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11th August 1931
11th August 1931
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Passengers on Goods Vehicles

T IIE Royal Assent to the Road Traffic (Amendment) Act, 1931, was given on July 31st. The effect of this amendment is that any...

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The Danger of Fixing Fares at Too High a Level.

W HAT will happen if, when road-travel fares are fixed by the Traffic Commissioners, the railway companies commence an...

Fire Extinguishers on Public-service Vehicles.

QOME difficulty has arisen regarding the new 1 —/Regulation by which it is required that a suitable and efficient extinguisher,...

LOOSE LEAVES

S OME idea of the importance of motorbus services, particularly those employing the smaller vehicles, is gained when one...

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ONE HEARS That some operators dare not lift a timber

bus body for Chassis overhauls after three or four years' use. Of prodigious quantities of blue prints required by the...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY "The wheels of wealth will be slowed

by ail difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the roughness of the roads over which it...

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Grimsby's Buses Do Well.

Although -in the main Grimsby Corporation relies upon petrol buses for meeting local transport needs, it also has in service a...

C.M. PERSONALITIES MR. HENRY RUPERT HOOD BARRS is, at she

comparatively early age of 40, chairman and managing director of Carrimore Six Wheelers, Ltd., G. Scammell and Nephew, Ltd.,...

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Slippery Road Surfaces.

The divisional engineers of the Ministry of Transport report that the method of surface treatment of roads suggested in the...

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Bournemouth's Bus Returns.

The report dealing with the working of the buses of Bournemouth Corporation during the year ended March 31st last shows that...

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Combination Tours.

Messrs. Rymers, 17, Tames Street, Liverpool, have arranged some interesting combination tours by ocean liner, motor coach and...

Municipal Purchases and Proposals

Srocxmou Corporation is to purchase six 52-seater double-deck buses costing £1,688 each. The transport committee of BARROWIN...

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Road Transport Activities

in PARLIAMENT By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent LONDON TRANSPORT BILL REPORTED. J UST before Parliament rose for...

Passenger Vehicles and Speed Limit.

TN the House of Commons Mr. _ILNaylor raised the question as to what steps were being taken by the Ministry to ensure that the...

Forth Road Bridge.

W ITH reference to the survey of the Forth Road Bridge, the Minister of Transport intimated that at the request of the local...

Complaint Against Commissioners.

MEE following interchange took place in the House of Commons between Mr. F. Riley, Labour Member for Stockton-on-Tees, and Mr....

A Charge.

M R. RILEY asked if the Minister was aware that the witness referred to was practically charged with giving false evidence....

C-uifdford-Godalming By-pass.

MHE new Guildford-Godalming by pass road is not to have experimental section P of surfacing, Mr. Morrison States, as they would...

Further Regulation and Control.

l‘TAIOR GLYN desired to know ..13 1 .1whether the Government intended to introduce legislation at an early date to give effect...

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SOUTHERN ASIA

a Profitable Market for British Commercial Motors Road-motor Registrations More Than Trebled Since 1926. Sales of Lorries and...

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Obtaining Accuracy in Brake.

shoe Assembly A T the head depot of Reo Motors 111.. (Britain), Ltd., at Beavor Lane, King Street, London, W.6, a simple and...

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Favourable Impressions of

A FAMOUS FOUR -TONNER Road Test No. 78 4n Example of the Thornycroft DC Type, with Forward Control, Demonstrates its Marked...

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A Horsebox as

a cattle Carrier A N interesting combination vehicle which should be of special interest to agriculturists and to those who...

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Maktrig the Best of

BODYWORK F :STRICTIONS How to Plan a Large Single decl Bus, Using to Best Advantage the Space Allowed by the Regulations. The...

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A Striking Van with Loud-speaker Equipment

Brief Particulars of an Interesting Vehicle which Carries a Useful Range of Loud speaking Apparatus A RATHER striking body has...

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OPINIOr i S and II and

-A Fire Argument Cleared Up. The Problem of Obtaining* Steam-wagon Drivers. Milk-transport Costs with a 1 0-tonner Petrol...

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An Unusual Rubber Suspension System

A CURIOUS and interesting form of independent wheel suspension, developed with success in France, is the • Earris-Leon-Laisne,...

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Steel-tube Seat Frames for Passenger Vehicles

A Reflection Upon Experiments that are Being Carried Out on the Continent A N attempt is being made by some timotor-coach...

Drilling Cores from Concrete Roads

A MACHINE has recently been supplied to_ the Ministry of Transport for use at its research statkan at Harrnondsworth and...

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Municipal Work in Germany and France

O y the various papers which were read during the First International Conference on Public Cleansing, recently held at Olympia,...

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Prolonging Engine Life

Three New Vokes Devices for Air, Oil and Fuel Purification A LTHOUGH modern roads are 21,00mparatively free from dust, this...

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OPERATING ASPECTS

of Passenger Transport THE COMMISSIONERS' FORTHCOMING PUBLIC SITTINGS Details Extracted from the Gazettes Published by ' Area...

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THE COMMISSIONERS INTRODUCE NEW METHODS, IN SOUTH WALES

Swansea Corporation and the Free Use of the Public Streets QEVERAL anomalies have been re. moved by the South Wales Area...

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THE L.M.S. RAILWAY OPPOSES A CROSSVILLE APPLICATION

A Gil ti S i tuat i on A r i ses i er an r ses at a West Midlands Sitting at Birmingham A T the recent Birmingham sitting of...

NORTHERN CORPORATIONS STRIVE FOR TRANSPORT PROTECTION

Higher Fares Asked For Commercial Services Operating in Statutory Areas TnE sitting of the Northern Traffic Commissioners,...

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RAILWAYS APPEAR AT GREEN LINE APPEALS The L.G.O.C. Claim to

Prior Establishment on London Routes rrl,HE inquiry held at the end of July J_ at the Ministry of Transport, London, into the...

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Scene Shifting

by Motor A BUSINESS which involves a transport undertaking of peculiar characteristics and unusual interest is that carried on...

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Problems of the

HAULIER and CARRIER Utilizing Our Understanding of the Term "Overheads" to Enable Us to Appreciate Variations in Tonnage...

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An Easily Attached

Drawbar for Trailers .A Résumé of Recently Published Patent Specifications "ElpATENT No. 351,475, L. R. Doran, 66, Galveston...