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2nd June 1944
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Accident Causes Under Review A QUESTION asked recently in the House

of Some Factors to Which Alien Commons was whether tion Should be Given When the Parliamentary Secretary to Considering Safety...

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Drivers Who Falsify Their Logs

S AFETY regulations formulated by the Interstate Commerce Commission of America require that drivers of commercial vehicles...

Passing Comments

The Gets -TALKING, recently, with the Paid a Very Neat I managing director of a Compliment . group of companies engaged in...

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One Hears—

That, some ancient chariots had rear-view mirrors of polished metal. Views expressed that local authorities are ofteil " not...

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News of the Week

INSTITUTE COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES F URTHER to our reference last week to the •second meeting of • the organizing committee of the...

Transport "The Backbone" of "Second Front" Operations

P RELIMINARY steps taken in the North-eastern Region to prepare for the posgibility of stopping certain roadhaulage traffics,...

Haulage Association Decides Against Merger

T HE Sheffield and South Yorkshire Hauliers Association has decided not to merge into R.H.A. This. was decided at a committee...

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P.S.V. Wages and Conditions

rERTAIN recommendations have '‘...-obeen made by the National Joint Industrial Council for the Road Bassenger Transport...

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Mr. Quick Smith Rushes In...

Mr. Howes Wrote an Article "Heard in 'The House' to Which Mr. Quick Smith Replied Last Week. Now Mr. Howes Makes His Rejoinder...

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A Light Van of Unconventional Design

IN the design of the lighter types of delivery van, say, from 7 cwt. to 15 cwt., to be sold at such a price that even a man...

Bus Notes from the Middle East

A Staff Man, Now an Instructor at a Mechanics' School, Offers a Few Overseas Impressions O NE of the erstwhile members of our...

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Royal Visit to a Sparking-plu Factory

Duchess of Kent Impressed When Visiting the Champion Factory A N accompanying illustration shows H.R.H. The Duchess of Kent...

A Base-plug Magnetic Filter A TYPE of magnetic filter which has,

for some years, been used with success in gearboxes of both goods and passenger vehicles is the Simms, a product of Simms Motor...

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THE INFLUENCE OF •TREAD ION ON TYRE PERFORMANCE

A Close Investigation .of the Reasons For and Against the Adoption of Particular Tread Patterns, and Their Influence on Tyre...

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Control—Yes: Nationalization—No !

" f AM not by any means pessimistic 1 about post-war conditions of transport: I am one of those who believes that the best has...

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Clearing up Some Distorted Ideas on Rate-cutting

Hauliers Should be Allowed to Charge Rates Based on Their Own Experience of Costs, Phis Their Views as to What is a Reasonable...

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More Steam-wagon Reminiscences

A Pioneer of the Days of Steel Tyres and Woolleather Brike Blocks Gives Interesting Views on , Steam 'wagon Design • By R....

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An Auxiliary Low-gear for Tractors

A Resume of Recently Published Patent Specifications WHEN using a tractor for some VV special purpose it may render desirable...