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That was the year...
Page 16
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CM was launched in 1905; for our centenary year we're bringing you stories from years gone by. This week we're back in 1916 and 1966.
1916
MEDICAL HISTORY is made with the first successful blood transfusion using stored and cooled blood. In contrast to its more recent policy, the United States is unwilling to enter the First World War alongside the Commonwealth countries — in retrospect, probably a good idea as 60,000 Commonwealth soldiers are killed on the first day of The Battle of the Somme. The anarchist Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control in New York.
Too few tankers
A fuel crisis takes hold as tank steamers are commandeered by the Admiralty for the war effort — nearly half of all the steamers belonging to petrol-importing companies are being used. The companies have had to rely on chartered neutral vessels, but the supply of these, apart from their known high cost, is said to be inadequate.
Mr JTG Elliot of Bournemouth is fined £1 plus costs for each of five summonses by the town's magistrates for using paraffin as fuel for motor chara-a-bancs.
Charging ahead
The electric vehicle committee continues to keep the claims of equipped vehicles to the fore.The committee is invited by the SMMT to nominate a representative on its tyre research committee as well as urging the expansion of electric supply undertakings throughout the country to increase the facilities for giving both normal and boosting charges. And in a generous gesture, the committee votes the sum of £10 towards the fund for the annual inspection and examinations in respect of drivers of electric vehicles.
1966
THE SPACE race is in full flow as the Soviet Union's space probe Venera 3 becomes the first man-made object to land on another planet when it reaches Venus on 1 March. Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until communist aggression is ended. Ron Kray shoots rival gangster George Cornell leading to his incarceration.
Drivers' hours
The European Economic Commission puts forward proposals for the regulation of the working hours of goods and passenger transport workers.Among the proposals are a minimum age for drivers, maximum time at the wheel and daily rest periods. Maximum time at the wheel becomes four-and-a-half hours, after which at least 30 minutes' rest is required. Maximum driving time per day is suggested at nine hours. A mechanical device is mooted to replace log books
Free London
The ability of trucks to move freely about their business "is essential to the prosperity of London," says the highways and traffic and planning and communications committees in a report to the Greater London Council. At the last count there were 28,000 trucks on London's roads on an average weekday. These figures are predicted to grow by 80% by 1980.
Road pricing rebuttal
Road user organisations will firmly oppose any move by transport minister Barbara Castle to introduce road pricing as a means of restricting traffic, says the British Road Federation.