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1st November 1940
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Designing for Overseas

D ESPITE the fact that manufacturers of com mercial vehicles are so fully occupied in production for the war effort and in...

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Passing Comments

Important Agent and rHATTING a day or two ago O perator Maintains with Mr. Phillip Rickards, Good Business . . of Charles...

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One Hears

" New lighting in force? I call it feeble." Of many " unhonoured and unsung'? heroes among L.P.T.B. employees. Of many who...

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NEWS of the WEEK

UNAVOIDABLE TRANSPORT DELAYS AND DRIVERS' PAY H AULIERS will be particularly interested in a query which has been addressed by...

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PLAN TO MERGE SCOTTISH TRAFFIC AREAS

A T a recent meeting of Perth County Council, Mr. W. Henderson, convener, urged the council to make representations to the...

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Straight-eight Car Engine Applied to Lorry Use

P OSSIBIUTIES of future difficulties in obtaining certain engine replace. ments lend more than ordinary interest to a...

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Gas Experts Urge Curb to Wasted Wealth

A N interim report of the Gas Traction Development Committee, formed in October, 1939, has just been published. The object of...

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Picture-book of Tyre Troubles

No. io. Some Forms of Inner -tube Damage T HE inner tube is damaged far less frequently than the outer cover, and it is no...

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How Road Motors Are Affecting Land Utilization

I N the days when reliance for market transport was placed upon horse-drawn vehicles and the railways, the purposes to which...

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New Producer-gas Filter's Efficiency Substantiated

R ESULTS of a 3,000-mile test of the new " Vacunaatic scrubber" recently introduced by British Vehicle Producer Gas, Ltd., 120,...

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What Is a Fair Profit?

Solving the Problems of the Carrier I HAVE a presentiment that things are going to be made very difficult for some hauliers....

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New Book on Methane

From the LC. Engine Angle An Authoritative Work on a Subject About Which Knowledge is Rather Scarce T HE attractions of...

Oil-filter Specialist's

A.R.P. Water Purifier The"Metafilter" Which Delivers Sterile Water Without Subjecting it to • Chemical Treatment F OLLOWING...

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Motors "Deliver the Goods"

For Important Contracts I NSPIRED by the boom period in the building trade, which was in full swing 18 years ago, Messrs. H....

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The Minitr)

of Transport CONTROL OF I ULAGE RATES HAT which has been discussed and expected for years, always, nevertheless, in the...

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Differential for All-wheel-drive Six-wheelers

C ONS1DERABLE interest attaches to a differential gear designed by Mr.. H. B. Dodge, chief engineer of the Four Wheel Drive...

Lessons from Industrial Dual-fuel Engines

La 1 ITTLE has been achieved, in the transport world, with the conversion of oil engines to producer gas, retaining oil...

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Operating

Aspects of PASSENGER TRANSPORT 2,000 MORE BUSES FOR LONDON B y arrangement with the Ministry of Transport, bins undertakings...

SPOTTERS FOR LONDON'S BUSES

R ESULTING from agreement with the drivers and conductors Of buses, trolleybuses and trams, London Transport has introduced a...

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Metal Progress and Its Bearing on Commercial-motor Design and Production

WAR and its horrors must not be V V allowed to distract attention too strongly froth the developments taking place in...

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Distributing 125,000,000 Tins of Food Annually

D ESTRICTIVE legislation in many IN-States of America,various aspects of which have recently been the subject of comment in The...

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Weight-saving Scheme for Double-deckers

C ONSMERABLE saving in weight in the construction of doubledecker buses is claimed for a bodyb - ailding refinement shown in...