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16th June 1931
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Passengers in Goods Vehicles

0 . NE of the unhooked-for and certainly un• wanted effects of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, has been to exercise a particularly...

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Promoting the Safety of Public service Vehicles.

-LaA MONGST the welter of new regulations, with some of which we are in disagreement, a few stand out as being sound in theory...

Difficulties of the Coach hiring Regulations.

rr HE existing regulations governing the hiring -Iof public-service vehicles make it impracticable for quick adjustments to be...

A TTENTION to our .ri-backwardness in regard to safety on

the road is commented upon by Sir Harold Bowden, Bt., who considers that the dangers of present-day travel are largely due to...

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ONE HEARS

That there is still a field for the well-designed cushion tyre. o That the latest regulations . have fired with enthusiasm...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY The wheels of wealth will be slowed

by all difThafties of transport at whatever points arieing, as a carriage is by the roughness of the roads over which it...

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Motors at the Three Counties Show.

Motor and power-farming exhibits were numerous at the Three Counties Show, which opened at Hereford last Tuesday. Exhibitors of...

THE MALONE FLUID ENGINE

I N cittr issue dated June Oth we gave preliminary particulars of the Malone li q uid engine, which was described at a meeting...

ITEMS OF NEWS IN A FEW LINES

The Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., is erecting a bus g ara g e at Berwick. The accounts of Colchester Corporation's...

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An Eight-cylindered Steam Engine

A Striking New Power Unit from America. Rotary Inlet Valve Supplying Eight Cylinders in a V-type Block. Part' 1,000 lb....

FACILITATING WORK UNDER CHASSIS

I N order to facilitate the execution of work under chassis, particularly of the modern low type, the Garage Creeper Mat has...

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What Should be Done

ABOUT CANADA? I N endeavouring to give one's views on ..t h e general conditions of the roadtransport industry in Canada, one...

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An Ingenious New

Vehicle loading Device A Movable Platform, Working on the Parallel-ruler Principle, which Safely Handles Live or Dead Loads...

The Latest in

Mobile Shops ATOM - LE shops are being used for a 11/..Lwide variety of purposes, and a new type which will interest butchers...

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A New Fourwheel-drive Tractor

1. 1 OR work over trieky surfaca, four wheel-drive lorries have proved their worth. In the case of tractor operation the risk...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES Are British Makers Neglecting Oil Engines ?

The Editor, THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [3429] Sir,—Your correspondent, writing under the name of "Oil," in your issue for last...

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The Capabilities of the

LARGEST LEYLAND S HORTLY before the 1929 Commercial Motor Exhibition the Leyland " zoo " was augmented by the introduction of...

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Commercial Oaks

An Outline of the Various Species of Oak on the Market, Giving their Advantages and Drawbacks By a Timber Salesman O AK has...

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OPERATING ASPECTS

of Passenger Transport Latest News from the Various Traffic Areas CO-ORDINATION AMONGST BIG COMPANIES IN. THE NORTH rnPIE...

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AN IMPORTANT RETURN-TICKET PROBLEM RAISED AT NEWCASTLE

_Li A T the recent Rewcastle sitting of the Northern Area Traffic Commissioners, the chairman, Mr. Henry Riches, announced...

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TRAFFIC FIGURES OF COACH ROUTES TO THE WEST

L ONG-DISTANCE coach services connecting Liverpool and the Midlands with' coastal towns in the . Western Traffic Area were gone...

A New Unbalanced Half-drop Window

JJ AVING established a good market for its LC-type balanced half-drop window, the Rawlings Manufacturing Co., Ltd., of 1-29,...

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Road Transport Activities

in PARLIAMENT By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent • The London Passenger Transport Bill. TJ PON the resumption of the...

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The Latest

13URFORD GOODS MODEL I N past years the Burford had a god reputation as a. sound commercial chassis, its internal-gear drive...

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A Dennis Agent's Progressive Policy

T HE distributors for Dennis vehicles in Lancashire and northern Staffordshire, the Old Trafford Motor Engineering Co., of...

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Problems of the

HAULIER and CARRIER N OW I pass to the consideration of a phase of trailer use entirely different from that with which I...

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Controlling Fuel Injection

in heavy-oil engines A SIMPLE method of controlling the time and duration of the airless injection of fuel in Diesel engines is...