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10th March 1939
10th March 1939
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Road and Rail Joint Views O NE would require almost the

qualifications of a Lewis Carroll adequately to describe the impressions of the luncheon, given at Grosvenor House last Tuesday...

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Passing Comments

Thanks to a . Lorry WE should like to thank a Driver for a Timely VY lorry driver for giving us Warning timely warning of...

One Hears—

Of a species called p.s.v. litter-bug. Of red herrings in the Northern Traffic Court That Miss Carriload has a somewhat hefty...

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RAIL AND ROAD LEADERS AT LUNCHEON.

L AST Tuesday marked a memorable vent in the history of road and rail negotiations, when leaders of both sides lunched at...

In the Maze at Waterloo

IF you are in the habit of visiting Waterloo railway station you will have an opportunity of looking around the railways'...

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Transit Insurance Notes

TOWING ANOTHER VEHICLE rOMMERCIAL VEHICLE I....policies do not, normally, covet the use of a trailer, which invariably entails...

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Road Transport Takes a Back Seat at the Institute Dinner

O NE usually comes away from the annual dinner of the Institute of Transport feelingthat road-transport interests have not been...

Further Progress of Transport Defence Plans Revealed I N an address on the Ministry of

Transport's scheme for defence, at a Wakefield meeting of operators, last week, Major F. S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing...

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"The Commercial Helpful Part in Motor" Plays Court Case A COPY

of The Commercial Motor was produced for the defence and was taken by the magistrates when they retired to consider their...

Agricultural "Producer and Dealer" Controversy

O F wide potential importance to all agriculturists who operate commercial vehicles is a decision recently taken at Southampton...

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Road Transport Topics in Parliament

By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent NATIONAL EMERGENCY MEASURES. L AST week the Minister of Transport gave the House...

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Two Stroke or Four Stroke?

An Acknowledged Authority Analyses the Facts and Gives theTechnicalReasons Why the Apparent Advantage of the Two-stroke Cycle...

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FINANCIAL WIS )1\4 FOR THE SMALL HAULIER

Solving the Problems of the Carrier The Difference is Not Very Great Between Profit and Loss for the Small Haulier. Factors...

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Can the Railways Be Trusted?

Yes? or --No? The Idea of a Road and Rail Agreement is Satisfactory enough, but Sincerity will have to be Behind any Such Move...

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My Advice Is Honour the Agreement

An Open Letter to the Rank and File of the Road-haulage Industry by " S.T.R." I HAVE, as I *rite just come from 1 the meeting...

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WEIGHT AND SPE]

the fundamental principles of econom; ransport In This Specially Contributed . the Writer• Shows How the Ra Lacking in Vision,...

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Rail Evidence "Dirty, Say Fish Hauliers

C OMPLAINTS against the London and North-Eastern Railway Co. of "spying on road hauliers" and "using dirty evidence " were made...

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Van-body Features that Help in Speeding Up Deliveries

How a Bodybuilder, Working in Close Cooperation With the Operator, Evolves Designs of Maximum Efficiency I these days of...

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A Million Miles a Year on Goods Haulage

Oil-engined Machines That Require "Tops' Overhauls Only After Each 30,000 Miles. Maintenance Costs Lower Than For Petrol...

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STRIKE THREAT IN SCOTLAND

A STRIKE of bus workers is threatened in Scotland as a result of the dispute which has arisen between the Scottish Motor...

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THE BEDFORD AND THE SC/ 4MELL PROVE WELL MATED

A New Bedford-Scammell Quick-coupling Articulated 8-tonner is Found to be a Fast, Economical and Roadworthy Outfit. Tractive...

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Henschel Introduces Producer-gas Roller Wood Blocks Form Fuel for Converted

Oilengine Power Unit T HE Henschel road roller, of which the accompanying illustration gives a good impression, has been...

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What the Associations are Doing

JOINT MEETING HEARS DEFENCE-PLAN DETAILS. For nearly two hours last week members of the A.R.O., C.M.U.A. and Liverpool Cart...

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An Industry Different—and Better O UR industry offers services differing in

kind from anything which has been given before. It can do so, because it has no fear of the future, no fear whatever. We look...

Internal Dissension on Merger Plan

A HIGHLIGHT of the largely attended annual supper, last week, of the Plymouth Sub-area of A.R.O. was the outspoken declaration...

PROPOSED ROAD-RAIL LINK UNECONOMIC?

Why. should the authorities endeavour to anchor the most modern and economical form of transport to one that was a product of...

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What the Associations

are Doing—continued HOW HIRE CARS AFFECT COACH OPERATION. The damaging effect of fleets of new private hire-cars on the work...

When Exceptional Rates are Justified

VEHICLES used in the conveyance V of building material, and in sand and gravel haulage, farmed one of the subjects discussed at...

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Fuel Injection Without a Highpressure Pump

A Resume of Patent Specifications That Have Recently Been Published A NOVEL and ingenious injection system is disclosed in...