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12th November 1948
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Co-operation in Selecting Municipal Vehicles

T HE Public Health and Municipal Engineering Congress and Exhibition, which is to be opened at Olympia on November 15, will be...

Passing Comments

Friendly Phrasing ofeliminating " official " New London TransY phraseolo g y in its notices port Notices . . to the public,...

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One Hears

The future on our roads visualized as "mobile houses chasing mobile shops," That the chief cause of antipathy to State...

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News of the Week

SENTINEL TO BUILD STEAMERS AGAIN: £400,000 ORDER S TEAM vehicles are again to be manufactured by Sentinel (Shrewsbury), Ltd....

Tilling-B.T.C. Agreements Signed A GREEMENTS for the sale of the

r troad passenger transport and road haulage undertakings of Thomas Tilling, Ltd., to the British Transport Commission have now...

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New Association : No Breakaway " S O far as I

am aware, there is no element of a breakaway movement." Mr. Cecil F. Pike, honorary secretary of the new Sheffield and District...

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Personal Pars

MR. J. F SOUHAMI has been appointed manager of Stramit Boards. Ltd., Stowmarket, Suffolk. MR, J. COURTNEY, M I. M M.INST.T.,...

In a Line or Two Lancashire United \ Transport and

Power Co., Ltd., proposes to change its title to Lancashire United Transport, Ltd. To discharge loans made to the former Road...

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Special Roads Bill Introduced

A N enabling Bill to authorize the construction of roads for the exclusive use of certain classes of traffic. including motor...

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40,000,000 Vehicles in U.S.A.

B Y the end of this year there are expected to be over 40,000,000 motor vehicles in the United States, or 17 per cent, more...

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The Cost of Refuse Collection

By H. Scott Hall, M.I.Mech.E., M.1.R.T.E. Comparable Figures for Pagefield Paragon and Paladin Vehicles, with Oiland...

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A New Refuse Trailer for Power Operation

T HIS week, Hendon Borough Council is initiating a scheme of refuse collection employing a total of nine Karrier Bantam...

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A One-make Fleet Feeds

Public Works Day by Day,_ Twenty Thames Tippers Transport Tons of Ballast from a Model Pit at Felthani, Middlesex By J. D....

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What is Required in a Refuse Collector?

Asks L. J. Cotton, M.I.R.T.E. I T is impossible to produce a . standard refuse-collection vehicle that will meet the...

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THE LATES FOR MUNIC VEHICLES 'AL WORK

T O municipal authorities, the Public Health and Municipal Engineering Congress and Exhibition, which will be opened at Olympia...

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Rubber Aids the Vehicle Designer T HEgrowing importance of the use

of rubber in engineering, and the problems attendant upon its applications, formed the subject of a paper read by Mr. S. W....

When the Personal Touch is Lost

" IN any manufacturing organization 'employing more than 1,500 to 1,600 people, one loses that personal touch which is so...

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ANOTHER ADVOCATE OF FOURYEARLY SHOWS

I SEE that suggestions have been made that commercial I vehicle exhibitions should be held at intervals of at least four years,...

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Logical Costing for TYRES

I HAVE from time to time laid down what I believe to he the proper procedure in recording tyre costs. I am not alone in...

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Novelty in Opposed Piston Engine Design

A Résumé of Recently Published Patent Specifications P ATENT No. 602,662 comes from H. Penwarden, and J. Kingcome,...