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TIME TRAVELLER
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75 years ago-27 September 1927
Birkenhead Ferries had reviewed its rates for tank wagons using its ferries, following a suggestion by the committee of the North Western Division of the Commercial Motor Users Association. Petrol tank wagons using the ferries would now be charged the empty rate of 2s6d when travelling light and not the loaded rate as hitherto.
so years ago-2,6 September 1952 Realising that it might be many years before roads would be redesigned and rebuilt to meet modern transport conditions, the British Road Federation launched a campaign against accident black spots. The government said that it would devote only f3m to improving safety on the roads.
However, according to Mr R Gresham Cooke,chairman of the BRF Highways Committee, there were 5o,000 black spots that required attention, at a cost of some Li5om. He accused the government of trying to run twentieth-century machines on nineteenth-century roads, which were veritable death traps.
25 years ago-3o September 1977
West Midland hauliers defied the government's to% pay guidelines and signed an agreement that would give drivers at 1,761 companies a 15% rise. Transport Minister William Rodgers condemned the deal as being "damaging to the whole country" and called on the operators to reconsider the agreement before it came into play on z8 November. West Midlands RHA area secretary Bob Ward slammed the government: "This was a freely negotiated agreement and I don't like the interference of a third party. "They should either come in as a government and introduce legislation or stay out of it. We have had some tough talking over this agreement, but it has been reached freely."