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4th October 1946
4th October 1946
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No British Vehicles at Paris

T HE first international motor show to be held since the War opened in Paris on Thursday. October 3. -Historically, the oldest...

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Passing Comments

Allowed to Extend WEIRD are the ways of Garage but Not Clean TT bureaucracy. We learn of Floor a case where a man took over a...

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One Hears

The query: " Are double-deck buses mechanical monstrosities?" That the Clarendon, Hammersmith, must have become heated at the...

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News of the Week

PARK ROYAL MAKES NEW ALLIANCES A N agreement• has been reached by Park Royal Coachworks, Ltd., Abbey Road, Park Royal, N.W.I0,...

Call for Unified Rates

T'HE criticism that multiplicity of rates schedules is causing chaos in the road transport industry was voiced at a meeting of...

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Nationalization News

OFFICIAL FIGURES REFUTE SUGGESTION OF MONOPOLY naFFICIAL statistics were quoted by kJ Mr. R. G. Meager, in an address to the...

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Personal Pars

Mae S. C. SEWARD has resigned from the board of Wellworthy Piston Rings, Ltd. MaE. H. HOWES has been re-elected to the puolic...

UP AND DOWN 'TWO safety-glass manufacturers have announced their trading

results for the past year. Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd., made a trading loss of £35,272. after charging depreciation and...

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CHINESE WANT INTEREST IN FOREIGN CONCERNS

IN recent months, a number of success" fat European concerns in China has reported increasing difficulties in dealings with...

In a Line or Two

Messrs. Kinninniont Karavans have opened premises at 15, South Wharf, London, .W.2. The head office of Nuffield Acceptances,...

A DELAYED-ACTION SCRAPER RING

A TYPE of oil-control ring which PA. comes into full action only after a definite period of running is that known as the...

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Why Not Blowers or 2onamercial-vehicle Engines ?

By the Technical Editor W HILST there have, m the past, been several instances of engine makers toying with the idea of...

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Battery Chargers for Fleet Owners WITH the approach of the

winter Irlf season and the longer hours of darkness, operators will be paying mere attention to the condition of the batteries...

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A Basic System of Fleet Maintenance

By H. R. Morgan HAVE discovered that the best way to go about a major I overhaul is to sectionalize it, and the vehicle, to...

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Licensing Sub-committees

Should Continue Sags R. G. Crowther, A Yorkshire Operator, in a Stinging Reply to the Suggestion by "Tantalus" that they...

Practical' Design in a New Furniture Van

D EPICTFD in an accompanying illustration is a 1,000-cubic-ft. furniture van body built by Star Bodies, Ltd., Star Works, 115,...

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Cable Vehicle for Use on Oilfields

W/E recently dealt with a number of YV specialized vehicles supplied to the Iraq Petroleum Co., Ltd., for use in the oilfields....

Interesting Features in Bedford Gown Van

A N accompanying illustration shows a 30-cwt. Bedford with a body built to the special requirements of Percy TriInick, Ltd.,...

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By J. D. McLintock S TANDING in the busy main street

of ancient Canterbury city, it seems possible at all times to see one or_ more of the familiar red buses of the East Kent Road...

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OPINIONS and Q UERIES STEAM REVIVAL VERSUS THE GAS TURBINE WAVING

read the article by Mr. W. H. Goddard, in " your issue dated May 17, and that by Mr. J. Pickles, in the issue of September 20,...

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Novel Features at Vauxhall Exhibition

L AST week we referred briefly to the particularly interesting and compact exhibition staged by Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., at its...

Some Receut Publications

NIMONIC 80—THE NEW NICKELBASE ALLOY A PROPOS of the articles at present tappearing in this journal dealing with the gas...

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BIG DEMANDS FOR REGENT MARK III

N OW embarked upon its large replatement programme, London Transport heads the list of recent purchasers of A.E.C.s With a new...

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Cost Recording Made Easy

SOLVING THE PROBLEMS OF THE CARRIER T HE HE next fluctuating item on o rr cost analysis sheet is Wages." The recording of...

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A New Design of Moving Floor

A Risme' of Recently Published Patent Specifications MOVING floor for lorries is sho.-vn in patent No. 577,734, by S. Walker,...