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23rd August 1935
23rd August 1935
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Pitfalls of the Road

T HE report of the Medical Officers of Health of the City of Salford for the year 1934, which deals particularly with certain...

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Passing Comments

O N a recent Sunday evening, a coach driver ern‘-"ployed by a well-known London independent concern reported to headquarters...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY

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

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Personal Pars

We understand that Mr. A. E. Webb and Mr. H, E. Johnson have resigned from the board of Guy Motors, Ltd. We publish on this...

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MUNICIPAL PURCHASES and PROPOSALS

Glasgow Transport Committee is buying a Sentinel-Carner 4-434on lorry. Paignton Urban District Council has authorised the...

C.M.U.A. WILL EVENTUALLY JOIN A.R.O., Says Mr. Stockdale

T "question whether a rates official should be appointed to investigate alleged complaints of price-cutting was discussed at a...

Progress of Radio on Goods Vehicles in the U.S.A.

QOME interesting facts regarding the L.3developrnent of radio for road vehicles, both in this country and the United States,...

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Rates Control Impracticable

says " &TR." I DISAGREE entirely with the proposals embodied in the article entitled, " Statutory Control of Rates'?" which...

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Planing an Ice Rink by Tractor

T HE accompanying illustration shows an interesting Citroen-Kegresse tractor, which is employed during the skating season by...

An Important Advance in Welding

S O long ago as in 1903, it was discovered that a mixture of coal gas, acetylene and oxygen had definite advantages for welding...

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OVERSEAS GOODS -TRAN

SPORT STORIES IN BRIEF Cubs Fighting Heat and Dust in Diamond Country. MORTH of Kimberley, South 'Africa's derelict diamond...

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Important Precedents in Licensing T HE Appeal Tribunal has just completed

its first year of operation, during which period it has determined some 100 appeals, and is on vacation until about September...

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INCREASING THE UTILIT

1 7 OF PLATFORM LORRIES A PLATFORM lorry for carrying a load of crates of bottled beer or mineral waters, has a front and a...

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New Draft Licensing Regulations

C OPIES of draft consolidated regulations proposed to take the place of the Goods Vehicles (Licences and Prohibitions)...

£6 a Week and Overtime for Lorry Drivers!

A FTER seven years of negotiation, a wage agreement, on the broad lines of the British conciliation agreement, has been...

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LANCS COMMITTEE'S GOOD RESULTS

A GROSS pro fi t of £28,294 was shown on the working of the• buses of Burnley, Colne and Nelson Joint Transport Committee in...

DUNDEE REFERS WAGES QUESTION TO J.I.C.

D UNDEE Transport Committee has decided to remit to the Joint Industrial Council a request by its employees, that the...

ASSOCIATION AS AGENT.

A BOOKING agency to serve members who operate long-distance coach tours extending over five days and upwards has been opened by...

Serious Strike in West Wales I AST week-end, the unofficial

bus L4 strike in West Wales took a turn for the worse, and on Sunday and Monday 1,600 employees of 21 undertakings ceased work....

I.F.S. Traffic Rise Continues

A LTHOUGH the strike of busmen employed by Dublin United Tramways Co., Ltd., concluded in May, there was a considerable...

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MANCHESTER C.M.U.A.'s NEW LEGAL SERVICE

A T a general meeting of the coachowners' section of the Commercial Motor Users Association (Manchester area) and the...

COME TO WYE VALLEY!

C OACH operators who are looking for fresh fields to conquer might well consider the Wye Valley and Royal Forest of Dean. With...

COACtIES AGAIN TO VISIT • "SWITZERLAND OF WALES"?

I F, as a result of a Ministry of Transport inquiry to be held next month, coaches and buses are again allowed to use the...

STREAMLINED AIRPORT BUS FOR MANCHESTER.

..r/ A N interesting new Crossley luxury bus for carrying passengers between the Manchester airport and the city centre is to...

JOINT TRAN§FER IN LANCS.

L AST Saturday, at midnight, Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., jointly with Messrs. J. Fishwick and Sons, took over the services of...

OLDHAM REDUCES FARES.

O N Sunday last Oldham Corporation, the transport department of which earned a net profit of over £20,000 last year, made...

BUSES UNDER MERSEY?

A T a special meeting of Birkenhead Town Council, it was decided that the Birkenhead members of the Mersey Tunnel Joint...

LIMITING LONDON STOPS.

T HE experiment of fixing " exclusive " stopping-places for London buses (vehicles being prohibited from picking up passengers...

GLASGOW TO SPEND £250,000?

G LASGOW Transport Committee has approved an estimate, for the year, of £127,000 for the purchase of buses and sundries. The...

" FLASH " SIGNS IN BUSES.

A NOVEL advertising feature has been introduced into some of the buses operating in Paisley. It takes the form of an...

ALL TROLLEYBUSES FOR HULL?

O N Tuesday, a sub-committee of Hull Transport Committee considered a report, in which it was recommended that there should be...

FARES COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE EXTENDED.

NiTINUTES of a recent meeting of IVINo. 5 Regional Committee on Fares have just been circulated by Mr. 0. C. Power, convener...

GOOD PROFIT AT WEST B ROMWICH.

WIEST BROMWICH Transport Corn VY reports a net profit of £18,242 on the tramways for the past year, as against 0,360in the...

STRIKING GROWTH OF PARIS BUS FLEET.

I /sT a recent paper, M. L. Bacqueyrisse, the general director of the Societe des Transports en Commun de la Region Parisienne,...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

PROVIDING THE PUBLIC WITH ROAD-TRAVEL FACILITIES. [46141 In your issue dated August 9 you publish a warning given by the...

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A Modern Oil Dispenser T HE improvements effected in the delivery

of fuel to motor vehicles have not, until recently, been adopted for the dispensing of lubricating oil. It is true that hand...

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AIR TRANSPORT NEWS

CROYDON TRAFFIC STILL INCREASING. T HE de Havilland Dragon Rapide G-ADIM which left Croydon for Ostend at 2 p.m. on August 14,...

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Solving the Problems

THIS WEEK'S PROBLEM of the Carrier I T is always possible to learn a good deal from any haulier's figures of costs and...

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A New Fuel-injection Pump E-OR some time past the British

E-OR some time past the British 1 Thomson Houston Co., Ltd., Coventry, has, we understand, been experimentin g with a new desi...