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9th June 1933
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Unjust and Crushing Taxes

O PERATORS throughout the country are up in arms against the excessively heavy burdens with which • road transport. on both the...

Close Up the Ranks

11HE time has arrived for the various asso ciations representing road transport in its different phases to be brought closer...

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Passing Comments

rr HE Manchester Joint Committee on Transport, to the formation of which we drew attention some time ago, is carrying out...

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ONE HEARS

The call of the c—oach. Of " wing " on motor vehicles becoming a norner. • Of further motor mechanization in the postal...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY British Electric Traction. Trading Results.

During the year ended March 31 last the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., made a net profit of £245,123, a slight decrease...

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News of Municipal Activities

Newcastle Station Deadlock: Move Expected SOM. Although no settlement has yet been reached between Newcastle Corporation and...

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Collecting Street Refuse Efficiently

P HE Ochsner system of dealing with street refuse is one for which deimite advantages are claimed, and records of its operation...

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Road Transport Activities

IN PARLIAMENT By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent Road and Rail Traffic Bill in Committee Sixth Sitting Opens. , A T...

Revised Taxation on Commercial Motors

The New Budget Duties. A S on the previous occasion upon which considerable changes were made in the scales of vehicle duties,...

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The New Taskers Timber Drag

A N illustration of the latest all.M.steel S-ton timber carriage, made by Taskers, of Andover (1932), Ltd., Andover, Hants,...

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Practical Suggestions for

FURNITURE BODIES HE transport of furniture may be divided into three cate gories :—(1) The removal of the contents of a...

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A New

central-entrance Trolley -bus W E are able this week to give details of a newcomer in the trolleybus market, this resulting...

Brief Items of News

The transport committee of Plymouth Corporation reports a surplus of £872 for the past year. The accounts of Dewsbury...

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AIR TRANSPORT NEWS

Busy Whitsun at Heston. On June 2 • the Whitsun rush commenced in earnest at Heston, 32 machines being given Customs...

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AN ALBION Bus

IN THE TRIED OUT HIGHLANDS A T the beginning of this year Albion Motors, Ltd. i Scotstoun, Glasgow, introduced an improved...

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Reclaiming Used Lubricating Oil

OST owners of commercial vehicles IV_Lregard the oil periodically drained from their engines as practically valueless; indeed,...

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Exhibits at

ext Week's CLEANSING :ONFERENCE E DINBURGH is the centre chosen for this year's annual conference—the 35th—of the Institute...

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Interesting Papers at the T.L.R.T.A. Congress

A S this year's Congress of the Tramways Light Railways and Transport Association is being held at Leeds., it is appropriate...

Modern Mass Transportation Methods

MEEE, author points out that considerable confusion exists in the public mind as to the qualifications of the various modes of...

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Regeneration on Trolley-buses

T EE subject of regeneration on electric vehicles has, during the past few years, excited increasing attention, and at every...

Alternative Fuels for Omnibus Engines

A ' present, bus operators are faced not only with high petrol prices, due to sizes in the cost of fuel itself (this paper was...

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Clever Prize-winning Coach Designs T HE exhibition of drawings and examples

of practical work entered for the annual competitions held by the Institute of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers,...

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Operating Aspects of PASSENGER TRANSPORT

WHITSUN . DEMAND FOR COACHES FAR EXCEEDS SUPPLY T EE successful working of coach operators during the Easter holidays was...

THE LATEST NEWS OF IMPORTANT EVENTS

P.S.V. OFFENCES ANALYSED. IN a return showing the number of offences telating to motor vehicles in England and Wales, and the...

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A NEW SPHERE OF BUSINESS FOR COACH OPERATORS

FIN the first examination, it might be thought that the cyclist is one of the last persons to whom coach travel would prove...

A Special Bus for Desert Service

A N interesting vehicle has recently been put into service by Dwyer and Co. (Iraq), Ltd., Baghdad, and it is being used for...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES Encouragement for the Oil Engine.

The Editor, TIIE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [4088] Sir,—Assuming, as one supposes that we muat do, that with possibly some minor...

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A New Light Tractor and Truck

A T the Royal Agricultural Show, to be held next month at Derby, a machine that has not been seen before will be exhibited by...

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Where To Find Haulage Business

W HOLESALERS and retailers in the drapery business are still busy. Orders are being refused on account of the difficulty of...

SIMPLIFYING TYRE CHANGING

A READER of The Commercial Motor, Mr. R. Heggadon, Kigbeare, Okehampton, Devon, has invented and provisionally patented a wheel...

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Problems of the

HAULIER and CARRIER I TERMINATED the previous article at a point in a conversation with a haulier, a newcomer to the industry,...

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A Valve-testing Apparatus

pATENT N. 391,218, by C. H. Vidal and Joseph Lucas, Ltd., relates to a device for testing the gas-tight fit of valves in their...