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Among the shelves of automotive paperwork I’ve got a number of Highway Codes; a pretty fair selection covering the period from 1935 to the present day which provides a fascinating insight into how motoring has changed over the past 85 years.

The 1935 book has a cover price of 1d as until relatively recently the code’s production costs were subsidised to encourage purchase. It runs to just 24 pages. Minister of Transport Leslie Hore Belisha (as in the

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