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A BEA Comet 4B |
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Britain 1957 seen through the eyes of cartoonist David
Low. |
| To own a car
was the principle target of the working classes. 40% of car
workers at Vauxhall had a car. 18% of Sheffield steel workers,
where wages were lower, had cars. |
| Many would
use their cars for pleasure only, preferring public transport
to take them to work. It was not unusual for people to lay the
car up for the winter. |
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| The Fifties
were the start of the transport revolution. On land and in the
air Britain was leading the way. By 1959 British European Airways
carried 3,289,606 passengers, a record. On land the slow but
inevitable asphalting of the country began. |
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A BEA Viscount |
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