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16th August 1946
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Passing Comments

The Delivery. of Six WE are certainly living in Calf - dozers by Para " advanced times, at least in chute some directions....

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One Hears

That the "sea bus" is making slow progress. Of the "dead-man control" of the Laboilr Government From many an advertiser that a...

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HAULAGE RETURNS TO NORMAL

%WITH the cessation of the GovernVI' meat Road Haulage Organization will go, as a natural corollary, the 60mile limit on the...

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Personal Pars

MR. J. H. REEVES, cleansing superintendent at Southall, has been selected as cleansingsuperintendent to Watford Corporation....

B.E.T. Chairman Reviews Past and Present Q UITE an interesting little

history of the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., was given by Mr. R. .1. Howley, C.B.E., chairman of that concern, at its...

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Nationalization News

If Civil Servants Ran Road Transport N A ANUFACTURERS generally do IVI not openly take sides in the question of the...

EXPERTS VIEW OF NATIONALIZATION THE Editor of " The Economist," Mr.

I Geoffrey Crowther. has taken upon himself to divide into categories the cases for the nationalization of certain industries....

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TEMPERATURE FOR ENGINE RATING RAISED

T o bring the British Standard Specification for internal-combustion engines (excluding carburetter-type engines) into line...

Financial News of the Industry.

NEW COMPANIES Wesbridge Automobiles, Ltd.—PrIvate company. Reg. Angust 1 Call 535,000 in El shams. To acquire part of the...

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GLASGOW FARES UP ON SUNDAY

F ARES on Glasgow Corporation buses and tramcars are to be increased from Sunday, August 18. The new scales are estimated to...

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Transformation of Green Line Coaches

QHORTLY after the release of singleh.-) deck coaches from war duties with the U.S. Army and the Civil Defence organization, the...

A New

High - speed Portable Compressor ECENTLY a demonstration was 1 N. given by the Hymatic Engineering Co., Ltd., of . Redditch,...

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75-ton Engines Safely Moved by Road

W E have already dealt with numerous instances of unusual types of service which road transport performed during the war years,...

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T HE original of a new Duple coachbody conception has three

outstanding features. It is truly allmetal; it is prefabricated for export, and it can be built with "green" labour....

And Not

'refabricated Bus Bodies design of the body, and the matter of stress-distribution has been given great attention. The company...

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INTERPRETING -THI 4AKER'S PERFORMANCE DATA

W HEN considering the choice of a new vehicle, operators do not always give sufficient consideration to the engine-performance...

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B EHIND the export drive of Vauxhall Motors. Ltd., lies a

most important but little-publicized link in the chain of supply between Luton and all the world. It is the packing plant,...

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• OPINIONS and QUERIES

WE CANNOT AFFORD THE WASTE OF NATIONALIZATION NATIONALIZATION WOULD NOT PLEASE THIS DRIVER THE fight against nationalization...

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Vulcan-Sinclair Fluidrive Makes Headway

D EVELOPMENTS with the FluidriveS.S.S. transmission, for which interesting equipment the Hydraulic Coupling and Engineering...

Girling Brakes Continue to Progress

A T this period, when the industry's jubilee celebrations are being held or arranged in various parts of the country, it will...

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That Tantalizing Ton-mile

F OR once in a while I think I have been too hasty in dealing with an inquiry. A correspondent wrote and asked me to recommend...