Fahren mit Pfiff : driving with flair : Deutsche Shell Aktiengesellschaft : 1962 : Setts and Peasoupers
A "practical guide" issued by Shell in Germany in 1962 and with the exhortation that you should "drive better to drive safer". You cannot argue with that! It contains many examples of contrasting unsafe and safe driving practises with illustrations and photographs.
Towards the end of the booklet the issues of driving in difficult conditions is addressed. On the left, driving on recently rained on cobbles or setts is discussed. On the right, the "driver's worst spoilsport, fog" is discussed and interestingly a photograph of a London "peasouper" is used to illustrate the text.
For many years London and other urban centres suffered from dreadful fogs, or 'smogs', particularly when specific meteorological conditions met with the output from millions of coal fires to create almost impossible fogs; dangerous to navigate even in daylight hours' and lethal in terms of impacts on public health. Following The Great Smog of December 1952 in London that effectively paralysed the city and caused thousands of premature deaths due to respiratory issues the Clean Air Act was passed in 1956 to start to address the issues of visual pollution.
The photograph shows a London Transport trolleybus - one of the few vehicles on the road that did not produce at source fumes - inching its way through a junction controlled by a policeman on points duty under a spotlamp. LT staff were issued with flares so that conductors could walk in front of vehicles to guide the way for the driver in the worst conditions.
The 665 ran from Bloomsbury to Barking.
Fahren mit Pfiff : driving with flair : Deutsche Shell Aktiengesellschaft : 1962 : Setts and Peasoupers
A "practical guide" issued by Shell in Germany in 1962 and with the exhortation that you should "drive better to drive safer". You cannot argue with that! It contains many examples of contrasting unsafe and safe driving practises with illustrations and photographs.
Towards the end of the booklet the issues of driving in difficult conditions is addressed. On the left, driving on recently rained on cobbles or setts is discussed. On the right, the "driver's worst spoilsport, fog" is discussed and interestingly a photograph of a London "peasouper" is used to illustrate the text.
For many years London and other urban centres suffered from dreadful fogs, or 'smogs', particularly when specific meteorological conditions met with the output from millions of coal fires to create almost impossible fogs; dangerous to navigate even in daylight hours' and lethal in terms of impacts on public health. Following The Great Smog of December 1952 in London that effectively paralysed the city and caused thousands of premature deaths due to respiratory issues the Clean Air Act was passed in 1956 to start to address the issues of visual pollution.
The photograph shows a London Transport trolleybus - one of the few vehicles on the road that did not produce at source fumes - inching its way through a junction controlled by a policeman on points duty under a spotlamp. LT staff were issued with flares so that conductors could walk in front of vehicles to guide the way for the driver in the worst conditions.
The 665 ran from Bloomsbury to Barking.