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24th March 1950
24th March 1950
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Square Pegs Drop Out

NEV1TABLY, hauliers who, by their energy I and foresight, established themselves as their own masters, must find the yoke of...

Passing Comments

America Imposes IN the States a serious view Heavy Penalties for I is taken of the transport of Giving Lifts. passengers in a...

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One Hears-

• Of flares up over tares up. That the term "clean steel" does not refer • to nationalization. That there can be no negation...

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New Draft Rules for "Half-deckers"

hiTODIFICATIONS to the new draft 1Y1 Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness) Regulations, to cover vehicles of the...

The "Fruits of Inereasit

Area Schemes and London Fares Proposals Attacked "THERE are no lengths to which the Minister of Transport and the Transport...

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Bitterness" from Nationalization

the acquisitions were completed, the B.T.C.'s fleet would comprise only about one-third of the total Aand B-licensed vehicles....

Keener Rivalry from C-licensees

T HE Transport Tribunal has recommended the Minister of _Transport to approve the increased railway charges proposed by the...

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Men in the News

MR. JAMES HODGE, transport manager. Brown and Poison, Ltd., Paisley, has been elected chairman of the Industrial Transport...

Exports Set Up New Records

D ESP1TE the remarkable achievementsments of 1949, British commercial vehicle manufacturers exceeded all export records in...

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Customer Must Be Free to Choose

Transfer of Work is Not Abstraction., Says Appeal Tribunal IF a haulier gains a new customer without offering him some...

Ebor Take-over . To-morrow

V EHICLES and services of the Ebor Bus Co., Ltd, Mansfield, are to' be taken over and operated by the Mansfield District...

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Hauliers Still Wait For £4,270,000

U P to February 28, £13,685,175 had been paid in compensation to road haulage concerns acquired by the British Transport...

Public Will Not Have State Control

N EW branches of the Omnibus Passengers' Protection Association have been formed in the past week at Morpeth, West Hartlepool...

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Cutting Road-Rail • Handling Costs

A N improved system of controlling goods vehicles is being introduced by the Ulster Transport Authority with the object of...

The Personal Touch Counts

NAAKING human relations an effecIvi tive factor in transport was a point discussed at the March meeting of the Institute of...

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16 British Makes at Amsterdam

B R1TAIN is well represented at the Amsterdam Show, which opened yesterday and closes on April 7. Products of 16 vehicle makers...

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Modern Engine Testing

T HE author of the paper " Modern Engine Testing," Mr. S. G. Mundy, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.E.E., managing director, Crypton...

Spring in the I.R.T.E.

nuRING April, the Institute of Road Transpart Engineers will hold the following meetings:—March 30, Western Group: Modern...

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Baby, It's Cold Outside !

A DVERSITY makes strange bedfellows. A cynic would take the point a little further with the suggestion that men seek the...

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BREAD, BUTTER and JAM

And . How Hants and Sussex Motor Services, Ltd:, of Emsworth Earns Them NTIL the late 'thirties there were only a few houses...

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Less Weight -Longer Life

IN rebuilding an 4tkinson six-wheeled 19-ton tipper. J. H. Sides and floor were built up from corrugated aluminium sections...

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The Technique of Piston Ring Plating

A Process Which Imparts Greater Resistance to Wear of Cylinder Bores and Ring Surfaces I N 1937, the forerunner of the Motor...

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STRONG GEE INFLUEN AT GENEVA

By 1 L. J. COTTON, m.i.R.T.E. A THOUGH there are no ex a ggerated body styles, and only a few new chassis -exhibited at Geneva...

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Traffic Staffs Have White-collar Jobs

Says Ashley Taylor A.I.R.T.E. D URING the years between the two wars, the term "white,collar job" was frequently employed to...

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Aids to Efficiency

THERE are many uses in the tool' room, machine shop or on the inspection bench for a device capable of holding a work piece...

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The Fly in the Ointment

T H E arrival of "The Commercial Motor" at our A offices each week is an event to which all the staff took forward. Infact, it...

MOVING A LARGE TONNAGE OF CEREALS DAILY

IN a recent. article, S.T.R. asked for readers' suggestions towards solving the problem of a C licensee as to the best method...

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Simplifying Costing

Still Further I N whatever system of cost recording 1 have recommended, I have always adhered to two principles which I regard...

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A Hydraulic Tailboard

T HE use of the tailboard of a lorry as a lift for the load is the subjecr of patent No. 633.588. - The patentee is D. Layton,...