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13th August 1954
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£18,000m. for Highways?

Ambitious Scheme for Building and Modernizing Roads Promulgated by U.S. President S OME people are inclined to be...

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Wise After the Event

TYRE fires are usually difficult to extinguish I and drivers require instruction in how to deal with them. If the driver of an...

Passing Comments

Angels Two-two P ASSENGER transport operators would do well to examine, where they exist, the wording of their fare conditions...

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One Hears

That all this "no waiting" means keeping customers waiting. That the careful loading of "smalls" can save much time and...

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Boston Stevedores Fined £500 for Licensing Offences

F INES amounting to £500, with £12 12s. costs, were imposed at Thames Magistrates' Court, last week, on Boston Stevedores,...

Sales of 78 0 /o of Vehicle Units B Y. Tuesday evening nearly 78

pei cent. of the vehicle-only units it list 6, representing 67 per cent, of tht vehicles offered, had been sold. A...

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B.R.S. Meat Vehicles Up for Sale: 497 in One Unit

ZPECIAL list S2, published on Wednesday by the British Transport Commission, contains the biggest unit ever offered. It...

LINKS FROM YORKSHIRE TO TORQUAY REFUSED

T HE Yorkshire Licensing Authority has refused a number of applications by prominent operators to improve express services...

SPRING ABUTMENTS B.T.C. Chassisless Bus

for the Show ? IT is thought likely that a revolutionary double-deck bus, built to the design of the British Transport...

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Men in the News

MR, B. FOSTER has joined Guy Motors:Ltd., antiTheSunbeam' Trolleybus Co., Ltd„ as passenger transport representative. MR. W....

On Show for tin First Time

rt A 15-CWT. van and a 4 by 4 e car, both on show for the first in this country, will be exhibite. Renault, Ltd., Western Asa...

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wo Lancashire Companies Seek Higher Fares

N enormous increase in wages, an 3. increased number of new vehicles, v equipment and outstanding wage ims," were given as the...

"Politics Gone Mad" at Birmingham

, C - 1 A DECISION of Birmingham Trans port Committee, granting facilities to the committee of inquiry into London Transport...

U.A.S. Succeed: Lancaster Propose to Reorganize

EVERAL municipalities and corn panics, apart from Lancashire aited Transport, Ltd., and South incashire Transport, Ltd., have...

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Express Services • the Answer?

E . xPREss'bus services for workers obliged to travel long distances from central. London to the outer suburbs are called for...

Leyland on Sho - vc in Middle East B OTH passenger and goods

vehi are to be exhibited by Ley1 Motors, Ltd., at the Damascus Baghdad Fairs, this year. A Royal Tiger fitted with an M.0 body...

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Chesterfield—Derby Direct Service

A DIRECT stage service running daily between Chesterfield and )erby has 'been authorized by the (orkshire Licensing Authority...

New Opportunities in Persia

F OLLOWING the agreement which I has been reached in the negotiations concerning Persian oil, it is expected that there will be...

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Anxiety Over Loss of Traffic

S OUTHPORTS municipal transport manager, Mr. Jackson Haggard, is anxious about the decline of traffic. It began last December...

Wider Tax Law on Conversions

A N extension to the previous prov sions relating to purchase tax o motor-vehicle conversions is embodie in the -Finance Act,...

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Light Oiler for Country Milk Round

A FEATURE of a Trojan oil-engined long-wheelbase vehicle recently built for J. Good and Sons, Ltd., lolyport Dairy,...

Two Summonses for the Same Offence?

T HE nation-wide campaign of the Licensing Authorities and police to iuppress the use of unroadworthy vehicles presents the...

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Mack Building 7-torm€ Britain

By John F. Moon A LTHOUGH Mack Trucks (Britain?, Ltd., have been sole concessionnaires in this country for the Mack Motor...

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Question of Status

p ROMOTION to Minister of Transport of the able and logically minded Mr. J. A. Boyd-Carpenter provides a good opportunity to...

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A "WAR-HORSE" IN MUFTI

Six-wheel Drive, Fully Articulated Suspension and 12 Gear Ratios Put the Leyland 6 x 6 in the Tough Cross-country Class W 1TH a...

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ICELAND Turns I

.USSIA Fishing Dispute Gives Russia an Entry into Iceland's Vehicle and Oil Markets: Road Transport Vies with Internal Air...

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Lorry, Van or Meat Container

petition for road transport. On the Akureyri route buses often do not start until the owners have ascertained whether the...

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Quiet on the Transport Unit Front

A SUDDEN lull has occurred in the announcement of the names of buyers of transport units. Such purchases as have been revealed...

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Load Handling in Tight Corners

A PRACTICAL body designed for ti carrying market-garden produce has been produced by Messrs. Coates Garage, 10 Great Church...

New Bodybuilding Process Saves Two-thirds

A SAVING of two-thirds in weight without sacrificing strength is claimed for a new process of manufacturing aluminium bodywork...

Tyres Tested at 80 m.p.h.

T 0 simulate operating conditions for tyres, a new tyre test plant has been made by Heenan and Froude, Ltd., Worcester, for the...

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Fighting the Fuel Racket

I AM surprised that there has not been more correspondence regarding your excellent leader of July 16 on "Fuel; Racketeers."...

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OVERHEADS in town and country

T N my previous article I gave some figures for operating costs under three heads: London, average and country. The data...

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Where Time Means More Than Money

Tankers Replaced Every 18 Months by Milk Hauliers: Every Vehicle Equipped with Comprehensive Set of Spares By P. A. C....

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New Fleet for Multiple Tailors

THE first units of an articulated fleet, which will comprise 12 trailers and four prime movers, have been delivered to the John...

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A Disc Brake for Heavy Vehicles

K'ROM J. Bird& and Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., 1 Albany Street, London, .N.W.1, comes, in patent No. 711,086, a design for a disc...