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18th June 1937
18th June 1937
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The Way of the Transgressor

How Drivers a nd Vehicle Operators Offended Against Roadtransport Law During I 936 A STUDY of offences reWing to motor vehicles...

Light on the Container Problem

UFFORTS are being made to obtain some , V clarification of the clause in the Finance Bill referring to the use of containers,...

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Passing Comments

Transport Users Sav ing Hundreds of Pounds of Capital . DRESENT-DAY industrial conditions are so complex that one is apt to...

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One Hears

Of much ado about medical tests for drivers. That sonie public transport concerns enforce periodical tests for all drivers...

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NEWS of the WEEK

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

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Fur Flies in, Road-Rail Wrangle

TEMPER ran high in a case before 1 the Southern Scotland Licensing Authority, at Edinburgh, last week, and parties to it were...

Bought Licences—and Lost Them

A WITNESS who confessed that 'she had bought licences, rather than vehicles, was refused two A and two 13 licences formerly...

Personal Pars

Mn. W. T. DUNCALF, of Messrs. Duncalf and McFall, haulage contractors, has been elected to the Upper Brighton Ward on Wallasey...

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No Short Cut in Licensing

G RIEVANCES of hauliers, due to deerred decisions and other long delays in the administration of the 1933 Act, are particularly...

Rail Witness Admits Road Advantages

T HE cotton-transport test case, in which Topham Bros. (Manchester) , Ltd., of Weaste, Manchester, is applying for an addition...

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Municipal Purchases and Proposals

East Ham Corporation is to obtain tenders for the supply of a refuse collector. Leeds Corporation has ordered 12 Leyland Titan...

Loads Worth Fortunes by Morris-Commercial

L OADS of banknotes and stamps worth thousands of pounds are sometimes carried to Tilbury and Southampton Docks by the vehicles...

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African Jungle Defeated

ay British Oiler A Bedford-Perkins Lorry, Carrying Over 3 Tons, Forces its Way Through Gold Coast Jungle Country on a 360-mile...

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I.T.A. Congress Raises Vital Issues Speakers Make Striking Suggestions for

Reorganization of Transport and Expose Defects. of Railway Rating System A NCILLARY users should be allowed to carry goods for...

Railways Encourage Uneconomic Marketing

I N EFFECT, Mr. Gilbert Walker accuses the railways of haying, by their rating system, encouraged manufacturers to extend their...

Should C-Licensees Operate for Hire?

" W HATEVER may he done in the future, whether by way of legislation or voluntary effort, transport in all its phases must...

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Tide Turns with April's Registrations

After Several Dull Months Registrations of New Commercial Motors Show a Healthy Upward Trend in Both Goods and Hackney...

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TWO NEW LATIL TRA

FLIERS For Short and Long Hauls Much-improved Mark I and New Mal k Now Built at Latil's London Works. Both Dual-purpose...

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Beet Hauliers Must Organize

The Proposal that Collective Bargaining Should Substitute Individualism in Beet Haulage Traced to Its Source By S.T.R. "The...

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Lively Disc ssion on Edinburgh Con erence Papers

Main Theme of Corn rnents on ass en ger transport Su ject was Spread-over of Peak Loads D ESTRIBUTION of traffic more evenly...

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"Red Arrow" Raises Rates by 15 per cent.

" (NUR rates were already far higher 'L./than those of most carriers, but, even so, we have met with considerable success in...

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What the • Associations Are Doing

LINCOLNSHIRE ASSOCIATION AMALGAMATES WITH A.R.O. As forecast in last week's issue of The Commercial Motor, the Lincolnshire...

Minister Introduces Himself to Operators

" G OODWILL I offer, industry I will devote, knowledge I can only hope to gain." With these words, Mr. E. Leslie Burgin, the...

National Rates Plan for Removers

R ATES stabilization on a national basis and adequate machinery to enforce the agreed schedules, were urged by Major W. Taylor,...

"Railways Will Not Undercut"

" W E have a definite promise .that if we get our industry sufficiently organized, and produce a really good scale of rates,...

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CHECK YOUR COSTS AGAINST C )R TABLES

Solving the Problems of the Carrier "The Commercial Motor" Tables Afford the Finest Method of Checking Expenditure, But They...

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Road Transport Topics in Parliament

By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent BID TO AMEND CONTAINER CLAUSE. WHEN the Finance Bill was in 1■1' Committee an...

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Municipal Bus Profits Good

I MPROVED trade and the widespread increase in the travel habit have had a beneficial effect upon the finances of municipal...

BOUQUET FOR MIDWALES OPERATORS A LTHOUGH operators in Montgorneryshire and district

had been occupied in opening up services in sparsely populated areas, it was to their credit that they had given the...

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Yorkshire Operators Claim Hardship A FEELING that licensing admini

stration is more severe in the Yorkshire Area than in other traffic areas was voiced from several quarters at the Leeds mass...

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Cleansing Problems in the Limelight

Apart from a Representative Exhibition and Demonstration of Vehicles and Appliances, Several Papers with a Transport Background...

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Lack of Data Retards Road Progress

THAT rule-of-thumb methods still I persist in the field of road construction, is the inference gained from a perusal of the...

Charing Cross Bridge Scheme Muddle

F OLLOWING an announcement by the Minister of Transport in the House of Commons, on the subject of a road bridge at Charing...

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Increasing Axle Load Within the Law

A Risme' of Recently Published Patent Specifications That Are Obtainable From the Patent Office, Price is. Each U NDER present...