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11th February 1930
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Travel by Road— BY THE EDITOR THE passenger-vehicle industry—and in this

term we include both the operators and builders of road motors—whilst not as yet so large as that concerned with the carriage...

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LOOSE LEAVES

O NE of the experts connected with the production of Firestone tyres has mentioned in a technical paper that every inch...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY "The wheels of wealth will be slowed

by all difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the roughness of the roads over which it...

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IN A LINE OR TWO

Wallasey Corporation is preparing a scheme for a change-over from tramways to motorbuses or trolley-buses, within the next five...

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MUNICIPAL PURCHASES AND PROPOSALS

Dennis Bros., Ltd., is to SuPPIY 'Yortli Corporation with an ambulance costing £555. The fire-brigade committee of BOLTON...

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Why the LEGAL WEIGHT LIMIT OF THE DOUBLE-DECKER Should be Raised

TT is difficult to conceive any good reason why, with the same type of vehicle, an extra weight of three tons for the carrying...

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BUS TRAVEL IN THE 'EIGHTIES

When Driver and Conductor were a Law unto Themselves. The High Status of the "Regular" By WALTER GROVES, Editor, The Motor....

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Technical Tendencies in

ENGINE DESIGN The First Instalment of an Article Revealing the Manner in Which Experience of Shortcomings of Past Types is...

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An Electrically Driven Washing Plant

I N most up-to-date passenger - vehicle garages high-pressure washing plant is essential if efficiency and economy are to be...

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Some Suggestions for

LUGGAGE DISPOSAL on Saloon Vehicles T "problem of constructing a pa ssenger-carrying * body is not so complicated if seats...

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HE PUBLIC'S

RELIANCE ON TRANSPOR1 Y ROAD ITIHE amenities of the modern social fabric are almost entirely dependent upon good and cheap...

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PROGRH,SS IN

CHASSIS D ET A I L DESIGN Features of Modern Passenger-vehicle Construction Which Give Improved Performance at Reduced Cost...

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The Possibilities of

THE S SE VATION SALOON COACH D URING recent years the motor coach has made rapid strides in popularity, particularly as a...

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CONSTRUCTIONAL JFEA UR IN

• US-BODY UILDING Notes Upon the Main Factors in the Design of the Up-to-date Service-bus Body T HE average bus body is of...

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Pio GRESS IN THE PASSE'

GE ANSP RT INDUST 1°: THE POSITION AND P OSPECTS W E have begun to think nationally on the subject of passenger transport....

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WHAT THE NEXT DECADE MAY WITNESS in Itodywork • evelopment

A I.THOUGH steam road coaches Cl. were, for a brief period, 100 years ago, running in this country, and despite the fact that...

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THE MEN EHIND THE DESIGNS

(Portraits of the officials referred to below are published on pages 971 and 972.) Mr. B. P. Turner, M.I.A.E., the chief...

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LONDON'S LATEST

DOUBLE-DECK Bus A New Four-wheeled 49-seater Vehicle, Having Special Rapidloading Facilities and an Emergency Exit for the...

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UNDER THE ROAD TRAFFIC ACT

By EDWARD S. SHRAPNELL - SMITH, C.B.E. T HE future of the Road Traffic Bill itself remains somewhat "in the lap of the gods,"...

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The Search for EFFICIENCY

A Commentary Upon the Remarkable Manner in Which Research Work is Aiding the Improve. ment of the Modem Passenger Vehicle TT...

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Lubrication by Vibration

I N the past vibration has been regarded merely as a destructive force serving no good purpose. Now Tecalemit, Ltd., Mitre...

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WHY TYRES WEAR

T HE tendency of heavy-vehicle users consistently to load their transport media beyond their rated capacity is one to which we...

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The Pros and Cons of *

THE HEAVY-OIL ENGINE rilHERE are nowadays very few com mercial enterprises which are so profitable that the question of...

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A Travelling Laboratory for Fuel and Oil

O NE of the most important branches of the work of a large oil company is research into the qualifications of various classes...

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The Field for BRITISH BUSES IN UNDEVELOPED COUNTRIES

T HERE is a tremendous market overseas for British road passengervehicles, yet it cannot be denied that there exists amongst...

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How the Railways are Developing Road-passenger Services

W HAT a relief it must be to op erators, municipal authorities and manufacturers — even t o the Government itself —that the...

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Luxury in Passenger-vehicle Seating A IR. at comparatively low pressure above

that of the atmosphere can give a remarkable degree of insulation from shock, and, provided the container in which it is housed...

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SERVING 280 MILES OF LOCAL ROUTES

R DECENTLY a well-known motorcoach proprietor paid a visit to Vnited States of America to study transport conditions in that...

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THE COACH STATION

As an Essential for Long distance Operation W HAT a lot of regular long-distance coach services there are of the type that...

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• Don't Spoil the Vehicle for a Ha'p'orth of Wood

Notes on Some Woods which, by Reason of their Inherent Properties, are Admirably Suitable for Promoting Decorative Effects on...

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Road-Transport Activities IN PARLIAMENT

The Road Traffic Bill. The Latest French Tariff Bills. The McKenna Duties. L AST Tuesday the Rouse of Lords gave a third...

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THE TROLLEY BUS

as the Sole Public-transport Medium IN IPSWICH

Describing How a Mixed Fleet of 30-seater Machines is Undertaking

the Transport of Over Eleven Million Passengers Per Annum at a Profit I N 1923 began the displacement of the trams in Ipswich...

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Devices for Ventilating Passenger Vehicles

Brief Descriptions of Types of Ventilator which are on the Market ASSENGER-VEIIICLE operators ,E cannot fail to realize the...