Keith Laybourn (with David Taylor), The Battle for the Roads of Britain: Police Motorists and the Law, c 1890-1970. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, 238 p., ISBN: 978-0-230-35932-1
2018
The great economic and personal benefits brought by motor vehicles came with a downside: their challenge to the maintenance of order on the roads and a degree of human carnage from death and injury that raised difficult questions of how governments should most effectually respond. In a broadly chronological account, the book explores responses predominantly from the police point of view. Impressive diligence marshals a great variety of sources including from provincial areas to give non-metr...
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