of his lung. 26 September – Rock and Ice Club formed by a group of climbers in Manchester. 30 September – Festival of Britain ends. October – Exercise Surprise Packet, the largest British peacetime military exercise. 5 October – with three weeks to go before the second general election in less than two years, opinion polls suggest that the Conservative Party led by previous wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill, will oust Clement Attlee's Labour government from power after six years; with a majority of 75 to 100 seats and a share of the vote of up to 50%. 17 October – Austin A30 car introduced. 26 October – The Conservative Party led by Winston Churchill wins the general election, regaining (a month before his seventy-seventh birthday) the position of Prime Minister that he lost six years previously, with a majority of seventeen seats, though with slightly fewer votes than the Labour Party which wins the most votes of any party at any UK general election until 1992 and highest percentage vote share but will not return to government until 1964. The Liberal Party receives its lowest-ever share of the popular vote. Four Ulster Unionist candidates are returned unopposed in Northern Ireland, the last general election in which any candidate is so returned. This is also the last election in which the Conservatives achieve a stronger result in Scotland than in England. 31 October Zebra crossings, a type of pedestrian crossing, introduced for the first time. Egypt unilaterally abrogates the Anglo-Egyptian treaty of 1936. 2 November – 6,000 British troops are sent to Egypt to deal with anti-British disturbances at Fayid in the Suez Canal Zone. 3 November – Express Dairies, owned by 28-year-old Patrick Galvani, open Britain's first full-size supermarket in Streatham Hill, London. This year also, Fine Fare opens its first supermarket, in Welwyn Garden City. 7 November – UK bank rate, maintained at 2% since 26 October 1939, is raised. 20 November More than 1,000 families of British servicemen begin to move out of the Suez Canal Zone of Egypt after a shooting, which claimed the lives of five British soldiers as well as nine Egyptian civilians. The Prime Minister's Resignation Honours are announced, to mark the resignation of Prime Minister Clement Attlee. 24 November – Beinn Eighe in Scotland becomes Britain's first national nature reserve. 29 November – LEO becomes the world's first computer to run a