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6th September 1917
6th September 1917
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The Petrol Price Bombshell.

I F IT HAD NOT been for the efforts of the''past year on the part (chiefly) of this journal with coalgas as an alternative...

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Automobile Technical Committee : New Chairman.

IT IS NOT of the men that matter most in the largest industrial concerns that one hears most, as a rule. People who are far...

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ONE HEARS

All will be gas and gaiters. There's room for more goodwill. " What ! Four shillings a gallon!" That the electric is not an...

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ROAD SPEEDS WITH TRAILERS.

I T IS TO BE HOPED that the overdue' report of the Local Government Board Departmental Conitraittee on Heavy Motorcars will...

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THE WHEELS OF INDUSTRY.

"The wheel ol wealth will be slowed by all difficulties of transport at whatever points arising as a carriage is by the...

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DEMONSTRATION OF COAL-GAS PROPELLED VEHICLES.

Request to User; of Vehicles Running on this Fuel to Collaborate. VE ANNOUNCE a • demonstration of coal-gas ipelIed vehicles,...

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FUTURE PROSPECTS.

5.—The Problem of the Returned Vehicles. I 1 1 %T .14 - Y . LAST• ARTICLE I endeavoured to deal - generally with the after-war...

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COAL-GAS UNDER COMPRESSION.

Five-ton Lorry Fully Charged in Four Minutes. Striking Facts and Figures from Glasgow. I N THE SPRING, the gas committee of...

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CONVERSION TO COAL-GAS.

Hints and Wrinkles to Garage Proprietors on Fitting-out. The traffic department of the Leeds Industrial Do-operative Society,...

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THE• COMMERCIAL MOTOR Small Troubles with Gas-bag Cars.

I T MUST NOT be assumed, be-cause-the use of coalgas is such a ready-to-hand alternative in these days, that there are none of...

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FURNING OUT 80 CONTAINERS A DAY.

A Bold Grapple with the Coal-gas Problem. C OAL-GAS propulsion of commercial vehicles is no longer kegarded merely as a fit...

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Our 1914-1917 Comforts Funds t20,000 Raised.

Final Balance Cheque Despatched: Final Audited• Accounts. T HE 22nd October, 1914, witnessed the establishment of THE C...

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THE POWER OF A TRACTOR.

A Few Complexities Concerning Drawbar Pull Explained. By Henry Sturmey. A GREAT DEAL of nonsense is being disseminated...

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AMBULANCE WORK IN THE VOSGES.

(From Our Correspondent with the French Army.) (Continued from page L'44.) Again our night's rest was disturbed by both...

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OPINIONS FROM OTHERS.

The Editor invites correspondence on all subjects connected with the use of commercial motors. Letters should be on one side of...

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ANSWERS TO QUERIES.

Our readers will be informed by the Editor on any points connected with the construction or use of commercial motors, Where a...

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For DRIVERS, MECHANICS & FOREMEN.

A PRIZE OF TEN SHILLINGS is awarded each week to the sender of the best letter which we publifii on thi page ; all others arc...

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PATENTS SUMMARIZED.

A C.A.V. Electric Starter. C. A. Vandervell and Co., and A. E. Midgley, describe in specification N. 108,114 an improved...