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25th May 1945
25th May 1945
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Keep Our Hard-won Freedom

A FTER years of toil, great expenditure of life and limb and the facing of terrible dangers by the civilian population, the...

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Passing Comments

.mproyements Made A LI:HOUGH the accompanyin the Life of Synthetic r - king details of a test carried Tyres out by the American...

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One Hears

• Of many a man making plans about his post-war post. That some fear there may be a post-war-post war. That post-war industry...

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News of the Week

MEMBERSHIP OF THE 1.R.T.E. H UNDREDS of' road transport engineers ale sending in their application forms for one or other of...

A Railway View on Transport ROME interesting comment § on

road N.-land rail transport, from the, railway aspect, were given last week in an" address by Mr. H. M. Collings to members of...

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Personal Pars

MR. DAV/13 JOHNSTouir, of Perth, has been appointed assistant general secretary of the Scottish Horse and Motormen's...

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Leeds Discussion on clearing Houses C ONTACT between the Road Haulage

Association and the National Association of Road Transport Groups, concerning relations between the two bodies, was mentioned...

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Perkins Oil Engine Fitted in a Farm Tractor

Fuel Costs, in an Interesting Conversion, Work out at is. per Acre. Advantages of Oil Fuel over Paraffin MITE accompanying...

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Solving the Problems of the Carrier

What Is This Rate-cutting? To One Man it is Reasonable and Fair Business Procedure : in His Competitor it is Scandalous:...

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Can the Gearbox Be Improved Upon?

Despite Many Attempts to Introduce Mechanical Torque Converters of the Infinitely Variable Type, the Gearbox, Giving Definite...

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The Longest Step Towards Unity

L AST week, Lord Perry, K.B.E., LL.D., president of the National Road Transport Federation, was chairman at a luncheon to mark...

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DENNIS LANCET HI BUS S AN IMPRESSIVE DEBUT

Road Test No. 301 I T has been known for some time that Dennis Brothers, Ltd., of Guildford, had something new to offer the...

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New Fordson Tractor Having Increased Sphere of Usefulness

Several New Features Embodied in a Machine of Greatly Improved Efficiency IN our issue for last week we made a Ibrief...

War-period Activities of Vehicle

A CONCERN which has suffered ti ' heavily as the result of enemy action is Globe Auto Service, Ltd , Vicarage Road, Hampton...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

ADVANTAGES OF GROUPING LONG-DISTANCE HAULIERS DEFERRING to the article by Mr. E. B. Howes, IX" What Local Grouping Implies,"...

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THE COMET-BRITAIN'S LATEST TANK

N EWS has just been released that it was the' Comet — Britain's latest Tank—that formed the spearhead of the Allied' advance...

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An Epicyclic-hydraulic Clutch

A Résumé of Patent Specifications That Have Recently Been Published. Copies May be Obtained from the Patent Office, Price...