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18th May 1934
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Legitimate Railway Competition

R AILWAY chiefs often criticize The Commercial Motor for the manner in which it upholds the rights of road transport and for...

A Fear That Co-operation Can Allay W HILST the amendment of

the contractcarriage section of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, is generally agreed to be necessary, fears are being expressed, in...

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Passing Comments

THE Minister of Transport, Mr. Oliver Stanley, speaking at the recent National Safety First Association Congress, mentioned...

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One Hears

That tail - wagging conciliates no drivers. That 75 per cent. of Britain's traffic-signal installa4ions are of the fixed-cycle...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY

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

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News of Municipal Activities

Dennis Exhibits at a Fire-brigade Conference. Five machines represented' the firefighting range of products of Dennis...

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COUNCIL DISAGREES WITH MINISTRY EXPERIMENT.

Reporting on an inquiry by the Ministry of Transport, regarding an experiment in marking off traffic lanes on a length of...

A NEW ALBION PASSENGER MODEL

T HE Albion Victor-type passenger chassis has, hitherto, been listed as suitable for bodies seating 20 to 26 passengers. It is...

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Road Transport Activities

IN PARLIAMENT By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent SPECIAL SPEED LIMIT UNTIL 1939. THE Standing Committee of the "...

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MAXIMUM-LOAD FOUR-WHEELER

makes easy work of a hard task R UGGED, like the country in which it is built, the Albion M55 goods chassis, introduced last...

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ALLEGED RAILWAY " POACHING " : HAULIERS TO INFORM POLICE

Wini EN an Invenuie fish-contracting rm complained to the Northern Scotland Licensing Authority that a railway lorry had been...

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Goods-vehicle Records Prepared

A DRAFT of the Provisional Regulations as to the keep ing of records in connection with goods vehicles has been submitted by...

REGISTRATION RETURNS FOR MARCH ANALYSED

T HE number of motor vehicles registered for the first time under the Roads Act, 1920, during March, 3934, was 43,735,...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

RAILWAY OBJECTIONS TO DISCRETIONARY TONNAGE. The Editor, THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [43101 Sir,—la the interests of transport...

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Municipal-motor Interest at the Paris Fair

4RCIAL-VEHICLE exhibits at the 26th annual Poire de Paris, which has just opened, are confined to fire-engines, municipal...

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R.H.A. OFFICIAL ANNOUNCES NEW RECORDS

A BOUT 70 persons were present at a meeting of hauliers held under the auspices of the South London Committee of the Road...

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HIGH-SPEED ROAD MAI<

\IGH for MILITARY USAGE A MOST interesting exhibition of the many purposes for which petrol and oil-engined vehicles,...

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AIR TRANSPORT NEWS

DAILY NEWSPAPERS FOR PARIS BY AIR. • Messrs. Wrightson and Pearse have made a four-months charter contract to carry newspapers...

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ILITARY transport is rather a

different proposition from or dinary haulage work, where practically all the\ running takes place over good " made " roads. For...

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Oilerette Oil Engine Conversions

A' London Concern is Now Specializing in the Installation of Perkins Engines in Reconditioned Second-hand Chassis meet a...

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Operating Aspects of

PASSENGER TRANSPORT THE LATEST NEWS OF IMPORTANT EVENTS " REDCAR " CLAIM AGAINST LONDON TRANSPORT SUCCEEDS. T HE London...

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Sectionized Body

A DESIGN of passenger-vehicle body that is eminently suitable for pressed-steel construction (although the possibility of using...