Brenda White and Anne Crowther at the University of Glasgow have done work on the history of drunk driving.

Virginia Berridge

Virginia Berridge,
Head of Unit and Professor of History,
Health Promotion Research Unit,
Department of Public Health and Policy,
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
Keppel Street,
London,WC1E 7HT.
Tel; 0171-927-2269 ; Fax; 0171-637-3238.

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I am wondering if anyone has done any work on drink driving in the 1920s and
1930s. Temperance groups were quite certain that alcohol was connected to
driver impairment and road fatalities, but in the absence of an accurate
'drunkometer' they found it hard to convince the wider community. Do you
know of any work which explores this, or gives some useful analysis of how
people viewed their 'right' to drink and to drive  without regulation in the
1920s and 1930s?
        Ellen Warne, Department of History, University of Melbourne, Australia.