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14th August 1953
14th August 1953
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Local Squalls

P OST-MORTEM examinations of munieipal ttansport accounts are now in progress all over the ouritry. Political wrangling over...

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Longevity, in Commercial Vehicles

U SERS of private cars are sometimes apt to make invidious comparisons between their life in terms of mileage and that of many...

Passing Comments

Bank Holiday "L" Plates A READER who does not suffer fools gladly would like to see the roads closed at Bank Holiday weekends...

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One Hears

Use your vision or become a vision. Of a serious suggestion to extend exhaust pipes to the tops of buses and lorries. And of...

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58 British Buses for Jamaica

A S forecast in The Commercial Motor on July 24, British buses are to replace the American White vehicles in use in Kingston,...

Removers Still Not Satisfied with Licensing Proposal

OLLOWING the suggestion by removers holding B licences in the Metropolitan Area that the condition which it is proposed to...

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New Duple Body Costs £2,150 and Weighs 2 Tons 12 Cwt.

NFLUENCED inevitably by Coronation year, Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd., he Hyde, Hendon, London, N.W.9. ave designated their latest...

Why Thesiger Report Has Been Delayed

T HE Minister of Transport was not being pessimistic when he said in the House of Commons that the Thesiger Committee's report...

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• • -Electricity to be Cheapest Power ?

r LE CTR !CITY might become cheaper to use than imported fuels, 'Aid. . Baron Power, Mayor of Walsall and chairman of....

London Buses Complete 6,300 Miles on the Continent

TWO London buses which in less than I two months covered 6,300 miles on the Continent, were welcomed back to the Chiswick...

Men in the News

MR. JOHN ALLINGHAM, Of Simms Motor Units, Ltd., is on his way to join the Simms station in Johannesburg. MR. R. GRAHAM EMERY,...

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Output and Exports • Down in June

('OMMERCIAL VEHICLE output ■ .-.• and exports declined in June after showing an improvement in May. Statistics issued by the...

More C-licensees and Vehicles

D URING the year ended June last, 14,485 new C-licence holders came into existence and the number of C-Licence vehicles...

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Storm Over E.Y.M.S. Application: Service Cut in South Wales ?

• CEEKING their . second increase in ...) - fares this year, East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., were accused at a recent...

Engine-less Bus Disabled Vehiel

CARDIFF'S Assistant Recorder decided recently that a bus chassis with the engine removed was a disabled mechanically propelled...

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Dealer Not to Depend on Rivals

FURNITURE dealer should not be I. expected to go to his competitor fornsport, said Mr. S. W. Nelson, irthern Licensing...

11.H.E. Obi ections Met

Y restricting the carriage of lime by Walker Bros. (Darlington), .Ltd., the movement of burnt and kibbled )ducts from the...

In a Line Or Two

A further programme for, the replacenit of trams by trolleybuses is proposed Glasgow. The India Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., .ve...

Protest Against Automatic Grant

A PROTEST against the action of the South-Eastern Licensing Authority in granting the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., a...

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200-ton Tractor if New Douglas Rang(

Three New Specialized Vehicles Built for Exceptional Conditions Form the Basis of Series with Various Wheelbases and having a...

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S uspended Monopoly By P. A. C. Brockin

Spanish Haulag AS CCORDING to the law, panish haulage concerns operating long distances over routes parallel to the railways...

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pain as an Export Market

AIN is at present a restricted market for British commercial vehicles. output of home-produced vehicles but currency is short....

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40 C Unified • in Six Years

By Alan Smitt flow the Individual Trans, , T of the Constituent Co pa • Great Universal Stor s 6 been Amalgamated into ( age...

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New Restrictions on Removers ?

By Will the Condition which the Metropolitan Licensing Arthur R. Wilson, Authority Proposes to Attach to B-Licences Granted...

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uarts in Pint Pots

Reflections on 20 Years Experience in DesignilQ Furniture Vans Reveal Risin. Costs, Improved Construction Legal Complexities...

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Super d Performance

All-round Improvement in the Latest Commer Superpoise Equipped with an Overhead-valve Petrol Engine and a Heavy-duty Braking...

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Engine Starter for Heavy Vehicles

T O supplement the model introduced , last year which is suitable for 6-volt and 12-volt..circuits, G.S.L. Products, Ltd.,...

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The Seven Veils

Political Commentary By JANUS R ECENT research has apparently established that Salome 'danced before Herod not for the gory...

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Haw to Quote a Charge

Different Types of Haulage Operation Call for Various Methods of Tendering Rates : This Article Describes Whether Quotations...

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Suction-amplified Hydraulic Brake

F ROM Clayton Dewandre Co., Ltd., Titanic Works, Lincoln, comes patent No. 693,842, dealing with a modified form of...