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29th December 1931
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What of the New Year?

T HE question as to the prospects during the forthcoming year for road transport in its many phases is one that may well be...

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LOOSE LEAVES

11 , 4 _ PUBLIC service vehicle operator, applying to the East Midland Traffic Commissioners for excursion licences for...

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ONE HEARS

Only part of what Wall Street is doing. That pedestrians should be seen and not hurt. That 1932 will be a pick-up year for...

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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 roughness of the roads over which it...

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POPPET t_ 1 - 1

e_r evolution VALVES and shortcomings T Hi, modern petrol engine has passed through many stages in its evolution, and,...

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BULKHEADS

and PARTITIONS their bearing on seating layout T HE term " bulkhead " is used to describe any unit of the transverse...

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5-TONNER

OF DISTINCTION p OSSIBLY no maker offers such a comprehensive range of goods models as does John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd.,...

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Engineers in the Making

TATE recently gained an insight into the work of the Technological Institute of Great Britain, when Mr. C. Bounaud, MA.,...

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The New

Three cylindered C.L.M. Engine A French-built Example of the Junkers Design, Embodying Double Opposed Pistons in its...

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INSURANCE Pitfalls to Avoid

W HATE VER difference the Road Traffic Act made to the insurance business (and it must have made some), it did not to any...

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The Results of Recent

AGRIMOTOR By INVESTIGATIONS World wide Efforts are Being Made Further to Improve the Agricultural Tractor, and this Article...

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BRITISH WOODS for BRITISH BODIES

A Plea for the Use of Empire-grown Timbers Which Have Many Features to Recommend Them B UY British " is an excellent slogan to...

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Much-improved

Degreasing Plant T RROITGEf the courtesy of the Southern-area distributte*, James W. Carr and Co., Ltd., 26-27, Budge Row,...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

The Cutting of Transport Rates. The Editor, Tram COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [3605] 5ir,—For a long time now I have been reading The...

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1-lorse Ambulance for Overseas

R ECENTLY Dennis Brothers and Son, Ltd., 17, Silchester Road, London, W.10, shipped to Messrs. T. W. M. Forsyth, Cairo, Egypt,...

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NEW FINANCIAL RETURNS REQUIRED OF OPERATORS Minister's Action Means that Certain Returns Must be Made by February 29th

vuTITII reference to the brief news V V given on page 700 of our issue for last week, regulations concerning the Minister's...

RECENT HAPPENINGS IN THE TRAFFIC AREAS

• Conferences of Commissioners. ONE important decision which the new Minister of Transport has come to is that henceforth...

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Novel Fire-engines

for Birmingham B UILT to the specification of the officers of the Birmingham Fire Brigade, a pair of interesting machines has...

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Overcoming Disadvantages of Gas Producers

P ERHAPS the most serious disad vantages the to the use of gas producers on vehicles are those of irregular working when the...

• Tilt Vans for Railway Service

A NOTHER batch of 1 - 1.Dennis vehicles has recently been commissioned for service by the London and North Eastern Railway Co.,...

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Rapid Progress of a Southern Haulage Concern

A RECORD of rapid expansion under single-handed direction is the enviable distinction enjoyed by MacCarriers, Ltd., the head...

A Useful Revolution Counter

U1NGINEERS frequently find the I 'I need for a method of determining shaft speeds when constructing auxiliaries for vehicles,...

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Problems of the

HAULIER and CARRIER I AM often asked by hauliers how they should advertise their businesses. The question comes sometimes from...

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Hydraulic-transmission Inventions

MHE name of Commandatore P. if. Salerni, 23, Canton House Terrace, London, appears in patent No. 361,281, which relates to a...