LOSE YOURSELF IN 1962
STIRLING MOSS CRASHES AT GOODWOOD Stirling Moss was seriously injured when his Lotus left the track at Fordwater during the International 100 race on Easter Monday. He wrote in 2012: ‘I went straight into this earth bank at 100mph without a seatbelt on, and that’s the last thing I can remember.’ It took half an hour to free him from the wreckage. The Guardian reported on 24 April 1962: ‘Moss was taken to the Royal West Sussex Hospital, Chichester, where he was stated last night to be suffering from head injuries, lacerations, and a suspected fractured leg.’ LAST RUN OF LONDON’S TROLLEYBUSES The London Public Transport Board decided, in 1954, to remove the city’s trolleybus network by the end of the decade. Trams had disappeared two years previously, leaving Routemasters to represent the future. 8 May 1962 marked the end of a 31-year tradition in the capital; and so many Londoners wanted to ride on London’s last trolleybus that it did not return to the depot until the early hours of following morning. PANDA CROSSINGS York Road by Waterloo Station was the setting for Britain’s latest road safety initiative – the Panda Crossing. It was primarily a refinement of the Zebra Crossing, which it was intended to supersede. The road was marked with a line of isosceles triangles and pressing a button caused an amber light to pulsate as a warning for drivers to slow down. Five seconds later it would turn red, and a ‘cross’ sign would be displayed to waiting pedestrians. Local authorities adopted the system in Guildford and Lincoln, but it confused pedestrians and drivers alike and disappeared into history in 1967.