel duty would decrease the cost of transport, the rearmament programme and capital expenditure, in particular housing. "During the last three Budgets, the tax has been raised to over 200%, a burden which has necessarily had to be passed on to the travelling public. It is difficult to visualise a more certain way of stimulating conditions of inflation," added a union spokesman.
25 years ago 24 February 1978
Industry and commerce had saved around L5 00m a year as a result of the motorway and trunk road network built during the decade, said the British Road Federation. Its report, Better roads for a better economy, highlighted that one of the major benefits to the industry from the motorway system was the organisation of depots. As a result of motorways in the North-West, Cadbury-Schweppes had reduced their five operating depots to just three, saving over ic)% in warehousing costs.
Last week we wrote about an auction of 'dinky toys' that was about to take place, which prompted this missive from the editor of CMs stahiemate Truck & Driver, Dave Young, We thank Mr Young for his correction and wish him, and his anorak, well.
Backfire's report of a Dinky articulated truck being expected to raise 1150 at auction erred on two important points. 'Dinky' needs a capital letter as it refers to the diecast metal products of Mecca° from Binns Road, Liverpool.
The model illustrated, a Thorneycroft, was a Matchbox Toy made by Lesney in London's Lea Valley.
How old and sad am I that I know all this?
Yours, In search of a life,
Dave Young Editor Truck & Driver