Held at the Midland Hotel, Derby on 15 October 2002:

• Learning from history ~ Garry Turvey CBE,

• Survival rates in the road haulage industry - What's new?
  ~ David Holding, Newcastle Business School, University of Northumbria

• Paying for a tramway: In the black, in the red, or green with envy ~ Richard Buckley B.Sc.(Econ), M.Sc. Ph.D.

• Tolls, Turnpikes and Traffic ~ Dorian Gerhold

• The Lesson That History Forgot - one man operated buses: a necessary evil? ~ Kevin Hey, University of Salford

• Bearing the heat and burden of the day - Pirate bus firms then and now ~ Professor John Hibbs, University of Central England

Papers are available as a booklet at £4 post-free from

            Roger Atkinson

            45 Dee Banks,
            CHESTER, CH3 5UU

Please make cheques payable to "Roads & Road Transport History Association Ltd."

picture: toll-gate, London Road, Worcester, 1800s

2002 Symposium ~ Learning from History

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