T HIRTEEN year's ago the cessation of hostilities marked the commencement of a period of transition, in a way no less drastic...

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slowed by all difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the roughness of the roads over which...

in PARLIAMENT By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent The London Passenger Transport Bill. S IR HENRY MAYBURY, chairman of...

T HE wheel-grip capacity of an axle of a bogie, when all four wheels are driven, is too well known to require recapitulation,...

A PART from the fact that a reduc tion , in the weight of, a body incrbaies the pay-load capacity of a vehicle, the question of...

A Low-loading Level and Other Special Features A LTriOUGH it is possible to build on conventional lines a trailer which does...

SIXWHEELER A Day's Trial of the Shefflex DL6 4-5-tonner. A Solidly. Built Six-wheeler with a Trailing Axle. Fuel Economy at...

O NE of our readers has subfuitted to us a design for a sunshine roof of utrusual novelty, which has been provisionally...

How to Calculate the Overhang for Four-wheeled or Rigid Six-wheeled Vehicles. Useful Tables Showing a Variety of Maxima S OMH...

Tubes, Ltd., of Birmingham, Produe( Ranging from , T 1 in. to 15 ins. in D of Manufacture Makes A Variety of Products,...

Subsidiary Suspension Systems Which Come into Action when Ordinary Springs are Fully Loaded V ARIATIONS in load, extremely bad...

NEW SIX-TON TRAILER B ESIDES its particularly robust construction, there are several distinctly novel features in a new 6-ton...

HAULIER and CARRIER I T is worth while, before continuing the consideration of some of the other aspects of trailer use, to...

A FUNCTION that constitutes a milestone in the complicated history of London's passenger-transport system took place on May...

Forwardcontrol Drivers' Cabs Our Bodybuilding Expert Covers the Subject of Designing Drivers' Compartments for Mounting on...

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T O meet the requirements of those persons who habitually leave their vehicles unattended by the roadside and who do not want...

of Passenger Transport Latest News from the Various Traffic Areas DETERMINED FIGHT BY THE M.H.C.S.A. The Road Traffic Act...

no Weight with the Northern Corsmissioners I NTEREST attaches to the recent _Lpublie sitting of the Northern Traffic...

The application by Southend Corporation, which already operates tramg and trolley-buses, for licences to run a motorbus service...

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The Editor, THE 'COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [3408] Sir,—In maintaining cost records of our buses we have, under the item...

Cellulose 1 N recent years the cellulose process of finishing a vehicle .1ms Made great progress ; the durability of the body...

Seats for Passenger Vehicles T HE subject of seating on passenger vehicles is one that directly concerns both the operator...

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