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21st January 1930
21st January 1930
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The Urgent Need for Organizing Efficient Hauliers' Associations.

W E have on several occasions referred to the urgent need for organizing thoroughly efficient hauliers' associations in all...

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Suspend the Vehicle A Strange Suggestion._

W E b e c t t l o n i n t o a t c i n e g v e for t h r a tt the u a c s h t o s u u n px i o r ng t s w u i g l gestion made...

Improved Vehicles Wanted for Carrying Livestock.

TT is well known that the motor lorry has .practically revolutionized livestock transport. Apart from the saving of time and...

'W HILE talking to Mr. E. R. ITorne, the chief designer

of the Gilford Motor Co., Ltd., at High Wycombe, the other day, we were interested to learn that the company is installing an...

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ONE HEARS

That it is the 1931 Budget that will give the shocks. . That there are more Diesels and more in them than meet the eye. That...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY " fhe 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...

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MUNICIPAL PURCHASE AND PROPOSALS

The watch committee of So= SHIELDS Corporation recommends tho purchase of a British patrol wagon. The watch committee of...

IN A LINE OR TWO

Stockton Corporation has adopted a Bill seeking powers to replace the tramway system by motorbus services. York Corporation...

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A ROAD TRIAL

of the TILLING.. STEVENSEXPRESS ITOR several years one of the most ..12 popular passenger-carrying chassis has been the...

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A Ram-operated Tower W agon

MHE accompanying illustrations depict one of a number of special vehicles which has recently been put into service by the...

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A NEW DOUBLE-SLIDING ROOF for Passenger Vehicles

TOR one hundred years R. Distur_12 nal and Co., of Bridge Works, Wednesbuky, Staffs, has been established, and in the past few...

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Advantages of DOUBLE-DOORWAY BODIES for Single-deck Buses

A S the entrance of a singlelidecker may be at the front or at the rear, it follows that, when the bus has two doorways, either...

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A German Chassis with Front-wheel Drive

O NE of the best-known makers of private cars in Germany is the Bumpier Vorntrieb Gesellschaft m.b.II., 53, Kochstr., Berlin,...

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The London Conference on STREET ACCIDENTS

T HE first important subject to be discussed during the two-day conference of local authorities and interested bodies...

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An Important Contrl tiott to

PROGRESS IN VI ECU SUSPENSION O NE of the most interesting and important subjects in connection with the design and...

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Road Impressions of the S.M.C. Four-wheeler

MWO S.M.C. chassis have been pro duced and marketed by a special department of the famous private-carmanufacturing concern,...

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CREDITABLE CHARITY WORK WITH COMMERCIAL MOTORS

A CHARITY which is in existence wholly and solely for the purpose of entertaining the numerous soldiers in London who are still...

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A Box-type Refuse Body

with Unusual Features F OR the past 10 years Willesden Urban District Council has employed 14 Ransomes Orwell...

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A New Low-priced 30-cwt. Chassis

for the British Market W ITHIN the course of the next few weeks Morgan Hastings, Ltd., 42, Sussex Place, London, S.W.7, which...

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Phases of PASSENGER TRAVEL

Notes on a Variety of Aspects of Coach and Bus Travel W HEN recently we visited the offices and works of Birch Brothers, Ltd.,...

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A British Vehicle for Oilfields Service

TN these days when many important 'British. commercial-vehicle manufacturers are paying increasing attention to the cultivation...

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An Ingenious

Dual-purpose Body T BERE exists a large number of persons engaged in business which, during six days of the week, demands a...

G.W.R. Goods Road-service Developments

F ROM a lengthy review of the work of the past year drawn up by the goods department of the Great Western Railway Co. we learn...

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BEWARE of FROST—How to Protect

Radiators and Cylinder Jackets "VAST winter was a memorable one _Lifer Very many users of motor vehicles. The heavy snow,...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES Problems of Agricultural Transport.

The Editor, TEE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [2988] Sir,—We were very much inter . ested in your recent article on the subject of...

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A SIMPLE AND EFFICIENT SIGNALLING DEVICE

M AN Y automatic signalling devices have from time to time been placed upon the market, and the latest to be brought to our...

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A Compact Hydraulic TIPPING GEAR

T HE hydraulic principle is simple enough and is particularly suited for application to the tipping gear of motor lorries, but...

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Problems of the

HAULIER and CARRIER I T is easy to receive wrong impressions and it is unfortunate, too, that if the conception be allowed to...

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Road Transport IN OTHER LANDS

Leylands in the South Sea Islands. A CORRESPONDENT of ours was recently in the South Sea Islands and, on his way through the...