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11th February 1938
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The Public Demands Road Travel

S TABILIZATION has not robbed road passenger transport of initiative and opportunities of expansion. It is true that...

Page 68

Uneasiness About Wages

fiANY leading operators in the provinces are Vinneasy about the action which Parliament is likely to take on the Baillie...

Passing Comments

Free Rides by Police A s a result of official dismay Give Rise to ri approval of free rides for Favouritism . . . the police...

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NEWS of the WEEK

National Demand for Big Rise in Wages IT is understood that at a recent meetLing of the National Joint Conciliation Board new...

False Entry Charges

Fail A T Edinburgh, last week, the Justiciary Appeal Court gave judgment in three cases in which the Procurator-Fiscal at...

Page 71

Transit Insurance Notes

Parcels and Luggage on Passenger Vehicles THE operator of public - ser1 vice vehicles comes into contact with goods-in-transit...

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Municipal Purchases and Proposals

Exeter Corporation is buying four Leyland Titan oilers. Manchester Corporation is to purchase a new travelling-library van....

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' £250,000 BUS ORDERS FOR DAIMLER.

Orders for 145 buses and trolley-. buses were received by Transport Vehicles (Daimler), Ltd., Coventry, during the first three...

Personal Pars

MR. H. Ceavelex-WitionT, who deals with equipment for the motor and allied industries, is shortly leaving on a visit to the...

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Pump Demonstrations at Your Door

EIOR the purpose of demonstrating 1 the special features of Wayne petrol-pump equipment, Spurling Motor Bodies, Ltd., Edgware...

Tenders of Interest to Hauliers T ENDERE4 are invited by the

following (latest dates given in parentheses):Ealing B.C., for cement, lime, bricks, coke, granite ehiopings , tarred macadam,...

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Passenger Vehicle Technical Progress and Tendencies

Along What Lines Are We Moving? Towards Better Service and Greater Safety A T the present time, in the sphere of...

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Road Transport Topics By OUT Special in • Parliamentary Correspondent

WAGES NOT FIXED BY PARLIAMENT. T HE Minister of Labour was asked by Mr. Grant-Ferris whether he would take steps to ensure...

Page 78

Gas Bus Approved By Canny Highlanders

' ITH deep interest, the watching and waiting while the Highland Transport Co., Ltd., Inverness, tries out its producer-gas...

Page 79

Albion Announces New 15-tonner

A Rigid Eight-wheeler, Added to the New CX Range, Available with Oil or Petrol Engine and Standardized with Double Drive R...

Page 80

What Should Be the Rates for CONTRACT COACHES?

T HE level of charges for the contract hire of motor coaches, is far below what it should . be. In the majority of cases, no...

Page 82

HOW ROAD PASSENGER T ANSPORT STANDS TO-DAY

T HE conflict of interests between combine and independent operators is likely to be intensified by the movement that is...

Page 85

"Vital Principles" Raised in Fish Case

Road Beats Rail in Bid for Fish Traffic from Aberdeen QINCE 1932, fish traffic carried by the L.M.S. Railway Co. from Aberdeen...

Page 86

TRANSPORT UNIFICATION BRINGS GOOD RESULTS

A T the end of next month, the joint transport committee of Btu-nley, Cohn and Nelson will have completed five years' working....

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Drivers Eased Means Passengers Pleased Fatigue-reducing Features on Modern Passenger

Vehicles Which Promote Greater Ease and Comfort for the Man at the Wheel W HILST many of the fatiguereducing features to be...

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A Centrifugal-electric Governor

T ° govern speed by a device driven from the transmission, which automatically cuts out the engine when the predetermined limit...

Page 94

Getting the Most Out of the Coach and Bus Body

Designing for Maximum Visibility for the Driver and Passenger, for Utmost Seating Capacity and for Attractive Appearance...

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How Precision Maintenance Keeps 1,000 Buses on the Road

T HE maintenance of a huge bus fleet must always present many features of interest. To a great extent, of course, matters have...

Page 99

W hy I Should Like to See

The Oil-engined Cab Adopted Our Contributor is Confident that the Taxi Oiler would Swell Profits and that the Modern 'Oil...

Page 100

Electrical Equipment Yesterday and To-day T HE change in design and

the increase in efficiency of lowvoltage lighting and starting . equipment that has taken place during the past ten years or...

Page 102

PASSENGER CHASSIS ON THE BRITISH MARKET

On these two pages are given brief specifications of the passengervehicle chassis marketed in this country, trolleybuses being...

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SERVING LONDO N'S GREEN BELT

LONDON . is favoured with an , extraordinarily complete system _of passenger transport, of which buses form an important and...

Page 106

The . Case for Supercharging

Under Certain Conditions the Use, on Road Vehicles, of Blowers is Definitely justified, Despite Inherent Difficulties. Their...

Page 107

Don't Gamble With Tyres

on passenger vehicles Some of the Major Considerations to Which the Coach and Bus Operat or Should Give Attention. The...

Page 108

One-man Buses May Turn Losses Into Profits

expenses, so that this side of the question must be examined closely. In this connection The Commercial Motor Tables of...

Page 109

How Long a Driver May Work Hours Provisions of the

1930 and 1933 Acts and of 1937 Variation Order Explained P ROVISIONS relating to the statutory maximum working hours of drivers...

Page 110

Slow Extermination of Road Transport

A STATEMENT on policy was a feature of a speech by Mr. W. A. Winson, president of the C.M.U.A.. at the annual dinner of Mortons...

Busy Week for S.T.R.

S.T.R., The Commercial Motor costs expert, is to address meetings in the northern area of A.R.O. on five consecutive nights,...

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M.P. Who Had Not Heard of the Act rAN the

occasion of the annual dink...Iner of the Wellington and Market Drayton Sub-area, A.R.O., held last week, there were nearly 200...

Page 113

GATESHEAD'S THREE.. CORNEREDFIGHT

r ATESHEA D Town Council has decided to petition against the Bill, being promoted by the Gateshead and District Tramways Co.,...

Page 114

FIGHT AGAINST FANTAIL TOURS

of Transport, on appeal, to south coast coach operators, against what are now widely known as fantail tours, is being asked for...

Clever Design in New Sliding Window

A LREADY wen known and of established reputation, the Beclawat Typhoon half-drop window has now been improved still further. In...

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OPINIONS and

QUERIES SHOULD TRAFFIC % ROUTES BE COLOURED? [5267] May I use your columns to reply to the remarks of the Automobile...

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Simple Means for Stopping Tyre-wall Wear

Details of an Easily Fitted Protector that is Adaptable to Practically Any Type of Wheel P NEUMATIC tyres—even of the finest...