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15th September 1950
15th September 1950
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Grouping for Counter-attack

Interworking Will Help Free Hauliers to Resist R.H.E. Encroachinto Short-distance Work NCREASI NG encroachment by the Road...

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Britain to Show the World's Best at Earls Court

T HE greates: Commercial Motor Show ever to be held, comprising the latest products of over 400 manufacturers. will be opened...

Permits Policy : Statement Coming

IT is understood that the Road 1 Haulage Executive is shortly to declare its policy on the renewal of permits. Meanwhile, the...

Grouping : Merger Completed

WITH the amalgamation of the Road Vic Haulage Association and the National Association of Road Transport Groups, the fostering...

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Test Case on Many More Coach Fares: Applications

nN September 26, the Metropolitan Licensing Authority will hear the application of II operators of express services radiating...

100 Lorries for Festival Tour

O VER 100 lorries will be used next year to carry the world's biggest transportable covered exhibition around the provinces....

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Operation Midnight

TRAFFIC conditions in London t o-day are such that the introduction of 8-ft.-wide buses into the general traffic stream is a...

Men in the News

ME, B. J. HEGARry, director of the Austin Motor Export. Corporation, Ltd., has retirecL He has been with Austin for 16 years....

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7,500 London Busmen Strike

A BOUT 1,300 buses on 60 routes were idle in London on Thursday because of a strike by 7,500 drivers and conductors at 14...

In it Line or Two

Between August 16 and August 31, the Road Haulage Executive acquired 23 more haulage undertakings. The Road Haulage...

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State Industries Worry Socialists

NAEMBERS of the Labour Party are Mconcerned about the administration of nationalized industries. Some of the resolutions to be...

Dutch Import Programme

TN the 12 months to July, 1951, Holland will import 4,000 goodsvehicle chassis and 4,000 vans from softcurrency areas. In...

New Export Market for British Trolleybuses

URUGUAY is shortly to receive its %-) first trolleybus fleet as a result of an order in which eight British manufacturers will...

65,000 INCREASE IN C VEHICLES

T HE total number of C-licensed vehicles was 699,350 in June this year, compared with 634,769 in June, 1949. The greatest...

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A.C.V. Introduces Two New Flat-engined Models

T HE two most recent additions to the growing number of underfloor-engined chassis being produced in this country come from the...

Big Government Shares in Indian Transport T HE Indian Government now

holds financial interests in the transport systems of many of its States. In addition to a loan of 1.500,000 rupees advanced to...

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New Underfloor "Six" in the Gardner Tradition

A s already reported in The Commercial Motor," a new underfloor engine has been introduced by Norris, Henty and Gardners, Ltd.,...

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B.M.M.O. 44-seater Under 6 Tons

A LMOST a ton dead weight has been saved, by comparison with contemporary models, in a new B.M.M.O. single-decker...

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Compact Engine Layout in New Guy Chassis

T HE new Guy underfloor-engined single decker series, briefly described in "The Commercial Motor" on September 1, is...

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Unipower Produces Load Carriers With Four Wheel Drive

T HEdemand for light four-wheel-drive chassis with payload capacities of 2-4 tons has prompted Universal Power Drives, Ltd.,'...

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CHASSIS MODELS for the Show

A.E.C. -Stand 66 Regal Mark IV underfloor-engined chassis; Mammoth Major six-wheeler, Monarch with 7.7-litre engine ; Matador...

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Bedford Er

P s " H av y " Market with 31 L.p.h. 7-tonners A RANGE of 7-toriners and a passenger chassis which, apart from changing the...

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The Latest in Proprietary Units

S TANDARDIZATION of component units in many different makes and types of vehicle is playing an increasingly important part,...

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Atkinson Goes Into the Coach Market

D EVELOPED to meet a demand both at home and overseas for a 30 ft. by 8 ft. underfloorengined high-speed coach chassis to...

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The Cream of British Bodywork

A Stand-to-Stand Forecast of the Exhibits in the Bodywork Section of the Commercial Motor Show ANTHONY Stand 5 Leyland Comet...