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14th July 1950
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Psychology in Management

Factors Whic.h May Influence the Feelings and Productive Capacity of Factory Workers D URING many years of our work which is...

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Passing Comments

Chemicals Used to Harden Earth and A LITTLE while ago a reporter of a Sunday paper discovered that roads to suit heavy traffic...

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One Hears—

Of Taxi in Dock "as the heading of a paragraph in a daily paper. That the vehicle was not in a court, but actually fell into a...

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Drop in Bus Traffic Begins : Attempts to Stop Losses

A DECLINE in bus traffic. forecast in The Commercial Motor" on May 12, is beginning to become apparent in some quarters....

Ramp in Road Haulage Alleged

A N allegation that there had been a ramp in the road haulage industry. which had sought and found in the increased fuel tax an...

LOWER FARES TO RAISE RECEIPTS?

if k PROPOSAL by the .South Shields Transport Committee to increase bus fares to 2d. to cover higher costs because of the...

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No Speed Limit for Utilities ?

S rEPS are to be taken by the Minister of Transport to exempt certain utility vehicles from the 30 speed limit. For this...

DOMINION OPPORTUNITY

A LARGE number of tipping-vehicle chassis and bodies is required by the Natal provincial road engineer's department. British...

NATIONAL SCHOOL WANTED

p ROJECTS for a national training establishment for the motor industry and the exchange of apprentices and students With the...

One in Two Routes Run at a Loss

Q OM E 50 per cent, of the services of 0–. ) Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., are unremunerative, said Mr. R. P...

LEYLAND DELIVERIES UP

D ELIVERIES of Leyland vehicles in the first six Months of this year were 11 per cent. above the corresponding figure for 1949....

FORD EXPANDS: NEW RECORD

WITH the manufacture of is,765 cars, VY commercial vehicles and tractors during the past month, the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., has...

STOP LIGHTS COMPULSORY?

T HE fitting of stop lights and traffic indicators to motor vehicles is intended by the Minister of Transport eventually to...

CHASESIDE OILER

T HE Chaseside 3-cubic-yd. dumper is now offered with the Perkins P.6 oil engine as an alternative to the Ford V8 petrol unit....

Petrol Tax Hits Export Trade

T HE Budget increase in petrol tax is likely to' damage Britain's export trade. It will "automatically force" home users to...

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In a Line or Two

Jack Olding and Co., Ltd., is to open a depot at Cardiff. The new Standard oil engine has a bore of 3 1 2 6 ins, and a stroke...

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N.E.A.V.B. Well Received by R.H.E.

C ONSULTATIONS between the ‘....Road Haulage Executive and the north-western and north-eastern areas of the National Employers'...

" A 'THOUSAND PITIES"

T HE Road Haulage Executive denies the truth of statements recently made by Mr. T. Lett and Mr. H. Green, of the Transport and...

NUFFIELD EXPORT ROOST E•XPORTS of Nuffield commercial 1—vehicles in the

first six months of 1950 were 140 per cent, above the total sent overseas in the corresponding period of last year. Altogether,...

WEYMANN'S SILVER JUBILEE

T HE occasion of Weymann's recent silver jubilee was marked by the completion of the 1,000th R.T.3 body for London Transport at...

SUPPRESSORS COMPULSORY

IF voluntary methods fail, the Post.' master-General may make the fitting of suppressors to all motor vehicles compulsory, to...

LAND-ROVER FIRE-ENGINE

T "E prototype of a Land-Rover fireengine aroused great interest among members of the fire services at a recent demonstration....

Trams v. Buses Political Dispute

WHY did Sheffield Corporation's W tramways incur a loss of £97,014 during the past financial year, whereas the motorbus...

R.I-LE,T.G.W.U. AGREEMENT

A FINAL draft of an agreement 1 - t between the Road Haulage Executive and the Transport and General Workers' Union, covering...

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Nine-stage Plan for London Trani Conversion

p LANS for one of the biggest conversion operations ever undertaken by a transport organization, the replacement by buses of...

MANX PETROL TAX REBATE

A REBATE of 3d. per gallon on the r - k cost of petrol for commercial users has been instituted by. the. LieutenantGovernor of...

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The Ground Cut From Under Him

WHILE opening his correspondence YV about two months ago, the super Mtendertt of the Willenhall Depot of the Birmingham parcels...

House Coal Delivered by Hopper

A NEW type of coal-retailing vehicle is being used experimentally in this country by Lowell Baldwin, Ltd., Bristol. The machine...

HAULIERS TELL THE PUBLIC

COURTEEN Warrington hauliers have embarked upon collective advertising in local newspapers. Their copy reads: "Two out of every...

RATES FOR COTTON EMPTIES

T HE following rates, agreed by representatives of the Road 14.tulage Association and the Federation of Master Cotton Spinners...

ADVICE TO STATE INDUSTRIES

IN the House of Lords, last week, Lord I Pakenharn, Minister of Civil Aviation, promised that, the Government would cqnsider...

Shareholders Less Than the Dust

" THE passenger road transport I industry is now probably the most heavily taxed basic industry in the country. The total...

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Torn Tiddler's Ground

By JAN US M ALTHUS was a clergyman and an economist whose name may once have been used by mothers to frighten their children....

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New Light Body for Long Life

D ETA1LS were given in last week's issue of "The Commercial Motor" of an order for 620 buses for Cuba, in which Leyland Motors,...

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OMICALLY

By L. J. Cotton, M.I.R.T.E. W EIGHING a few pounds over. 4 tons, when equipped with a drop-side body, spare wheel and five...

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News Printed on the Spot

A LINOTYPE machine, a Bush lateews printing machine and a darkroom are features of a mobile printing and radio office built for...

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BEER

and Livestock W HAT with the atom bomb, the dollar gap and other things, life certainly is not all beer and skittles for most...

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Bus Station Costs £8,570,000

Thirty Escalators in Fourstorey Terminal Building Now Nearing Completion in New York. Loading Bays for 84 Local Buses and 40...

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Time on Tour FFECTIVE display of the range of La ,

250 electric and spring-wound clocks and watches, barometers and thermometers produced by S. Smith and Sons (England); Ltd....

Electric Controls on 6-ton Crane

'THE Gardner 5.6-litre oil engine / which powers the new Walker 6-ton crane, drives a 32-kW generator to provide electrical...

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Better Braking

with Less E ort „Jr . secure consistent high-efficiency braking with comparatively little manual effort on maximum-load...

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How to Taper Rates

M ANY hauliers are satisfied with contracting at a flat rate. Probably the suggestion to do so came in the first place from a...

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C.1. Fire-engines Now on Production Basis

A NEW type of fire-engine now being delivered by Merryweather and Sons, Ltd., Greenwich High Road, London, S.E.I0, represents a...

Electrics Take a Jump

LIGURES for new registrations for April, as compared with those for the previous month, showed a rise from 16,481 to 17,789....