Traffic jams and parking meters: the perils of motoring, 1966
by Chris Hall from on (#5Y0Z2)
Husbands, wives and children: there was something for everyone at the Earl's Court Motor Show that year
Probably the safest place to drive a car in Britain now is in the middle of a Scottish loch,' is the arresting beginning of the Observer Magazine of 16 October 1966, a special issue to coincide with the Motor Show at Earl's Court, London (Living with your car').
This state of affairs was a sad reflection on the crowded state of our roads, with their jams and their queues, their narrowness and their parking meters' - newly arrived horrors clearly.
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