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27th January 1933
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National Fuel Supplies Vital

S 0 :much attention is being devoted to the rail-road controversy and the question as to whether the Salter Report...

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Passing Comments

T HOSE people in South Wales and Monmouthshire who received their Christmas mail weeks after the correct date must have been...

Special Features

of this Issue Sled cross-bearers and pillars are employed in the latest Spurting Luton-type body. Page 824. Mr. Lawrence...

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ONE HEARS

That only the Dead Sea is salter. That no other paper has been permitted to divulge the details of the process by which...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY

"The wheels of wealth will be slowed by all difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the...

An Association to Oppose the L.P.T. Bill

S OME time ago a number of members of trades and interests which had been supplying the independent London passenger-transport...

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Tilling and B.A.T. Dividend.

The directors of Tilling and British Automobile Traction, Ltd., announce a final dividend of 6 per cent. on the ordinary shares...

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WHAT THE BERLIN SHOW WILL REVEAL

T HE commercial-motor section of the Berlin Motor Show, to be held from February 11 to 23, will fill one of the two large...

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News of Municipal Activities

Municipal Purchases and Proposals. Minnimmi Town Council is to buy a motor street sweeper. SourRoATE Urban District Council...

CLEANSING COSTS AND INCREASED TAXATION: AN INFORMATIVE TABLE

A N illuminating table has recently been compiled by the Institute of Public Cleansing, the figures which it contains being...

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Modifications to Albion 5-ion and 6-ion Models

Alterations to Existing Chassis and the Introduction of a Bonnetedtype 6-tonner by a Prominent Scottish Manufacturer C ERTAIN...

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HAULAGE Th THE U.S.A.

A BULLETIN issued recently by the U.S.A. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, reports the results...

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A Finger-tip Emergency Brake

MHE ideal emergency brake, or "dead man's brake," as it is sometimes called, has yet to be discovered, the difficulty being...

Metal Cross-bearers for New Luton Body

r SHE latest form of Luton van body _L made by Spurling Motor Bodies, Ltd., Edgware Road, London, N.W.9, for the various...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

Support the Road. The Editor, TETE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [3972] Sir,—Much could be done to counteract the disastrous effects of...

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A Reaction to the Salter Report

A Well-known Contributor Suggests that Manufacturers Must Now Adopt a Policy of Aggression, and Stresses the Need for...

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BISCUIT TRANSPOR

ON A BIG SCALE E VERY transport organization, to be economically operated, must be considered individually, and its special...

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A Demonstration Van with Trailer Power Station

A NOVEL motor outfit has recently been completed by the Nationale Automobil Gesellschaft, of Berlin, for the Dr. Oetker Co. '...

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The Intricacies of

GASKET dANUFACTURE C OPPER and asbestos washers and gaskets are articles of such common use that they are inclined to be taken...

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A POPULAR TONNER TESTED

The Latest MorrisCommercial 13.9 h.p. Lorry Shows Up Well During an Arduous Trying-out "LIULL particulars of the modified...

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Charging Interest On Outstanding Accounts

T N these days, when an ever1. increasing extension of credit is demanded in all spheres of business, including the transport...

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Operating Aspects of PASSENGER TRANSPORT

12,500 LONDON BUSMEN INVOLVED IN SIX DAYS' STRIKE A Day-by-day "History" of an Event which Dislocated Passenger Traffic II A...

VALUABLE WORK OF NORTHERN ROAD TRANSPORT ASSOCIATION

Rapid Progress Shown at Annual Meeting. Well-known Personalities as Guests E XCELLENT progress was shown to have been made, at...

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LATEST NEWS FROM THE TRAFFIC AREAS

NEW COACHES FOR EWER'S: GOOD SEASON EXPECTED. A NUMBER of 1933-model Leyland Tiger 32-seater coaches, with sliding heads, is...

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"MINISTER SHOULD DEFINE A CONTRACT CARRIAGE."

SUGGESTIONS that the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners should ask the Minister of Transport to define a contract carriage were...

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Vans Explore Unknown Sahara

I N spite of much exploration during recent years there is still a portion of the Sahara which remains completely blank, even...

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WHERE TO FIND HAULAGE BUSINESS

Brighter Prospects for Shipbuilding. Steel Trade Improves. Growing Demand for Cotton Goods. Cold Weather Benefits Certain...

TENDERS OF INTEREST TO HAULIERS

S OUTHWARK Borough Council is inviting tenders for motor haulage, and specifications may be inspected at the Town Hall,...

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HAULIER and CARRIER T HE figures given in the table accompanying

the previous article and repeated this week are important in connection with one of the most essential matters relating to...

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Combining Fluid and Cone Clutch

A 1 : Ce3LIM& of Recently Published Patent Specifications T IIE names of the Alvis Car and Engineering Co., Ltd., and T....