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13th December 1940
13th December 1940
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Transport Costing . a Vital Factor T HE new edition of The

Requests for Increased Haulage Commercial Motor Tables of Operating Costs, which Rates Can Now be Substantiated accompanies...

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Passing Comments

Rapid Progress of pRIOR to the -war, the total Oil Engines for I power of vehicle-type oil Vehicles engines produced in this...

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One Hears—

That some people see many profundities in the pools. That anyone who profits by the purchase tax is robbing either the buyer...

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News of the Week Liverpool Bid to Speed Up Docks Traffic

E NDEAVOURS are being made at Liverpool to speed up the transit of inward and outward goods from the dock quays. Last week a...

World Motor Registrations Advance by Millions

D ESPITE the war, world registrations of motor vehicles recorded a 4 per cent, advance during 1939. At the beginning of this...

Higher Wages for C-licence Drivers A SCALE of minimum weekly

wages rates for drivers of &licence • vehicles, agreed upon between the Bradford and District Commercial Vehicle Owners'...

Removals Overcharg ing Almost a Fallacy I N the House

of Commons last week Mr. Parker asked the Minister of Transport whether he was aware that gross profiteering Was still taking...

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Improved Enness-Sentinel Producer-gas Plant

A MONO the salient features of the new Enness-Sentinel producer-gas plant, made by Enness Sentinel, Ltd.„ The Old Hall, Little...

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Clarify Export Policy, Say A.E.C. Directors

O PENING his speech at the annual V./general meeting of the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., Mr. C. W. Reeve, C.B.E., chairman,...

Will Congestion Dominate Movement of Transport?

rrl-IE record of road transport since I the war began has been a record of gigantic waste—not by road transport, but of it,"...

Comforts Needed for Army Transport Men

, A STRONG second appeal on behalf of theComforts Funds of the Royal Army Service Corps and the Royal Army Ordnance Corps has...

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Another Invaluable " GM." Publication Which Aids Economy T HE simplest

way of ascertaining, week by week, the operating costs of commercial vehicles is by using The Commercial Motor Operating Costs...

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THE VALUE OF OUR COST.

iUIDE TO THE SMALL HAULIER 1\1 0, I am not suffering from. a swelled head. It may be that I am indulging in a spot of wishful...

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Co-ordinated Bulked Deliveries

one of war's effects on confectionery transport Distant Deliveries of Individual Manufacturers Co ordinated Under the M.C.A....

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U.S. LORRY MAKERS GE UP TO DEFENCE NEEDS

N EWS accounts of the German advances on the European Continent have written into history, even more vividly than during the...

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GUY MOTORS, LIMITED

FURTHER PROGRESS-EFFICIENCY OF GUY VEHICLES The Twenty-fifth Annual Meeting of Guy Motors, Limited, was held on Thursday, 5th...

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Operating Aspects of

PASSENGER TRANSPORT SAFETY TREATMENT OF P.S.V. WINDOWS T O a suggestion in the House last week by Mr. Cocks, that the...

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COSTING A LA E DAIRY FLEET

A Survey of Pre-ti,ar and Pres' ent Motor Costing, as applied to the Fleet of Manorcroft Dairies, Ltd. By' Lewis Jones (Cost...

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Milestones in Road-transport History

A N interesting paper on the development of goods transport by road was read last Wednesday before the Royal Society of Arts by...

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Adapting the Moving-floor Principle for Unloading Root Crops

T HOSE engaged in the transport ol sugar beet will be interested in a device shown in patent No. 527,916 from Miag Muhlenbau...