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Driving: The Department of Transport Manual

Is it safe?

We found a copy of an old HMSO book lying around over the weekend, and thought we'd share some of the brilliant images from its pages.

The book was first published in 1969 by the Department of Transport and the Central Office of Information. Our copy is the third edition, from 1979, and the tenth impression, from 1987.

There's more than a hint of Scarfolk in the photography and captions:

Heading for trouble

Looking

Red car

Red car 2

The illustrations are wonderful too:

Headlights

Accelerator

Feet per second

Dead Ground

Junction

The back of the book advertises some films on road safety - we'd love to see DRIVE CAREFULLY DARLING.

posted: 30 March 2015
categories: Books | Ephemera | Illustration | Photography
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