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12th January 1945
12th January 1945
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The Problem of Costs and Rates

T HE success or failure ot any form of transport depends, to a large degree, if not solely, upon the proper balancing of its...

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Passing Comments

Works May Benefit from New Fuel Concession . . . 0 WING to the seriousness of the coal situation, the Ministry of Fuel and...

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One Hears

Wishes and hopes for a happy " news" year. That in 40 . years the V.S.A. has built or improved 300,000 miles of roads. That...

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News of the Week

LATEST LIST OF ASSOCIATION OFFICIALS T HE executive officers of the National Road Transport Federation are:—Director, Mr. F. G....

Improving Taxi Owners Representation

EE ARLY last year a number of London's taxicab fleet pebprietors with progressive views formed the Taxi Fleet Operators...

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P.T.A. Plans for Education in Transport

UTAKING the youth of Britain more 1Vitransport-minded, and providing better educational facilities which will assist the...

Personal Pars

MR. A, HALES, director of W. A. Bates, Ltd., Leicester, has retired. When he became a director in 1918, a position which he...

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A Haulier Looks Back Over 1944

A Critical Review of the Outstanding Events of the Past Year as Seen Through the Eyes of a Practical Haulier By E. B. Howes,...

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HAULIERS RESPONSIBLE FOI )OR AFTER-SALES SERVICE?

• By A. E. O'Halloran, M.I.M.T. I HAVE read with some interest your report of the speech by S.T.R. to the Seddon company's...

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Thermal Efficiency Simply Explained

Why the Oil Engine Scores Over the Petrol Engine in Respect of Power Output for Fuel Consumed, The Relationship Between Heat...

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Aircraft Practice Applied

to Body Construction B EING in need of a lightweight body of large capacity, and unable to obtain any satisfaction in respect...

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Bonded Rubber-to-Metal Couplings

for the suppression of torsional vibration By F. Sumner ) . A.E. I N a previou s article, published in " The Commercial...

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National Certificates for Servicing

A SATISFACTORY step in the direction of improving the status of craftsmen engaged in the engineering side of the motor-vehicle...

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Operating Cabs, Hire Cars Solving the

Problems of and "Drive Yourself" Vehicles rhe Carrier Some General Observations on the Matter of Hire Cars with Preliminary...

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A Special-purpose Cattle Carrier

'THE special-purpaee body shown on i the Bedford 5-ton net which appears in an accompanying illustration, was built for Mr....

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Farewell,. But Not Good-bye!

• The Metropolitan Area of A.R.O. and the London and Home. Counties Division, C.M.U.A., Celebrate New Unityat Luncheons in...

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Increasing Turbulence in Petrol Engines

A COMB! !STIoN head, desi g ucal ith a view to promoting controlled .1 turb ulence, is .disclosed in patent • No. 565,394, by...