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24th August 1945
24th August 1945
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What• of the Future?

N OW that the excitement engendered by the unex pectedly rapid conclusion of all hostilities has diminished, it is time to...

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Improvements in Passenger Road Transport

W ITH the coming release of many thousands of workers from munition factories, also men from the Forces, the position of...

Passing Comments

Ban on Bearings to THE chairman Of British Limit 'German War I Timken, Ltd., Mr. Michael Potential Dewar, has suggeted that...

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One Hears—

Of the Land of the Sinking Sun. Wherever you go, the cry "'shortage of lahour." "Well, over, including the shouting. what?"...

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News of the Week

CO-ORDINATION OF SOME LONGDISTANCE HAULIERS • A CERTIFICATE of incorporation has now been received by Sasoelated . Road...

R.T.C.s are Revoking Defence Permits A NUMBER of defence permits is

being revoked by the Road Transport Commissioners, but, in some cases, where the need for the vehicles under them is apparent,...

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Hire Charge Upheld by Commissioner

A ROAD haulage hiring-charge dispute, stated to have extended over some months and to involve a sum _ running into three...

Personal Pars

MR. C. S. DUNBAR has joined the European Inland Transport _Organization as assistant to the Director of Road Transport. " MR,...

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R.T.C.'s Decision on A-licence Take-over Case I N'granting the licensing application—

reported in our issue dated August 10 —for sanction to the transfer of a onevehicle business at Barnsley, the North-eastern...

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Recording Actual Maintenance Costs

IS article, explaining a simple . method of recording the actual .cost of maintenance, is, in effect, supple mentary to what I...

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Petrol or , Oil-engined Commer 4-5-ton Tipper

I NTRODUCED into the Coranier.range of vehicles earlier in the year, the Superpoise 4-5-ton short-wheelbase tipper is novir in...

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The Merits and Demerits o xisting Types of Rear Axle

Why Heavy Types of Commercial are Provided with Fully Floating Axles. How the Form of Service G the Choice of Final Drive Gear....

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War-time Impressions of a British Bodybuilder's Visit to South Africa

An Exploratory Tour Which Showed That There Are Buyers in the Union and in Rhodesia for British Products By H. R. White,...

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Road Transport n British Occupied Germany

Some Eye-witness Impressions of the Present State of Road Transport Gleaned from a 1,000-mile 'journey Through the Reich I T...

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Another Bid for Higher Bus Fares in Glasgow

A T a meeting of Glasgow Corpora. tio.n, last week, the progressive group supported a deinanct for further consideration of...

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Rough or Smooth Road for Transport?

It is Vital to the Haulage Industry to Probe Beyond Doubt That it is Fully Capable of Undertaking the Management of Its Own...

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Fuel-pumping System That Will Not Air Lock

A Résumé , of Patent _Specifications That Have Recently Been Published F rt•OM General Motors Corporation, D,etroit, Michigan,...