Gordon Wilkins covers the world of motoring with Judith Jackson

The first snow of the winter often brings chaos to roads in Britain. Cars and lorries skid to a stop; buses stay in the garage. The cost to the country in absence from work and undelivered goods can be counted in millions of pounds.
Whose fault is this? Weather men with inaccurate forecasts? Local authorities with too few snow ploughs? Or motorists using the wrong tyres and the wrong kind of driving?
Wheelbase looks for some answers at the 1969 Winter Conference at Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps, where the world's leading experts on snow-clearing have been meeting to demonstrate how the right methods and machines can make war on winter and keep the traffic moving.
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