Seventy years in the past this winter, the streets of Britain fell eerily quiet. After one final panic shopping for spree, many garages shut, and visitors even within the coronary heart of London dwindled away. The formal introduction of petrol rationing had begun, limiting drivers to 200 miles’ price a month – with exceptions for farmers, docs and vicars – after the Suez disaster blocked gas provides from the Gulf.
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