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5th March 1948
5th March 1948
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Accurate Costing is Vital

W E often wonder what proportion of operators • of commercial motor vehicles of all types keeps in use an adequate costing...

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Austerity in Coaching

rr HE announcement that there is to be a 124 per cent. cut in the fuel allocation to passenger vehicles employed on excursions...

Passing Comments

Wasre is Unfamiliar IT is claimed by the Austin Word at the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., that in its Works. huge works at...

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. One

Hears That it is good year for better tyres. That it is better to get cracking than get creaking. That the F.B.I. is aiming...

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News of The Week

B.T.C. FORMS COMPANY TO TAKE OVER TA GROUP A NEW private company, in which all the shares are held by the British Transport...

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MR. SINCLAIR ON DEVELOPMENT

A T a meeting of the Institute of r - LTransport at the Institution of Electrical Engineers, London, W.C.2, at 5.30 p.m. on...

N.A.E.W.R. REORGANIZED IN YORKSHIRE

U NDER the reorganization plan of the National Association of Furniture Removers and Warehousemen, whereby the Association is...

APPLICANT TWICE FAILED TO APPEAR WHEN Messrs. P and P.

R Brown, VI" Westhall Garage, Gfenearse, applied for a B licence and failed for a second time to appear in support of the...

"Exam." Successes

Need Recognition T HERE is no _doubt that in the future it will be more important than ever to have properly trained workers...

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Personal Pars

MR. B. J. CRAIG has resigned from the board of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd. MR. R. 0, PATERSON and M. R. E. PERCIVAL have been...

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WALLACE ARNOLD TO RUN HOMELAND TOURS

A IIRANGEMENTS have been concludedcluded by which Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., of Leeds, will operate the series of extended'...

50 Years of Daimler

W E are approaching that realization of the dream of countless generations of men, that invasion of the air around us which...

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KEEPIN HE REAR AXL N TRIM

By Laurence E. Field, A.M.I.R.T.E. Methods of Locating the Cause of Rear-axle Failures, Precautions to be Taken when Assembling...

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Power Trucks Introduced:

Brick Output Doubled U NTH_ the recent revision of the housing programme, the brickmaking industry was experiencing a labour...

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New Equipment Restores Open-cast Coal Sites

F VE1s1 for men with long experience i of public-works contracting, the demand made in connection with open-cast coal mining,...

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S.M.M.T. VIEWS ON ADJUSTING TYRE PRESSURE TO LOADS

n N page 658 of " The Commercial Motor" dated January 30, there appeared an article on the subject of diagnosis which included...

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The Day of Reckoning Draws

Nearer By E. H. B. Palmer, Abolish the C Licence, Grant B Licences Freely and Limit the A-licensee to a 35-mile Radius,...

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Of PEAKS IN ESSEX

Long Hauls and High Peaks Make a Day to day Traffic Problem for Solution by Hicks Ltd., a Bus Company. 0 PERAT1NG...

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MAINTAIND 800 BATTER ELECTRIC!

By I... J. COTTON T HERE are few problems in electric-vehicle maintenance that cannot be readily solved by Silent Transport,...

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Organizing Maintenance on Production Lines

P RINCIPLES governing the preparation of fleet maintenance programmes were outlined by Mr. E. C. Oaaway, M.I.Mech.E., in a...

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The Rate-cutting Bug Returns O PERATING costs are still rising. Prominent

among recent increases is, of course, the rise in wages filling the implementation of the new Wages Order, R.H.24. There have...

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MR. E. G. FITZCOMBE, A.M.I.MECH.E., A.M.I.R.T.E., DESCRIBES, IN A PAPER READ TO THE INSTITUTE OF ROAD TRANSPORT ENGINEERS,

How to Select Your Vehicle A T a meeting of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers, held at the Royal Society of Arts on...

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Tipping Gear for the Sentinel 7-8-ton ner T HE first set

of B. and E. end-tipping equipment for a post-war-type maximum-load four-wheeled chassis has recently been fitted to a Sentinel...

A Small Borer with

a Large Capacity PECIFIC ALLY designed to meet the 0 requirements of engine-repair workshops, the new Cuthbert oench-pattern...

Fitting Snow Ploughs to Macks

UTANY local authorities have been IVI.fitting snow ploughs to the front bumper bars of Mack tractors, and frequently the fact...

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A Re'sume of Recently Published Patent Specifications

Separate Block for Engine Valves T O facilitate valve maintenance in a side-valve engine is the aim of a scheme proposed in...