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20th September 1946
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The Government and Production

T HERE is no f actor greater than responsibility to bring a change of heart, policy and purpose to individuals who, previously,...

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Dog Eats Dog

latest agitation by left-wing trades r unionists is another step on the road to totalitarian government in this country. The...

Passing Comments

Why Not Pre-pay for /10ST people know that to Postal Replies from "'pre-pay a reply from a cor Abroad respondent in the United...

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One Hears

That General Gloom is - bad in tactics. The query: Shall we get our furniture delivered by plane van? That, if we do, it will...

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PRODUCTION EXCEEDS PRE-WAR LEVEL -IN July, 10,420 commercial vehicles 11.vereproduced

in the United Kingdom, against a computed monthly average of 9,000 in 1938. Included in July's figure were 592 motorbuses and...

Minister on Street Lighting

A T the opening meeting of the Con ference of the Association of Public Lighting Engineers in London on September 10, Mr. A....

CONCESSIONS IN TYRE DISTRIBUTION

T HE tyre distribution scheme of the Tyre Trade Joint Committee has been carefully reviewed by the Vehicles Committee of the...

EXPORTS INCREASE BY 35 PER CENT. IN A MONTH

DRITA1N'S export trade in commeo cial vehicles continues to grow, and July's quota howed a 35 per cent. increase on that for...

TYRES FROM SPEKE

T HE new Dunlop factory at Speke is now ready for production_ It is expected that there will be between 6,000 and 7,000...

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Sir Joseph Nall Condemns Nationalization

QTRONG arguments against the 6- 7 nationalization of road passenger transport were put forward by Sir Joseph Nall, chairman of...

A TASTE OF THINGS TO COME "HOSE who are apathetic

towards the ationalization of road transport should think on these words by Mr. Shinwell, Minister of Fuel, when he opened an...

YORKSHIRE FIGHTING THREAT OF STATE CONTROL

A VIGOROUS campaign against nationalization is being conducted in the Yorkshire West Riding Area of the Road Haulage...

A CASE AGAINST NATIONALIZATION

THE lecture to be given at the next meeting of the London Centre, Institute of Traffic Administration, is " A Case Against the...

PERSONAL PARS MR. J. CLIFFORD WOOD has been appointed a director of John Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd.

MR. W. D. RAE, B.Sc.. A.R.1.C., chief research chemist at the Andre Rubber Co., Ltd., has been awarded his Ph.D., his thesis...

PAPERS FOR METALLURGISTS THE programme for the 1946-47 1 session

of the London section of the Institute of Metals has been announced. Among the papers to be read will be one on "Centrifugal...

FRANCE EXPORTS 4,079 VEHICLES AND IMPORTS 8,590

T HE French motor industry manufactured 67,345 vehicles between the Liberation and July 1, 1946, states Reuter. None of these...

DATA FROM ABROAD 'TO broaden its range of information I

on all aspects of forestry and the use of timber, the Timber Development Association has further extended the arrangements...

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LICENSING AUTHORITY TRIES TO DISSUADE EX-SERVICEMEN

WHEN two brothers, both ex-ServiceVV men, were granted a B licence to carry building materials within a 15mile radius of...

YORKSHIRE MEETINGS OF THE first session of the newly formed

North-eastern Centre of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers will begin with a meeting on October 8, at the Hotel...

MINISTRY OF LABOUR REPORT ON LABOUR RATES A N interesting report entitled "Time

Rates of Wages and Hours of Labour at August 1, 1946" has been cornpiled by tbt: Ministry of Labour. It contains tables showing...

EMPLOYEES REFUSE TO WORK SPECIAL OVERTIME A DISPUTE concerning working hours

of Huddersfield Corporation's bus drivers and conductors is being taken before the National Joint Industrial Council's...

PLEDGE OF THRIFT A RESOLUTION pledging continued 1 — k support for

the National Savings movement was passed at a recent meeting of the National Savings Advisory Committee of the Road Transport...

IN A LINE OR TWO Fifty thousand vehicles have been

produced by the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., since peace-time production was started on July 3, 1945. The Car e and Truck...

COMMISSION URGES SURVEY OF ULSTER ROADS A N immediate survey of

the principal roads in Northern Ireland by the Government mid highway authorities is recommended in the Planning Commission's...

COURT PAYS TRIBUTE TO MR. .1. H. STIRK 'TRIBUTES were

paid to the work of I the late Mr. .1. H. Stirk, former Regional Transport Commissioner, and chairman of the East Midland...

A CONSULTANT ON ROAD

ENGINEERING COR some time Major R. A. B. Smith, M.C., A.M.Inst.C.E., M.Inst.T., has been consulting road engineer of the...

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T.U.C. AND "CLOSED SHOP" WHEN the Trades Union Congress VY

meets at Brighton on October 21, it will be requested to declare its policy on the "closed shop." In the past the official...

DOES CA1TLE TRANSPORT PAY WELL?

I N a comment to an applicant for a B licence to operate a vehicle for the transport of livestock, Mr. Archibald Henderson,...

ANGLO-RUSSIAN TRADE

IT is believed that the recent agreement on certain outstanding problems in connection with the supply of civilian goods to the...

MORE REPORTS FROM GERMANY

T HE following reports from British teams of industrial experts in Germany may be of interest:—F.I.A.T. 535: Industrial X-Ray...

BUDA OIL ENGINES AGAIN

T HE Buda Co. of America is to begin building oil engines for heavy vehicles again, says Reuter. The new series will include...

FISH ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN DUMPED

H ERR1NG was being dumped into the sea locally because of lack of transport, said a Tarbert (Loch Fyne) haulier, Mr. John...

COURSE ON ELECTRICS

A SPECIAL course of lectures on electric vehicles will be conducted on Tuesday .evenings in October and November by the...

• FODEN'S PROFIT UP IN the past financial year, Foden's,

'Ltd., made a trading profit of £136,194 and a net profit of £50,594. After adding the balance brought forward from the...

OPPORTUNITIES FOR EXPORT

R EUTER reports the following foreign trade openings:—L. D. Beston, 387, Kent Street, Sydney, Australia, is interested in...

10,000 BEDFORDS EXPORTED SINCE THE WAR

A T noon last Friday, the 10,000th Bedford truck to be exported since the end of the war left the Vauxhall factory at Lutortfor...

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World Trade Prospects for Britain

A WORLD tour, in which he covered nearly 80,000 miles in 222 days, has recently been completed by Mr. Percy Lister, chairman of...

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A Basic System of Fleet Maintenance

B EFORE the war we were all quite justly proud of the high standard of maintenance of our commercial vehicle fleets. For...

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Opinions and Queries

CONDEMNATION OF COSTLY EXPERIMENTS A S a regular reader of "The Commercial Motor" rm. since 1926, may I commend you on your...

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THE GAS TURBINE: Vhat are its usibilities for Road Vehicles?

D URING the war years we saw such rapid de‘ elopment of jet and turbine power units that even the most conservative person can...

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For and Against

Licensing Sub-committees R EADERS continue to send us their views on the controversy over the activities of the road-rail...

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The Latest Technique in

Methods and Materials S TEEL makers have continually endeavoured to improve the machinability of their steels, and one of the...

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An Addition to the Fork Truck Family

HE Stacatruc, manufactured by the 1 Stockport Engineering Co., Ltd., is the latest British fork lift truck. The sole...

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Cost Recording Made Easy A CCURATE records of tyre costs are

rarely kept. Few operators can produce figures which really indicate the tyre costs of any particular vehicle. Many, no doubt,...

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Drivers Seek Injunction on "Closed Shop" Question

A N application by five bus drivers for an interim injunction to restrain the London Passenger Transport Board from making it a...

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Ensuring Even Mixture Distribution

IT is well known that although the 1 several cylinders of an engine may be fed from a common induction pipe, it by no means...