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31st March 1950
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The Red Light

I N reducing by about 27 per cent. this year's allocation of commercial vehicles to the home market, the Government is...

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Passing Comments

Using Superheated COMPRESSED air is Steam for Spraying prominently employed for Organic Paints . spraying paints, but a new...

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One Hears

Of a white fluid for magnetic crack detection. That a Jenny (of the steam family) is a very capable person. That merely "to...

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Railways Call for End of Fish Transport by Road

E question whether there should be alternative road facilities besides the rail services for the carriage of fish from North...

25-mile Limit Too Small—Mr. Quin

P OINTED references to the necessity of extending the 25-mile radius imposed on hauliers under the Transport Act, were made...

Traders Criticize State Transport

C OMPLAINTS about delays in transport by British Road Services are being made by users in the Midlands and on Merseyside. A...

MAJOR CHAPPLE CHAIRMAN OF BRISTOL

IT was announced last Saturday that Major F. J. Chapple, general manager of the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd. (owned...

ROAD SUBSIDY FOR RAILWAYS? I F it were not careful,

the road trans. port industry was liable to become involved in some kind of subsidy for the railways, said Col. A. Jerrett...

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Amsterdam Rome by Coach

N EXT Monday (April 3), Netherlands Trans-European Fluslines will introduce its first regular international service. It will...

Bulk of Output to be Exported

T HE quota of commercial vehicles allocated by the Government this year to the home market implies that about. 70 per cent. of...

Operators Refuse to Cut Fares

F IVE coach companies and the Railway Executive, meeting in Newcastle-on-Tyne last week, failed to reach agreement on the...

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Compensation Proposals Issued

A DRAFT of the regulations under which compensation will be paid by the British Transport Commission to former employees of...

HigherPay for Coal Workers

T HE National, Arbitration Tribunal has made an award granting wage increases ranging from Is, to 5s. 6d. a week, to drivers...

Men in t he News

Mn. DONALD BOXALL, 0.B.E., the new export manager of Leyland Motors. Ltd., has flown to Egypt and Turkey. Mn. H. B. FIELDING...

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Timber Merchants . Win Appeal

D EVERSING a decision of the West IN.Midland De put y Licensing Authority, the Appeal Tribunal last week allowed, with 10...

1,000 Guests at R.H.A. Dinner

ELL over 1 , 00 people attended the " annnal banquet, - 1a 1 st Monday, of the Road Haulage Association's Metropolitan and...

"Biggest Exporter of Hea*ies "

IN his annual statement, Mr. C. B. 'Nixon, chairman of Leyland Motors, Ltd., claims that his company has made the largest...

in a Line or Two

Acheson ,Colloids, Ltd., haS changed its addreSs to 18-19, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1. • In a recent week, 3,240 Austin 'vehicles...

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U.S. Agents Sound Coaching Facilities.

A ' part of the campaign to attract American tourists to this country, 45 travel agents and sports writers were guests of the...

Buses Built for Quick Loading

T HE first of 195 new double-deckers of 8-ft. width, the whole to be supplied over the next two years, was exhibited to Salford...

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Driving Licence Rules Codified

FF IVE main changes are included in the Motor Vehicles (Driving Licences) Regulations, 1950, . which conso:idate the...

R.H.E. Tackles Insurance

A PANEL has been .set up by the Road Haulage Executive, after consultation with the Corporation of Insurance Brokers and...

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A TRUE FUE1 1:0NSUMPTION FACTOR

O NLY too frequently do 1 meet the operator who says, "My 6-ton oilers do 28 m.p.g.," or another who challenges our test...

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Longer Life for Reliant Engine A REDESIGNED engine is a

feature of the modified 8-cwt. and 12-cwt. three-wheeled vans which have recently been introduced by the Reliant Engineering...

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OILERS PREDOMINAT

AT AMSTERDAM SHOW T HE Amsterdam International Commercial Vehicle Show which closes to-morrow, confirms the trend towards the...

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Germany • on the Road Back

W ITH all that one has heard concerning the industrial . recovery of Germany, it is of interest to investigate the part being...

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SPeeCIN TranSPOTt for Six Horses U S1NG a Foden double decker

passenger chassis, a horsebox to carry six animals has recently been constructed by J. H. Jennings and Son. Ltd., Sandbach. As...

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Transp on or 98,000,000 Passengers

I N an article which was published on December 2, 1949. I described the involved situation in Southend and referred to the...

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On Location F OR many years fairground proprietors have transported their

own power equipment in the form of petrolor oil-driven generating sets mounted on lorrie3--usually of noble age. Film conmanie...

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Getting Down to Customers' Level

gIMPLICITY is the inherent quality Is.1 of every outstanding invention whic-h provokes the cry, " Why was this not thought of...

New German Designs

nEPART1NG from the layout which has characterized this make since the late '20s, the latest product of the German Vidal...

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Comfort First

iNTENDED for use on the Continent 1 by Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd.. of Leeds, a new coach, based on a Leyland Tiger P52 chassis,...

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S M. M.T. Tells the Government

Leave Makers to Manage Their Own Affairs and Give the Nation an Efficient Road Transport System A COMPLETE indictment of the...

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Will Insurance Rating

be Revised? 1 WROTE an article on insurance which appeared in "The Commercial Motor" dated October 21, 1949. 1 gave some...

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Novel Features on Rear-engined Chassis

F ROM General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., comes patent No. 633,781, describing a new system of transmission....