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Our anachronistic review in celebration of the universal law...what goes around, comes around.
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75 years ago: 24 July 1928 London County Council said that it would spend £3,900 on five electrically-driven exhaust fans which would be installed in the ventilation shafts of the Blackwall Tunnel to improve air quality. The move came following complaints to the Minister of Transport about the danger to traffic caused by the accumulation of smoke and petrol fumes in the tunnel. The public said that they feared that inadequate ventilation could lead to fatalities from exhaust poisoning when motor vehicles broke down in the tunnel.
50 years ago: 24 July 1953 Concerns were raised over the House of Lords' decision to grant the Oxford Corporation the power to prohibit loading and unloading by trucks at certain times on major streets in the city. CM said that in approving the prohibition of waiting in Oxford by commercial vehides between the hours roam and 4pm it had created a precedent of great danger to British trade and industry. Other local authorities would be quick to take advantage of the ruling and use it to ease local traffic congestion without having to build more roads. The London and Home Counties Division of the Trader's Road Transport Association said it would continue to fight against the application.
25 years ago: 28 July 1978
The government's Dock Labour Scheme giving dockers the right to drive trucks arriving at ports was thrown out following a Commons revolt by the Liberals and nationalist MPs. The scheme, part of the Dock Work Regulation Act, would have given dockers registered under the Act the right to carry out the jobs of other workers within a half-mile radius of ports and waterways. If approved, the scheme would have included warehouses and cold stores and would have meant that truck drivers would have had to hand over the keys of their vehicles to dockers when they arrived at ports.