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Motoring

Doctor's oil remedy was the real thing

CAR engines running on Coca-Cola? Sounds far fetched but a Norden-born scientist managed to make it a reality.

Ripped in two - yet everybody survived

A SCENE of utter devastation greeted the emergency services when they arrived at the scene of an accident in Albert Royds Street in October 1969.

Eric's lesson had sudden drop in interest

ONE moment he was sat in his parked car - the next he was plunging 30-feet into the River Roch.

A touch of speed, glamour ... and a dog on the horn

VIRTUALLY since it first hit the road the motorcycle has been a head-turner.

Children's champ was still unbeaten

HE WAS the children's champion, the man with a long unbeaten record in the realms of road safety.