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TIME TRAVELLER
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Our new column in celebration of the universal law...what goes around, comes around.
75 years ago 29 November 1927 "A very useful beginning was made with a new association of commercial motor owners on Wednesday last. The association, which is entirely confined to owners of steam vehicles or tractors, is to be called the Steam Transport Association. We anticipate that there will be a splendid response to the appeal for members, and we look soon to see the majority of the owners of the 12,000 or more steamers included in the roll of the new association..."
50 years ago 28 November 1952 A resolution that farmers were better served by private hauliers than by British Road Services was passed last week by the finance and general purposes committee of the Gloucestershire branch of the National Farmers' Union. It was stated that produce was damaged more often by B RS and that more claims were now submitted in one week than in 20 weeks with free hauliers.
• A letter in this issue recommended snuff as a "real tonic" at the end of a long, tiring day. The writer said it "went a long way towards the prevention of accidents resulting from wheel weariness", adding that he found the "mentholated variety the best".
25 years ago 25 November 1977
All general haulage work has been stopped by Sutton and Son of St Helens following the dismissal of about 170 drivers who went on unofficial strike. "Our London, St Helens and Manchester depots are at a standstill and will remain so indefinitely," a company spokesman said. Forty men in London were sacked last week following similar action against 130 of their colleagues in Manchester and at the company's St Helens headquarters. The men instituted a goslow some time ago because of grievances over hours, conditions and manning levels and then went on strike after the three-day suspension of a fitter.