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21st June 1957
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Light Metals Fight Back

T HE development of welding is likely to play a significant part in the defence of aluminium as a bodybuilding material in...

Passing Comments

Plastics to the End A QUICK reply has been made to a recent "One Hears—" concerning the query as to whether coffins were yet...

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One Hears-

"Are some of our thoroughfares called 'trunk' roads because they are always paCked for holidays?" That some manceuvrers in...

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Unions Reject N.J.I.C. Pay Offer

F OLLOWING failure of the National Joint Industrial Council last week to reach agreement on an increase in pay for municipal...

INSURANCE DEARER BUT RATES FLEXIBLE

More Attention to be Paid to Individual Risks in Calculating Premiums BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT T HIS week the tariff...

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A. and D. Misprint is Basis of Appeal

1 -1 , A REPORT in The Commercial Motor (June 7) of a licensing application at Liverpool has prompted an unusual appeal by a...

Avert Company Bus Strike

Mr. Coyle described this action as "an affront and a challenge." By insisting on paying a rejected offer, he said, the...

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Men in the News

SIR HAROLD ROXBEE COX and DR. C. J. SMITHELLS have been appointed to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. MR....

Birthday Honours for Road Transport Men

-THE Queen's Birthday Honours list 1 includes .the following awards:— K.Ba William Sinclair. director, Dunlop Rubber Co....

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Base and User Changed: Work to be Justified on Renewal

3 Egious complications may ensue if, in acquiring additional vehicles, the procedure of an application under Section 11(3)(b)...

"30" Limit Causes. Surplus of Vehicles

T HE effect of abolishing the 20 m.p.h. limit had been to increase the availability of vehicles in Aberdeen by a third, Mr. A....

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New Merger Moves By Bodybuilders

N EW efforts to amalgamate the three employers' associations in the bodybuilding industry were initiated at the annual...

E.Y.M.S. Fare Increases are Granted

IN a reserved decision, the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners have granted the application by East Yorkshire Motor Services,...

Appeals Against Ribble Fares Fail

T WO appeals against fare increases granted to Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., have been rejected by the Minister of Transport. In...

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B.R.S. Complete Continental Plans

pLANS have been completed by British Road Services for developing their direct road services to and from the Continent via the...

Power Door Innovations Demonstrated

A NEW pressed-aluminium bus-door section of light design was among the developments displayed at an exhibition staged by Deans...

"Big Customers Will Not Attend"

A A HAULIER who claimed that large companies would not send witnesses to back up his application for a new B licence because...

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Eire Forging 10—year Transport Plan

r IRE'S Government have decided to . 1 -4 formulate a 10-year policy for internal transport. It is believed that the final plan...

Liverpool Trams to End in. September

I IVERPOOL'S last tram will run on September 14, and after that the city will be served entirely by buses. Announcin g this...

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Haulier "Rescued" Dairy After B.R.S. Withdrew Tanker

A CARLISLE haulage company, who ra were stated to have come to the rescue of a local dairy concern with a tanker service at a...

"Roads Inadequate for Heavy Loads"

Ti E transport of large industrial loads in Great Britain has become • a complex matter, especially for the manufacturers of...

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B.R.S. Strong on Point-of-sale:

New Depot Opened L'UNCTIONING of the Argyll I branch of British Road Services, which was described in detail in The Commercial...

Cape Town-Nairobi Road Will Cost tlarn.

T HE 3,501 mile road connecting Cape Town and Nairobi will cost about E10m. the . African Regional Road Congress has reported....

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Dumper Insurance Case Sets a Poser

ly/HEN can a dumper be used on the IP( road without third-party insurance and when must it be covered? Reading magistrates were...

Long Semi-trailer for Bluebird .

WAVING a platform length of 26 ft., I a Seddon-Carrimore articulated outfit was employed by Graham Adams, Ltd., New Malden,...

Simple New Oilengined Dumper P RINCIPAL aims in the design of

the new Ant dumper produced by the Chaseside Engineering Co., Ltd., Station Works, Hertford, are strength and simplicity. The...

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18 fror 6-to Bedford Diler

M U C H interest has been aroused by the new Bedford 300-cu.-in. oil engine since its introduction last' February. This unit,...

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Institute of Public Cleansing Conference, Torquay

Random Tipping Criticized No Excuse for Dirty Vehicles: Fire Hazards: Dutch Experience in Public Cleansing: Design of Refuse...

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VERNIGHT LOADIM

.Cement Deliver O NE of the chief advantages of ancillary operation to the Aberthaw and Bristol Channel Portland , Cement...

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More Welded Light-alloy Bodies Likely

I NCREASED use of light-alloy platform bodies, aluminium platform bodies integrated with the chassis, light-alloy tankers and...

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No "Leaning" in Trailers with Air Suspension

THE manner in which the Dyson Aeroride Haulmaster semi-trailer provides a self-trimming action was demonstrated at Liverpool...

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Public Cleansing by Private Enterprise

By A. E. Sherloek-Me 4ier A N old Dennis cesspit-emptier purchased for E5 laid the foundations in 1934 of what is now one of...

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Political Commentary

Last Round-up By Janus T HE compulsion towards obscurity that seizes everybody concerned in the formulation of wages for road...

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A Magnetic Clutch

.A MAGNETIC clutch for motor vehicles is shown in patent No. , 772,457. (S. Smith and Sons (England), Ltd., Cricklewood Works,...