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1st August 1947
1st August 1947
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Higher Speed Limit for Heavies?

T HE inconsistency of permitting the largest publicservice vehicle to travel at 30 m.p.h. and yet to restrict to 20•m.p.h. all...

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How Legislation Goes Astray

T HE recent decision to bring certain classes of utility vehicle, such as shooting brakes, within those categories subject to...

Passing Comments

Some Types of Road FIO ECENTLY we seem to User Whom We Have "have come across quite a Met flock of those irritating drivers...

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One Hears— That the miners must not let Britain down in her building-up.

That good bodywork, alone, cannot sell a com mercial vehicle. 0 The query: "When will there be tractors enough for all who want...

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News of the Week

POLICE INTERVENE IN BLACKBURN PARADE IT is reported that the police took the names and addresses of operators and drivers when...

Letters Still Not Good Evidence L ETTERS which are specific in

their .1-4 statements do not constitute more reliable evidence than those which are general in their terms, because the...

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HEAVY PENALTIES FOR THEFT FROM LORRY

S ENTENCES totalling 354 years, and ranging from 18 months' imprisonment to seven years' penal servitude, were passed on eight...

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TOO MANY - LETTERS AT INQUIRIES B ECAUSE, in some instances, applicants

have submitted so many supporting letters, without previous notice, that there has not been time to examine them all in detail...

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Bins Mechanically Lifted in New Karrier-Yorkshire Collector

S HOWN for the first time at the Public Works Exhibition, Olympia, the new Karrier-Yorkshire dustproof mechanical-loading...

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Operators Welcome Staggering O N the whole, passenger-transport operators in the

industrial north of England welcomed the news that the autumn would bring compulsorily staggered hours to industrial...

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TRIBUNAL APPOINTED TO HEAR MEN'S CLAIMS

FIE company operatives' claim for service conditions similar to those granted to municipal employees will be heard by a new...

Guy introduces New Trolleyhuses

ADE to the customer's require ments," might almost be the slogan adopted by Guy Motors, Ltd., Fallings Park, Wolverhampton, in...

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Delivering the World'

Most Perishable Commodity T HERE is nothing quite so dead as the news item that has previously been read elsewhere. For that...

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A Memorial to the Unknown Haulier

By Major E. H. B. Palmer, O.B.E. I N the opinion of the Socialists and some of the less optimistic in the industry, a chapter...

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Fluorescent Lighting in New 28-seater Coach

F UORESCENT lighting is a special eature of a Bedford. coach, with a 28-seater body, which has just been put into service by...

Performance Recorded on Paper

T 0 be shown for the first time at the Engineering and Marine Exhibition, at Olympia, London, from August 28September 13, the...

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A Rubber Track

of Extreme Novelty M ANY inventors come to see us concerning the fruits of their brains, but, regrettably, few can be given...

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THE DAIML 6 CHASSIS

J UDGED by the performance put up on road test, the Daimler C.V.D.6 passenger chassis—the latest model—will obviously become as...

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The Daimler 8•6 Litre DI Oil Engine

F OR many years, engines of proprietary make have been incorporated in Daimler passenger vehicle chassis. Although these units...

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Government Throws Out Lords Amendments

—and Returns the Transport Bill to its Previous Vicious Form, with "Free" Hauliers Crowded into a 25-mile Radius By Our Legal...

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Mileage Doubled Under Company Control S INCE Government control of road

transport ended a year ago, the mileage covered by vehicles of Transport Services, Ltd., has been doubled. This statement was...

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A Reserve Fund for Hire Purchase

Help for the Owner-driver who has Recently Returned to Haulage without Large Capital Resources and has Acquired One Vehicle by...

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Automatic Take-up of Valve Slack

F ro provide automatic valve adjust' ment is the object of a device shown in patent No. 587,433 by Societe des Moteurs Gnome et...