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11th December 1936
11th December 1936
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The Tractor Forges Ahead

Mechanization of Agriculture is Proceeding Apace. Better Products Never Before Offered T 0 plough the fields and scatter...

Investigate This Persecution

G LARING examples of the abuse of their powers by magistrates in inflicting harsh penalties upon commercial-vehicle drivers...

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Railways Cutting Their Own Throats

I T seems that "agreed charges "—one of the strongest weapons of the railways against roadtransport competition—may have a...

Silent Control Must Go!

M AGISTRATES are not, as a rule, particularly partial to road operators, but even they have been shocked by the silent-control...

P assing Comments A German Official L'OR the testing of roadScheme

for Testing 1 vehicle-lighting system's a Vehicle Lighting . . specially equipped hall in Berlin is now available from Monday...

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AN IMPORTANT ELECTRICVEHICLE MERGER.

We have already referred in our financial columns to the new company formed under the title of Associated Electric ' Vehicle...

Yorkshire A.R.O.

Against Merger A RESOLUTION opposing an association merger on present terms was passed at a general meeting of members of the...

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SEASONAL INCREASES OF DRIVERS' HOURS.

'The Minister of Transport has made an Order varying the hours of drivers of C-licence vehicles during Christmas and the New...

Huge Growth in Parcels Business

QCTIEDULES showing a remarkable growth in the business of Red Arrow Deliveries, Ltd., Were submitted to the West Midland...

A.E.C. Chairman Calls for New Roads Policy A T the annual

general meeting of the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., held on Monday last, Mr. C. W. Reeve, the chairman, said that the...

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OFFER TO SACRIFICE BUSINESS • FOR RAIL POSTS.

" If you will give my sons work on the railway, I am prepared to give up the lorries." That was the offer made by a South...

Conviction in Contentious Case

W/HEN, last week, the Barnsley West W Riding magistrates, following an order of the High Court, convicted the Houghton Main...

"No Right of Choice Exists"

A PPLICATIONS by a number of long-distance hauliers for the renewal of A licences were continued, at Leeds, last week, before...

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PERSONAL PARS.

Mn. P. E. BIGGAR, late chief engineer of Leyland Motors, Ltd., is now attached to the Yellow Coach engineering department of...

N.M.U. Application Ends on Sixth Day

I--/ URING the fifth day's hearing, last Friday, of the application by Northern Motor Utilities, Ltd.. for the renewal of A...

Municipal Purchases and Proposals

East Ham Corporation is buying a Pattison. Bedford tractor. Oldham Corporation has indented for 12 Leyland Titan mlers....

An Efficient C.A.V.-Bosch Cast Fog Lamp

A CAST aluminium fog lamp, known as the PS type, has been designed by C.A.V. Bosch, Ltd., Acton, London, W.3, especially for...

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ALLEGED SHORTAGE OF VEHICLES DISPUTED.

The Yorkshire Licensing Authority has refused to allow Messrs. Holiday's Garage, Pickering/ to acquire an extra A-licence...

The Future of the Tractor

An Authority Discusses Various Aspects of Mechanized Farming and Traces the History and Progress of the Tractor T HE past,...

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A Streamlined 1-ton Electric Van

The 1937 Programme of the Erewash Concern Includes a Light Model with Some New Ideas, Including a Sliding DOM' at the Front of...

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Smithfield Show Reveals Prosperity in the Tractor Trade

• Several Newcomers, Many innovations in Design. A Wide Variety of Distinctive T yes of Machine Represented at an Important...

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Using a Pass Book to

Check Costs I HAVE recently received a good many questions concerning depreciation. There were several at my meeting in...

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A.R.O. Chairman Replies to Left wing Statement

Major J. B. Elliott Alleges that "Many of the Material Statements Contained in the Letter are Misleading and Untrue" A REPLY,...

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Railway "Big Guns" in Action

in Bouts-Tillotson Appeal Metropolitan Licensing Authority Said to Have Applied Wrong Principle. Should Suitable Facilities...

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WHAT can BRITISH ROAD TRA SPORT LEARN from AMERICA?

L ORD NORTHCLIFFE is reported to have said to a young man visiting the United States : "Don't forget that immediately you leave...

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Road Transport Topics

In Parliament By Our Special . Parliamentary Correspondent 1,000 RAIL QUESTIONS TO LICENCE APPLICANT. T HE Minister of...

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New. Analysis of Goods Transport

I N Great Britain there are 215,368 . holders of carriers' licences, owning 460,016 vehicles. The Metropolitan Area has the...

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Better Type of Biscuit Delivery Van

Improved Appearance and Utility Combine to Increase the Value of a New Type of Body Adopted by a Leading Biscuit Maker T WO...

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LATEST DENNIS LANCET OILER OWERS CO \SUMPTJOY RECORD

Over 19 Miles Covered on One Gallon of Fuel by a Five-speed 35-seater. New Direct-injection Engine Almost as Smoothrunning and...

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What the Associations are Doing

London Division; New Committee. At a meeting of the London and Home Counties Divisional Committee of the C.M.U.A., on Monday,...

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SIX BODIES FOR ONE CHASSIS

I T is not always possible for an operator quickly to make up his mind as to the type of body that he requires and he may wish...

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TRADE UNIONS SUPPORT - FANTAILS" A LARMED at the possibility of workers

losing the opportunity of taking holidays by way of fantail tours, trade unions in the North are investigating the matter, with...

News in Brief

Rotherham Corporation is to promote a Bill ir. the 1936-37 Session of Parliament, seeking extended trolleybus powers. Moscow...

• YORKSHIRE TOUR FARES REVISION

THE Yorkshire Traffic Commis1 sioners have • published their proposals for the revision of fares for excursions and tours,...

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NEW LANCASHIRE BOARD PLAN

wILL the scheme for the establishWV ment of a municipal passengertransport board in south-east Lancashire and Cheshire be...

RIGID CONDITIONS ON BUS SIZE FAIL

T IIE Minister of Transport has announced his decision in the appeal of London Transport against 'conditions as to the size of...

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A.R.O. Left Wing Renews Attack

Warm Sallies Against " the Constitution" Contained in Anti-merger Appeal A TRENCHANT statement issued I – % on Wednesday...

Vehicle Run Under Two Licences

A CONTENTION that a vehicle was being run under two licences was made at Liverpool, when Mr. C. Alexander, Old Ford Road,...

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Financial News of the Industry

NEW COMPANIES. B. and E. Hydraulic Hoists, Ltd.—Private company. Reg. Nov. 30. Nom. cap. £100 in £1 shares. To acquire the...

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A Brake-power Limiting Device

A Resume of Recently Published Patent Specifications That Are Obtainable From the Patent Office, Price is. Each 'ROM Bendix,...