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<p>New page: <a href="/index.php?title=Category:Subseries_HLG_159" title="Category:Subseries HLG 159">Category:Subseries HLG 159</a> {{Header | title = Ministry of Transport supporting documents | daterange = 1970-1972 | nacatref = 8186194 | series = HLG | subseries = 159 }} {{Was...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>[[Category:Subseries HLG 159]]<br /> {{Header<br /> | title = Ministry of Transport supporting documents<br /> | daterange = 1970-1972<br /> | nacatref = 8186194<br /> | series = HLG<br /> | subseries = 159<br /> }}<br /> <br /> {{Waste of Time}}<br /> <br /> ==Context==<br /> This file comes in two parts which must be ordered separately, doubling the amount of time and effort you&#039;d have to invest in order to pull out the two thick wedges of uselessness that reside at this file reference. Together, they are a dumping ground for several publications that the Ministry of Transport handed to the GLDP Inquiry as evidence, without any explanation or supporting documentation, and clearly at a loss for what to do with them, they were plonked here to be forgotten.<br /> <br /> In the first file, HLG 159/159/1, you will find a multiple-volume report by the Ministry of Transport called &quot;Transport of Goods by Road&quot;, showing (at great length) national figures for tonnage of goods hauled between various population centres. Great.<br /> <br /> The second file is a little more varied in its selection of dry Ministry reports, containing as it does:<br /> * &#039;&#039;Operating Costs in Road Transport&#039;&#039; (Department of the Environment)<br /> *&#039;&#039;Transport for Industry&#039;&#039; (Ministry of Transport)<br /> *&#039;&#039;Highway Statistics 1969&#039;&#039; (Ministry of Transport)<br /> *&#039;&#039;The West Cumberland Transport Survey&#039;&#039; (Oh Dear God)<br /> <br /> I actually spent some time looking through these and they have only a tangential bearing on the less interesting side of our research into proposed London road schemes. They are, in short, no use at all.<br /> <br /> My notes on this file summarise it as &quot;approximately the most boring thing I have ever looked at&quot;.<br /> <br /> ==People with camera copies==<br /> You&#039;d have to be mad.</div>

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