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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: 7 February 1928
The National Federation of Granite and Quarry Owners said that there had been a large increase in the quantity of foreign stone used on British roads. During 1927 import of broken foreign road stone stood at 230,875 tons compared with 220,983 tons a year earlier.
CM said that it was disappointed that so much foreign stone had to be imported when there were many British quarries capable of large outputs.
5o years ago: 6 February 1953 Lord Leathers, Secretary of State for the Coordination of Transport, Fuel and Power indicated that the government was not opposed to abolishing the 20mph speed limit for trucks. He told the House of Lords that if a 30mph limit was allowed for heavier vehicles, there would have to be an exception among lorries built "around and before 1942 which would not be equal to the higher speed".
25 years ago: io February 1978
T Baker & Sons had its 32-year contract with the Ministry of Defence cancelled by the government after it negotiated a pay deal with workers above its io% guideline. The Tipton-based firm had agreed a 15% increase with its drivers, in line with around 1,700 other hauliers in the West Midlands.
A spokesperson for the West Midlands haulier said he thought the government imposing sanctions was incredible: "This kind of action by the government amounts to nothing less than blackmail. I don't think it has the right to do this sort of thing."
Fred Baker, Baker & Sons' managing director was due to attend the House of Commons to hear a debate on the whole "blacklist affair".