Blast fron the past 1962 - 50 years ago...
By: Web Editor
The big news story in 1962 was the Cuban Missile Crisis, which involved the USSR becoming friends with Cuba and the Americans not really liking that at all. It was also the year the British Government introduced the panda crossing, a pedestrian road crossing that was to replace the zebra crossing. Using black and white triangles instead of stripes on the road, it too wasn’t popular and was replaced by the pelican crossing in 1969.
The year that saw Elvis Presley, The Shadows, Ray Charles, Cliff Richard and Wendy Richard topping the UK pop music charts was also a time that saw the scooter market in this country accelerate in its decline. Sales had peaked in the late 1950s, but the introduction of affordable numerous bubble cars halfway through the decade was taking its toll. From overseas there were little three (and sometimes four) wheelers from the likes of BMW, Heinkel and Isetta, while companies such as Bond, Reliant and Peel were producing them in Great Britain. For an ever more affluent postwar population, a vehicle with doors and a roof was certainly more desirable...
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