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26th December 1947
26th December 1947
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Where Lies Our Salvation?

I N almost every field of industry in this country, great sacrifices are being made to develop our export trade. Meanwhile, the...

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Passing Comments

Soft-metal Dies Which THE Ford Company of Are Frozen Before America is carrying out Use experiments with press dies made of...

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One

Hears Of a big new intake for the bus queues That the old hands will soon teach them queue Thanks for the memory—of petrol for...

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Private Detective Employed to Track Furniture Van

A N allegation that a railway-associated group had used vehicles licensed at Bradford to establish bases elsewhere, was made at...

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Personal Pars MR. G. 1. PEHLLIPS has beer elected chairman

of City of Oxford Motor Services, Ltd„ in succession to MR. G. T. PHILLIPS MR. T. A. EMERSON, Of the Northern General Transport...

BIG INCREASE IN I. OF T. MEMBERSHIP

" mOT only was there a continued IN upward trend in total membership figures during the past year, but there was also a marked...

TESTS PROVE THAT FILTERS SAVE WEAR

E XPERIMENTS showed that in an -..ngine fitted with only an air filter, there were average reductions of 71i per cent, in...

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NO ,COMFLETE VEHICLES FOR INDIA jMPORTATION of assembled vehicles 'during

the first six months of next year has been banned by the Government of India. Only components may be imported. The quota...

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COACHES KEEP RAILWAYS CLEAR

"A CCOMMODATION was not avail1 - 3. able by train for the number of passengers who travelled by road," was the answer given by...

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ACTIVE ASSISTANCE OR PASSIVE RESISTANCE?

1 T has not hitherto occurred to me to think of Mr. E. B. Howes as a humorist, although I believe that he has a distinguished...

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A Haulier who Lived on Hope

In Helping an Operator to Assess Costs and Charges for Deliveries in Five Zones up to 60 Miles from Base, S.T.R. Emphasizes the...

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YESTERDAY, LUXURY

is ir()--FAV ISCONTOET D URING the past 20 years, much has been done to improve the comfort of passengers and crews of buses...

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A New Hydraulic Servo Hand Brake

A LOCKHEED hydraulic servo hand brake has been designed for use on passenger and heavy goods vehicles which are ,fitted with...

What Would the Trade Unions Say?

V JISITORS to America gain various V ideas of the systems employed to achieve a high output for the labour available in that...

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WHAT IS A BUS CO ANY WORTH TO THE B.T.C.?

R UMOURS (reported in "The Commercial Motor" on December 5) of negotiations between bus companies and the British Transport...

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A Suspension System for . Battery-Electrics

P ATENT No. 591,416, from A. Morrison, 52, Woodhouse Road, Quorn, Leicestershire, covers a new scheme for the suspension of...