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22nd July 1949
22nd July 1949
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Throttling the Geese • It must be remembered that when

the concerns affected were operating under private enterprise, they and their executives were paying large sums to the...

T HE 'statement on the serious economic position of this country,

made recently - to Parliament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps,, is an unintentional but damning...

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Passing Comments

Doyen of American A N active link with the early Press and Motoring r - 1 days of the American Retires motor industry and its...

Reliance on the State's Coffers There is also always the

unfortunate impression that cost and waste are not of such great importance because the coffers of the State are available to...

Our National Prestige Lowered America is helping us to a

great and appreciated extent, but only because this is considered to be essential to her defence and to -the settlement of...

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Is the Compensation Speed-up a Myth?

Many Hauliers Still Wait for Payment After .Several Months 'WHEN Sir Cyril Hurcomb, chairman of the British Transport...

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Can Trade Plates be Used in Hauling Trailers to Docks?

( - IAN a tractor legally be used under a limited trade licence to deliver trailers to the docks for shipment? This was the...

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New Insurances for Coach Owners

T WO important new insurance arrangements have been concluded by the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association. One covers...

Holdsworth Trunk Haulage in S.A. ?

VSTABLISHMENT of trunk road J__+haulage services ffiroughout South Africa, and construction of a £5,000,030 oil refinery at...

Men in the News

MR. J. A. Farr:01%1ER has been appointed a director of Thomas Tilling, Ltd: MR. S. A. WEBB, B.A., has been appointed claims...

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Ex-B.T.C. Officer Turns to Coaching

C ONTROL of two Yorkshire coach %--/companies, James A. Hudson, Lteb. Leeds, and Mosby Tours, Ltd., Kippax, has been acquired...

B Licences for Danish Bacon Co.

1 T was necessary in the public interest to avoid wasteful movement of vehicles, said Mr. J. Foley Eggington, West Midland...

May Exports Set New Record

COMMERCIAL-VEHICLE exports in May set a new high level. They greatly exceeded themonthly target and the previous record,...

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Costs Still Overtaking Receipts

INCREASED gross" receipts but dis1 proportionately, rising costs were reported by Mr. R. P. Beddow, M.Inst.t, chairman of....

Free Hauliers Must Advertise

" A N extraordinary number of busi nessness men think that allroad transport undertakings will be nationalized and it is our...

War Years" Effect on Need for Tours. .

CHANGES brought by the.war years to the "one-tithe small market town' of Bridgend, in . Glamorgan,. were reflected in an...

40 PER CENT. OF B.U.T. OUTPUT FOR OVERSEAS

S INCE British United Traction, Ltd., was formed three years ago, 40 per cent. of the : total _orders received have come from...

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A Fire Station on Wheels for Kent

K ENT FIRE BRIGADE has just complete4 the construction of a double-deck mobile fire station on a reconditioned bus chassis....

Profit and Loss

Maxima Lubricants, Ltd., made a net pro fi t of £25.871 in the year ended March 31 -last. A dividend of 40 per cunt. is to be...

88 Acquisitions in 16 Days E IGHTY-E1GHT haulage businesses .'were taken

over by the British Transport Commission in the first 16 days. of this month, or more than five a day. Thirty-two were acquired...

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State Hands Close on Transport in the West

By S. DUNBAR, I N south-west England there now exists a largely nationalized bus system coMplementary to and competitive with...

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1,850 Cubic Ft. of Space for Furniture

A N all-metal pantc.tchnicon body recently built by Arlington Bodybuilders, Ltd., High Road, Ponders End, Enfield, Middlesex,...

New Registrations Decline in April A MARKED rise in the registrations

ef exempt vehicles is shown in the latest returns issued by the Ministry of Transport. In contrast, registrations for all other...

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TO IRELAND NI -10UT TRA\ ;HIPIVIENT

By Ashley Taylor B ETWEEN my journey to France in the first week of the Normandy . invasion and my visit last month to Northern...

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Mass X-ray by Mobile Clinic

New Ministry of Health Laboratou Provides for 20 Examinations an H our. Pictures Processed on Vehicle B Yw" of extending its...

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MAKE-DO-AN

IIEND in the Mc Lance Shop By P. G. TUCKER E VERY operator who has tried to expand his garage or maintenance depot or acquire...

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How the Size of a Vehicle Affects the Prospects of Obtaining a Haulage Contract at a Profitable Rate

Smaller Vehicles to be Preferred I N last week's issue of "The Commercial Motor " I dealt with the cost of hauling. -...

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I.R.T.E. • Members See A.E.C.

Vehicles Built A LARGE number of members of the Institute' of Road Transport Engineers paid a visit on July 14 to the A.E.C....

Tyre Manipulation Simplified

THE arduous work involved in the removal or replacement of tractor and other heavy types of tyre is avoided by the use of...

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A Boring Attachment for Fitting te Tractors

S TILL 'another use for the ubiquitous tractor is described in patent No. 614,605, which shows an attachment for boring deep...