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10th January 1941
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Can Army Vehicles Help?

I T would be interesting to know exactly what objections can be lodged against the, at least occasional, employment of suitable...

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Passing Comments

Exceptional Overload ik AN Y readers must have but Margin of Safety LYI observed with interest a Enough current advertisement...

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One Hears—

That the small haulier is as important as any other mickle that main a muckle. That "full steam ahead" may have a more...

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Manchester Pools Merger Will Avoid Overlapping

MEGOTIATIONS, we learn, have I. "been completed for the merging of the two Manchester traffic pools—the Manchester Imports...

80 Per Cent. of Fruit Transport Off the Road "

C ONTROL of the fruit trade has hit its interests so badly in Scotland, according to an official of the Edinburgh Retail Fruit...

Weight Concession and Reserved Age of Drivers

A IIIFFICULTY which might have arisen in connection with the new regulations bringing vehicles of 3-ton unladen weight within...

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PRESENTATION TO A.R.O. SUB-AREA CHAIRMAN THE South Derbyshire Sub-Area or

1 the East Midland Area of Associated Road Operators recently presented its chairman, Mr. W. G. Cooper, with a cocktail...

New Regulations Affecting Vehicles Using Stored Gas

D E'RIBED as "The Motor Vehicles (Gas Container) (Amendment) (No. 2) Provisional Regulations, 1940," new regulations relating...

S.T.R. Did Not Do Wrong

F ROM correspondence received since the appearance in our issue dated December 20 of the article "Did S.T.R. Do Wrong?" it...

Tar Oils as Motor Fuel

A SCHEME designed to promote the use, as fuels for commercial-motor vehicles, of certain coal-tar oils, such as creosote and...

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Icy Roads Must Not Hold Up War-time Transport

A LETTER stressing that the quick and effective gritting of frostbound roads and the prompt clearance of snow is a direct and...

Interesting Test of Dustbin Collection

riROM Lewin Road Sweepers, Ltd.,, comes news of an interesting test of a 10/20 C.R.C. Thornycroft dustbincollecting vehicle...

Technical Officers Required for R.A.F.

V ACANCIES still exist in the R.A.F. for technical officers for employment on engineering, armament, and signal duties. The...

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Promising Contribution to Nation', lood Productivity

A BOUT 30 years have elapsed since the original introduction into agriculture of the practice of mounting the implement on the...

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Operating Aspects of Passenger Transport

ALL BUS DRIVERS NOW RESERVED L AST week it was announced by the Ministry of Labour that all men with current permits or...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

Folly and Mummery of Government Policy W E are indeed indebted to you for your, outspoken articles exposing the folly and...

Precautions Necessary With Creosote Fuels

W ITH reference to the introduction by the Govern ment on January 24 of " measures to encourage the wider use of tar oils...

Should Passenger Transport Be Free?

VOUR recent note on the question" Should Passenger Transport Be Provided Free? interested me greatly, as it has been one of my...

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WILL THE FU EVER BE S OF TO-DAY SPLACED?

I F 147,000 out of 465,000 goods vehicles went electric, or tried to do so, what would be the attitude of the goods-vehicle...

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Solving the Problems The Simplest Way of of the Carrier

Keeping Costs Records T ' AKE another look at the accompanying specimen page from The Commercial Motor Operating Costs Record;...

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Preservation of Established• Rights Vital to Passenger Operators

/ N times of emergency it is inevitable that recognized services of all kinds may occasionally be suspended. In many parts...

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Twin Wheel Incorporating

A Resume of Recently Published a Differential THE stresses arising J. between large twin wheels during cornering are...