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This lovely ephemeral item, issued by the Dunlop Rubber Company in assocaition with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, appears here through the kindness of a good pal, Doug Rose, who has scanned and stiched it together. It was intended as a school teaching aid with one side as a display poster full of safety hints and tips, including many cycling details, and the other as an aide-mémoire for teachers to use in class.
The main chart is very detailed and has lots of useful advice! I love the fact that tram tracks, and their tricky nature for some cyclists, are still shown and the borders contain what was then the UK's standard road sign designs a few years before they were replaced by the new Worboys Committee inspired designs by Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir.
Dunlop stated here that their generosity, allied to the campaigning work of ROSPA, was due to their interests in both road vehicles and cycling - mostly through tyres and inner tubes. At the time the company's main headquarters and works in the UK was at Fort Dunlop in Birmingham. This massive site, developed in the latter years of the First World War and into the 1920s, was one of the world's largest tyre production plants until a combination of imports and declining home markets (with the closures of many UK car manufacturing plans) saw Dunlop close down from the 1990s onwards. The imposing building survives having been re-purposed.
Children play in the street in this evocative street scene from the collection of the Greater Manchester Police Museum.
The image is uncaptioned so we have no information about where or when it was taken.
Many similar slides in our collection date from around 1911 but this looks a little later.
We think it may have been taken to illustrate issues of road safety.
Do you recognise the location?
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You should call 101, national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111. Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.
In 2008, four-year-old Alexa Middelaer was killed by an impaired driver. In honour of Alexa's memory BC introduced tough new measures saving an estimated 227 lives to date.
The second edition of "Driven A Woman's Rally" 2017, which was held in Bengaluru city and more than 200 teams participated.
Further picture of Strathclyde Police RPU BMW 5 series, and Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) DTU, taken at a slight angle to show the front of the SAS DTU, complete with service crest on the bonnet.
Campaign group Stop Killing Cyclists stage a demo and die-in at the UK Treasury calling on government to increase spending on cycling and pedestrian provision, in line with UN recommendations. With many wearing gas masks, they highlighted the impact on public health of road traffic pollution - which include thousands of deaths and debilitating lung and heart diseases - and its contribution to global climate change. Tributes were read to cyclists and pedestrians recently killed on London's streets.
More info about the event here.
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Tractors are widely used in both land plowing and transportation purposes in rural Bangladesh. In many cases, they are primary cause in fatal road accidents due to lack of training for the operators. In addition, requirement of a license to operate such vehicles is often overlooked here. All of this contribute to unsafe road travel for the road users.
This is what I don't understand, why don't Indian women wear helmets? This woman is carrying her helmet like a shopping basket on her lap! Is it surprising that the highest number of traffic fatalities due to head injuries in India involve women, not men? And then her sari is flying around, when it should be all tucked so as to not get stuck in a wheel. And the driver is wearing flip-flops which makes it that much easier to lose control on the bike! Just basic safety measures -- is what people still don't understand in India!
Cheshire Police TCD 383J, an ex Crosville (originally Southdown) Fleetline, in use as a road safety exhi-unit.
Warrington, 02/03/1991.
Those of us who recall the BBC's "Woodentops" may take a second look at this as the figures illustrated in this 1923 LGOC (part of the then London Underground Group) safety leaflet do look a bit similar! The artist V M Macdonald was commissioned by the Underground Group for several works at this time, including posters. This leaflet shows and warns of the danger of a variety of road traffic and similar situations.
For many years this amazing cast concrete notice board sat in the grounds of Ray Hall Park in Woodford and I can't recall ever seeing anything else quite like this. Unusually it was in good condition with no real signs of spalling or rusting on the reinforcement bars. The two corroding bolts must have held a timber frame for posters.
The combined name of Wanstead and Woodford is a reminder of the old Municipal Borough of that name that existed from 1934 until 1965 when it became part of the London Borough of Redbridge.
Road Safety Poster circa 1939 - 1959
Road Safety
Ever have a close shave? Not with a razor, but almost a "road eraser," when you have been aware of the "too closeness" of that unattractive "near miss!" Sure you have!
And did you later face up to this "near miss" and analyse your actions to determine whether or not you were at fault?
Maybe your driving habits have slipped! Nearly 29,000 road smashes on Queensland roads during twelve months says many road users are not concentrating on driving and arriving safely!
There's definitely a "you" in caution!
One step nearer the grave is often caused by a "heel" behind the wheel!
There were nearly 1,100 pedestrian casualties last year. No use keeping both feet on the ground unless your safety practices are down to earth!
Stopping to yield right - right of way - let's live to drive another day!
"Courtesy - Proficiency - Safety" - the motto of the Motor Cycle Proficiency League will be well in evidence during Motor Cycle Gala Week extending from November 20 to 28.
Description source:
Western Star, 26 November 1954
View the original image at the Queensland State Archives:
In 2008, four-year-old Alexa Middelaer was killed by an impaired driver. In honour of Alexa's memory BC introduced tough new measures saving an estimated 227 lives to date.
Notes: marking pedestrian crossing prior to the opening of Yeaman Bridge.
Format: Colour photograph
Date Range: The Yeaman bridge opened March 1, 1985
Licensing: Attribution, share alike, creative commons 3.0.
Repository: Blue Mountains City Library www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/yourcommunity/library
Part of: Local Studies Collection - PF 2978
Provenance: John Falloon
This motorist has a kill list on his car showing how many cats, rabbits, squirrels, disabled, wheelchair users, mobility scooter users, the elderly and infirm and last of all cyclists he has killed on the road.
Road Safety Poster circa 1939 - 1957
Warning On Road Safety
Melbourne, Sunday.- In a grim warning tonight the president of the Australian Road Safety Council (Mr. T. G. Paterson) said holiday motorists should:
- Not mix drinks with driving;
- Keep speed down;
- Remember it was better to be a few minute late than to be dead on time;
- Schedule their runs so they could reach home without speeding.
Any motorists who thought they need not take any notice of this should remember one more thing, he said.
"On Easter Monday last year 11 people were killed and 110 injured, and since Thursday 16 people had been killed in Australia in road accidents."
Description source:
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What a remarkable offshoot from the Gas Accumulator Company, manufacturers of lighthouse equipment! A miniature lighthouse, designed as a warning beacon on the road. They appear to have run on a gas accumlator system in the base, as the advert claims that independent of electricity or gas connections, they run for six months! I have to say I've never seen a picture of one in use, despite the list of customers.
The second edition of the vast publication the "Municipal and Road Engineers' Standard Catalogue, 1929 - 1932" contains many hundreds of pages of adverts showing plant, appliances and supplies across a wide range of 'municipal' engineering such as road construction, lighting, refuse disposal, water supplies and sewerage and park equipment.
In 2008, four-year-old Alexa Middelaer was killed by an impaired driver. In honour of Alexa's memory BC introduced tough new measures saving an estimated 260 lives to date.
This remarkable concrete structure was constructed at Congleton in Cheshire to act as a warning sign to motorists at the top of a steep hill of the dangers ahead. At night the large panel was illuminated. The structure is topped off by a chimney - the ground floor being fitted out by the Royal Automobile Club as a room for motorists to rest and recuperate. This odd structure apparently survived until c1939. This appears in Ferro-Concrete Magazine for 1924.
Ka-BOOM! Blasting as part of widening Granby Road 3km north of Grand Forks through November. Widening 565m to improve sight distance and safety.
Salford City Police’s version of the Keystone Cops prepare to hit the road in a Rolls Royce…all in the name of road safety and crime prevention.
We think this image was most likely taken prior to a parade or carnival back in the early 1960s. The location is probably the yard of the force’s headquarters.
From the collection of the Greater Manchester Police Museum and Archives.
To find out more about Greater Manchester Police please visit our website.
You should call 101, the new national non-emergency number, to report crime and other concerns that do not require an emergency response.
Always call 999 in an emergency, such as when a crime is in progress, violence is being used or threatened or where there is danger to life.
You can also call anonymously with information about crime to Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
Crimestoppers is an independent charity who will not want your name, just your information. Your call will not be traced or recorded and you do not have to go to court or give a statement.