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That was the year...

9th June 2005, Page 13
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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 1924 and 1974.

1924 1974

The Soviet Union officially announced that its leader Vladimir Richard Nixon resigned over Watergate. In the tightest Lenin was dead. International Business Machines (IBM) was of British elections Conservative Edward Heath polled formed. Adolf Hitler was jailed for his role in the unsuccessful the most votes, but Harold Wilson's Labour Govern Munich coup. The eight-hour working day was introduced in ment claimed victory with four more seats in the House.

Belgium and Tony Hancock was born in Birmingham. West Germany won the football World Cup, but the tournament was best remembered for the Zaire Handy van defender who broke from the wall and cleared a free The Burford chassis was launched to "answer the demand by kick (unfortunately Brazil's) the length of the field.

large railway companies, the Post Office and large stores for a handy mechanically propelled vehicle, low in cost, economical Seddon sold in running and maintenance, easy to start, and not requiring Chicago-based International Harvester paid flOrri for special provision for covered storage overnight". It had an airSeddon Atkinson. It already had a 33% interest in Dd.

cooled engine, duplex chain drive and three-speed gearbox.

Price warning

Rail warning Leyland's Peter Redfern warned trucks would become CM publisher Edmund Dangerfield contemplated the end of more expensive because plastics, rubber and iron were in 80 years of railway domination, which he blamed on persistent short supply. The company cut production by a third.

late-Victorian short-sightedness in reducing road transport to "local importance". He called on railway authorities to see Labour resolutions national road transport "as an ally rather than the enemy". Fifteen resolutions on road transport were to be debated at Labour's annual general conference, including a Fuel prices demand for the nationalisation of all road transport and A rise of fourpence-halfpenny (1.9p) on a gallon of petrol the enforced transfer of freight onto railways and canals.

would raise the weekly running costs of a lorry to 25 shillings October's general election cancelled the conference.

(£1.25), reported CM. No justification was given for the rise.

Vicious driving

Gas trucks CM staffer Alan Bunting MIME ASAE revealed that Renault trialled a gas-propelled truck, with a generator that "vicious driving" could boost fuel consumption by 24% made fuel from charcoal. The price advantage was clear with compared with"careful driving". He proved his point on petrol at two francs per litre, and charcoal 30 centimes a kilo. a road near Leyland using a 13.5-ton Leyland Chieftain.


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