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12th January 1951
12th January 1951
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The Wrong Approach

Reorganization, Rather Than Makeshift, is the Solution to the Country's Tra nsport Problem A N objective approach to this...

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Passing Comments

Travel by Rail — COACH operators will be it's Quicker if it's cheered by a recent Possible incident in which the Railway...

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One Hears

'Thal jack-knife doors cut platform accidents. Oenials that C.D. heaters are to be fitted in A.R.P. huts. Of 2s. or more per...

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R.H.E. Reconsiders Revocations

IT is understood that a meeting of i the Road Haulage Liaison Conference, held last week, decided that co-operation between the...

Offer to Buy Cardiff Buses

A N offer to take over Cardiff Transport Department's 179 oil-engined buses has been made • by the Western Welsh Omnibus Co.,...

R.H.A. Will Not Commit Itself

A T a meeting lasting about 5f hours, the national council of the Road Haulage Association last week declined to adopt a...

Festival Tours: Blanket Objections

I T is the Railway Executive's policy to oppose all applications to operate coach tours to the Festival of Britain. This was...

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• Integration Causes Rail Strike

A THOUSAND employees of British Railways at St. Pancras station, London, came out on an unofficial strike on Monday against...

Railways Plead " C " Competition

A TTENTION was drawn to compei — k tition between the railways and C-licensees, when the court of inquiry into railway wage...

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German Production Doubled

G ERMAN automobile production doubled in 1950 and exceeded 300,000 units, about 30 per cent. of which were commercial vehicles,...

COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO MOTOR TRADE

jNTENDED as a guide to the new I entrant to the motor trade and as a handbook for the established company, "The Motor Trade,"...

Manchester-R.E. :Agreements

T HE Railway Executive has inviter! Manchester Corporation to enter into two agreements designed to settle. without resort to...

Men in the News

MR. W. H. FL , LLERLOY E has been appointed sales manager (repairs) of the Laystall Engineering Co., Ltd. MR. H. A. R. BINNEY,...

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P.M.T. Puts the Case for All Bus Operators

THE first bus company to point out to a Licensing Authority the effect of increased wages and higher prices for oil and tyres...

Mr, Nelson Supports Free Haulier

w E must not have areas left without long-distance transport if the Road Haulage Executive cannot do it and will not grant a...

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Farmers Worried About Permits

FARMERS in East Anglia are greatly I worried by the difficulties which may arise when permits are revoked. At a meeting of the...

Tours Approach Saturation Point

A FTER a conference with the objectors, the Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd., W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., and the Railway Executive,...

Unions Deman d Consultation

D EM ANDS were made last week by the unions representing employees in Manchester Transport Department that they should be...

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More Pay for • London Busmen

A N offer by London Transport Executive of a general pay increase of 7s. a week was accepted, last week, hy motorbus,...

NEW TRACTOR FOR HEAVY AIRCRAFT

T HE Ministry of Supply has placed a contract with David Brown Tractors, Ltd., Huddersfield, for the construction of a new...

No Concession on Contract Work

A PROPOSAL that three children rAshould be reckoned as two' idUlts, irrespective of the number of adults carried in the...

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18 BRITISH

B R1TAIN will again be strongly represented by 18 makes in the commercial-vehicle section of the 34th Brussels Show, which...

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All-round Improvements in the Lodekka

T HE 1951 version of the Lodekka bus made by the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., Bristol, has many improvements which...

A Spot-welding Hand Tool

WEIGHING only 19 lb., the P27 VI' welding pinchers made by Soudeuses Aro. 7, Rue de Bean), Paris, 3e, should prove of...

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The Cornmer Without a Stop

By L. J. COTTON, M.1.R.T.E. B ECAUSE of flooding, the proving ground at Farnborough was out of bounds when I tested the Commer...

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Cleansing Practice Up to Date

IUDENTS. members of health com mittees and even cleansing officers, will have good reason to thank Frank Flintoff,...

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Doors Reduce Passenger Accidents

THE article on the subject of passenger accidents, in I your issue dated December 22, made very interest ing reading I was,...

SLOWING-DOWN OTHER TRAFFIC

IN your issue dated December 8, a New Zealander, 1 Mr. J. H. McDonald, while praising our drivers, raised a point on which I...

WITH reference to the article in your issue dated "

December 22, dealing with accidents on passenger vehicles, the writer asks if it would be possible to reduce such accidents by...

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in. for Roads: S:400 m. for National Health

A NQTHER attack on the GovernrAment's policy of road maintenance and development was made recently by Maj. H. E. Aldington,...

Engine Knock

Li OW knock and pre-ignition differ was explained in a paper read at the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Automobile...

and Pre-ignition

A pre-igniter was designed in which the temperature of the pre-igniting surface could be measured. It consisted of art...

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Smalls Transport Needs Interworking T HE provision of a nation-wide smalls

service is a problem that must be faced by the Road Haulage Executive. Development officers may .. possibly have made plans for...

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Getting at the Facts

By JAN US C HAMPIONS of nationalized transport are prone to point out that free enterprise is free front at least one...

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The B.T.C.'s Inheritance of Folly

An Independent Expert Blames the Appeal Tribunal for the Bad Balance of the Country's Transport System. He Condemns the...

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I HAVE been asked to explain how figures given in "The

Commercial Motor" Tables of Operating Costs should be applied, but before doing so I shall mention some of the increases in...

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In a Line or Two

1 he S.M.T. premises in Trafalgar Square are to be moved to 298, Regent Street, London, W.I. The Hymatic Engineering Co.....

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Gear-hardening Technique

INDUCTION heating is ideal for gear 'hardening, beeause only the skin of the teeth is heated and' quenched, thus eliminating...