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8:54am on Thursday, 13th November, 2025:
Anecdote
One of the books I bought at the NSPCC book fair was Eagle Annual 9, from 1959. It's a wonderful trove of mid-20th Century British thinking packaged for the consumption of boys.
Here, for example, are the illustrations accompanying an article called "Trends in Car Design":

The fact that today's cars largely look the same as each other somewhat belies this 1950s optimism.
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