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9th September 1932
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Concerted Effort Vital

N O official report, not even that of the Royal Commission on Transport, has caused such a commotion amongst all classes as...

Oil Engines on the Continent

rIONFIDENTIAL information has been given -/to us concerning the development of the compression-ignition engine on the...

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Will Horsed Transport Return to Favour ?

rrHE sections of the community which are likely to give the heartiest thanks to the Road and Rail Conference, if its...

Railway Influence .on the Police.

N OT content with harassing road transport by propaganda and recommendations for its restriction, the railways are adopting the...

Passing Comments

S PEAKING at a recent luncheon, Sir Herbert Austin, K.B.E., in referring to the Road-Rail Conference Report, said that the...

Special Features of this Issue

A well-equipped Thurgood caravan body has been fitted to a Dennis Lancet chassis. Page 129. Utilizing a Gardner oil engine,...

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ONE HEARS

That the Road-Rail Conference's recommendations take a lot of reconciling with the public interest: The suggestion that the...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY

"The wheels of wealth will be slowed by all difficulties of transport at whatever point's arising, as a carriage is by the...

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Controlling Road Traffic in Argentina.

A Bill for the purpose of controlling road-transport services has been submitted by the Argentine Government to Congress. It...

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Success of Power Harvesting.

Power harvesting machines (combine harvester threshers) have this year been used fairly extensively throughout the corn-growing...

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Test of an Anti-dazzle Lamp Bulb.

The British Thomson-Houston Co., Ltd., Crown House, Aldwych, London, W.0.2, has recently submitted for test under the Royal...

News of Municipal Activities Increa,sed Taxation en Buses Would Affect Rates.

Councillor H. H. Nuttall has sent to every member of Liverpool City Council a memorandum wherein he expatiates on the effects...

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Municipal Purchases and Proposals.

SKEGNESS . Town Council has received sanction to borrow £350 for the purchase of a lorry. The cleansing comnaittee of BURNLEY...

Cylinder Lining for Worn Engine Blocks

Ayr DOI interest attaches to the cylinALder-lining process developed by the Sheepbridge Stokes Centrifugal Castings Co., Ltd.,...

News Items in Brief

Chelmsford Corporation is to install automatic traffic signals in Beddow Rd., and High St. A Paris concern is specializing in...

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A New Baico

articulated Semi-trailer Outfit Electrically Welded Frame Joints Enable Great Strength to be Combined with Lightness W ELL...

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A SINGLE-MOTOR TROLLEY-BUS

in service A FTER two or three years' experience with a fleet of eight six-wheeled 58-seater and 60seater trolley-buses a...

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The Latest B. and E.

Tipping Gear . A NEW hydraulic-tipping gear has recently been produced by Broadlow and Edwards, Ltd., Foundry Street, Bolton....

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

Railways Force Police Action. Further Condemnation of the RoadRail Report. Facilities for Night Servicing Progress Retarded by...

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Weight Saving in Bodybuilding

Novel Application of Lattice-girder Construction in Park Royal Passenger Bodies • NUMBER of interesting features A is to be...

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L.G.O.C. EXPERIMENTAL

with side engine mounting Advantages of Accessibility and Extra Seating Capacity Obtained by Mounting Enginegearbox Unit at...

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Speeding-up Farm Work

An Interesting Test Proves the Value of a Special System of Loading and Unloading O N the specialized cereal‘grovving...

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LONG-DISTANCE HAULAGE

—how it is affected by the report Recommendations in the Road-Rail Report for Exacting Supervision and Strict Operating...

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Special Bodies with Time-saving Fittings

T LIE purchase of a chassis carrying a body specially built for a certain class of work is not an economic proposition unless...

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MECHANIZED FARMING

to reduce costs The Need for an Increased Use of Power Appliances in Agriculture is Stressed by the Institute for Research in...

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An Interesting French Oil Engine

EXPERINIE:%.:TS of some importance ' in the oil-engine field are being made in Prance by the Societe Sebia, a concern that...

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Improved Bedfords

for passengers and goods Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., Announces Increased Power for Passengervehicle Engine, also Improved Lorry...

An Ingenious

hydro-electrically controlled Trailer Brake An Improved Form of Brake-operating Gear Developed by the LowLoading Trailer Co.,...

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An Attractive Oil-engined Pantechnicon

T HE experience of Kennards, Ltd., of Croydon, which is the proprietor of the well-known furniture removers, Batchelars of...

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Operating Aspects of PASSENGER TRANSPORT

LONDON BUS-SPEED CHANGE INVOLVES OPERATIONAL REORGANIZATION An Interesting Explanatory Statement Made by the L.G.O. Co., Ltd....

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FORTHCOMING EVENTS BEFORE THE COMMISSIONERS

Northern Scotland. AT the Aberdeen sitting on September 14th a number of applications by the Highland Transport Co., Ltd.,...

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LATEST NEWS FROM THE TRAFFIC AREAS .

ROAD-RAIL TICKETS IN GLASGOW AREA. AGREEMENT has been reached be tween the L.M.S. and L.N.E. Railway Companies and the Central...

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WHERE TO FIND HAULAGE BUSINESS

A Feature which Hauliers Find Helpful in Estimating and Anticipating Chances for Obtaining Contracts A S these notes are...

The Longest Pipe-line in the World— Britain's Part in Mighty Enterprise

B RUISH, American and French interests are concerned in rapid preparations that are now being made to start the construction...

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Problems of the

HAULIER and CARRIER T HERE are some tobacconists who put their customers' business before their own, I think that is a sound...

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Good Features in A Well-equipped Caravan

B ECAU of: market developing for the sale of ammercial-motor chassis for the purpose of private travel, .interest attaches to...

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Concealed Brake Rods

A Relsurri of Recently Published Patent Specifications T HE naine of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., appears in patent No. 378,164,...