These two quotes were printed next to each other in the 13th June 1964 issue of *The Motor*:

“We want to create a buyer resistance to small cars and to arouse demands by customers for more safety devices.”

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The Society of Automotive Historians in Britain (SAHB) is a ‘Chapter’ of the Society of Automotive Historians (SAH) that was founded in USA in 1969 to:

encourage research, preservation, recording, compilation, and publication of historic facts concerning the development of the automobile and related items, from its inception to the present day, throughout the world.

Membership is open to all those who share these aims, whether of amateur or professional status.

For its members, the SAH provides a unique camaraderie and an information exchange network through which other people with similar interests can be located. The Society’s membership also includes corporations, museums and other institutions that support the preservation of our motoring heritage for future generations to appreciate.

Given the current concerns being expressed about the impact that so-called ‘biofuels’ might have on food production, the following quote from the February 1953 issue of Popular Science magazine seems remarkably prescient (if also a shade optimistic):

“Someday we will raise our fuel just as we did when we used horses. One acre ought to run an automobile for a year.”

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