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11th November 1930
11th November 1930
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A Railway Ban on Road Motors

ITIHE clash between railway and road -Iinterests appears to be reaching a climax, if note be taken of certain intensely...

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Horticultural Tractors Advancing in Popularity.

D ITRING 1929 and 1930 successful trials of -11-"horticultural tractors were organized in different parts of the country under...

Small Passenger service Proprietors Must Co-operate.

-IN all the discussion and cogitation that are taking place in connection with the measures of the Road "Traffic Act, one...

LLOOSE LEAVES TN connection with -I-the recent World's Tractor Trials

some interesting figures have been prepared to show the difference in per formance between the rubber-jointed track of the...

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ONE HEARS

That taxi-drivers like two-way tippers. That' brake-drum grooving is sometimes a ticklish problem to overcome. That the...

HERE'S ONE During the Scottish Show, Glasgow is said to

have been the scene of a collision between two taxi-cabs that contained motor-trade visitors from Aberdeen who had attended the...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY "The wheels of wealth win he slowed

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

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ITEMS OF NEWS IN A FEW LINES

Lanes County Council is to construct a by-Pass at Kirkham, costing £99,000. Nottingham Corporation is seeking powers to extend...

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A Track-rod with Automatic Adjustment

A Simple and Ingenious Arrangement which Has Many Good Features T HE interesting feature of the track or tie-rod made by...

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A NEW GUY

8-TON CHASSIS First and Full Particulars of a Robust Low-loading Chassis Incorporating a 43 h.p. Six-cylindered Engine, Four....

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A New Trailer for 6-ton Loads

/TINE of the most recent prodticts of L./John Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., of Leeds, and 113, Cannon Street, London, E.C.4, is...

Developments of the Marelli Vacuum-servo

I N our iss , ie dated October 22nd, 1929, we gave a description of the ingenious Marelli vacuum-servo system for brake...

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Road Transport Activities in

PARLIAMENT Important Welsh Road Scheme. Provision of Traffic Police. Import Duties on Motors By Our Special Parliamentary...

Big G.W.R. Road-motor Developments

A N important transport development is - foreshadowed by the Great Western Railway Co., which proposes to proceed at once with...

Page 64

PARCELCAR PROGRESS

i p l\ , 1* , FRANCE A Review of the Various Continental Threewheeled Machines Exhibited at the French Motorcycle Show T HE...

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FRONT ENTRANCES

which Combine Safety and Efficiency 41 1 The Forward Doorway of the Coach and Bus, and How it May be Constructed ; Various...

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Passenger-carrying Vehicles Present and Future

O NE of the most interesting events of the winter session of technical institutions occurred last night, November 10th, when...

Goods-carrying Vehicles and the User

ro the same occasion at which the kJ above paper was read, Mr. C. le.M. Goeselin, managing director of H. Viney and Co., Ltd.,...

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Horse the Versus Problem Motor Answered

MHE characteristic of all con tributions to the horse and motor controversy is vagueness. Positive and definite data by which...

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ROAD CONSTRUCTION

In America America Has its Big Problem of Dirt Roads Awaiting Conversion. Why 19 Times Britain's Mileage Costs Only Six Times...

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THE SCOTTISH SHOW

Our Full Report Prepared from Thorough Examination of all the Exhibits That Are Available for Inspection at the Kelvin Hall,...

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A Useful

Seven-seater Coach First Information Available Concerning a New Type of Vehicle Introduced as a Fleet Auxiliary J N view of...

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A Scottish Transport Concern

with an International Reputation The Union Transit Co., of Glasgow, Has a Large Fleet of Modern Goods Vehicles and its Haulage...

An ingenious Three-wheeled Parcel car

F OIL many years Indian motorcycles have been handled in this country by Indian Motorcycle Sales (England), Ltd., of 168,...

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The L.C.C' .s Latest Ambulance

W E recently had an opportunity for examining the first of a fleet of new ambulances which is being put into service by the...

Page 85

Two New Meadows Engines

T O be known as the 6EV and 6EW, two new engines have just been introduced by Henry Meadows, Ltd., of Fallings Park,...

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A FIVE-TONNER FROM A FAMOUS SCOTTISH FACTORY

Road Test No 48 SOME OF THE SALIENT FEATURES OF THE CHASSIS WHICH WE TESTED. CTUALLY there are three Albion 5-ton models on...

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Phases of Passenger Travel

LEYLANDS FOR A LONDON WINDSOR SERVICE Interesting Bodywork Features Incorporated in New 26-seaters for the Premier Line A...

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MOTORBUSES RUNNING ON RAILS

De Dion-Bouton Products that are Gaining Popularity in France and Elsewhere A s reported in our issue dated October 21st, one...

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A PRACTICAL RIGID SLIDING ROOF

O Npage 363 of our Special Equipment Issue, dated October 28th, we published an illustration and brief details of the Saloonood...

MANCHESTER TO RUN AN OIL-ENGINED BUS

A Crossley-Gardner Vehicle has been Purchased by the Corporation MHE fact that Manchester Corpora tion has purchased for...

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Standardized Passenger Vehicle Bodies

in Good Features in the Products of a Bodybuilder Who Believes the Soundness of Uniform Design THE policy upon which the...