Scrapping scheme in England
A scrapping scheme has also been introduced in England. The Taxi testifies on the pictures. Who would have thought that a time would come in England when everything would no longer be kept?
More than twenty years ago this was unimaginable and now it is even the case that the older cars do not automatically get an exemption for road tax and MOT. In England the border is fixed and not like ours for all cars older than 25 to 30 years. That is where the boundary was laid for the 1973 year. All cars registered after 1 1 1973 have a breakdown. When you drive around England now you see just as few classic vehicles on the road as with us. A few years ago, a smoking ban was also introduced in England in the hospitality industry, so that the cozy atmosphere has disappeared. That was strange because in England there were already separate areas for smokers and non-smokers. In the hotels there were also separate rooms for non-smokers. I had not dared to predict that such a radical anti-smoking campaign would be conducted. But I dare to predict something else: there will come a time when England will no longer have a queen but a king.
Text and photo: Jacques van den Bergh