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3rd July 1942
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Higher Wages for Haulage Workers?

R OAD haulage contractors will, be amazed to learn that a fresh series of demands for wage increases for their drivers is...

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Passing Comments

A Feline Tale ConWE have often heard of cerning Awkward " something being described Manceuvring . as "the cat's whiskers," but...

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One Hears

That all waste is a super-tax on war assets. That owing to the lack of spares many 'n, vehicle has immobilized itself.. That,...

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News of the Week

" TO INVESTIGATE RATES FOR TEXTILES D ISSATISFIED with the Yorkshire Road-Rail Committee's schedule of rates for the road...

Yorkshire Rates Schedule for Machinery

T HE Rates Committee of the Federation of Yorkshire Road Transport Employers is shortly to issue a schedule of rates for the...

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FURTHER CONTROL OF TAXI AND HIRE-CAR PETROL

T HE Minister of Fuel and Power was asked in the House of Commons recently whether London taxicab drivers were authorized to...

Minister Not to Ignore Existing Producer-gas Resources

I T was requested by Mr. W. G. Brown in the House last week that the Minister of War Transport, before announcing the adoption...

Notes on the Government Road Haulage Scheme

CHARTERED FLEET.—At the present stage the Ministry is calling up only the heavier classes of vehicle, but this does not mean...

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• BIG FUEL AND VEHICLE SAVINGS BY POOLING

A REDUCTION of 53 per cent. in petrol consumption has been achieved by a successful scheme of transport pooling for the...

Big Meeting of Used Tyre Specialists

L AST Sunday morning we attended a ' general meeting of the National Association of Tyre Specialists, at which problems...

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Stabilized toad Rates.— That's Nonsense

H AULIERS are very hard to please. At least, I find it next to impossible to please all of; them. The situation may be summed...

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Entire Success Crowns Vegetable• Oil Experiments

A T all times, but particularly while we have a war on our hands, it is 'manifestly desirable that the utmost use should be...

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Tin is Scarce—Save it in Bearings

WHILST the scarcity of tin may W have received less publicity than that of other materials, the need for economy. in the use of...

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Mechanization Heralds Agricull al Renaissance in Radnorshire

SSENTIALLY a stock-raising county, Radnorshire is an area "that must have given much food for thought to those responsible for...

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Lubricant Must Be Saved Says Petroleum Board

E CONOMY in lubricating oil is the subject of a letter' that vas circulated earlier in this year by the Petroleum Board. It...

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Fifty to One !

By "Azote N O; the title Yrs nothing to do with betting; it represents the number of battery-electric vehicles that couid have...

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Six-wheel-drive Lorries for U.S

Quartermaster - Corps MOW caking into use by the U.S. lAnny Quartermaster Corps are White 6-ton six-wheeled general-service...

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To Protect Injection Pumps Against Seizure

W HILST a slight tendency towards seizure of an injection rump plunger might be insufficient to prevent its pumping action, it...