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5th November 1943
5th November 1943
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Views on Road Transport Control

1V1 ANY people pay a great A Summary deal of attention to what is said in the House ments in the what is said in the House...

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Passing Comments

Turning The Tables WE have commented upon on Those Making VI' the bad practice of workers "Foreigners" . . wasting time and...

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One Hears

01 an Irish driver talking about his oil-filther. The hope_expressed that he doesn't keep it in that condition. That making...

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News of the Week

M.O.W.T. VIEW ON HIRED VEHICLES R ATES for payment in connection with controlled undertakings under the M.O.W.T. Long-distance...

A R.O. -Protest Answered by "Tantalus"

VriE have received the following communication from Mr. D. Richardson, chairman, A.R.O.:— • "I feel it necessary to draw your...

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HIGH DUTY ALLOYS AND HIDUMINIUM INTERESTS

T HE activities and control of Hiduminium Engineering, Ltd., a subsidiary of High Duty Alloys, Ltd.. have been changed, and the...

Diverting Coal Traffic from Rail to Road

A N instance of the diversion of goods from rail to road because of traffic pressure on the railways, as mentioned at the...

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SYNTHETIC RUBBER DOES NOT. SOLVE TYRE PROBLEM rONFIDENT hope that

large sup'...plies of synthetic rubber will be available to the United Nations in 1944 does not indicate a prospect that good...

Ministry Control of Short-distance Transport of Open-cast Coal

T HE idea recently Mooted for the Road Haulage Branch of the M.O.W.T. to undertake the haulage of coal obtained under the...

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.P..S.V. BODYWORK REPAIRS

.110 ECENTLY the M.O.W.T. an nounced a scheme for the rehabilitation of p.s.v. bodies, under which only five concerns . are...

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There Is No Harm in the Solving the Problems Oiler's Exhaust of the Carrier

DREJUDICE, once established, can becomeastonish ingly strong and almost impossible to banish. Many

years ago, almost in the early days of the application of the oil engine to road transport, it was, suggested, and believed,...

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Retreading Within the Scope of All Operators

A Nimportant development in connection with the atconditioning of worn tyres forms the subject of patent No. 555,976, by the...

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Let the Operator Advise the Maker

- Do Not Check Creative Spirit By Another Manufaciurer A manufacturers of commercial vehicles we have been extremely interested...

Will Makers Act on Advice?

By Denis F. Pilkington, M.I.A.E., Assoc. Inst. T. (Lancashire Associated Collieries) I WAS extremely interested to note that...

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Simplicity of Maintenance an Essential

By VV. J. Inman (Gas Light and Coke Co.) I AM in entire agreement that the time has come for the formation of a representative...

Makers Do Study Users' Needs

By T. G. Slitir, M.I.M.T. (Ford and Slater) A LTI'IOUGH a 'repairer of transport and not, a user, I would like to take part in...

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GETTING THE BEST OUT ( MANUAL STEERING GEARS

I N order that accurate and light steering may be provided on a vehicle, the chassis designer must follow definite rule's. A...

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Pre-war Comfort in War-time-built Double-deckers

FIESFITE the rion-artilability• of certain materials 11-inormally employed in the building of passenger-vehicle bodies, and...

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Women Keep the Bus Wheels Turning

IT is not very often that we get the 4pportunity of giving the women a page to themselves, but recent references in these...

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OPINIONS and Q UERIES

THE SAFETY VALVE OF THE INDUSTRY T HANK you, Mr. Bury, for your letter of October 22 in support of my contributi,pn which was...

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• Is Bureaucratic Control Really Necessary?

WAS most interested in the article " Do you want to be a little State stooge? ' " by Capt. Harold Balfour, MC., M.P., in the...

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Centrifugal Clutch with Free Bob-weights

A CENTRIFUGALLY energized clutch forms the subject of patent No. 555,686, from Borg and Beck Co., Ltd., Tachbrook Road,...