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7th August 1953
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Do You Drive Safely?

M UCH has been said and written concerning the influence of adequate and well-designed roads on the safety of the traffic...

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"Snoopers" on Coaches

L ATE last year a coach was hired to convey members of a Services club to a football ground. The party was joined by two...

Passing Comments

Britain Sets the Pace TT is flattering to find a British professional examina tion accepted as a basis for the award of an...

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One Hears

That overtaking may be overstepping. That big loads demand big roads and these must A be denied them. That "near enough" is a...

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Workers Prevent U.A.S.from gunning Hartlepool Service

A CTION by employees Of the State-owned United Automobile. 1-1 . Services, Ltd.; Darlington, has prevented the company from...

SPURLING MAINTENANCE DIFFICULTY

B ECAUSE of the growing popularity of the oil engine, Spurling Motor Bodies, Ltd., were faced with the problem of finding...

ANTHONY BODIES FOR KOREAN AUSTINS AANY of the Austin vehicles

which, /Y.I. as reported last week, are to be , sent to Korea for rehabilitation work, are to be fitted with steel bodies and...

HAULAGE AMALGAMATION PECIALISTS in railway cartage, 4--) Messrs. George Jacob

and Son, Southend, have been taken over . by National Parcels and Goods Services, Ltd. The combined business will be known as...

Cleethorpes and Grimsby. Merger?

E XPLORATORY talks have begur over a projected merger of the municipal bus undertakings of Clee. thorpes and Grimsby. Reports...

NORTH BRITISH AND DOMINION CONSOLIDATE THE sales and branch service organi.

zations of • the North Britist Rubber Co., Ltd., Edinburgh, and tht Dominion Rubber Co., Ltd., London have been consolidated to...

" WATCH FOR WAITING BANS" A NCILLARY users should be on tht

alert for the possible imposition a traffic restrictions affecting the loadinn and unloading of their vehicles, Thi: point was...

LONDON BUS PAY CLAIM CUBSTANTIAL increases in pay ar,

now being claimed . by more thai 68,000 employees of London Transport This follows the wage claims submittet recently on behalf...

FERODO IN BRAZIL

T HE controlling interest in a Braziliai brake-facing company, Industri. National de Lonas Para Freio, S.A has been acquired by...

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A.C. Generators Will Replace Dynamos: Intensive Research

1T is possible that at the next Commercial Motor Show, many buses l and coaches exhibited will be equipped with alternators in...

NOTTINGHAM TRANSPORT INQUIRY

A N inquiry is to be made into the administration and structure of Nottingham's transport undertaking. At March 31 last, the...

Examiner Made Wild Guess—Recorder

A VEHICLE examiner who claimed that there - had been 2-in, play on the front wheels of a lorry had " made a wild guess" and...

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Disbandment of Executives

T FIE Executives of the British .Tran port Commission, except Lando Transport, are to be disbanded afts September 30. Lord...

MINISTER OVERRULES APPEAL INSPECTOR

THE Minister of Transport has over' ruled Mr. J. M. Glen, an inspector of the Ministry, and has dismissed an appeal by G. H....

1'40 FIRST-AID: FINED

S UMMONED at Stratford on Avon, last week, for failing to carry a suitable receptacle containing first-aid dressings and...

POST AVAILABLE

A POST is available as assistant to tl sales engineer of a leading cot mercial vehicle maker. Apprenticesh or the equivalent...

TRAM CONVERSION IN MONTREAL

A N assurance that the necessary /Abuses will soon be available has enabled the Montreal Transportation Commission to proceed...

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22m. Road Construction Works To Start Next Year

VE have laid down plans this year VV for new construction and major provements, which will cost f22m., be begun next year or as...

TOWER-WAGON TAX ANOMALY TO BE EXAMINED

T HE anomalous position regarding the taxation of tower wagons is to be examined during the next few months. The taxation of...

"Special Occasions" Ruling

R EGULAR Saturday visits to sports matches were not " special occasions." This ruling was given by Sheriff A. M. Prain in Perth...

VACUUM SAFETY FILM rOFUES of the film " And Then

‘...• There Were Four," made for the associates in America of the Vacuum Oil Co., Ltd., as a contribution to sa,fety on the...

AUSTRIANS TO SET UP IN TURKEY?

IT is reported that three Austrian corn. 1 1. panics have made overtures with a view to setting up a large factory in Izmir,...

FORDSON TRACTORS TO EARN . DOLLARS X/ALUABLE dollar or are

V expected to be gained by the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., who are to export oilengined tractors to the value of $3m. to the United...

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U.T.A. Rate Issue for High Court ?.

T " question of whether the Ulster Transport Tribunal have the power to fix maximum charges higher than the chargeable rates,...

NEW BEN ZOLE DEPOT I - A A NEW depot has been opened at

Plymouth by the National•Benzole Co., Ltd., to serve an area bounded by Dartmouth... Rude. Wadcbridge and Fowey Six tanks...

Court Ruling on Lime-spreaders L IME-SPREAD1NG vehicles earns( be regarded as agricultural

engin( and therefore liable for a lower rate c tax. This was the effect of a decisio of the Queen's Bench Divisional Cour which...

DAIMLER REBUILDING COMPLETE THE Daimler Co., Ltd., has

completed the rebuilding and O organization of their factory Radford, Coventry, which was severe] bombed during the war. There...

FROZEN BEER IN CONTAINERS'

E XPERIMENTS have been conducte 1 ---1 for some time by the Departmer of Scientific and Industrial Rescarc into the...

FISHER AND LUDLOW TO SELL A N offer for all the

ordinary shah of Fisher and Ludlow, Ltd., hi been made by the British Motor Co poration. A value of £3.5m is put upo the stock...

MAKE DO AND MEND TO save £13,800, Newport Corpor;

don propose that instead of huyir 10 new buses in the next financial yea six old vehicles should be reconditionei making it...

Traffic Officers as " Snoopers "

T WO traffic officers who boarded a coach hired for a private party were referred to as " snoopers " by the Lord Chief Justice...

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Leicester to Cut Fares : New Increase at Birmingham

)ASSENGERS on Leicester City Council's buses will benefit by an .timated £18,000 a year if the East lidland Licensing Authority...

New Design of Oil-engined Van

P IONEER builders and users of lightweight oil-erigined vans, St. Cuthbert's Co-operative Association have now constructed a...

CENTRAL S.M.T. TOLD • TO IMPROVE SERVICE

R EFUSING an application by Messrs. Frank Galloway and Sons, Shotts, to run an express service between Shafts and Glasgow, the...

REVENUE AT PEAK AR. G. ARMSTRONG, manager /VI of Exeter

Transport Department, believes that the undertaking's revenue has reached its peak and that any further increase in fares would...

NEW PLASTIC PIPING

A NEW type of plastic petrol piping has been produced by Creators, Ltd., New Haw, Weybridge, Surrey, for attachment to a number...

In a Line or Two

The new Dunlop factory in Brazil, now iearing completion, is scheduled to begin iroduction this year. The Minister of...

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The H ppo Likes Hills

Leyland Six-wheeler Tested Over Hilly Route where Gradients were Climbed with Zest but Without Undue Toll of Fuel: Acceleration...

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Easy-loading Trailer in Three Parts

A MULTI-PURPOSE trailer, incur ti a number of ingenious features, has been evolved by Mr. W. T. Townend, 6 Queen Anne's Gate,...

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New Garage and Test Equipment

An attachment in the form of a Ion range boom for use with this jack crat enables an engine to be removed fro a chassis and...

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What Happens to Old Tyres?

J NE of the most costly single items in the upkeep of a commercial vehicle is that of the res. A 10,00-20 12-ply cover, for...

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NEWS FOR VORLD boad and air

1r Andrew Seacombe .ce,ss with which E. Higgs and Co. Vewspaper Road-air Freight Service m as Carefully Planned as that of the...

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litieal Commentary By JANUS

Killing the Goose 4 0RE and more desperate become the efforts to break .down the financial barrier that prevents any...

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24—Hour Ser

Hantees Quality Thorough Maintenance of Delivery Vans Ensures that Meat-products Manufacturers' Fleet can Operate at Peak...

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Whisky in Bulk an Unqualified Success

Doi the bulk haulage of whisky in 1-1 2,000-gallon tankers in place of rail transport, W. and A. Gilbey, Ltd., have reduced the...

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pinions and Queries

An Illegal Honest Living V HY do applications for A licences so rarely succeed? I can obtain loads for regular runs between...

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Matters

Arising, The Ton-mile, Depreciation, Tyre Costs and the Return-load Bogey are Dealt with in this Article, a Response to...

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Compensated Torsion-bar Suspension

P No. 693,275 (H. Van Doorne, Deurne, Netherlands), deals with a torsion-rod suspension system intended particularly for...