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13th September 1946
13th September 1946
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The \X% to Success U NLIKE some of the creative occupations,

road transport offers no rapid way to success for those who seek to make careers. Recognition of administrative talent is...

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Tell the Public

COMPLAINTS about the inadequacy of bus services comprise a substantial proportion of the correspondence now being published in...

Passing Comments

New Hydraulic Trans TRIALS are being made in mission System Tried A Detroit with an all-hydraulic in U.S.A transmission system...

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News of the Week

THE LAI iST ON LICENSING A LL Road Transport Commissioners are moving gradually towards a return to the pre-war licensing...

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A Case Against Nationalization

TRANSPORT, although an important 1 industry, can be more precisely described as a secondary industry, because it is not...

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Personal Pars,

MR. A. G. SHAW has been appointed manager of the Exeter branch of the British Wagon Co., Ltd. SIR ROBERT E. MARRIOTr, B.Sc.....

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PROSPERITY DEPENDS ON NEW " MOTORWAYS" . • " IT

is vital for the prosperity not only I of the manufacturing areas of the industrial North, but also for the great agricultural...

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Transport in Russia To - day /HAT is the position of road

transIT port in Russia to-day and what is the lot of drivers and other personnel, as compared with their opposite numbers in...

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Light Bus Trailers in Fiance

A N article on the French commercial vehicle industry, published in our issue dated August 2, referred to the prospective use...

Financial News of the Industry

NEW COMPANIES Dodds (Coaches), Ltd.—Private company. Reg, in Edinburgh, August 17. Cap, £40,000 in ft ordinary shares. To...

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Sliding Doors Prevent Theft of Goods

Interesting Developments of Thomas Tilling, Ltd., Include the Manufacture of All-metal Light-alloy Bodies O NE of the...

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New Container Cuts Handling Costs

I N the transport of certain types of load the use of containers materially reduces the time taken in general handling,...

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WHAT A BUYER 0 FRANSPORT WANTS

By Gel ssenden A Traffic Controller of Long Traffic Requirements of a 7 Co-ordination of ice States Frank Views on the nd...

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Problems Solved by Oil Technologists By J. E. Southcombe, M.Sc.,

F.Inst.Pet. (Director, Germ s Lubricants, Lid.) D URING World War No. I, Wells and Southcombe showed that the lubricating...

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Passenger Transport News

UNECONOMIC—BUT WORKMEN'S FARES MUST STAY LOW A N application by Coventry Corporation to increase workmen's return bus fares by...

SUPPORT FOR INDEPENDENT" WORKERS

T HE executive committee of the Independent Road Transport Workers' Association has decided to give unqualified support to the...

Dispute Over Increased Services

A JOINT application presented by ink Cardiff and Newport Corporations for an increased frequency in the bus services operating...

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Applicants Receive Fair Play

WE have now had experience both of post-war traffic "courts and of the work of the road-rail licensing subcommittees. To take...

They Winnow Out Frivolous Applications VOUR contributor, " Tantalus," appears

'to have been I unduly influenced by what appears to have been a particularly unfortunate, but isolated, case in Yorkshire, in...

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Committees Should Be Scrapped At Once!

A LTHOUGH I am not a haulier, I have appeared on 2— kbehalf of a member before the licensing sub-committee which was recently...

A Dangerous Instrument I T has been my privilege to attend

the meetings of these licensing ;ph-committees in three traffic areas, but the procedure has been, invariably, that of a...

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New H.F. Workshop Equipment Introduced

A MONGST items of workshop equipment which have recently been introduced by Harvey Frost and Co., Ltd., Bishop's Stortford,...

Inspection by Inversion

A NEW device to facilitate repair and servicing work on motor vehicles, by inverting them so as to give greater accessibility...

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A Suction-assisted

Hydraulic Brake System A Résumé of Recently Published Patent Specifications F ROM the Bendix /.viation Corporation, South...