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27th January 1939
27th January 1939
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Is Co-ordination Making Progress?

Road Transport is Giving the Railway Companies an Opportunity to Play the Game LTHOUGH it is difficult to say anything very...

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Passing Comments

May a Bus Driver p ATHER an amusing inciDescen d from H is 1 •dent occurred to us the Seat other day. We were driving into...

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One Hears

That welders do not look upon frost as a frost. Not so much of the taxi v. private-car controversy. That the old order...

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N EWS of the WEEK

MR. BURGIN REVIEWS TRANSPORT PROBLEMS. S PEAKING at a luncheon at the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Mr. Burgin referred...

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Personal Pars

Ma. W. HICKMAN', A.NI.I.Mech.E., A.M.Inst.T., whose portrait appears on this page, who was formerly manager of the...

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News

of the week (continued) GOVERNMENT "SUGAR FUEL" FOR SOUTH AFRICA? N ATAL sugar interests hope that some form of Government...

Road Needs an All-round Square Deal .

the commercial-motor industry. the square deal must be an allround square deal, said Mr. Francis Grundy, at a Manchester...

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Birmingham's Part in

Gas-vehicle Research A COAL-GAS-DRIVEN van owned by Birmingham Corporation, which is experimenting with coal gas as a fuel,...

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What the Associations are Doing

THE FINANCIAL ASPECT OF A MERGER. A telling appeal for unity in the industry was made by Major the Hon. Eric Long, of A.R.O.,...

S.T.R. Continues His Lancashire Tour Q T.R.'s meeting at Buxton,

last week-the second of 12 which he is addressing on behalf of the C.M.U.A. Manchester and East Lancashire divisions-was...

Division of Function a Weighty Problem

WHETHER goods traffic could be W systematically divided between road and rail transport, and whether a central transport board,...

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GETTING GOOD RETURNS for

'.-CAL7 LIVESTOCK HAULAGE A Suggested Schedule of Rates for Local Haulage of Livestock with a Definite Minimum Figure T HE...

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Albions Beat Weather Conditions Carrying Afghan Mails

COB over eight years the Britisti Legation at Kabul, Afghanistan, has been emplkying Albion 30-40-cwt. vehicles to carry mails...

30,000 Sheep a Week, and Beer and Petrol as Well, by Leylands in the Argentine

W/HEN the ancient sheep market of W Buenos Aires was located in the „centre of the city, meat factories, slaughter-houses and...

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A.E.C.s Put Up Big Mileages, on, Bus Service in South

Africa A LWAYS enterprising operators of A.h.C.s in South Africa, the Johnston, Bus Service of Germiston purchased their first...

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ROAD MOTORS EASE THE EXTILE INDUSTRY'S BURDEN

S EVERE competition from abroad has resulted in sweeping changes in the textile industry, as compared with the period before...

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Would Record-breaking improve the Breed of the Oil Engine ?

Record-breaking, as Opposed Jo Racing, as a Means For Research and Development of the Oil Engine as Used in the Commercial...

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New Commer 8-cwt. Supervan Embodies Notable Improvements

A Popular Model In Which New Features, Aiming at Improved Efficiency and Economy, are Now Incorporated T HE Commer 8-cwt....

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Practical Body Design for Specialized Carrying

Details of Bodies Suitable for the Transport of Theatrical Scenery, Barrels, Plants, Glass and Bullion, with a Few Notes on a...

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PETROLEUM th(

Power that Comes rom the Earth How Progress in, Oil Technology Has Assisted in the Development of Al! Forms of Transport...

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Goods-vehicle Registrations Still Under a Cloud

A S intimated in our issue for last week, the number of new vehicles registered in November last was fully in keetting with the...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

OPERATORS AND AGENTS SHOULD BEWARE OF THE JOINTING TRICK. I HAVE read your recent article on the above subject and desire to...

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An Important

Welding Development The Lenssens Process for Aluminium, Elektron and Iron, in Which Relatively Low Temperatures are Used A...

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Operating Aspects of

PASSENGER TRANSPORT GLASGOW'S OPINION OF PRODUCER GAS XPERIMENTS with a single-deck Lbus operating on producer gas, form the...

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Whither Transport?

Mr. L. W. Cupivell Produces Figures Which Completely Refute the Railway Companies' Plea That Road t Transport is Responsible...

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An Automatic Brake Booster

A R6unie of Patent Specifications That Have Recently Been Published A N arrangement by which hydraulic brakes can be...