Vintage work crew photos

[Jon]

New York City Port Authority tunnel police. 1950s.

It looks like we have a new winner in the "Early Days of Speeding and Cultural Innocence" category:

Police officer instructs ostrich carriage to slow down. Los Angeles, California. 1930. Largest image size available:

[ranald]

It looks like we have a new winner in the "Early Days of Speeding and Cultural Innocence" category:

Police officer instructs ostrich carriage to slow down. Los Angeles, California. 1930. Largest image size available:

More recently, this decade, I was delivering spring water in the 19.6 litre bottles to a company called "laminex Industries". While doing my induction, I learnt that if any vehicle went over 8 kph the driver would be expelled "for ever":years before they had had a death on the site caused mostly by speeding over the original 15 kph. Its pretty hard to keep a truck moving at 5 mph=1st gear only. even the large Cat dozers crawled up the mountains of wood chips. Every employee (except office staff) had a pushie either 2 wheeled or trike with a carry basket. One of the guys used to unlock some roller doors for me so I could manually unload the required full bottles to a destination near the water coolers, and I removed the empties: he told me they caught him on his push bike doing 8 kph resulting in a warning to "show cause why he shouldn't be sacked" = no fines, just a last warning.
That took speeding & safety to a whole new level: they had speed cameras everywhere even in the warehouses.