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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 24 January '928 CM reports that the uptake of coal gas as an alternative fuel has been slow, largely due to the low cost of petrol in the UK. It suggested that gas producers would find a wider market overseas in underdeveloped countries where petrol was the most important item of transport, costing four shillings or more a gallon.
50 years ago 23 January 1953 Transport Secretary j Gurney Braithwaite launched a campaign to cut road accidents by io% during the Coronation year. He appealed to all road users to co-operate with his initiative and said that it could reduce casualties by 20,000. Braithwaite said that while the government could not afford to invest as much in better roads as it would like, L000 accident black spots would disappear in the near future.
He added that a revised Highway Code would be published later in the year and a new Road Traffic Bill, dealing largely with vehicle lighting, would be introduced soon.
25 years ago 27 January 1978
Shell drivers had decided to black out all delivery invoices produced by computers in a bid to force Shell UK to award pay rise of up to 30% to tanker drivers.
The action slowed up the delivery of fuel as only handwritten invoices were accepted by the drivers.
A spokesperson for Shell UK told CM: "Our offer must remain within government party guidelines. We are offering ro% plus a 5% productivity deal bringing their earnings to fir5 a week. The next move is to find someone who can handwrite invoices."
Midland Shell tanker driver's leader Geoff Parkes said: "We are jumping the gun by taking this action. But the decision of my shop stewards at Shell was unanimous."