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19th December 1952
19th December 1952
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Seven Days' Hard Labour A CCOMPANIED by many complaints of the

harsh action of the guillotine, which was hastened by Party bickering, the Transport Bill has passed through the seven-day...

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Passing Comments

Transport Engineers Essential 'TAKING place on the first night of the great fog, a few of the 350 members and guests of the...

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One Hears—

Of complaints against radiator " falsies." Many a "Hear! hear!" • from readers for Observer's letter That the Foden concern...

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B.R.S. Workers Threaten Strike : T.U.C. Rejects Seat on Board

A DECISION to call a strike of British Road Services' workers on " January 19, unless denationalization were postponed, was...

B.R.S. Drops Sim. and 4m. Tons

IN the first 48 weeks of this year, 1 British Road Services has lost £1m. of revenue, compared with the corresponding period of...

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"No Right of Appeal" Case : Decision Reserved

flECISION was reversed by the J—/ Transport [Appealj Tribunal, last week, in the case of Kitts Transport Co., Willis Street,...

P.M. Apologizes to Col. Jerrett A FTER the Prime Minister had

recently criticized, in the House of Commons, the post-war increase in the size of C-licensed fleets, Col. A. Jerrett,...

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Yorkshire Traction Alleges Irregular Running

TWENTY-THREE complaints of irregular running by Messrs. W. R. and P. Bingley, Kingsley, Messrs. W. Everett and Son. South...

IN A LINE OR TWO

An import quota for 24 commercial vehicles for 1953 has been fixed by the Eireann Government. Orders for 320 Bristol...

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£85 Fines for Exceeding Limit

'r OR exceeding the 15-mile limit stipu1 latcd in their carrier's licence, Messrs. M. G. and A. E. Eaton, 11, Lawton Road,...

NATIONALIZATION CUT REVENUE VIDENCE of greatly reduced revenue since nationalization

was given by Messrs Mitchell Bros., Douglas Water, Lanarks, to the Scottish Licensing Authority, last week, when the firm...

Dispute Over Distr ib ut ing Centre w HETHER the same evidence should be forthcoming for a subsidiary destination as for a...

Contracts Pay for Stage Services

COME 40-50 per cent. of the mileage kJ run by regular bus operators in South Wales was not renumerative, said Mr. H. J. Thom,...

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Eight Bus Operators Seek to Eliminate ;d. Units

IGHT undertakings, one of them municipally owned, are proposing to revise their fares by eliminating id. units. The municipal...

REGULAR TRADE NO REASON FOR MORE TOURS

A N appeal by Messrs. J. W. [(itch in and Sons against a decision of the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, refusing certain...

Thesiger Committee on Camp Services

C AMP services are among matters which the Minister of Transport has referred to the Thesiger Committee of inquiry into public...

"COULD NOT BE BOUND BY PREVIOUS DECISIONS"

S TATING that he could not be bound by previous decisions, the East Midland Licensing Authority recently granted the South...

FLEXIBLE DRIVE UNIT IN NEW BATTERY ELECTRIC

IN a new three-wheeled battery' electric vehicle being made by Wales and Edwards Ltd., Shrewsbury, a deep channel-steel frame...

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'A Little More Spent on the Roads

T HE Report on the Administration of the Road Fund for 1951-52, published by the Stationery Office, price 2s. 6c1., states that...

Rail Appeal Fails in Camp Case

B ECAUSE, in the inspector's opinion, the railway service did not adequately meet the needs of the Service men concerned and...

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Loading Height Automatically Controlled: New Gallows Truck

T HE problem of . loading from a raised-deck vehicle with different floor heights has.successfully been overcome by Cleco...

200,000-mile Test of B.40 Engine

n NE of the Army's new combatk../ vehicle engines, the four-cylindered 13.40, has just completed the first half of a...

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Parlour Games

p ERHAPS the time will hang heavily on 'your hands at Christmas with no Parliamentary reports to read. If so, there is nothing...

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8 Tons 8 Hours 199Miles

By Laurence J. Cotton, m.i.R.T.E. M eadows Four-cylindered Oil Engine in Rutland Condor Provides Good Pulling, Power Combined...

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A New Semi-Trailer Dental Clinic

Pressure-bonded One-piece Roof Embodies a Fully Glazed Sloping Light Over the Surgery D EL1VERY was recently taken by...

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Lorry or Tractor at Will

rOR some time the Arlington Motor I Co., Ltd., High Road, Ponders End, Middx., has been converting ex-W.D. Bedford MW-type...

An Oil-Water Heat Exchanger

R APID warming-up of oil when the engine is started and the maintenance of correct working temperatures, are features of a new...

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Tanker Carries £35,000 Cargo

An Experiment in the Bulk Haulage of Whisky, with an Albion 2,000-gallon Stainless-steel Tanker W HAT is claimed to be the...

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AT THE St OF THE G

By A. E. Sherlock-Mesher Courage's Runs ijo Vehicles to Deliver Drat's) and Bottled Beer in a Large Part of Souther England.'...

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New Idea to Save Fuel

A MEANS whereby the compression ratio of an engine can be maintained at an optimum value in relation to the degree of throttle...

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Opinions and Queries

Is Transport Tribunal Redundant? IS it not time to raise the question of the continued need 1 for the Transport Tribunal?...

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C.D. Pioneered

Vacuum Brakes S O far as can be traced, the late J. G. Parry Thomas, one-time holder of the land-speed record, was the first...

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Charging for Bulky Loads

"The Commercial Motor" Costs Expert Deals with Inquiries from Readers, One of Whom is Concerned with the Transport of Hay : The...

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New Leyland 150 b.h.p. Engine

A NEW 11.1-litre six-cylinclered oil engine of 150 b.h.p. output at 2,000 r.p.m. is now being prodoced by Leyland Motors, Ltd.,...

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An Electrically Operated Gearbox

THE latest proposal for an electrically operated transmission is contained in patent No. 681,010, which comes from A. Kamper...