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£4m. for Whitewash R EPRESENTATIONS from the Road Haulage Association on

the White Paper have been invited by the Minister of Transport and the way is open for frank, but reasoned, discussion. The...

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A Dangerous Practice

W ITH the great growth in road transport for the carriage of both goods and passengers, a practice has developed which not only...

Passing Comments

New Shielded-arc Welding Process A NEW method of welding known in America as Aircomatic is being made available in Britain by...

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One Hears—

Of a new small Morgan—but not on wheels. That Mr. W. T. James has expressed a desire to ride in a rickshaw. That this...

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IEN AMPLIFY TRANSPORT PLAN

Compensation for Displaced R.H.E. Staff : Inquiry into Passenger Transport and was specifically designed to enable hauliers to...

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Men in the News

MR. A_ C. GEDDES has resigned from the board of Henry Meadows, Ltd, MR. J. OLDHAM, chairman of Oldham and Son, Ltd., has sailed...

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No Compensation : Legal Defence ?

MIIEN the Commissioners of Inland W Revenue petitioned in the Chancery Division this week for the compulsory winding-up of...

Sentinel Offers D.I. Engine A .DIRECT-INJECTION oil engine r. has been developed by Sentinel

(Shrewsbury), Ltd., Shrewsbury, as an optional unit in its passenger and goods vehicles. Apart from the alterations to the...

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B.R.S. Men Drawing Up Petitions

A PETITION protesting against ridenationalization is being drawn up by employees of Unit 21 of the Walsall group of British...

Exports Up: Output Down

A LTHOL'GH the output of commercial vehicles during the first quarter of this year was some 4,600 units lower than in the...

Export Business' Growing Growing Precarious

" THE future of our export business 1 is somewhat precarious because there is increasing pressure for local industrialization,...

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State Assets: Mr. Churchill's Reply

IN the House of Commons on Monday I Mr. E. Davies asked the Prime Minister whether he would direct members of the Government...

Work of Mighty Antars on Iraq Pipeline

D ETAILS have been made known about the performance of 35 Thorn ycrof t Mighty Antars, with Rover Meteorite oil engines, used...

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Foden Coach is Britain's Hope 1 m.p.h. More Would in

Continental Rally Save £2m. a Year I N this year's Rallye Touristique Europe-Cote-d'Azur, the only British competing vehicle...

In a Line or. Two

The Scottish Covenant Association is to set up a commission to inquire into the problems of Scottish transport. Fina Petroleum...

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New S.D. 8-ton Fork

Truck State Control : Bus Lifts to 20 it. Workers Hostile A FORK-LIFT truck of 8-ton tt.capacity has been introduced on the...

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-THE WRONG WAD FOR BRITAIN

O NLY a super optimist could have expected that any proposed amendment to the Transport Act, 1947, would come to grips with the...

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Y ROAD: THE VAR TREND

C ONFECTIONERY manufacturers „saved large sums during the war through the system of pooled distribution that they evolved....

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Twin Motors Save Churning Losses

By Laurence J. Cotton, M.I.R.T.E. U N L I KE internal -com bustion engined vehicles, there can be no preliminary warming-up of...

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The 25-Mile Limit

Q UEER situations are likely to arise if the Government carries out •to the letter the policy laid down in the recent White...

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THE RIGHT AIM

but the wrong means D ESPITE its obvious weaknesses, the White Paper is welcome because, for the first time in the history of...

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Exhibiting Oil in Comfort B ASED on a 'Commer Superpoise 2-ton

tractor and a 21-ft.-long caravan, a new mobile exhibition has been constructed for Manchester Oil Refinery (Sales), Ltd., by...

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What to Charge for Brick

A LITTLE recapitulation is necessary for the full understanding of my article this week. In that published last week on the...

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Moving-floor Trailer for Farmers

A DEMONSTRATION of the use of the Seoco moving-floor trailer in dealing with mown grass, was given, last week, by S. E....

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Pressing Casings from Sheet

A PROCESS of pressing axle casings from steel sheet forms the subject of Patent No. 668,713 from the TimkenDetroit Axle Co.,...