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23rd December 1949
23rd December 1949
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COMPANY MEETING THE AUSTIN MOTOR COMPANY

EXPORTS REACH NEW RECORDS ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK FOR 1949-50 T HE thirty-fifth annual general meeting of The Austin Motor...

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The Show and Its Significance

A FTER a considerable majority of the mem bers of the commercialvehicle industry represented by the Society of Motor...

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Strong Action Against Unofficial Strikes?

O NCE again a small number of men, with a comparatively minor grievance which could no doubt have been settled reasonably...

Passing Comments

Do Not be Brutal A TRANSPORT manager to the Driver Who of a well-known haulage Wastes His T'me . . company has informed "The...

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One Hears—

That " cold" rubber is a hot tot*. Of " Sidesoles " to build up tyre walls worn by kerbing. That America is planning toll...

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Hay's Wharf Group to Pass to R.H.E.

vURNITURE removers and hauliers 1 . of indivisible loads will be greatly affected by the latest development within the British...

B.T.C. AGREES NOT TO EXTEND RETREADING

A N agreement has been made between the British Transport Commission and the Tyre Traders' Joint Committee to the effect that...

B.T.C. NIUST CUT COSTS, UNIONS TOLD

TRADE-UNION leaders were 1 warned last week, at a meeting addressed by Mr. Alfred Barnes, Minister of Transport, and Sir Cyril...

Common Charges Schem for All Nationalized Transport

B.T.C. Abandons Principle of Charging What the Traffic Will Bear U NDER the new freight charges scheme to be devised by the...

Simple System of Calculating Chargeable Distances

rrHE Commission points out that, in many ways, the scheme embodies new features, but is devised as an advance upon existing...

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Heavies for New York Show

A T least three manufacturers of heavy commercial vehicles have now decided to exhibit at the British Motor Show, to he held in...

COMPENSATION RULES SOON

N O directions as to the integration of transport or financial policy have been given by the Minister of Transport to the...

Traffic May be Interchanged Between Executives

A LTHOUGH conditions of carriage will be common to road, rail and inland waterways, minor variations will he made to meet...

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R.H.A. Denationalization Plans

T HE Road Haulage Association has been asked by the Conservative Party to submit a statement of policy on denationalization...

New Output and Export Records

S EPTEMBER'S record output of 4.538 commercial vehicles a week was again exceeded in October, when the weekly average output...

R.H.E. Abstracts Traffic-Mr. Nelson

WHEN Mr. J. R. Henderson, a West VI' Hartlepool haulier, had his application to run a new vehicle heard by the Northern...

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Haulier's Service Safer Than B.T.C.

A CCOR DING to the annual report (of the British Transport Commission, pilferage in the State railway undertaking in 1948...

New Entrants to Controversy Over Area Schemes

THE town council of Barrow has decided to take no action on a resolution from the National Union of Ratepayers' Associations,...

Form Not Filled In: Operators Fined

CILLING in a Ministry of Transport 1 form known as Stats 14 was a job "only for a fully qualified chartered accountant,"...

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Road for Rail in Northern Ireland,

D OAD transport is to replace goods and passenger services on the County Down Railway, except on the route from Belfast to...

Law Lets B.T.C. Squeeze ut Exempt Hauliers

Appeal Tribunal Disagrees with Licensing Authority's Sympathy A DECISION of the Appeal Tribunal, made known a few days ago, r...

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Ancillary Users Must be Free

A T the request of the United Nations, the International Chamber of Commerce has recently submitted a report on co-ordination...

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Presents and Pantomime

Christmas as it Might be if the Minister of Transport and the Road Haulage Executive Entered Fully into the Spirit of the...

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Seven New Leyland Export Models

A S announced in "The Commercial Motor" last week, Leyland Motors, Ltd, Leyland, Lanes, has introduced a new range of...

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-licence Operation Pays

en said and written lately, both in favour against the trader operating his own vehicles. whose output is consistently...

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A.E.C. TURNS T

THE FLAT 0 liTSTANDINCi features of the new A.E.C. Regal Mark IV underfloor-engined coach chassis, are that it will provide...

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17-cwt. Body on Six-wheeled Tipper

rtONSTRUCTED entirely from Noral k.--light - alloy extrusions and sheet supplied by the Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., Banbury,...

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ENTERPRISE IN NDEPENDENT ROAD TRANSPORT

By P. A. C. Brockington, A.M.I.Mech.E. / 4 ABOUR-SAVING schemes and the use of specialized equipment and scientifically...

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Where

Concentration Creates Efficiency By C. S. DUNBAR, minst.T. I N 1792 two young men, George Newton and Thomas Chambers, became...

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The Delicate Art of "HIRING" and "FIRING" By George R.

Archdeacon T HE success of any enterprise, be it industry, commerce or trade, depends primarily upon three factors--employers,...

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What the Motor Industry Needs in Standards

A T a meeting of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers, held last week at the Royal Society of Arts, Mr H. Clutterbuck....

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Rate Cutting Returns Through Ignorance

Fears of Being Unable to Obtain Long-distance Permits After The Appointed Day Are Leading Hauliers to Compete More Intensively...

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Reducing First Cost of the Battery-electric

B ASED on the retail delivery of 1,000 million gallons of milk annually, at an assumed delivery cost of 4d. per gallon, the...

'Independent Hauliers Liberate Their Ideas

A SSEMBLING in congenial surroundings at Ilford, the Eastern Sub-Area of the Road Haulage Association pioneered an unusual type...

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The Battery Keeps

Your Vehicle Mobile T HERE is little question that, to-day, the lighting and starting battery receives far more attention than...

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An Induction-heating Hardening Process T HE modern method of induction heating

is particularly suitable for hardening gear teeth, because the teeth alone can be heated and quenched, instead of the whole...