1933 - It’s a cold Saturday evening in late January. The Periam family are on the road between Boston and Spalding in Lincolnshire. Young Jack is driving, Gerard is the front passenger. Ruby and George are in the back with a family friend, Mrs Taylor. All is going well – until the car loses grip and starts to skid. Before they know it, the Periams are involved in a very nasty crash.

1955 - Chris de Blocq van Kuffeler – a GEM member of Austrian, German and Belgian heritage – is excited as a youngster to await the arrival of their first family car. He’s living at a Dutch naval establishment where his father is based – and the plan is to take it across on the ferry for a holiday in England. However, things don’t quite go to plan.

1958 - Douglas Harper is looking forward to finish work for a brief Christmas holiday which will be spent with family in Ipswich… but with rapidly deteriorating weather and a failing electric system on his car, he starts to worry that he’s not going to make it…

Valerie Singleton presents Voices from the Road, an exciting project in which we will seek to create and build a fascinating audio archive capturing the widest possible range of motoring memories – starting way back in 1932. These stories could be individual accounts of road journeys… exciting adventures… and achievements from specific years…  as well as more noteworthy developments in road safety, vehicle technology and motoring law. The key thing is the people telling the stories... it’s all about real life on the road.

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