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1st February 1935
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Licence Decisions Prejudiced ?

I S every application to the Traffic Commissioners considered entirely on its merits, in accordance with the repeated...

The "C M." Campaign for Justice

THAT our campaign to ease the intolerable 1 situation which has arisen in respect of the severity with which drivers of...

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Precautions Required when Making Brake Tests

T HE number of tests of commercial vehicles which will be carried out in future will naturally be far greater than was formerly...

Passing Comments

A RECENT personal advertisement by Brompton f - kHospital interested us considerably, for it commenced by pointing out how...

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One Hears—

Many expressions of appreciation from all over the cbuntry in respect of our campaign against the persecution of drivers. That...

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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 roughness of the roads over which it...

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TENDERS OF INTEREST TO HAULIERS

MENDERS are invited by the following (latest dates given in parentheses):—Swansea B.O. for bricks, granite ehippings. lime,...

MUNICIPAL PURCHASES and PROPOSALS

Wandsworth Borough Coenuil is,, buying a Dennis 1,240-gallon. gully-emptier. Stratton (Cornwall) Rural District Connell...

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Call for National Rates

T HE hope that, in the near future, some national scheme, embracing all forms of transport. will be established for the...

Agreement

that, if there were mad-rail co-operation on the lines suggested by the chairman, short-distance road traffic would have to...

Paraffin a "Heavy" Oil

Vaporizer Vehicles Must Pay Same Taxation as Oilers A FTER a hearing occupying two days, the Stipendiary Magistrate at a court...

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Col. Redman Goes to the Appeal Court

TN the Court of Appeal (before Lords Justices Greer, Slesser, and Roche), on Wednesday, Col. A. S. Redman,the West Midland...

Licence Adjournments : Records to be Examined

TWO licence applications were ad journed at a sitting of the South-Eastern Licensing Authority, in order that drivers' records...

HORSEBOX APPEAL ADJOURNED

'THE Appeal Tribunal, sitting at York, on January 23, adjourned, until February 25, the bearing of the appeal by the London...

Objectors' Appeals Succeed

A DECISION by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority was set aside by the Appeal Tribunal, sitting at York, last week. The Tribunal...

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THE PARIS TRACTOR SHOW

T HE annual Salon de la Machine Agricole, which opened in Paris, last week, was curtailed on this occasion to five days—rather...

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TESTING A THORN CROFT-EAGLE 7-TONNER

S PEEDY, the designation of the Thornycroft chassis which, detachably coupled to an Eagle semi-trailer, is the subject of this...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

THE TRAINING OF TRANSPORT MANAGERS. The Editor, THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [44771 Sir,—Referring to recent correspondence in your...

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The B.R.F.'s Fight for the Industry

Securing Fair Play in Connection with Weak Bridges, Ribbon Development, Limits of Speed and Loading, and Many Other Vitally...

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An Improved Window Mechanism

The New Rawlings Halfdrop Window Has Several Notable Features A NEW half-drop window, known as the '` On Guard "—Inverse Type,...

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Road Transport's Claim for Justice

T HE persecution of drivers and owners of motor vehicles is as old as the industry itself, being in evidence when steam...

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LIGHT TRANSPORT )R THE TRADESMAN

T HE tradesman who operates commercial vehicles for the transport of the commodities which he buys and sells is in a...

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Road Transport Topics

In Parliament NUMBERS OF VEHICLES , OPERATED BY L.P.T.B. F IGURES were supplied by the Minister of Transport showing the...

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The Persecution of Drivers

Trenchant Opinions on an Important Subject that is of Vital Moment to the Industry A S a motor engineer, I naturally come into...

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Operating Aspects of

Passenger Transport BIG HOURS MEETING IN LONDON TO-DAY T TO-DAY (Friday) an important conference; representative of...

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AIR TRANSPORT YEWS

RAILWAYS AND CHANNEL ISLANDS TRAFFIC. T WO railway companies, the Southern and the Great Western, have taken between them a...

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Problems of the

HAULIER and CARRIER Q LTITE a number of readers may have been somewhat puzzled by seeming discrepancies in the totals in Table...

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A New Design of Ricardo Head

A Resume' of Recently Published Patent Specifications, Copies of which, Price is., can be Obtained from the Patent Office T HE...