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Would-be Purchasers of Transport Units are Searching in the Dark for Guidance O NE of the most perplexing problems facing...
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w ELL-ORGANIZED road transport is essential to the success of all agricultural shows, and to that of the Royal as much as of...
The Lights that Failed pRIGHT in its Coronation finish, a 30-seater coach stood parked on a bombed site near the centre of...
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" Cutting-in " is a surgeon's job—not yours. That the deflector kerb seems to possess excellent That increases of fares are...
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DROVISIONS covering tractor • I drivers, the towing of articulated vehicles and the licensing of vehicles to carry harvest...
IT is understood that London Trans1 port is testing A.E.C., Leyland and Bristol lightweight single-deckers on certain country...
increase in wages has been made by unions representing operating and maintenance workers in company and municipal passenger...
O NLY nine of the 178 exhibitors at the Scottish Motor Show, to be held in Glasgow from November 13-21, will be...
A S the bus service to Hill View, Sunderland, is being operated at a loss, Sunderland Transport Committee are recommending that...
D RAFT regulations governing staff compensation under the Transport Act, 1953. will be laid before both Houses of Parliament by...
were made in this country in May. an increase of 300 per week on the previous average for this year, and nearly 3,000 more than...
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NJ/EMBERS of the Road Haulage iViDisposal Board last week visited the South Western Divisional Headquarters of the Road Haulage...
receipt of small PI consignments for vessels loading at India and Millwall Docks has been closed by the Port of London...
O VER 40 members of the United Service Transport Co., Ltd., were, last Saturday, presented with gold watches to mark 20 years'...
A BILL has been promoted in Parliament to confirm the ProvisiOnal Order under which Walsall Corporation are granted power to...
D EGULATIONS restricting the 1N, delivery of coke and other fuel to or from vehicles in certain streets in the London Traffic...
L AST Sunday. the ban on coaches bringing private parties into the inner zone of London was lifted by the Metropolitan Police...
A WARNING to dealers who use superlative language in advertising vehicles was given by Judge Walmsley at Salford County Court,...
MINETY Leyland bus chassis have been ordered by the Israeli Ministry of Communications. The bodies will be built in Israel....
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'TONNAGE carried and miles .I. travelled by British Road Services continued at a lower level than last year, but revenue is...
CURTHER evidence of the determina1.' tion of the railways, foreshadowed by The Commercial Motor, to recover traffic in troops...
MR. E. R. HowLE - rr and MR. C. J. RricHtE have retired from the board of cling-Barford, Ltd. MR. K. C. T. MARSHALL has...
A MONG proposals to be put fortt ward at the biennial conference of the Transport and General Workers' Union, which opens at...
DART-TIME operators who are 1 abstracting the regular Operakirs . week-end private-hire business are . attacked in a letter...
T HE Association of Municipal Corporations have told the Thesiger Committee that they are in favour of continuing the...
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A N annual increase in operating costs of E214,500 was the reason given (last Friday) by Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co.,...
A SYSTEM of handling bulk cement by using portable silos and a mechanical "cement man," will ha demonstrated by F. Shepherd and...
I N future, the Leyland 350 model 90 b.h.p. oil engine will be supplied with )2-volt electrical equipment as an alternative to...
P RODUCTION will shortly he started on over 160 Leyland vehicles for export completely knocked down for erection in South...
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A WARNING that he would not tolerate inefficiency from his staff duririg the process of denationalization was given, last...
A CTING on instructions from the Divisional Court, Sheffield magistrates last week imposed fines on a coach operator on charges...
I magistrates upon Lawrence Howard Mills, a coach operator, last week, for running a works bus service without a road service...
COMMERCIAL-VEHICLE operators apparently appreciate premier fuels more than they did before the war, for the sales of this grade...
E VIDENCE that the bus-fare situation in this country has a paiallel in Australia is contained in the report of the New South...
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THIS year, the Swiss Saurer enter1 prise, which was one of the earliest concerns to produce commercially internal-combustion...
IN the new Pegaso factory nearing I completion t Barajas, near Madrid, the production of Pegaso vehicles will be increased up...
'To remove the need for erecting pre'. fabricated camps in working areas, the Ontario Hydro Commission have put into use a...
A N enlarged edition of " Bon Voyage," a phrase book compiled especially for drivers travelling abroad, has been published by...
grease guns has been introduced by Civitas Trading Corporation, Ltd., 10 Duke Street, London, W.I. It is known as the Fila-Gun...
W E regret to announce the death of MR. T. L. N. LANE, senior vehicle examiner in the East Midland Area. He was one of the...
R ECENT studies of Brazil's national IA bus fleet reveal that up to the end of 1954 there will be difficulties in maintaining...
A FTER 21 years, Hants and Dorset Motor Services, Ltd., are giving up the tenancy of their bus station at County Gates,...
(IN July 9, members of the council of Birmingham Chamber of Commerce will tour depots of the Road Haulage Executive in...
Q I NG LE DECK trolleybuses at I-• 1 Ipswich will shortly be replaced by 42-seat motorbuses with electrically operated doors....
Stewart and.Ardern, Ltd., have isseed a broadsheet, " In and Alound London." Mr. D. M. Sinclair will deliver his plesidential...
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L OCAL education authorities are to ,1 -4 be allowed to carry fare-paying schoolchildren without holding road service licences....
(Amendment) Bill was read for a second time in the House of Lords, last week, the Earl of Birkenhead said that the Government...
B Y presidential decree, Empresa dc Transportes Colectivos del Estado, operators of motorbuses, trolleybuses and trams in the...
"B EDDRE I can contemplate a substantial increase in expenditure on new roads, I must be satisfied not only that it would not...
A NEW full-fronted Luton-type pantechnicon body has been built by Arlington Bodybuilders, Ltd., Enfield, Middx. Designated the...
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A BUYER of goods cannot rely on a clause in a contract reading: Proof of delivery will only be accepted when a delivery, note...
ACH oil-engined taxi operated by L"-.. Birch Bros., Ltd., Cathcart Street, London, N.W.5, is showing a saving in operating...
A NOTHER 20 trams are to be abandoned by Sunderland Transport Department on November I, when the conversion of the circle tram...
A ' important ruling on the liability of employers for the Maintenance of floors in workshops, in 'accordance with the terms of...
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Chairmen of Four R.H.A. Groups Concerned with Agriculture Review Current Problems and Look Hopefully into the Future W HEN he...
By G. C. Harvey, IVESTOCK is an excluded traffic not subject to the 25-mile limit imposed by the Transport Act, 1947. There...
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By J. Henson T HERE is no point in disguising the fact that hauliers in agricultural districts were badly hit by the Transport...
By R. P. Miers, A N immediate problem arises for milk carriers as a result of the Transport Act, 1953. Since 1943 the...
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By A. Day Chairman, Sugar Beet Group, R.11. A. M OST agricultural traffic is seasonal. In the case of sugar beet the contrast...
QHIRE horses are transported to agricultural shows by Mr. C. Clark, of Maidenwell, Louth, Lines, in a new A.E.C. box with...
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By George W. logs I N designing vehicles for the transport of meat, account must be taken of future fluctuations in demand,...
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O NLY two sections were devoted to commercial vehicles in this year's drawing and handicraft competition arranged by the...
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By Ashley Taylor, A.M.I.R.T.E. T HE pig may not be regarded as a noble animal, but being a prolific breeder and not difficult...
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in Walker Crane NAANY new features have been introduced into a al fresh version of the Walker crane which combines exceptional...
A NEW Green Line coach route which, unlike existing services, will avoid the centre of London, is to be opened on July I. It...
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by P. A. C. Brockington, A T monthly meetings with the drivers of the delivery vehicles, the executives and staff of T. W....
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T HE first Rutland 7 - 8 - boner to be fitted with one of the new Perkins R.6 oil engines is a long-wheelbase model forming...
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New Factory at Peterborough a Model of Planned Efficiency: Labour Requirements Reduced by 25 per cent. per Engine T HE new...
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By Alan Smith A Survey of Cattle-marketing Activity Centred on King's Lynn, and the Part Played in it by Livestock Carriers...
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By Laurence J. Cotton, T ESTING a Bedford A-type lorry for five days and covering 860 miles, with varying degrees and types of...
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In Delivering Foodstuffs, Aplin and Barrett, Ltd., Demand that Their Fleet Shall Compete Successfully with Public Transport p...
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"broke even" on cost. Using departments and subsidiary companies received expert service at minimum prices, but the charges...
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A RAN by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders precludes the exhibition at this year's Royal Show of commercial...
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An exhaustive analysis of " The Framework of PubIie Transport" was made on Wednesday by Sir Reginald Wilson, comptroller of the...
Road Services Dominate Urban Travel: Advantages of Large Bus Undertakings: Future of Road Haulage CC I WANT to start from the...
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A Practical Highways Construction Scheme Would Not Only Prove an Economic Investment, but Would Reduce Road Accidents T...
F oil fuel can be supplied tax free for I use in agricultural vehicles and oilengined railway locomotives, there can be no...
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Manufacture and Characteristics of Steel Springs : Balancing Cost and Strength A LTHOUGH research into the use of materials...
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Save that from yonder ivy-mantled toWr The moping owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wond'ring near her secret bow'r...
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entries in the sixth International Coach Rally, which ended in Nicc last week, were conspicuous by their absence. A Swedish...
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Four Years' Experience with Articulated Cold-store Vehicles for Transporting Bottled Milk Proves Their Value I T is four years...
D OUBTS that may have existed as to the ability of a welded light-alloy body to withstand the rigours of heavy tipping service,...
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Transport ContractOrs in Agricultural Districts can Afford to Quote Rates Lower Than Those of Their ,Urban Counterparts, but a...
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A N injection pump for use with small oil engines forms the subject of patent No. 692,068, from W. Staege, 22 Auerstrasse,...