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Old 21st Dec 2013, 10:36
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mikehallam
 
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The Slough 'experiment' was on the main West Rd, i.e. the A4, and had loads of lights all set to make you do either a steady 30 mph or if you were quick and lucky (Velocette 500 MSS) 60 mph.

Slough was where the Citroen Bijou was manufactured as an alternative to the 2 CV on the same chassis, but with a rather pretty plastic/Fi glass (?) body. The underworks were still lightly built steel rails and suffered from the usual ravages of the tin worm.

I've a feeling the whole idea of timed lights was dropped and in the UK we succumbed to wholesale deployment of roundabouts, nowadays reduced to vestigial white circles.

mike hallam.
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