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5th September 1952
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Working in the Dark

H AS the Road Haulage Association changed its attitude towards denationalization• since it published its policy statement and...

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American Views on Safety

M UCH can often be learnt from other countries and this applies with some force to experience with traffic accidents and their...

Passing Comments

Australia's Search for Oil I T has been said that in recent years more money has been lavished in Australia in the search for...

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Scientific Retreading

THAT well-known retreading concern Auto Tyre Services, Ltd., of Basingstoke, which produces many thousands of Blue Peter...

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Campaign Against -Transport Bill Opens : Levy Likely to Grow

FROM OUR OWN REPRESENTATIVE 'THE Socialists' campaign against the Transport Bill opened last I Sunday with a public...

Awkward Question TIMING an interval in the Margate LO demonstration,

the chairman, Mr. R. S. Horlock, announced that a collection would be taken to aid the funds of the local trades council....

Reliant Prices Cut : New 6-cwt. Model

AST Monday, home-market prices of Reliant • commercial vehicles were reduced by 10 per cent. At the same time, the Reliant...

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Extra 12s. 6d. for Draughtsmen

B y an award of the Industrial Disputes Tribunal, the wages of draughtsmen of 21 years of age and over, employed in the...

" Express " Appeal Rejected

'THE Minister of Transport has I rejected an appeal by Eatonways, Ltd., Small Heath, Birmingham, against the refusal of the...

Men in the News

Ma. G. E. BeuatutEct., managing director of the Dunlop Rubber Co.. Ltd.. has sailed for the United States to visit the...

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Oxford Company Absolved : Staff Haulier Should Not Shortage Caused

Poor Service Have to Hire I N his report to the Minister of Trans port, Sir Robert H. Tolerton absolves City of Oxford Motor...

Irish Taxes Cause Alarm

CONSTERNATION has been caused l■-• among members of the Irish Merchant Lorry Owners' Association over the proposed increases in...

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Why Not Better Accept Advertising to Raise

Petrol ? THE demand for branded petrol of a quality higher than the muchdisliked standard Pool product, is growing apace. "...

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30 More Comets for Delhi

THIRTY Comet 90 17-ft. 6-in.I wheelbase passenger chassis are being sent by Leyland Motors, Ltd., to New Delhi to meet the...

Tribunal Dismisses Pay Claim

A CLAIM by the National Associar - ‘ tion of Local Government Officers for new scales of salaries for certain employees of the...

In a Line or Two

Liverpool Transport Department is to convert another tram route to motorbus operation on Sunday. An industrial court has...

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, Lighter Still

and lighter . . 0 NCE again, operators' urgent needs to counter persecution by the Chancellor of the Exchequer with still more...

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Rationalized Appearance and Detail Improvements in the Specification of the Half-deck Coach Make it More Attractive Than Ever

A COMPLETELY revised ri half-deck coach is to be shown at Earls Court this month by Mann Egerton and Co., Ltd., 5, Prince of...

The Half-decker Matures

The body is of composite construction, the timber framing incorporating steel transverse members running round the entire body....

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Labour for Bloggs

—Who Feels that the Tories Have Betrayed the Solidarity of the Free-enterprise Masses, but Had No Idea There Wi as a 25-mile...

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Road Transport Serves the Woollen Industry

T RANSPORT is a vital factor in the functioning of the woollen section of the textile industry. Such has been the case for...

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Trade and industry Should Find

An Alternative to the Levy Says Serviteur', T O decide the amount of transport that is adequate to the country's needs is not...

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L.T.E. Builds Its Ideal Garage A NEW garage at Garston, Watford,

is the first post-war building to be constructed by the London Transport Executive for the operation of country buses and...

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Appeal of Reversed Seats

0 UR experience of the public's outlook on reversed coach seats has been very different from that of H. W. B. Richards of...

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A Self-driven Centrifugal Oil Filter

A CENTRIFUGAL oil filter which I - 1 depends for its working on the pressure in the oil-circulating system, was announced on...

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Bigger Vehicles

Bigger Profits "The Commercial 'Motor" Costs Expert Discusses the 'Relative Earning Power of Various Vehicles of Different...

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LEX

'GOVERNOR' CARBURETTOR Now to deal with a 10-tonner in the same way. Running costs per mile: fuel and lubricants, 4d.; tyres,...

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A Daimler-Benz Automatic Gearbox

P ATENT No. 676,549 (DaimlerBenz A.G., Stuttgart-Unterttirkbeim, Germany) discloses details of an automatic gear-changing...