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Above is the new VEHICLE CONTROL RECORD. But it is more than just a record to control every vehicle in your fleet. You can...
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F OR many years successive Governments have shied at suggestions that they should take more practical steps towards the...
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W ITH the growing use of the oil engine in the lighter types of vehicle, the time has passed when it was economical to use...
Light-alloy Body Sections by I.C.I. PURTHER to our reference of April 9, concernin g the A.E.C.-Strachans coaches for...
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" Where do all the lost tyre-valve caps go?" That good as they are, valve cores should not be required to bear all the heat...
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QECTION 61 (2) of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, and Section 25 (1) of the Road Traffic Act, 1934, should be repealed and replaced...
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LORD RAMSDEN has, on account of illhealth, resigned his seat on the board of G. Beaton and Son, LW. MR. N. E. E. MURCH has...
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News from Eight Areas MAMES of many of the 179 successful tenderers for transport units without premises in List RI arc now...
D URING the current financial year, Salford Transport Department expects to lose £32,900 because of the general recession in...
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ICENSING AUTHORITIES seem to be willing to allow vehicles 1 " bought from British Road Services to be moved many miles from the...
A FTER meeting the demand for small units, the remainder of the assets of British Road Services should be sold at reasonable...
n ESPITE a short early setback, the motor industry's export trade improved later in 1953 and continued to do so during the...
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V. W. M. Maitland (Hampshire Motors), Fordingbridge, to operate an express service between West Moors Army camp, Dorset, and...
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Passenger Transport in Notts—Part 3 T HE history of the Midland General Omnibus Co., Ltd., and their associates. the Notts and...
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Q NE of the largest 30 m.p.h. vehicles with a timber body yet made. a Bedford 1,500-cu.-ft. pantechnicon has been put into...
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T HE latest Labour Party publication on British transport cannot make up its mind whether to be a broadsheet or a broadside, a...
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W HILST it, is possible to test a vehicle on a flat road and take comparable tachometer and speedometer readings throughout its...
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rACUUM metallizing of metal, plastics, glass and other substances with a highly reflective surface is being ended. The...
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W E were grinding across the wilderness of the southern Sahara in an old Lancia oilengined lorry when suddenly, Vidal, the...
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F OUR-WHEEL-DRIVE forestry tractors adapted for tropical working at altitudes up to 8.000 ft. in the Mount Kilimanjaro region,...
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WE have been advised that our tender for unit 66/654 " of Bristol, which was re-offered in list R.I., has been refused, The...
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A N increase of 75 per cent. in ' the annual vehicle mileage in the four years since 1949 and a corresponding fleet strength...
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B ASED on a Dodge 144 7-ton chassis with a 141-in. wheelbase, a 6-cu.-yd. tipper has been placed in service on sand and gravel...
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E ARLY in July, meat rationing is to end, and the control of imported and home-killed meat and fatstock will cease. For nearly...
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are the farmers, some sending their fatstock to auction, others sending direct for slaughter and sale off the hook. It is...
The Postmaster-General hopes to make a statement soon about the development of V.H.F. broadcasting. Through the Ministry of...
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The Cost involved in Keeping Old Vehicles Can Ruin a Haulier Not Only Because of Expensive Overhauls and Repairs, but Also...
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I T is usual to design oil engines for a high compression ratio with a view to reducing the time lag between injection and...