Re: Speed Limits

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From: Dylan Smith
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:23

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In article <21157@acorn.co.uk> steve@acorn.co.uk (Steve "daffy" Hunt) writes:

>As far as the higher design speed is concerned, remember that
>initially the motorways were unrestricted (ie, no speed limit).  I
>think the "experimental" 70mph limit was introduced in the early
>seventies.

I think it was in fact introduced during one of the oil crises to
reduce fuel consumption.
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From: d_smith@csd.uwe.ac.uk (Dylan Smith)
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Subject: Re: Speed Limits
Message-ID: <1993Jan26.162345.28953@csd.uwe.ac.uk>
Date: 26 Jan 93 16:23:45 GMT
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