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18th March 1949
18th March 1949
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Pooling Will Save Free Hauliers

Co-operative A ction Necessary to Co-ordinal e Independent Services with T hose of R.T.E. HERE Can be little doubt that the...

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Passing Comments

Is the Vehicle OperaRI US operators often have to tor Always to Blame . 1 -.? suffer in public opinion for Failures?. . . ....

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One Hears—

That stepping on the gas is often as fatal as inhaling it. That in 1950 the U.S.A. is to spend 121,000,000 on military motor...

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Nalgo to be Staff Association for Transport Management Officers ?

R EPRESENTATIVES of some leading haulage concerns and a few people on the passenger transport side decided, at a meeting in...

1949 Starts with Record Exports

T ANUARY'S exports of commercial J vehicles set up a new record in volume and value. Including industrial trucks, road haulage...

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Export Comets for .Home _Market „ „

3 RITISH operators can now buy Ley land Comet medium-capacity ;clods vehicles built to export specificaions, .-These machines...

"Trent' Chairman and M.P. Attack Bus Nationalization Scheme

Q1NCE the first area scheme was mooted last December in northeast England, the Road Transport Executive have made it quite...

New Pier Trai ns Go by Road

S OUTHEND pier is saying goodbye to its toast-rack trams. They are being replaced by a new fleet of modern cars, the first of...

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Men in the News

MR. J. A. WILLIAMS, of British Railways, the Institute of Transport Silver Jubilee Scholar for 1949, has left for America on a...

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Dispute Over Mail Van Drivers' Wages : McNamara Men Involved

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT A A1L-VAN drivers employed by IV! McNamara and Co., Ltd., are trying to get their wages and...

Big Increase in January Output

UTANUFACTURERS of commercial vehicles got off to a flying start this year by producing 15,780 commercial vehicles in the...

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• Priority in Exports?

I N the House of Commons last week the President of the Board of Trade . was asked to press for the inclusion of cars and...

Road Transport Still Penalized at Docks T HE different treatment, accorded

to road and rail-btirne: export traffic at the 'docks was referred to by Mr. C. DawSon, manager of the Bradford branch of LEP...

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25,000 Eleetries Could Do All Town Delivery Work

INTERESTING and controversial I points were raised by Mr. H. W. Heyman, B.Sc., A.M.I.E.E., of Northern Coachbuilders, Ltd., in...

Greasing is Skilled • Work—I.R.T.E. View

T "importance of skilled attention to greasing was among the points stressed at the March meeting of the North Western Centre...

AWAY WITH MONOTONY TO overcome the monotony for the

operator feeding ceritreless grinders, Arthur Scrivener, Ltd., Tyburn Road, Birmingham, has introduced a magnetic loading...

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Two. New Battery electric Vans

I T is learned that Northern Coachbuilders, Ltd., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has developed, and is now producing, two new...

MULTI-DIAMOND TOOL

A NEW type of diamond too l for wheel dressing consists of a number of small diamonds bonded in close irregular formation. As...

A Stop to Thefts of Lamp Bulbs

T O prevent the theft of lighting bulbs from the fittings in buses, Simms Motor Units, Ltd., Oak Lane, East Finchley, London,...

Bus Withdrawals Exceed Intake

B ECAUSE of their age and body condition, London buses are being withdrawn at a faster rate than new vehicles are beiog...

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Is the Minister Applying the Screw?

• Contradictory Official Statements in the House of Commons, and the Commission's Extraordinary Haste to Nationalize Road...

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Electric Trucks Work 24 Hours a Day B ECAUSE the vehicles

operate 24 hours a day, the batteries of the electric industrial trucks used at main-line railway stations cannot be recharged...

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National Exchequer Should Subsidize Railways

T HE suggestion that the British Railways should be made a charge on the national exchequer, as. an alternative to the present...

Keep Your Eye On The Ball

" SOMETIMES think of the transport situation in terms of golf. It is as though two opponents, 'Private Enterprise' and 'State...

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The Dodge Rar th New Styling

A RADICAL change in styling, together with improvements in chassis details, has been incorporated in a new range of vehicles...

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11111EN TIVO-SIlitiht 11

IS ECONOMY RECORDS Paden Eight-whei Fine Performance Torque and Other istics of Two-strc Permit Standard be Used Without W...

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Support for the Trolleybus

HAVE read the correspondence which has followed I the publication of the article " Re Fair to the Trolleybus," published in...

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NEW BRITISH VEHICLES =3NEVA

Nine British Vehicle Manufacturers Exhibit Goods and Passenger Models at Geneva. There is Emphasis on Oil Engines and Two-speed...

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A "Closed Shop"

in Removals is Undesirable But the Business is H ighly Specialized and Calls for Skilled Workers and Thorough Experience on...

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OPERATORS in the Midlands have, "The Commercial Motor" learns, been

warned to modify their meattransport vehicles to allow for the hanging of fresh meat. Apparently, there is a move on foot to...

1,800-gallon Tanker for Liquid Sugar

O NE of the latest types of tanker to be put into service for the transport of invert sugar has been delivered to Collings and...

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A 16-cubic-yd. End-tipper

nESICJ NEP • for carrying coal and lime. A 1(i-cubic-yd. end-tipper with twin-ram gear, arranged to give a lift of 12 ft., has...

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A Gas Turbine for Road Vehicles

I N spite of the fairly general doubt as to the suitability of internal-combustion turbines for road vehicles, a scheme of this...