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Operators, Defend Yourselves !

T HE position regarding Threat of Furl the future of commercial road transport is Should Induce tense. We are sufficiently op...

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Passing Comments

A Graphic Method of HE means• adopted by the Comparing Modern 1 Dunlop company , to call Perils attention in a dramatic way...

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One Hears

Of a school on a trailer. That a general speed limit of 25 m.p.h. is to be enforced in New York, U.S.A. That following the...

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THE POSITION OF IDENTITY CERTIFICATES.

As a result of a representation made by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, the Minister of Transport intends to...

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Court Asks Authority to Apologize

IN a judgment read in Lanark Sheriff • Court, last Friday, Sheriff Wilton, K.C., severely criticized the Licensing Authority....

Coal Delivery Affected by Shops Act

I T is expected that Sheffield traders will be affected by the decision of the city magistrates in a case—said to be the first...

"Unknown"

Railway Service Surprise A N " unknown " road service by railway companies was revealed in Manchester, last week, when Mr. W....

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APPEAL TRIBUNAL HAS OPEN MIND.

A sidelight on the work of the Appeal Tribunal was afforded during an appeal hearing, at York; last week. When Mr. F. G....

Should B-Licensee Work for A-Licensee?

QITTING at York, last week, the Appeal Tribunal remitted to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority for rehearing a case in which the...

Rail Monopoly Through Road Associate " r fIS means that the

railway companies have 'a. road 'monopoly through their associated company." Mr. Henry Backhouse made this comment on meeting...

Hawker Formula Justifies Extra 95

Tons C tiEcK formulie were submitted to the North-Western Deputy Licensing Authority by Mr. Henry Backhouse, Jun., at...

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Meeting The Craving For Milk

Brief Details of the Lister Petrol-engined Auto-Truck Mobile Milk Bar with Refrigerating Plant A PARTICULARLY interesting and...

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How Road and Rail Rates Compare

I T is not possible, in a short article, to enter into the complex problem of what rates should be charged for road transport,...

Boycott the Blackleg

THERE is no apparent decrease in I the number of unauthorized vehicles operated for hire or reward and the hauliers concerned...

Capt. E. H. B. Palmer, O.B.E.

this is the business of everyone in the haulage industry. The hirer should be informed in no mistaken terms that he is a party...

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Mobile Mixing Units for

Concrete MO fewer than 24 A.E.0 Monarch N.Vehicles • will soon be associated with an enterprise which, representing a...

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1936 WHAT NEXT?

G OODS vehicles up by 12,859. Hackneys advance by 1,196. Does that suggest stagnation? Does it imply that saturation point has...

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Fire Insurance on Garages : Vital Ruling

I N the King's Bench Division, last Friday, Mr. Justice MacKinnon held that an insurance company is not entitled to repudiate...

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Market Research Evident in

New Garner Models A S a result of a close investigation AS the requirements of goodsvehicle operators, Garner Motors, Ltd.,...

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Specialized Servi( the Keynote of

POTTERY RANSPORT T HE transport of pottery, tiles, earthenware and china is divided into two main classes—for export and for...

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Collect Those Old Debts Now!

I F everybody observed the motto, " Pay and be Paid," there would be no need for articles on debt collecting, but in this...

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What the Associations

Are Doing on the question of the local association versus the national association, between Mr. Frank Tunnacliffe, secretary...

Stamp Speech Misleading, Says A.RO.

THAT the statement made by Sir I Josiah Stamp concerning road transport, in his recent speech, was, in many respects....

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Hauliers Cannot Be Common Carriers T HE answer to the continual

cry of the railways that road transport could pick and choose its traffic was that, because of restrictions, it was impossible...

SOUTH WALES C.M.U.A. STABILIZING CONTRACT RATES.

The C.M.D.A. South Wales Division is pursuing a practical policy of assisting road operators. A schedule of agreed prices for...

An Experimental Independent Suspension Scheme

R U.BBER in compression and torsion is ingeniously employed in a new system of independent rear-wheel suspension, the invention...

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OPINIONS

and QUERIES IMPROVING PASSENGER TRANSPORT IN LONDON. 1.4993] The main objection to the suggestion made in letter No. 4976...

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Valeting Vehicles By Conveyor

Manchester Concern Introduces Conveyor System by which Light Vehicles may be Serviced in Half an Hour A N interesting new...

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Operating Aspects of

PASSENGER TRANSPORT S HOULD operators of express services to London take passengers at excursion rates for the Coronation...

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HUGE SCOTTISH BUS STRIKE

T HE wages question affecting the workers of the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., Western S.M.T. 'Co.,. Ltd., Central S.M.T....

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North Staffs Transport Bill Fails

By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent ro Wednesday evening last week the 'L./House of Commons threw out the North...

Road Transport

Topics In Parliament I T was too late, observed Colonel Wedgwood, to say that local authorities were incapable of managing...

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A Straussler Four-wheel-drive Vehicle

THERE is a distinct suggestion of 1 Continental practice in a patent, Nu. 460,465, by N. Straussler and Straussler...