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2nd December 1932
2nd December 1932
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Taxation and Licensing

N UMEROUS and varied are the opinions we hear concerning the possible action which will be taken by the Government in...

Commendable Advance of the Trolley-bus

A S tramway tracks become clue for renewal, an increasing proportion of abandonments IC tramway systems is noticed, the change...

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Passing Comments

T HE Royal Agricultural Society of England has to arrange its shows well in advance, and we learn that the cordial invitation...

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ONE HEARS But rarely of aged directors in the motor industry.

That fewer hauliers would go wrong if they put their rates to rights. Considerable praise for uniform stand decoration after...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY

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

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News of Municipal Activities

Council Seeks Road-closing Order. An application by Hants County Council, seeking power to close to heavy traffic Matchams...

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Municipal Purchases and Proposals.

TYNEMOUTII town clerk has been instructed to report on the provision of a new police utility van. CrsovnoN Corporation has...

Stoke Interested in Compressed-gas as Fuel.

The gas committee of Stoke-on-Trent Corporation has received a report from the engineer, on the experiments being made in...

DENNIS DIRECTORS ON THE PRESENT POSITION OF THE INDUSTRY

T HE annual general meeting of Dennis Brothers, Ltd., was held in London on Monday of this week, when Mr. N. P. Andrew, the...

STOPPING TRAILER SWAY M UCH trailer swaying is caused by worn

drawbar connections, particularly those at the ends connecting to the trailer, but, unfortunately, little attention seems to be...

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Simplicity in a New Driving Bogie

T EE new four-wheel-drive unit which Kirkstall Forge, Ltd., near Leeds, has produced for six-wheeled doubledeck buses and,...

An Inexpensive Hydraulic Dynamometer

T IIE latest Fronde patent 1L1).-type hydraulic dynamometer produced by Heenan and Fronde, Ltd., Worcester, for the running-in...

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A NEW FIELD for HAULIER

-CHICORY TRANSPORT C FIICORY, known to most people as an adulterant of coffee, and used, to a small extent as a vegetable and...

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Specialized Coachwork Refinements

N EARLY three years ago the allweather head produced by Mr. W. L. Thurgood, the coachbuilder of Ware, Hertfordshire, was...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES An Alternative Fuel for Petrol Engines.

The Editor, THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [3922] Sir,—As the result of the recent rise in the price of petrol, the thoughts of many...

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A New Two-stroke Engine

M ANY attempts have been made he the past to design a two-strok engine capable of giving as good a h.m.e.p. as the four-stroke...

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PRACTICAL F,THODS OF MOUNTING THE SPARE WHEEL

W ITII the advance in pneumatic tyre design, problems of stowing the spare wheel, like certain technical problems of our...

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The London Passenger Transport Bill

Mi - IE Government has lost no time in _L the new Session in proceeding with the Loudon Passenger Transport Bill, the committee...

NEW PITMAN PUBLICATIONS

N OW that some 10 weekly parts of the publication, "Automobile Engineering" (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd. Parker Street,...

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Transport Problems of the Empire

I N his paper on "Transport Problems of the Empire," read last Tuesday before the Dominions and Colonies Section of the Royal...

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Single-ram Lift for Double-deckers

T O watch a full-size double-saloon bus being raised on a single-ram hydraulic lift is quite impressive, but there are more...

A New Electric Speedometer

A N EW electrical speedometer has been developed specially for commercial vehicles by S. Smith and Sons (Motor Accessories),...

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Operating Aspects o

PASSENGER TRANSPORT M.H.C.S.A. CONDEMNS THE LONDON TRANSPORT BILL TA AST week, we published from advance information brief...

LATEST NEWS FROM THE TRAFFIC AREAS

PROPAGANDA COMMITTEE FORMED. AT the meeting held, last week, to consider the travel-by-road campaign organized by Travel and...

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BRIGHT SPEECHES AT THE M.H.C.S.A. DINNER

MHE third dinner and dance of the 1 Motor Hirers and Coach Services Association, Ltd., held, last week, in London, was attended...

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NOTABLE SUCCESS OF SOUTH WALES BUS OWNERS' DINNER

rEHERE was an attendance of 200 at tho annual dinner of the South Wales Motor Omnibus Proprietors Association, at Cardiff, on...

Derby's Latest Ransomes Trolley-bus

TNERBY Corporation has recently taken delivery of a trolley-bus built by Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., Orwell Works,...

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THE HANDINESS OF THE [AMES HANDY VAN A DELIVERY van

with a 10 h.p. engine, a unit-constructed gearbox, having three speeds forward and a reverse, and a transmission of...

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Road Transport Activities

IN PARLIAMENT By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent London Passenger Transport Bill. T ilE committee stage of the...

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WHERE To FIND HAULAGE

BUSINESS W ITH the approach of Christmas there is bound to be a good deal of extra haulage business during the next week or...

Scholarships in the Automobile Engineering Training College

W E recently Visited the engineering works in Sydney Street, King's Road, Chelsea, London, S.W.3, which constitutes the...

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The Modern Gully Emptier—

features that make for efficiency and economy T HE modern gully emptier offers numerous advantages to municipal authorities,...

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Problems of the

HAULIER AND CARRIER I NTEREST in parcels carrying is rife just now, which is rather strange, in a sense, because there is some...

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An Electrically Aided Bendix Brake

A Résumé of Recently Published Patent Specifications T EE name of the Bendix Brake Company, of America, appears in patent No....