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rrilE amenities and business conditions of modern life are so bound up with the wonderful advances made in the commercial...
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" E first that you may be of service"' has ever been the guiding principle in the policy of The Commercial Motor. It has not...
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Of express Kegresse progress. That a fool and his licence are soon parted. Heated discussions re white discs on cycles. That...
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'The wheeze of wealth will be slowed by all difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the...
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We reproduce on this page an illustration of a Caledon rigid six-wheeled chassis fitted with lorry body, which is owned by a...
The special committee appointed by the Glasgow Corporation to consider the provision of vehicles for the transport and...
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The Basle Fair, which is an annual event of importance to the Swiss industry, will this year be held from April 17th to 27th....
At a meeting of the Eastbourne Curportation, Mr. II. W. Fovargue, the town clerk, reported that the borough treasurer had...
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in an instructive poster which has recently been issued by the London General Omnibus Co., Ltd., the travelling public is...
Coventry Corporation proposes to institute a service -of motorbuses between the city and Einlei. . Wakefield Corporation has...
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The Status of the A.E.C., Ltd. The Omnibuses Bill and the New Power Given by It. Police Examination of Licences. By Our...
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Thoughts and Ideas Arising Out of Many Reminiscences of the Days When this Journal was Young. By Edward S. Shrapnell-Smith,...
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Some Reminiscences of the Pioneer Days and the Early Efforts of Those Upon Whom Fell the Brunt of Initiating the Motor...
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Some of the Factors Needed for Revolutionary Changes. The Probability that Moderation will be Evident in the Advances Towards...
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A Short History of the Mechanical Transport Activities . of Carter, Paterson and Co., Ltd. By Arthur Paterson. T O make...
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Taxation of Commercial Vehicles. The Railway Companies' Grievance, The Problem of Rural Rates. By W. Rees Jeffreys....
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A Comparison with the Commercial Motor Conditions of 1905. By Henry Stariney. I T was really a very bold thing for the...
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Why We Were Handicapped for Many Years. Three Stages of Designing Effort. Difficulties in Obtaining Materials. The Final...
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All Pretence Should be Cast to the Winds, our Transport Laws Brought into Line with Common Practice and Transport Regarded in...
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Types Likely to be Most Popular. Facilitating Loading and Unloading. Cleanliness in Food Transport. Mobile Refrigerators. The...
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T llE honour of being the first public body to adopt motor vehicles for the purposes of refuse collection, street watering and...
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The Era 1905-14, Which. was Notable for the Pluck and Enterprise of the Pioneers in Motorbus Design and Construction. p RIOR...
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The Reminiscences of a Pioneer in the Bus World. Some Absorbingly Interesting Inside Information. By Colonel Frank Searle,...
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An Advanced Idea in which the Travelling Hotel Accommodating Sixteen Passengers Consists of Three Vehicles. T HE travelling...
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An Interesting Dip into the Past of the Steam Wagon. The Unrequited Efforts of the Engineers of the 18th and 19th Centuries....
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A Few Notes by A. Whalesby Windsor, M.B.E., A.M.I.Mech.E., M.I.A.E., M.Inst.T., at One Time Chief Technical Assistant Editor of...
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./8*: Brief History of the Progress of a Much Favoured Form of Transport Vehicle. A LREA.DY, in 1905, the steam wagon 1 -...
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The Extremely Good Work Done by an Association Which Embraces the Leading Users of the Country in the Removal of Obstructions...
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An Interesting Survey of the Growth and Development of the Motorbus Industry, with a Review of the Capital Employed and the...
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What are the Probable Developments Within the Next Few Years in Electric Vehicles and the Methods of Operating them ? By...
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By H. A. Starch, A.M.I.Mech.E., A.M.I.A.E. (One-time Member of "The C.M." Editorial Staff.) M Y felicitations, sir, to The...
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Considerable Enterprise in Nearly All Departments of the Heavy Vehicle Section of the Industry. I T is a curious fact that,...
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The Difficulty of Making a Choice of District for Operating a Rural Bus Service. I N bygone days dwellers in cosntry villages...
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The Editor invites corresPondence on all subjects connected with the use of commercial motors. Letters should be on one side of...
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F ROM the very first number of this V journal, the question of fuel supplies for the ever-growing number of motor vehicles,...
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Practical Experiences Recounted by Our Driver and Mechanic Readers. M ANY who are familiar with the Garrett undertype steam...