Monbiot on speed cameras and the real war
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From: Brimstone on 2 Aug 2010 07:27 "Chelsea Tractor Man" <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:g0zpqj0ahp4j$.z51prz61ramz$.dlg(a)40tude.net... > On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:29:32 +0100, Brimstone wrote: > >>> Damned good article. Every word well-measured. >> >> Really? >> >> The writer hasn't got the faintest idea what he's talking about, " ... >> they >> all went out for "a run" in the afternoon, saluted the smart AA or RAC >> patrolman on his motorbike and sidecar" is just the most banal example. > > its just a melange of car related anecdote blurred into one, its not > related to the mid 60s and the obvious error above shows how carefully > written. > Exactly.
From: Brimstone on 2 Aug 2010 07:33 "JNugent" <jenningsltd(a)fastmail.fm> wrote in message news:8bnn3gFb6pU1(a)mid.individual.net... > Chelsea Tractor Man wrote: > >> Brimstone wrote: > >>>> Damned good article. Every word well-measured. > >>> Really? >>> The writer hasn't got the faintest idea what he's talking about, " ... >>> they all went out for "a run" in the afternoon, saluted the smart AA or >>> RAC patrolman on his motorbike and sidecar" is just the most banal >>> example. > > That happened. Wrong.
From: Ian Dalziel on 2 Aug 2010 17:29 On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:02:51 +0100, Chelsea Tractor Man <mr.c.tractor(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >On 2 Aug 2010 09:57:30 GMT, Adrian wrote: > >> There was certainly nothing unusual about women driving by the late '60s/ > >but also nothing unusual for a woman not to drive and not grounds for >assuming Castle anti car. Erm... I don't know if anyone's interested, but it has already been pointed out that it wasn't Barbara Castle who introduced the 70 limit... -- Ian D
From: Derek C on 3 Aug 2010 02:09 On Aug 2, 10:29 pm, Ian Dalziel <iandalz...(a)lineone.net> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 11:02:51 +0100, Chelsea Tractor Man > > <mr.c.trac...(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > >On 2 Aug 2010 09:57:30 GMT, Adrian wrote: > > >> There was certainly nothing unusual about women driving by the late '60s/ > > >but also nothing unusual for a woman not to drive and not grounds for > >assuming Castle anti car. > > Erm... I don't know if anyone's interested, but it has already been > pointed out that it wasn't Barbara Castle who introduced the 70 > limit... > It was her that made it permanent. It was originally introduced as a temporary measure after a series of fog related accidents, AC and Jaguar found testing high performance sports-racing cars on the M1, and from memory I think also because of some sort of fuel shortage crisis. BTW, when I first started driving in 1963 at the age of seventeen, 100 octane petrol cost about 4 shillings and 10 pence a gallon (about 24 pence in today's money). You could buy 4 gallons of petrol for a Pound with enough change left over to buy a Mars bar. Now a Mars bar alone costs almost that, and they are smaller than they were then! Derek C
From: Derek C on 3 Aug 2010 02:54
On Aug 3, 7:13 am, Chelsea Tractor Man <mr.c.trac...(a)hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 23:09:19 -0700 (PDT), Derek C wrote: > > Now a Mars bar alone > > costs almost that, and they are smaller than they were then! > > but in 1965 I earned £660 pounds per annum. People always confuse falls in > the value of money with increased price :-) > -- > Mike > Gone Beyond the Ultimate Driving Machine You mean inflation caused by several inept Labour Governments? |