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21st October 1932
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Industry Answers the Minister

, T HE Government, as represented by the -Minister of Transport, must have had a someWhat unpleasant shock at the cold...

Municipal and Private Transport Mergers

A TENDENCY is developing, , at' least where operation is not entirely successful, for municipal authorities to . merge their...

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Passing Comments

W ITH the approach of winter, following a season in which rigid six-wheelers of the lighter type (with two-wheel drive) have...

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ONE HEARS

The query "Who spoilt that speech? " Of keen interest in Olympia's Garage-equipment Section this year. That the tide really...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY

"The wheels of wealth will be sloweat by all difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the...

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News of Municipal Activities

More Police Motors for Glasgow. The police committee of Glasgow Corporation has obtained sanction from the Scottish Home...

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Criticisms of

Our Costs for Steamers Answered By "S.T.R." I T is inevitable that a certain amount of criticism should follow the...

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Methods of Mounting the Engine at the Side

S OME interesting details and illustrarions of the side-engine motorbus put into service recently by the London General Omnibus...

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Converting a Fleet to Oil Engines

A LTIIOUGH some operators are still a little shy of compression-ignition engines, others who have had experience with this type...

A Six-wheeler with Free Third Axle

I N our issue for last week, when reporting on the Ford Motor Show, at the White City, London, we referred to a Fordson...

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Another Mobile Cinema

B ROADCASTING and cinema vans are being employed for various advertising purposes and the use of such vehb.]es has now been...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES Why Should the Salter Conference Try to Damn the Oil Engine ?

The Editor, THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [3886] Sir,—I have followed with close attention the position since the publication of the...

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America's Largest Vehicle for Iraq

W HAT is claimed to he the largest goods motor constructed in the United States wasrecently completed by the Marmon-Herrington...

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DEMAND and SUPPLY

By Capt. E. H. B. Palmer T HERE has been a considerable amount of heated discussion over the question of Government control as...

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Specialized Vehicles

on the farm and estate O RDINARY transport work on the estate or farm can be carried out by the general-purpose lorry and, in...

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THE INTERDEPENDENCE

OF COMMERCIAL-MOTOR AND PRI VAT :-CAR DESIGN I T is a moot point whether private cars or commercial vehicles are more...

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The Policy of The British Road Federation

O UR announcements concerning the British Road Federation have aroused such a lot of interest amongst our readers that we...

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Mr. Walton Replies to Mr. Pybus

T "Eproceedings at the annual dinner of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders were just too late for inclusion in our...

Thefl Exide Show Luncheon

W E always look upon the annual Motor Show luncheon of the Chloride Electrical Storage Co., Ltd., as one of the most enjoyable...

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REAR-ENGINED Bus

in America I N view of experiments in this country with passenger vehicles having power units mounted at the side of the frame...

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An Improved Six-wheeler Conversion

T HE rigid six-wheeler conversion for Fords, Bedfords and certain other well-known makes of chassis, natutufactured by Masons...

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A DAY WITH A DENNIS

on the Surrey Hills T HE model in the range of Dennis goods-carrying chassis which corresponds to the wellknown Lancet (built...

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WHERE TO FIND HAULAGE BUSINESS

THE 4 finish of the Leather and Shoe Trades Fair last week marked the beginning of improved conditions in the associated...

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PASSENGER TRANSPORT

IMPORTANT CASE OF M.H.C.S.A. VERSUS GREEN LINE Commissioner's Comment on Adjourned Application Suggests Far-reaching Results...

LATEST NEWS FROM THE TRAFFIC AREAS

FURTHER PRONOUNCEMENT ON MYSTERY TOURS. ANOTHER reference to mystery tours has been made by Mr. A. F. Nicholson, chairman of...

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PH...LING-BRIGHTON MERGER APPROVED.

THE draft agreement between Brighton Corporation and Thomas Tilling, Ltd., referred to in last week's issue, has been approved...

NEW COMMITTEE TO WATCH WELSH PUBLIC INTERESTS.

URBAN District Councils in the Monmouthshire Western Valley have decided to set up a permanent joiht bus committee, on the...

LICENCE TRANSFER VETOED.

THE Northern Scotland Traffic Com missioners have refused to allow W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., Falkirk, to take over the...

TRAFFIC ACT ANOMALY.

LAST Monday, Mr. A. T. V. Robinson heard, at the Ministry of Transport, London, an appeal by Green Line Coaches, Ltd., against...

SOUTHEND AGREEMENT COMPLETED.

IT was announced at a recent sitting of the Eastern Traffic Commissioners that ft satisfactory agreement had been reached...

UNLICENSED OP'ERATION IN BLACKPOOL.

CERTAIN operators having head -quarters in Blackpool are maintaining that some of the drivers of coaches entering the town from...

LUTON PROPOSES TO BUY 12 PRIVATE SERVICES FOR £21,000.

LUTON Corporation proposes to pure chase 12 services worked by 14 vehicles and run by three local private operators. The...

MINIMUM FARES TO RE DISCUSSED.

ON October 25., No, 6 (East) Regional Sub-committee on Fares Will meet at Caxton Hall, London, S.W.1, to discuss the question...

NEW LONDON COACH STATION.

A sTvGALL coach station has been opened at Chimes's Garage, 253, Streatham High Road, London, S.W.16, to cater for coaches...

IMPORTANT M.H.C.S.A. EVENTS.

ON November 17, at 7.15 p.m., the Motor Hirers and Coach Services Association, Ltd., will hold its second annual general...

ILLEGAL DUPLICATION OF BUS.

A BUS operator has been summoned at Amble, Northumberland, for failing to run his service along the whole of the scheduled...

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NEW P.S.V. CONDITIONS OF FITNESS.

OPERATORS of public service vehicles are reminded that the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness) Provisional...

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THE TRAFFIC COMMISSIONERS' PUBLIC SITTINGS

T ILE followingare the times and / places announced by Area Traffic Commissioners for their forthcoming public sittings. In...

FORTHCOMING EVENTS BEFORE THE COMMISSIONERS

Southern Scotland, MOST of the business at the forth coming sittings of the Southern Scotland Traffic Commissioners will be...

Phases of Road and Rail Competition in Austria

O N Tuesday evening of this week n. lecture by Mr. Frederic Strauss on "Transportation in Austria" was delivered before members...

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Anglo-French I -tanner with Front-wheel Drive

A N interesting light-duty vehicle is being produced in Paris by Automobiles Derby, the maker of the successful Derby...

The Properties of Elektron Reviewed

MHE use of Elektron in the con struction of commercial vehicles is no novelty, but the urgent demand in recent years for the...

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A Six-wheeler Conversion with Four-wheel Drive

A NNOTJNCEMENT is made by E. Boydell and Co., Ltd., successors to Muir-Hill (Engineers), Ltd., Elsinore Road, Old Trafford,...

Changes in Chaseside Six-wheeler

I N opportune synchrony with the Ford Motor Show at the White City, London, the Chaseside Engineering Co., Ltd., Arterial Road,...

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A Two-speed Gear and Fluid Flywheel

T En gineering of the Alvis Car and Co., Ltd. and G. T. Smith-Clarke, numbered 3'79,973, relates to an interesting adaptation...