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5th September 1947
5th September 1947
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How Not to Get Coal

-T HE state of affairi described by our correspondent as obtaining at the Open-cast Coal Distributing Centre at British Oak,...

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More Road Courtesy Needed

O NE of the most important factors which could help in the reduction of the regrettably large number of road accidents and in...

Passing Comments

To Capetown in a THE overland route to 20-year-old Converted South Africa is rapidly Ambulance . . becoming a recognized long...

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One

Hears— Of porcelain ball bearings in Germany. That some drivers pull up only in the length of their imagination. That too...

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PRIVATE BUSMEN MAKE BID " FOR PARITY

L AST week the passenger transport .1--tunions decided to accept the tribunal's award to company busmen, but considerable...

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, Blackburn Parade: Small Fines A N anti-nationalization procession which took

about half an hour to pass a given point was described at Blackburn Police Court last week when 16 prominent members of the...

Household Gas Emergency Van E MERGENCIES can and do arise in

the most highly efficient organizations, and in the gas industry they are apt to occur after the normal working day. When one...

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MANCHESTER TiRIVERS OPPOSE DUTY CHANGES

S TRONG opposition to various duty changes was voiced at an unofficial ig test meeting held by certain Monster Corporation...

Personal Pars

MR. N. F. STOCKBRIDGE has joined the board of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd. MR, J. HARRISON has resigned from the position of...

MANUFACTURE OF OIL ENGINES AT STAINES

WE learn that the board of Lagonda, IN Ltd., has reached an agreement to sell the Staines factory to a group headed by Mr. Alan...

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NEW DYSON TRAILER A "SPECIAL" T HE Dyson chassisless trailer, exclu

sively, described in The Commercial Motor" dated August 29, is designed for use under Regulation 63 of the S.R. and 0., 1947,...

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Passenger Transport News

1,000 MILES TO THE SEASIDE— BY LUXURY COACH ri A TRIP of 2,000 miles return by motor coach to the seaside may sound an ordeal...

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Transport Interest at the

ENGINEERING EXHIBITION A FTER an interval of 10 years, the Engineering and Marine Exhibition %%as opened at Olympia, London,...

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Factors A ecting ACCURATE CONTROL

By J. PICKLES, A. M.I. M ech. E. p REVENTION of roll is one of the most important considerations in vehicle design. Roll is...

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An All-electric Mobile Crane

ECENTLY introduced by Cromp ton Parkinson, Ltd., Astor House, Aldwych, W.C.2, and C. H. Johnson (Machinery), Ltd., the 10-cwt....

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By H. SCOTT HALL, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.R.T.E.

EXPERIENC the Quid to Chassis Selection I T has often occurred to me that to be a successful haulage contractor it 's...

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H . UNDREDS of vehicles all over Great Britain are

daily carrying a commodity which is invisible and. as light as the air, and yet plays a vital part in all the most important...

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Fuller's Earth Transport by " Max "

M A s far back as history goes there appears to !save been a demand for fuller's earth, whilst the Romans are known to have...

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The Problem Of Those

FLAT RATES B Y coincidence it happened that not long after I wrote the articles showing how the size of vehicle was a...

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Open-cast Coal Site Chaos

By H. Scott Hall, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.R.T.E. F OR many years Mr. A. Waite, of A. Waite (Coal), Ltd., Dewsbury, has been engaged...

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Electrics on Exhibition

THIS • week's exhibition at the I premises of Silent Transport, Ltd., Woking, has been staged not only to show chassis and...

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A Resume of Recently Published Patent Specifications

Brake-assisted Steering System A BRAKING system which automatically amplifies the steering action is shown in patent No....