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26th May 1950
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The Price of Interference

A RGENTEs1A, being a great grain-growing country, is naturally extremely interested in means for the conveyance of this...

Passing Comments

F OR the four-week period up to February 26, the nationalized vehicles of British Road Services used 2,276,000 gallons of...

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One Hears-

That many chassis gather a lot - of Moss. That Halley's Comet has nothing on the 1.eyland model. . That summer is immen in...

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Treasury Hears the Case Against the Budget

A DEPUTATION representing vehicle users, manufacturers and traders was received last week by the Minister of State for Economic...

Coach Fares Up 7'/ 7 Per Cent. ?

I ICENS1NG AUTHORITIES it re Lai bony asked by the Central Fares Committee to allow fares on express services to and from...

BRISTOL WANTS E103.,000

T HE half share that Bristol Corporadon pays towards the financing of the city's joint passenger transport services will,...

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B.T.C. Comptroller Hints at Higher Charges Under Schemes

J N evidence, last week, during the Transport Tribunal's resumed• inquiry into the interim. London charges scheme, Mr. R. H.....

R.H.E. to Deal With Clearing Houses

A RRANGEMENTS have been mada between the Road Haulage Executive, the Road Haulage Association, and the National Conference of...

LEEDS IN SERIOUS FINANCIAL POSITION

IN the year ended March 31 last, Leeds 'Transport Department incurred a deficit of 117,313, although a record number of...

CONTROL FOR CONTROL'S SAKE

R ATIONING of red petrol was control for control's sake, said Mr. Leather in the House of Commons, last week, when a motion...

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Men in the News

Mg. H. I . DowsErt, chairman and managing director of the Dowsett group. has left for a visit to Dowsett Engineering...

INDIVIDUAL TRAINING FOR . • H.G.V. DRIVERS

O NE of the best-known instructional agencies for commercial-vehicle drivers. the British School of Motoring, Ltd., 17,...

DRIVEN TO TRE

PA A FTER a number of transport contractors engaged in the carriage of films had recommended an increase in rates. Mr. D. C....

NOT DOWN-ilEARTED

-THERE was no sign of "Budget depression " among the staff of th:!. Victoria Motor Co. (Bristol), Ltd., during the company' l...

NUFFIELD SALES UP

S ALES pf Morris-Commercial vehicles rose by 58 per cent. in 1949. Unexecuted orders for Nuffield tractors are sufficient to...

Purchase Tax Cuts Employment

MEARLY 100 employees of ( " lily Motors, Ltd., Wolverhampton, have been given notice, as a result of the ending of the night...

FURNITURE AND CATTLE IN SAME CONTAINER

S TATING that he carried turn;ture "...land cattle in his container vehitie, a Guisborough haulier recently. opposed an...

G.M. SENDS BY ROAD

D EC AU SE of,the increase in railway charges in Canada, vehicles from the General Motors factory at Oshawa. Ontario, are being...

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Four More Vehicles Allowed on 'Appeal

A PPEALING• against a decision of tA the South-Eastern Lice si ng Authority, Wincanton Transport and Engineering Co., Ltd.,...

IS IT B, OR IS IT C?

N egg-grading and packing cornpeny. Worcestershire Farmers, Ltd., weich runs a fleet of C-licensed vehicles, recently applied...

OPERATORS DEMAND INQUIRY

B US operators who - recently lost to Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd., contracts to carry workers to and from the site on which a...

NOT ENOUGH VEHICLES FOR DEMOLITION WORK A PPLYING for B licences

for four vehicles, to carry debris from sites on which he is engaged as a building demolition contractor, a Sheffield...

STEEL: LITTLE aux T HE ending of the steel distrebution scheme,

which was announced on Monday by Mr. Strauss, Minister of Supply, will be of little help to the commercial-vehicle industry, as...

Whitson Wins Two First Prizes

T WO Foelen coaches with bodies by James Whitson and Co., Ltd., Sipson, West Drayton, won first prizes in their respective...

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Disqualified Driver May Still Drive

AST Friday. the King's Bench 1-i Divisional Court decided that a lorry driver disqualified from holding a driving licence, will...

SWEDES VISIT MEADOWS WORKS

rOMMERCIAL-VEHICLE installa tions were important features of an exhibition staged last week, at Fallings Park, Wolverhampton....

ROAD-MAKERS AS POLICYMAKERS T HE efficiency of the modern vehicle has

outpaced the efficiency of the track on which it runs, and in the proper solution of the transport problem lies much of this...

"STOOGES," SAYS T.G.W.U.

D ISCIPLINARY action against 1/members of the recently formed Bus Workers' Anti-nationalization Society has been called for by...

Improved Handling Methods Needed

CIA STRONG recommendation that immediate attention should be given to improved methods of handling materials, is contained in...

USED CHASSIS FOR THE GOLD COAST

A CONCERN on the Gold Coast, Aradziwa Providence Venture. Post Office Box No. 234, 5/11, Asafu Street, Sekondi, Gold Coast, is...

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E can no longer afford to rim special services for

the benefit of particular industrial concerns without some appropriate contribution from them to cover our costs. We do not...

"Trying to Defeat Transport Act

-A CONCERTED effort is being made on the part of the road transport people, on both the road haulage and the passenger sides,...

M.P.s Attack Farmers' Privileges

O PENING the debate on the second reading of the Finance Bill, Mr. D. Jay, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said that the...

1.R.T.E. VISITS TO WORKS

F ORTHCOMING events in the programme of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers include the following:—June 6, North-western...

COST OF PETROL RATIONING

S ALARIES for the 2,342 civil servants employed on the administi:ation of petrol rationing cost £785,000 a year. This...

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HOW FREE HAULIERS SERVE BIRMINGHAM'S INDUSTRIES

By P. A. C. Brockington, A.M.I.Mech.E. F . 4 FFIC1ENCY in control, cost accounting and maintenance is the reason for the...

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Transport for a Thousand Trades T o have 'pioneered the conversion

of passenger cars to carry goods, to have developed the largest mixed fleet in the Midlands, and to have kept the business in...

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Success Story for March

QTATISTICS• just published by the NJ Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders elaborate the earlier announcement that...

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Gruel Thick and Slab

HE chairman of the Road Haulage Executive, Maj-Gen. G. N. Russell, was commendably straightforward in his latest statement on...

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The Operator'E 'art in KEEPIN(

FOOD CLEAN By Ashley Taylor, A.I.R.T.E. HE manner in which food is handled and transported has lately occasioned some...

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A Conveyor

Conveyed 1U11CHANECAL handling equipment Mof the conveyor type does not lend itself easily to being installed inside the body...

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A "Cross Country" Fork Truck

A FORK-LIFT truck, which transported a 30-cwt. load over artificial obstacles '6 ins, high, and can be taken over unmade roads...

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M.M.B. Not So• Generous

I HAVE read with interest your . article Light Dawns on the M.M.B.' in the May 12 issue of "The Commercial Motor," but must...

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Obtaining "Neutral" in r a Torque Converter

H YDRAULIC torque-converters of the Fottinger type will not entirely cease to transmit power even at low speeds, and when used...