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22nd December 1950
22nd December 1950
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A Rod for Our Backs

-F4 VERYTHING possible is being doneby the Socialists to reduce the number of free hauliers and to grab the whole of...

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Give a Sporting Incentive to Drivers

T HE average commercial vehicle driver is generally admitted to be highly efficient as a workman, but in Britain, however...

Passing Comments

F.B.I. Proposals on PROPOSALS intended to Town and Country I simplify the application of Planning the Town and Country...

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One Hears—

That drivers who cut in should be cut out. Of heavy-duty batteries that are still Young when old. Of a man who thought a...

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White Elephant as Hauliers Mascot

A VIGOROUS campaign on behalf ti of the free haulier is to be opened early in the New Year by the West Midland Area of the Road...

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Three Big Yorkshire Demonstrations

,1ASS demonstrations against the IVA revocation of permits were held in Sheffield, Barnsley and Doncaster last Saturday and...

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New Edinburgh-London Service?

Pi A N application by Northern Roadways, Ltd., Glasgow, to run nightly roach services from Edinburgh and Glasgow to London. at...

Coal in C-lice nsed Vehicles

L AST week. George Wimpey and Co., Ltd., London, W., successfully challenged in the King's Bench Divisional Court a decision of...

Men in the News

MP.. P. C. SHARP and Ma. D. S. A. E. JEssoa, directors of the Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., have now joined the hoard...

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• Crosville Blanket Application Succeeds in Modified Form

fN granting Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., the general revision of its fares structure which it sought and explained at a...

In a Line or Two

Metatastik, Ltd., Leicester, has published a newcatalogue. Messrs. Wilnecote Service Station, Wilnecote, Tarnworth, now oiler...

Tribunal Refuses Second Vehicle

O N the ground that there was no evidence from the appellant's customers that they had approached other hauliers for transport...

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B.T.C. Research Plan Takes Shape

W ITH the reorganization of the Railway Executive's research facilities, the broad structure of the comprehensive research...

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The Latest 7-ton Commer Goes Through the Hoop

By L. J. COTTON, M.I.R.T.E. I N addition to the underfloorengined 5-tonner and 7-tonner, a long wheelbase 7 ton model, which...

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An Ex-Haulier Tells His Story

A REPRESENTATIVE of "The "Commercial Motor" has been able to trace the cause and effect of some of the present transport...

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New S.D. Washes Streets and Fights Fires

A N order recently completed by Shelvoke and Drewry, Ltd., Letchworth, for the Department of Civil Aviation, Australia, was for...

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Thou Shalt Not Covet..

By Arthur R. Wilson, M.I.R.T.E. R EMOVERS may perhaps be forgiven if they were lulled into complacency by the exclusion of...

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ARE redgettfeeACCIDE

S INEVIT N OTIFIED accidents to passengers on buses are few in relation to the total number of people carried, but they can be...

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Guides to Aluminium Construction

UNDER the title "Aluminium in : Road Transport," the Northern Aluminium Co.. Ltd., Banbury. Oxon. has published an account of...

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The Gyrobus in Practical Form

M ANY engineers and designers have studied and attempted to solve the problem of storing energy in a vehicle in forms other...

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220 Vehicles Speak for Themselves

By A. E. Sherlock-Mesher, F.R.S.A. T WO of the reasons which I gave last week for the efficiency and low cost of the...

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The Santa Clause

Political Commentary By JANUS The mistletoe hung in the ivory tower, The guests had been waiting for over an hour, And the...

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litmus Cam pestris Australis in Transit

WHEN Burnham Wood came to VV Dunsinane it was at least a precedent for one of the more unusual transport jobs that are being...

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Maintenance A New Angle

Repair Work Done on the Haulier's Own Premises Is More Expensive Than if Done at a Garage, Claims a Correspondent A LETTER I...

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Ball-bearing Big-ends

B ALL bearings have been used for the main journals of crankshafts, but seldom for big-end bearings, owing to the difficulty of...