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11th September 1942
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Mr. Roosevelt Values Road Transport

T HE President of the United States of America, so unlike many of the higher authorities in Britain, is fully alive to the...

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Save the Small Haulier THE haulage business of this country

was virtu1 ally built up by the little man, who had, in the majority of cases, gained his experience with goods transport while...

Passing Comments

Efforts to be Made NAORE is being done to help to Improve Drivers' 1 in the feeding and accom Comfort modation of drivers. In...

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One Hears

" Tanks a lot," from the Russians. • That research arises from the knowledge of lack of knowledge. That in the United States...

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Restrictions Against Free Lifts

T HE • fact that it is not always advisable to give free lifts on commercial vehicles must be recognized. The vehicles may be...

No Rubber May Be Wasted

N OW it is an offence to distribute or throw away any waste rubber, and quite apart from the matter of any penalty which may be...

Consolidation of Loads in Transit

I T has been reported that a certain concern of aerodrome contractors is insisting on full calibrated measure on delivery at...

NO NATIONAL SUGAR-BEET RATES AGREEMENT

T HE negotiations between the National Farmers - Union and hauliers interested in the transport Of sugar beet were concluded on...

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CENTRAL BOARD ISSUES NEW WAGES PROPOSALS

TUST issued by the Road - Haulage jCentral Wages Board is R.II.11, which contains the latest proposals for higher wages for...

Special Insurance for Corn-harvest Hauliers

AOTOR-VEHICLE insurers have 11flagreed to special arrangements for insurance cover for the carriage of farm workers on goods...

Wallasey's Experimental Work on Fuels

IN an address at Wallasey, Mr. H. B. 1 Holliday, gas engineer and manager to Wallasey Corporation, discussed the value of...

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BIG INTERESTS IN BATTERY. VEHICLE CONCERN

A N indication of the importance which is being placed upon the future of battery-electric vehicles is given by the...

Sugar-Beet Rates fixed in Three Areas

A GREEMENT has been reached in three areas regarding the charges to be made for the haulage of sugar beet during the...

Further Restrictions on Road Travel

S I-IOCK after shock is being experienced by those whose business—We will not speak of pleasure in.these days —has hitherto...

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LONDON TRANSPORT'S APPEAL TO HOP-PICKERS

B ECAUSE of the more pressing demands for war workers transport elsewhere, it has not been possible, this year, to provide the...

STANDARDIZATION OF GAS-BAG FILLING CONNECTIONS

F ILLING valves and hose connections for vehicles equipped with gas bags are the subject of a new specification issued by the...

Students and Instructors of Driving Need This Book

A LTHOUGH pleasure motoring in this country is a thing of the past, many thousands of men and women are being trained as...

Page 24

The Forces Programme for Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

T HIS month sees the formation of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, a body which is the outcome of lengthy...

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Value of British and Russian Timbers for Van and Lorry Bodies

Characteristics of Some of the Woods that are Available and Suitable for the Construction and Maintenance of Commercial-motor...

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PROBLEMS THAT CON CATE MILK HAULAGE

three tables accompanying this article give addi tional actual details of milk-hattlage operations. They further emphasize...

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Depregsion Caused by Maladministration

Some Losses of Road Traffic Must be Expected to Result From Restrictions on Manufacture, Zoning of Production and Delivery, and...

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Finding Flaws by "Black Light"

In the "Glow-Crack" System Fluorescent Solution Retained in Crevices and Crannies Becomes Brightly Luminous Under the...

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Sound Ideas in U.S.A.

Producer-gas Plant I F gas-producer engineers are to be allowed, or (better) encouraged, to continue. doing•research,...

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Radio as the Driver's Only Link with Home

R ADIO apparatus that enables drivers to keep in touch with their depot, often several hundred miles away, is carried on all...

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Rationalization of U.S.

Distribution Under Way Overlapping Delivery Systems By are Wasteful, so War-time George H. Scragg Revisions in Great Britain...

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The Position of Drivers in the Home Guard

T HE first and most important thing to be said about the service of transport drivers in the Home Guard is that it raises a...

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Lorry Attachment for Snow Ploughing

WHILE daily shade VV temperatures are keeping up to those standards -commonly associated with an English summer, it seems...