bombus wrote:
The Rush wrote:
Thanks, Andrew.
Yeah, seconded. I missed this thread the first time round.
I'm glad someone liked it!
I'll have to scan some of the others I have eventually. The earlier ones anyway, they seem to have grown quite a lot...
Not including covers and adverts the first has 21 pages and the latest has 145.
bombus wrote:
I do like reading things from yesteryear. They seem to be written in a well-spoken accent.
Oh raather!
I find it interesting where they use words or phrases which we have abbreviated, like "advertisers announcement". I didn't know that is where the word "advert" came from. Or at least I assume that is where it came from.
Also they use "motor cyclist" as two separate words.
I keep thinking that it would be nice to make our own set of "rules" as the current Highway Code is quite excessive and very much based on UK law now. The main information should be how to safely use roads and should apply as best as possible to any form of road traffic in any country and not be based on any law. Then it could have sections specific to different vehicles, and different signs, and other things which are important...
I found it quite easy to read the 1931 Highway Code. The 2007 one was not as easy and I had to come back to it a couple of times due to getting bored part way through.