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20th June 1952
20th June 1952
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B.T.C. Turns the Corner

Small Profit on £2,200m. Revenue: Road Services and Provincial and Scottish Buses do Better T HE accounts of the British...

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A Boost to Export T HE news that an agreement has

been reached between chassis manufacturers and the Ministry of Supply to release four-wheel-drive models formerly built solely...

Passing Comments

Informing Against C-licensees E'URNITURE removers are concerned about the I alleged illegal activities of C-licensees. Writing...

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One Hears

That the cloven hoof is to be barred from the Royal Show. That it might be as well to bar it elsewhere. That many valuable...

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Transport Bill in July •

'THE Government's Transport Bill will be presented to Parliarrient rn early July. This information has been gained from an...

NEW DIFFICULTIES FOR GLASGOW TRANSPORT UAVING borrowed £l.5in. from the

corporation loans department io meet its continuing deficits, Glasgow Transport Department last week announced that it was...

VALUE OF FORMER RAILWAYOWNED HAULAGE CONCERNS ' N the House

of Commons last week, Mr. Sparks asked the Minister of Transport for details of the road haulage 'companies in which the...

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a Small Profit

In spite of this and the elimination of some uneconomic routing, there was a rise in passenger miles and freight ton-miles, the...

Cross-country Chassis Released

I T is understood that the Ministry of Supply has agreed to manufacturers' releasing four-wheel-drive cross-country chassis of...

B.T.C. Leaders' Appointments " J AM anxious to give the members

I of the Commission and the Executives the earliest possible information as to their personal future, and I propose to discuss...

MINISTER'S STATEMENT ON L.T.E. FARES

M ODIFICATIONS to • be made to increased passenger fares, which came into force in London on March 2, and to those it had ....

MINIMUM-PAY PROPOSALS

T HE Road Haulage Wages Council (Northern Ireland) has decided to give notice of its intention to submit to the Ministry of...

GERMANY GAINS RIG ORDER

A N order for 700 single-deck trolleybuses has been placed with German manufacturers by the Argentine Transport Commission....

DEPUTATION 'TO, WELSH M.P.s i‘ DEPUTATION from local authoritA ties

in five Welsh counties, is due to be received by Welsh M.1 3 4 to present a case for the suspension of the South Wales...

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Men in the News

CLLR. F. BIDSTON has been re-elected chairman of Liverpool Transport Committee. LORD DUDLEY GORDON, D.S.O., LLD,. and Ma. J....

Output and Exports Drop

T HE output of commercial vehicles for April was 18,289 units, the lowest fi g ure this year and a 15 per cent. fall on April...

Harvest Workers' Transport

T O ensure that sufficient transport to carry the lar g e numbers of additional farm workers re q uired for g atherin g in the...

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£25.1m. Spent out of Road Fund

P AYMENTS from the Road Fund in 1950-51 were £25.1m., compared with nearly £26m. in 1949-50. Of this total, the amount paid out...

1,433 AGREEMENTS APPROVED

I N its annual report to the Minister of Transport, the Transport Tribunal states that it made 1,433 orders approving agreed...

POLICE APPEAL ALLOWED

T HE High Court his. allowed the appeal of the police against the dismissal by the Ottery St. Mary Bench of two summonses...

NORTHERN ROADWAYS WITHDRAWS I - 1 A N application by Northern Road

ways, Ltd., to duplicate express services between Glasgow and Scarborough was withdrawn last week at a hearing of the Scottish...

Give R.H.E. Another Year.

WHEN a party of Birmingham VT and Coventry transport managers was entertained by the. Midland division of the Road Haulage...

Home Secretary at I.T.A. Dinner

G UEST of honour at the dinner which 1/4. 1 marked the silver jubilee congress of the Industrial Transport Association held in...

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New Motor Ferry Vessel

I AST Tuesday, British Railways brought into service on the DoverBoulogne short sea route the latest and largest motor-vehicle...

READING PLAN TO SAVE 15,000

A PLAN to save £5,000 a year on the operation of Reading Transport Department was approved by 'Reading Town Council recently....

MORE LIVERPOOL TRAMS GO

O N Sunday, June 22, the Longview Lane-City tram route of Liverpool Transport Department will be converted to motorbus...

NEW HAMILTON GARAGE

A NEW garage of the Central S.M.T. Co., Ltd., will be opened at Hamilton on June 25 by the Scottish Licensing Authority, Mr. W....

MacBrayne Seeks Independence of Subsidy : Manchester's 2d.

A PPLYING to the Scottish Licensing Authority last week for higher .fares, David MacBrayne, Ltd., declared that although the...

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Exide Agents ' Convention S PEAKING at the concluding banquet of the

23rd convention of Exide service agents, organized by Chloride Batteries, Ltd. the sales manager, Mr. E. Powell, gave some...

£58 105. FINE FOR ILI.EGAL RUNNING

A HAULIER who stated that he genuinely believed that he was legally entitled to carry 'coal for -30 miles without permit...

B.E.A. WORKERS' DIFFICULTIES W/HEN Dan Ferguson, Ltd„ Renfrew, VV applied

to the Scottish Licensing Authority last week to provide a service between Renfrew and Paisley, the difficulties for workers of...

AIR AND PETROL FOR TUNNEL USERS

O UT of 3,534 breakdowns in the Mersey 'funnel last year, 545 were attributable to tyre trouble. Inflation equipment has now...

Legalize Winking Lights

A S a pioneer in Great Britain of direction indicators, Trico-Folberth, Ltd., Great West Road, Pen i vale, Mddx, is strongly in...

MYSORE PAYS Rs. 3M. FOR STATE CONTROL

R OAD transport nationalization in Mysore has so far cost the Government over Rs. 3m. Mr. H. Siddayeer. appa. Home Minister,...

Leyland Exp orts Increase

D UR1NG the first five months of this year, Leyland Motors, Ltd., exported 5 per cent. more goods than in the corresponding...

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Concession Tickets Little Used

C ONCESSION tickets introduced on buses operated by Dundee Corporation have been comparatively little used. This was stated at...

MINERS PREFER TORQUAY TO BLACKPOOL WHEN Wainfleet Motor Services, YY

Ltd., applied to the West Midland Licensing Authority to run an express service from Nuneaton district to Torquay on Saturdays...

Checks Against Foot-and-Mouth

A T the request of the Irish Government, the Automobile Association is advising persons taking vehicles to Ireland to have them...

• CLEANSING AGENT FOR GARAGES

A N. economical new cleansing agent called Holiclene has been developed by Douglas Holt (Est, 1919), Ltd., 5-6, Eagle Street,...

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Speeding London's Dock Traffic

D ISREGARDING personal injuries, it is impossible to assess the financial loss to the country in general and transport...

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Union Roundabout

A BILITY to hold two contrary opinions at the same time is spreading rapidly. When the subject is transport one may be pardoned...

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O NLY those whose memories go back to the old horse-drawn

dust-cart days can properly appreciate all that the annual vehicle demonstration of the Institute of Public Cleansing really...

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Exhibitors and Exhibits at Cleansing Demonstration Atkinson's Agricultural Appliances, Ltd.,

Kendal Street, Clitheroe, Lanes: 5-ton bulk grit Spreader body, 2-ton trailer gritter. William Bunce and Son, Ashbury,...

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Changes in Cleansing Methods

S PEAKERS at the Institute of Public Cleansing conference, last week, surveyed the possibilities of mechanical aids in refuse...

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Recording Actual Coach Costs

At the Cost of a Little Time and Thought, the Coach Proprietor Can Work out for Himself a Cost Analysis Sheet From Which he can...

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What Germany is Doing

By P. A. C. Brotkington, A.M.I.Mech.E. I HAVE recently returned from an extended tour of the Continent, during which I met...

Goods Transport Taxed to the Hilt

A CCORDING to a number of long1 - 1 distance hauliers interviewed in Germany, it is uneconomic to carry less than a 20-ton...

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Costs of Co-operative Society

R UNN1NG-COST figures for the long-distance tractor-trailer fleet, operated by a leading German co-operative society, serve to...

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Economic Postal Deliveries

T HE fleet used by the German Post Office in the Hamburg area mainly comprises Tempo 16-cwt. three-andfour-wheelers, and 2-ton...

New Flame-hardening Process

A SYSTEM of flame hardening which ri is claimed to be quicker and is attended with less distortion than is usually encountered...

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Clayton Dewandre Boosts Output

Output of Compressors in Clayton Dewandre Factory Increased by Reorganization and Equipping a Separate Assembly Department:...

Bristol Eight-wheeled Chassis Described

A BRIEF description of the Bristol eight-wheeler, • designed, for the Road Flaulage.Executive, was given by Mr. A. W....

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Single-deckers for City Services

NAARICING a real step forward in 1Y1 the adaptation of the underfloorengined single-decker for operation in crowded British...

Mobile Dental Unit

A MOBILE dental unit providing the necessary equipment and living accommodation for the dentist was built recently for use in...

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Taxing a Tool of Industry

F ROM time to time we hear outcries about the cost of transport; Whether it be for goods or for passengers._ We also - hear...

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Constant-level Pneumatic Spring

F ROM the General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., comes patent No. 669,247 in which is described a pneumatic...