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16th April 1929
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Page 87

The British Makers' Contribution to Municipal Motorization.

T HERE can now be but little excuse for a municipality to be behind the times in the adoption of modernized means for the many...

Page 88

The Need for Uniform Licensing Laws.

T HERE appears to be a wide divergence in the requirements of licensing authorities, so far as public-service vehicles are...

T AST Wednesday Mr. LAGeorge Munro, C.B.E., was officially elected

to the presidency of the Commercial Motor Users-Association, and we offer him our sincere congratulations upon this...

Page 89

ONE HEARS

That over-soft tyres have hard times, That much of the paper in streets is advertising matter. That all is not sold that...

Page 90

WHEELS OF INDUSTRY

"The wheels of wealth will be slowed by all difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the...

Page 91

Personal Para.

We referred in our issue for last week to the probability of Mr. George Munro, C.13.E., being elected' to 'the presidency of...

Page 92

Hull to Introduce Trolley-buses.

At a recent meeting of the tramways committee of the liull Corporation, the general manager drew attention to the recent...

Page 93

Municipal Purchases and Proposals.

Tho cleansing committee of the OLDHAM Corporation has accepted the teuder of the 'Oldham Motor Co., Ltd., for the supply of a...

Page 94

NEW SIX-WHEELERS for Passenger Work

I N developing its new PC and 11Cmodel rigid six-wheelers, John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., Thornycroft House, Smith Square,...

Page 96

26 YEARS' SERVICE

from STEAMERS The Remarkable History of Chelsea's Refuse-Collecting Fleet ; Leyland Steamers Built in 1903 Still Performing...

Page 98

Battery-electric Vehicles for Public-service Uses

O WING to the many useful features inherent in the battery-electric vehicle, the type is finding increasing favour among...

Page 99

An Upper Saloon

LOADING INDICATOR TITJRING a recent visit to Southend-on-Sea we examined .1.1 with considerable interest a special type of...

Page 100

Pointers in BUS-BODY DESIGN and CONSTRUCTION

Features of Current Practice and Directions in which Design is Likely to Progress in the Building of Single-deck and...

Page 103

ANSITION AGE

in Systems of MUNICIPAL PASSENGER CARRYING B EFORE we proceed to our main purpose in this article, which is to review the...

Page 107

THE CITY OF WESTIVIINSTE CLEANSING PRO I LEN S

and how they are solved By the CLEANSING SURVEYOR, MR. F. W. CABLE, A.M.I.C.E. T E Westminster City Council was one of the...

Page 110

THE MOT01": TN

EVERY RAN CH F MUNICH AL ACTIVI TY I Nfew spheres of activity has the mechanical vehicle and appliance exercised a more...

Page 114

MUNICIPA USES as a KEY

to the HOUSING PROBLEM S INCE the Great War one of the most thorny political problems has been that of housing the popu...

Page 119

MEN WHO MATTER MUNICIPALLY

The personal details given below are in respect of the municipal-transport officials whose portraits appear on the preceding...

Page 120

LEICESTER'S

Municipal Cleansing MOTORS L EICESTER is gradually, but surely, mechanizing its municipal transport and trending towards the...

Page 122

THE TROLLEY-BUS

as an Important Factor in Municipal Transport. "DRIOR to the Great War public transport by road in Great Britain was confined...

Page 123

Vehicle Taxation v. Road Costs

How to Compare the Yields of Motor Taxation with the Costs of Related Highway Maintenance. By Edward S. Shrapnell-Smith,...

Page 124

OVERSEAS OPPORTUNITIES

for the British Municipal Motor ATEAR by year the commercial motor industry has forged ahead in the Matter of the design and...

Page 126

Hygienic and Rapid STREET CLEANSING

'VIEW other factors have played so great a part in the 12 improvement in public health in recent years as have mechanical means...

Page 128

The Cost of COLLECTING HOUSEHOLD REFUSE

How the Charges for the Collection of Waste Material may be Calculated Beforehand, Given Some Knowledge of the Conditions....

Page 130

Where the Tractor Scores

Birkenhead Corporation Displaces Horsed Transport for Feeding Coal to Ferry Steamers. MIOR the short-distance haulage of heavy...

Page 131

Co-ordination in Municipal Endeavour

Some Notes on the More Important Associations Which Link Together the Local Authorities and Their Members. T "scope of...

Page 132

PROGRESSIVE BUS-WORKING in a Populous Industrial Area

One of the A..E.C. 54-seaters used on express service by the Newcastle Corporation. A LTHOUGEE north-country municipalities,...

Page 133

Modern Machines for ROAD ROLLING

OO of the best-known makers in, with the supply of all types of petrol, paraffin or. Dieselmotor roller, of weights from 1i ton...

Page 134

How a Yorkshire Town CENTRALIZED TRANSPORT

E IGI1TEEN months ago the Bingley Urban District Council organized a central transport depot, from which all the haulage of the...

Page 136

BUS-BODY FEATURES

favoured by Municipalities glITE municipally owned bus has an important bearing on the general progress and development of...

Page 140

Popular Types of Tipping Gear

T RERE are certain branches of municipal-trans port work in which vehicles equipped with tipping bodies are either...

Page 141

THE MOTOR AMBULANCE

Its Design and Equipment TN reviewing the recent developments which have 'taken place in the design of that characteristic...

Page 143

THE WORK OF THE BIRKENHEAD FIRE AND AMBULANCE FLEET.

T EIE fire and ambulance department of the Birkenhead Corporation, of which the chief officer is Mr. J. T. Burns, has ordered a...

Page 144

SOUTHEND S EXPERIENCE

with Trolley-buses TT is less than three years since the County ...Borough of Southend-on-Sea put into service its first...