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Using a Safety Harness
Transport - Road
Driver and passengers fitted with safety harness. Such harness can often protect a car's occupants from what would otherwise have been a fatal accident.

Source: Country Life, December 4, 1958

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Car crash, Manchester
Transport - Road
Strangely enough, although five were injured, no one was killed in this 1957 pile-up which took place on Princess Parkway, Northenden, Manchester.

Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, September 1958

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Manchester Ship Canal
Transport - Canals
A view of No. 9 Dock, looking towards the city centre. The large building at the head of this dock is No. 2 Grain Elevator, which has a storage capacity of 40,000 tons. The dock is equipped with the most up-to-date cargo-handling facilities in the country.

Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, October 1957

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Manchester Ship Canal
Transport - Canals
The pride of the Manchester Ship Canal Co - the Queen Elizabeth II Dock, the largest oil dock in Britain. Opened by the Queen in January, 1954, it covers an area of nineteen acres, and is both longer and wider than Trafalgar Square.

Source: Lancashire Life Magazine, October 1957

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Omnibus
Transport - Road
The comfort of a modern London Transport omnibus, c1935.

Source: The Story of Twenty-Five Years, 1935

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Omnibus
Transport - Road
Pre-war London omnibus which would rattle along at a few miles per hour.

Source: The Story of Twenty-Five Years, 1935

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