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Page 71
A L THOUGH the numher of operators of passenger vehicles is declining, the latest statistics show increases in revenue, vehicle...
F ROM Press reports of the new road-safety propaganda film, "Death on the Road," which is being sponsored by the Ministry of...
Page 72
Street Over Street it i TucH interest has been and Road Over IVIaroused in Fulham and Railway elsewhere by our article, pub...
Page 73
Of streconscientious objectors. That road haulage should be a privileged industry, 'Lavin, been built up, in the main, by...
Page 74
The wheels of wealth will be slowed by cill difficulties of transport, at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the...
D URING the quarter ended September 30, 1935, there were 2,581,027 licences current for mechanically propelled road vehicles,...
Page 75
Hull Transport Committee has appointed MR. .1. LAWSON. now chief assistant, as transport manager. Manchester Public Assistance...
Page 77
T HE basis upon which a haulier is allowed an additional vehicle and the extent to which he should resort to hiring from the...
S ECTION 11 (3) (b) of the 1933 Act has not been satisfied, said Mr. B. de H. Pereira, in an appeal by the L.N.E. Ilailway Co....
Page 78
Further discontent with the working of the North-Western Conciliation Beard was expressed at a C.M.U.A. meeting at Warrington,...
1933 Act Blunder: Tribute to "C.M." A TRIBUTE to the vigilance of The Commercial Motor in bringing to light the flaw in...
MEETING of the South Wales Pi branch of the C.M.U.A„ which now incorporates the Motor Omnibus Proprietors Association, was...
Page 79
T 00 much latitude is being given to the railways in the matter of objections, said Mr.' R. W. Sewill, national director of...
" 'THE ignorance on transport 1 matters displayed by some candidates of all parties, who were interviewed during the General...
A vigorous move is being made by the Amalgamated Horse and Motor Owners Association and the C.M.U.A. (South-East Lanes area) in...
THAT over 83 per cent , of rail traffic 1 was carried at uneconomic rates was the contention expressed by Mr. S. A. Macadam,...
Page 80
p ROVINCIAL towns and cities doubtless experience peak-load passenger-transport problems of some magnitude, but they do not...
Page 83
A BETTER understanding between employers and employees in the road-passenger.transport industry is urgently needed. Disturbing...
Page 84
M OTHER and her tall daughter were sitting together on one of the cross-wise seats of a bus. 'It is wonderful what a...
Page 86
IMPROVE Bus DESIGN By L. A. Poole, M.1.A.E. I N the design and development of the passenger vehicle to suit modern...
Page 89
the questionnaire recently issued by the Association of British Chambers of Commercia the Railways and Transport Ccmmittee and...
Page 91
I N a review of the road-transport de velopments of the Great Western Railway Co. during 1935, it is mentioned that the tonnage...
Page 92
WILL SUPPORT A SUITABLE AMENDMENT. I F an opportunity occurs, I would certainly support an amendment curtailing the railway...
Page 96
B Y reference to the compendium of passenger chassis printed below, much useful information concerning any model now offered in...
Page 98
SCANDINAVIAN DETAILS SETTLED. W HEN Major J. R. McCrindle, managing director of British Airways, Ltd., was in Scandinavia, a...
Page 99
I T is impossible, in a relatively short article, fully to cover the technical features of such a combination of . engineering...
Page 101
In his report for 1934-35, Warwick county surveyor says that 102,444 tons of material was hauled by hired piecework, at...
Page 102
IMPORTA 'qr1 -9 PASSENGER FLEET I T is always interesting to compare the maintenance methods employed by various operators....
Page 105
A FLOURISHING BUSINESS IN A SMALL TOWN. MHITCHURCH (Salop), a town of W 6,000 inhabitants in an agricultural district, is...
Page 108
Rates for Road-Rail Excursions, " Anywhere " and Tourist Tickets, Less-than-Summation Fares, "Returns on Express Services, and...
Page 109
O NE of the foremost questions facing the road-passenger-transport„, hid ustry to-day is: " What is to he the fate of the...
Page 112
E . NGINEERS, especially those employed in development work, can be divided into two classes—those who are sound but orthodox,...
Page 114
New Ford Tester that Can Detect Almost Any Fault that Can Affect Engine Performance T HE well-known Ford ideal of providing...
Page 115
and QUERIES THE BITER BITTEN. [4738] Unconscious humour such as is provided by the enclosed letter which was recently...
Page 117
• nI3JECTIONS by George Ewer and ‘.../Co., Ltd., by the restrictive agency policy of London Coastal Coaches, Ltd., terminated,...
T HE interim injunction granted on January 8 by Lord Wark, in the petition brought in the Court of Session by W. Alexander and...
Page 118
O N Monday, Merseyside Co-ordination Committee decided to appoint a committee, with powers to engage a technical expert, to...
O PPOSITION to several trolleybus 1/4/plans is announced. Lanes County Council has decided to lodge a petition against...
A NEW cOmpany, entitled Premier Pi Travel, Ltd., High Street, Harston, Cambridgeshire, has, The Commercial Motor is officially...
Page 119
r um our some weeks there has been a • umour current • that Fleetways. Ltd., had sold out to a combine company, but The...
AST week,: the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners summoned A. Timpson and Sons, Ltd., and Keith and Boyle (London), Ltd., to...
Page 120
T O form deductions from a collection of data relating to the road performances of vehicles, it is desirable first to consider...
Page 121
T HE next Commercial Motor Exhibition will be held in new accommodation at Earl's Court, London, S.W.5, from November 4-12,...
Page 122
E XACTLY a year ago, in the issue of The Commeecia/ Motor dated February 8, there was included an artic le which showed: that,...
Page 124
0 PROVED I N endeavouring to demonstrate the futility of overloading, I have frequently had to Point out that my greatest...
Page 126
F ROM Tatra-Works, Ltd., Prague, Czechoslovakia, comes patent No. 490,204, describing a driving unit complete in itself, and...