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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 6 December 1927 From the 'One Hears' column: That tidiness is not a characteristic of the British travelling public". CM also reported on efforts to persuade the French government to postpone the introduction of a regulation forcing all vehicles over three tonnes in the Paris area to be fitted with "some device which will prevent mud splashing". Drivers of steam wagons in Northamptonshire were facing problems after the county council decided to crack down on operators who let red-hot cinders drop onto the road, thus damaging the surface.
50 years ago 5 December 1952
CM hit out at plans to tax the newly denationalised road haulage industry saying it would "bring nothing but discredit" on the government. The levy of around £4m was to be financed by the owners of 560,000 petrol, gas and steam driven CVs weighing in at over a ton unladen. We also reported on a speech given by Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sir John C Slessor, Chief of the Air Staff, who was asking whether road transport was making the army soft by making it forget how to march.
25 years ago 2 December 1977
R HA vice-chairman John Silbermann made a plea to the trade unions over the use of tachographs prior to the introduction of the 45okm/z8i-mile distance limit: "I appeal to the responsible leaders of the trade unions whose members are engaged in road haulage to urgently rethink the situation and to concede quickly that it is in their interests as well as ours to keep lorries working effectively to the maximum allowed within the law. This means fitting tachographs, for which I plead trade union agreement." Employment Minister Harold Walker indulged in a spot of union bashing, accused them of fuelling inflation by putting in large wage claims which were "short-sighted".