UK Motoring History

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Tue 11 Jan 2005 22:28
UK Motoring History - smokie
or to give it it's full title, "The History of Road Safety, Traffic Legislation and Other Important Motoring Events"

A potted history of motoring in the UK. Some Quite Interesting stuff in it.

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Tue 11 Jan 2005 22:38
UK Motoring History - PhilW
Very interesting! Put it on "favourites".
Just one q.- "1966 Give way rule introduced for roundabouts" I started driving in 1965 but I'm blowed if I can remember how roundabouts operated then!!Was it just a "free for all"?

Interesting also that in 1930 there were 1 million cars and 7,300 road deaths. In 1999 3400 were killed but more than 25 million vehicles
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Tue 11 Jan 2005 22:44
UK Motoring History - PhilW
P.S. There seem to be a lot of things on there that only happened yesterday but actually happened at least 20 years ago!! The "new" York by-pass in 1975 - about 1990 I would have said!
Crash helmets compulsory in 1973?
Seat belts on new cars compulsory in 1967? (Blimey, that's nearly 40 years ago!!)
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