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17th August 1951
17th August 1951
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Nationalization Disgruntlement

State Ownership of Transport Is Proving Unfruitful and Many Employees are Increasingly Discontented W HAT is really the trouble...

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Obstruction Which Slows Traffic

T HE so-called road hog is not necessarily only the driver who proceeds at a speed which is over-rapid in the particular...

Passing Comments

Nuffield Agent's Sur - D URING visits paid to prise for Prominent A — F Detroit by the various Visitor Nuffield executives,...

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One Hears

Much of p.s.v. growing pains. That iron curtains do not always imply safety. That in any case it is safer to be in front of...

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Wages Increases Will •

T.G.W.U. Rejects Bus Companies' Offer : R.H.E. Raises Pay by 7s. a Week IT is estimated that the road transport industry is...

B.T.C. Finances to be Investigated

A T the request of the three railway unions, Mr. Harold Wilson, former President of the Board of Trade, is to undertake an...

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• -Nuffield, Leyland Charter Ships

To avoid shipping difficulties, two prominent motor manufacturers are . chartering ships for the export of their products. By...

R.H.A. Publi city Plan Fails

B ECAUSE of a lack of response by members of the Road Haulage Association, the scheme for a national direct-mail drive to...

Vehicle Prices May Rise Again

WHAT one commercial-vehicle manuVV facturer termed "another turn in the spiral of inflation" occurred this week in the increase...

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Men in the News

MR, N. I. HENDERSON has joined 'lie Northern Ireland section of the tyre salts organization of the North British Rubber Co,...

Cardiff Bus Driver Wins Appeal

A CARDIFF municipal bus driver, Edwin J. Hale, won his appeal at Cardiff Quarter Sessions, last week, against a sentence of two...

New Registration Regulations

F OUR earlier regulations dealing with registration and licensing have been consolidated in two new regulations which came into...

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Bus Operators Budget for Thin Times : More Increases in North

VV ITH the announcements by the general managers of the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., and the Birmingham and Midland...

In a Line or Two

Messrs. N. Craft, Boston hauliers, have taken over the busines . of Messrs. F. Smalley. The new Esso refinery at Fawley will...

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Red House Decision Deferred " Changes Should be Allowed "

D ECISIGN was reserved for three months by the West Midland Deputy Licensing Authority, last week, in the ease of the Red House...

£160 Saved in Two Months on Haulage

DY employing a 30 m.p.h. C-licence vehicle for the transport of bus seats, instead of hiring a 5-tenner, Accles and Pollock,...

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New Rates for Removals: Change in Plan for Wages Council

R ECOMMENDATIONS f or the revision of the scale of fair charges and the schedule of rates for small lots have been approved by....

. Montreux Plans to Attract International Coaches

P R OVIS ON AL plans to construct a permanent coach station in the centre of Montreux, Switzerland, have been agreed by the...

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An Austin 2-tonner Shows America How

Says L. J. Cotton, M.I.R,T.E. I N 14 days I have travelled over 14,000 miles, mostly by air, from England across Canada and...

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‘ Sitting in Judgment Although the Recent Commons Debate had All

the Usual ingredients, the Mixture Failed to Rise: Socialists Outbid Tories with Suggestions to Deal with the Transport...

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Farmers and Hauliers Work Together

By L. M. Marshall " HOW the Transport Arrangements of Farmers and Contractors Dovetail in the Three Main Groups of Agricultural...

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Lightweight Van for Laundry Work

P AYLOAD capacity is increased in a new type of bagwash laundry body built by Thomas Harrington, Ltd., Hove, on a Bedford 5-ton...

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Road Tn Key to Gr ;port is the k Recovery

W HO, studying Greece, could possibly make a beginning anywhere but in the age-old, storied capital, Athens? The classicist,...

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A Champion of Nationalization T HE shortcomings of British Road Services

are frequently given prominence in your journal, of which I have been a reader for many years. Many of the criticisms are...

THE OLDEST PRODUCTION DUNLOP TYRE?

I N the Castle Museum here, we have a rival to John Boyd Dunlop's first pneumatic tyre,. which I see has gone to the Festival...

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CIE. Learns the Art of IIEAVY HAULAGE

By Ashley Taylor A.M.I.R.T.E. H EAVY haulage, it might be thought, was the same all the world over, but one has to go only as...

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Mobile Kitchen Supplies Film Workers

A MOBILE kitchen in which 400 full meals a day can be prepared, has recently been put into service by L.E.C. Catering Service,...

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Cheap in the

Long Run By L. J. COTTON, M.I.R.T.E. I N first cost, the N.C.B. 30-cwt, battery-electric is among the highest priced of its...

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Should Vehicle Repairs be Done Outside?

“The Commercial Motor" Costs Expert Discusses a Question in •which Practice and Theory Conflict: He Describes the...

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Whatever the working temperature DEXTROL is the safest lubricating oil

Efficient lubrication under all engine conditions depends on STABLE VISCOSITY. Stable viscosity is the quality that enables a...

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New Touring Coaches for East Kent

QIX new vehicles whic h have recently been added to the fleet of the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., undoubtedly qualify for the...

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A Friction-driven Infinitely Variable Gear

INFINITELY variable gears of the I friction type have not proved very , 4uccessfu1 for large engines, but for • powers up to...