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13th November 1936
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The Position of Road• Transport

N this issue we include a re port of the most important display of commercial vehicles to be staged in Britain this year, and...

Encouraging Good Maintenance

H IGHLY elaborate mechanism, such as that 'incorporated in the modern commercial vehicle, obviously requires befittingly...

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Passing Comments

Keep Your Tyres THE vital importance of at the Correct maintaining the correct Pressure pre,ssure in pneumatic tyres is not...

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Scottish Hauliers Stabilize Rates.

Marked progress in rates stabilization was reported at a general meeting, last Friday, of Glasgow and District Horse and Motor...

A.R.O. Poll Result.

It is understood that the result of the poll of A.R.O. members taken on • October 27 showed a big majority in support of the...

Engineer - designer Available.

An engineer-designer with extensive experience with commercial vehicles, private cars, aero engines, and particularly oil...

JUDGE DEFINES "SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES."

The definition of " special circumstances" in which motor drivers convicted of offences under the Road Traffic Act can escape...

FORTHCOMING EVENTS 1936

Nov. 13.21.—cottish Motor Show roMmercial Section), Kelvin Hall, Glasgow. Nev. 10.21.—Public Health Eshibition, Royal....

MINISTER DECIDES AGAINST INCREASE IN AXLE WEIGHT.

The rear-axle weight of four-wheeled pneumatic-tyred vehicles is not to be increased to 9 tons. This announcement is conveyed...

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SUGGESTED ECONOMY IN COTTON TRANSPORT.

A suggestion that the cotton industry should establish a central warehouse for cotton goods, similar to the bonded warehouses...

Seasonal Hauliers Must Prove 4 ‘ Need."

Notwithstanding the comments of the Metropolitan Licensing Authority (supported, to some extent, by the Appeal Tribunal),...

Case Heard in September: No Decision.

Reference was made at a sitting of the North Western Licensing Authority last week to a case loran extra vehicle. heard on...

I. of T. Branch Formed at Nottingham.

A gathering widely representative of the transport industry attended the inaugural meeting, at Nottingham, on November 6, of an...

Orders Dependent on Road Transport R EFUSAT. to - give orders for

fruit, unless delivery could' be. effected the following morning, was an argument put forward on behalf of Messrs j E. Kirby...

i Coventry Cross - examines S.T.R.

THE keenest discussion that has yet followed any address by S.T.R., The Commercial Motor costs expert, took place last week at...

Traders Condemn Railway Inefficiency

TRAFFORD PARR, Manchester's I big dock estate, representing some £40,000,009 capital', employing 30,000 workpeople and sending...

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RAILWAYS HAVE NO RIGHT TO COTTON TRAFFIC.

Raw cotton from America, Egypt and India, arriving at Manchester Docks, via the Ship Canal, was the subject of discussion at a...

Rail Hinders "Transfer" Case

A DVICE as to his liability under the Stamp Acts, in respect of agreements presented to him in the course of his duties, is...

Personal Pars

THE DUKE OF KgHT, KG., K.T., is to open the new Coalite plant of Low Temperature Carbonisation, Ltd., at Bolsover, Derbyshire,...

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NEW WORKSHOP WAGONS FOR L.P.T.B.

Six new mobile repair "workshops for servicing trolleybuses en route will • shortly be operated by London Passenger Transport...

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"Fiddling While Rome Burns"

I N his contribution to your issue dated November 6, Mr. J. Bradbury has hit the nail on the head—the failure of small owners...

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New Constructional Principle in

Latest Multiwheeler 15-ton Trailer Echelon Arrangement of Rear Wheels Permits Lighter Construction and has Other Advantages ....

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Road-transport Facilities for Livestock

The Pioneer Work of a Well-known Carlisle Concern which Introduced the First Tiered Cattle Carrier for Road Use. Useful Advice...

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Exorbitant Licence-renewal Costs

Big C.M.U.A. Manchester Meeting Listens to Forecasts of Additional Renewals : Difficulties F OR.ECASTS of still further...

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SCOTTISH TRANSPC T STORIES IN BRIEF

Short Road transport Narratives from Scotland Dealing with the Diverse Activities of Some Leading Operators of Goods and...

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Road Transport Topics

In Parliament NO SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR MAIL-VAN DRIVERS. A MONG questions asked in the House of Commons, one of considerable...

Bloodstock Transport : Concession Granted

A CASE of considerable interest to agricultural hauliers was heard at Forfar, last week, when Mr. Alfred Wilkie, Woodville...

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Workers—and Railways—Call for

Stabilized Wages PPOINTED by the Ministers of Labour and Transport, the COM■ mittee of inquiry into wages and conditions of...

INQUIRY PROGRESS UP TO DATE.

U NDER the chairmanship of Sir James Baillie, the Government committee of inquiry has already taken a great deal of evidence....

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Sir James: " I think not."

The chairman asked whether, if motor road transport were brought into a position somewhat analogous to that of the railways, it...

Rail Bid to Stop Contract Licence Grant

Two Railways Oppose Yorkshire Application. Objectors Have No Locus Standi A RAILWAY attempt to oppose a road-transport...

Two New Moderate-capacity Vuicans

A 5-tonner Weighing Under tons Unladen, and a 4-tonner in the same Taxation Class r A N the eve of the Scottish Show, the 1...

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Promising Epicyclic Gearbox

with novel hydraulic control A New Transmission which Enables a Vehicle to be Controlled by Only Two Pedals and Affords a Very...

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THE SCOTTISH SHOW

Stand by Stand Around the 36 Commercialmotor Stands in the Commercial Section of the Scottish Motor Show, which is being held...

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A XI o,000 Producer-gas Vehicle Trial C ONSIDERABLE attention is being

...paid in Germany to the encouragement of home-produced motor fuel. With the object of giving further impetus to the...

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Accessories and Garage Equipment at the Scottish Show

A Brief Review of Some of the Exhibits of Special Interest to the Commercial vehicle User, in the Accessory and Garage...

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Nine Trunk Hauliers Fight for Rights

Rail Offensive on A-licence Renewals Opens in Yorkshire with Four-day Hearing A LLEGATIONS that the railways were attempting...

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Oil engined Bus Operation and Maintenance

As Early as 1932 the Alexander Concern Operated Oilengined Buses and Now Has 462 of This Type By Walter Alexander, Managing...

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Shock for Renewal Applicant

WHEN Mr. F. G. Cowling, 15, FalVV condale Road, Bristol, applied last week for a renewal of his A licence for 12 vehicles (29...

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Two New Dennis Products

a direct-injection oil engine and a five-speed gearbox A Four-cylinderd 6i-litre Unit to Power Lancet Passenger Chassis, and a...

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Registrations Up-grade Continues

Latest Figures Reveal Advances in Both Goods and Passenger Vehicles O I - INCE again a satisfactory state of Ii..../affairs is...

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ANOTHER £200,000 FOR BRISTOL CO.?

O N November 30, shareholders in the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., will be asked to sanction an increase of the...

15,000 FUND TO FIGHT ULSTER AWARDS.

D ISSATISFACTION is rife in Ulster concerning the compensation paid by Northern Ireland Transport Board to bus operators. It is...

OILERS FOR NEWPORT.

NEWPORT Corporation has decided -I to substitute oilers for trams, states The Commercial Motor South Wales correspondent. As...

BETTER CONDITIONS FOR WELSH WORKERS.

MEW terms have been arranged for - 1 -. 1 employees of bus companies in the Skewen, Neath and Maesteg areas and will take...

30 TROLLEYBUSES AN HOUR.

O Sunday (November 15) London Transport will inaugurate a new trolleybus service from Shepherd's Bush to Uxbridge, in place of...

CHILDREN'S FARES: MUNICIPAL ACTION

O RDERS made by the Minister of Transport, concerning the carriage of children free of charge, have been discussed at a special...

NORTHAMPTON TO APPEAL?

S UBJECT to the advice of counsel, Northampton Corporation is to appeal against the East Midland Traffic Commissioners' grant...

BUS SERVICE BAN BRINGS PROTEST.

F OLLOWING the refusal of the Traffic Commissioners to grant Messrs. Macrae and Dick a licence to run a bus service which would...

1-N i "No Di ctat ion" on

12-Journey Tickets S TRONG criticism of the L.N.E. Railway Co. was voiced, last week, when the 12-journey bus-ticket inquii y...

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BIG PLAN FOR CARDIFF STATION

C ARDIFF Corporation committee are considering plans for the proposed bus station, to cost about £100,000, on the site now...

RIBBLE " GET-YOU-HOME " SIDECAR OUTFITS.

T O execute "get - you - home " repairs on buses en route, all depots of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., have just been supplied...

FARES TO LONDON RACE MEETINGS.

F OLLOWING negotiations between A.R.O. and London Transport re-. garding differing fares to Hurst. Park. and Kempton Park race...

"ILLOGICAL" ATTITUDE ON SUNDAY SERVICES.

THE alleged illogical attitude of cer tain clergymen with regard to Sunday bus services was referred to by Mr. A. Henderson,...

CROSVILLE CO.'S MILLIONS

I NTERESTING fi gures were quoted at the 10th annual staff dinner of Crosville Motor Services, Ltd. It was stated that the...

B-licensees' Applications

A PPLICA.I■ITS have great difficulty in stating precisely the goods carried, said Mr. J. Lustgarten, quoting a report by Mr....

Difficulty

railways) said the application was made to rectify the position and to enable the applicants to do what they did in the basic...

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Municipal Exhibits a the Public Health Exhibition

A Running Commentary on the Vehicles and Appliances to be Shown by the Leading Makers in the Industry at an Important...

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Financial News of the Industry

NEW COMPANIES. C. Atkinson (Tyres), Ltd.—Private company. Reg. Nov. 4. Cap. 41,000 in £1 shares of which 500 are 5 per cent....