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Special Features of this Issue

17th May 1935, Page 24
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One of tile papers read at the Furniture Warehousemen and Removers. Association Conference deals with organized opposition to "spare-time" removers. Page 466.

The National Wages Board hos graded the Yorkshire Area.

We include digests of papers of road-transport interest at the Liverpool Conference of the Industrial Transport Association.

Details are given of a Fordson with a new wheelbase-and

frame extension by Pullmore Sixwheelers, Ltd. Page 470.

A technical article treats with ways and means for lightening

chassis. Page 472. The Scammell concern has built a new 400-750-gallon fire pdrivei). for Watford. It has six speeds and epicyc/ic final Page 474.

New showrooms and an all-night repairs-service depot have

been built by Cox and Co. ( Leeds) Ltd. Page 476.

American road transport is now facing restrictive legislation designed to help the railways. Page 477.

Our road-test report concerns a Bedford 3-loaner converted to carry 6 tons by adding a Unipower four-wheel-driven bogie.

S.T.R. discusses the problem of rate stabilization and how the oiler and large vehicle affect the situation.---Page 486. ALL over the country meetings are being held to advance the claim for the continuance of State assistance for the sugar-beet industry, it being considered that the cessation of production here would have a disastrous effect on agriculture and cause a great increase in unemployment. Appeals are being made from these meetings for measures to be adopted to secure production of sugar-beet as a vital section of our home-grown food supplies.

IN connection with the Royal Jubilee, several interI esting films are to be seen reviewing the major events during the past 25 years. That we have short memories is evidenced by the surprise one feels at seeing again important items in recent history and noting the effect they had upon our lives at the time. Doubtless many members of Parliament will see one or other of these films, and we would draw to their special attention those scenes depicting the general strike of 1926. No greater evidence of the value of wad transport could be required, and these scenes should do much to convince our legislators of the need for encouraging the use of motor vehicles, as being in the highest interests of the country.

THE transport committee of Burton-on-Trent Corporation has asked the watch committee to endeavour to prevent the practice of cyclists riding three and more abreast. This is an action which will he commended by all motor users and particularly by the drivers of lorries and buses, to whom delay on the road is a serious matter. It is a practice condemned in the new Highway Code.

T"situation regarding the proposed merging of several associations of commercial-vehicle operators into a national association is not clear. The Road Haulage Association and the Motor Hirers and Coach Services Association announced the breaking off of negotiations, but, at that time, the Commercial Motor Users' Association claimed that it had not been officially advised of this move. Now, however, an emergency meeting of the finance and general purposes committee of the C.M.U.A, has been convened for Monday next to consider the replies that have been received from the other two associations to the proposals of the national council of the C.M.U.A. on the subject of closer relationship with other national organizations.


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