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30th March 1951
30th March 1951
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Employ the Older Men

A REGRETTABLE tendency is observable in the matter of filling vacancies in the various classes of occupation classified under...

Passing Comments

U.S.A. Facing Difficult THE confident claim of the Problem with Worn I president of the American Roads Trucking Associations,...

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One

Hears— That Leyland must be the largest exporter of wild animals. That the S.S. "Cape York" made a good zoo with its Royal...

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Exports Highest Since June : Output Keeps Well Up

E XPORTS of commercial vehicles in January were the highest since June of last year. Output was also well maintained. The...

Tribunal Calls for Lawyer r E Transport Arbitration Tribunal ast week

refused an interlocutory application by Messrs. Holland Bros., of Oldbury, Birmingham, for permission to be represented by a...

Insurance Premiums 12.1 Per Cent. Up

A NOTHER burden will be placed on the road transport industry on June 1. On that date insurance premiums for all classes of...

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One-man 43-seater Buses Authorized

NEW trend in road passenger trans%. port is indicated by an experiment tich Huddersfield Transport Departtht is to make with...

25,000 Bus Workers Militant

F OR the first time in history, workers of all political creeds threatened with State control had had the courage to rebel,...

Interworking the Answer

)(TENSION of interworking is con-Asidered by the national committee F the express carriers' group of the .oad Haulage...

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Men in the News

ALL). R. H. BAKER. a prominent figure in ihe Plymouth coaching and garage business, is to be the city's next Lord Mayor. MR_...

Railways Out to Curb C-licensees ?

A NEW threat to the freedom of the ancillary user is reported is the latest bulletin of the Traders' Road Transport...

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Socialists Attack Amendment Bill

• Supporters Quote Lancashire Cotton Industry's Dissatisfaction with B.R.S. L ABOUR members immediate l y began to attack the...

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Wallasey Granted Pull Increase: Liverpool Still in Trouble

F OLLOWING an interim award last Decembe permitting the Id. fare to be raised to 11-d„ Wallasey Corporation has now received...

Buses Banned on Scottish Road

DUS traffic is to be prohibited on the Glenorchy road, a 12-mile section between Dalmally and the Bridge of Orchy, which links...

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Minister Approves 30 m.p.h., But—

MIEN the implementation of the FV 30 m.p.h. speed limit for heavy oods vehicles, other than those towing ailers, was discussed...

209 More Leylands for C.I.E.

A N order for 209 oil-engined bus chassis, valued at nearly £400,000, has been placed with Leyland Motors, Ltd., by Coras...

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Poor Roads Check Tanganyika's Progress

T ANGANYIKA is a large country covering about 376,000 sq. miles, 6i times the size of England and Wales. It is thinly populated...

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Sussex Tippers for Arduous Tasks

VOR operation under exceptionally difficult conditions, George Wimpey and Co., Ltd., London, has recently ordered a number of...

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STER FUELLI1 FOR FAST IIGHT

By Alan Smith A T some time in the 1920s, a German pilot touched down at an airfield in Africa and was at once charged by a...

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Government Holds Biggest Monopoly

IT was with some amusement that I have read in the I daily Press of the Government's campaign to break monopolies and price...

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Fresh Fields

for Underfloor Engines By P. A. C. BROCKINGTON, A.I.M ech.E. M ANY maintenance and service advantages, as yet unobtainable,...

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How Large Should a Passenger Unit Grow?

The Importance of Preserving Personal Contact Between the Operating Manager and his Staff is Emphasized as Under takings...

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Confucius Worse Confounded

While the British Transport Commission Has Blundered Its Way Along, Making No Attempt to Co-operate with Free Hauliers, the...

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• Recording Maintenance Costs

In Response to an Inquiry from a Small Haulier, Our Contributor Outlines a Simplified System for Setting Down Expenditure on...

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Revival of an Old Gear-change System

O of the earliest principles in the NE ‘--Idesign of gear-changing devices is the " disappearing feather," that is, a sliding...