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16th September 1938
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Our Safety Demands Better Roads !

O N every side it is being realized that the main roads of this country are quite inadequate to carry modern traffic, and th at...

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Helping to Solve the Rates Problem

A N interesting contribution towards the solution of the problem of stabilized rates in the road-transport industry, with hints...

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Passing Comments

Encouraging Report HE value of our Empire iq of Trade within the I respect of the trade of this Empire country is emphasized by...

One Hears-

Of 'Guys in a new guise. Of someone who had read of " fly-over" roads saying "Why not swat them ? " That, undeterred by the...

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RAILWAYS WANTED TO KNOW TOO MUCH.

A railway attempt to obtain intimate information, from an applicant haulier, led to an amusing but pointed interlude during the...

Associations Consulted on Wages Boards

THE Ministry of Labour has asked road haulage employers' and workers' organizations to furnish information which, to some...

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COMMER . 8-CWT. VAN PRICE REDUCED.

Commer Cars, Ltd., Luton, announces a reduction in the price of its 8-cwt. Supervan. The new figure for the complete van is...

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PERSONAL PARS.

MR. A. BINNS, representative of Leyland Motors, Ltd., in the Near East, is on a combined holiday and business trip to this...

Municipal Purchases and Proposals

Ashton-under•Lxne Corporation is boring four Crossley oil-engined double-deckers. Burton•enarent Corporation is to obtain...

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LICENCE.CURRENCY PERIODS REDUCED.

Many A licence-holders in the Yorkshire Traffic Area have found that, under the new licensing regulations, they are worse off,...

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AMERICAN SEARCH FOR NEW ZEALAND OIL.

Three American oil companies, the Socony Vacuum Corporation, the Texas Corporation and the Standard Oil Company of California...

Work for Road Motors in Shingle Cartage

A ROUND our shores there are some billions of tons of shingle, which in some places are being taken away by the sea and...

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Rail Objection Fails in Fruit Transport

L ATENESS of arrival at destination, damage in transit by careless handling, and pilfering of goods en route, were among the...

July Registrations Not So Bright A LTHOUGH it can hardly be

said that the goods-vehicle and hackneyvehicle totals in the return of new motor vehicles registered in July made any tangible...

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And Now Maintenance in ence Per Mile

The concluding article on maintenance, in which is reached a final figure for cost, in pence per mile, by a method clearly des...

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Big Thornycroft-Carrimore 01

ts for Overseas Road Making Six Wheelers, Ltd., North Finchley, London. N.12. The order comprises eight tractive units and...

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Improved Facilities for Beet Deliveries

CONSIDER ABLE improvement of %... , the arrangements for delivery of sugar beet to the British Sugar Corporation's factory at...

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What the Associations Are Doing

S.T.R.'s OPENING LECTURE. The Commercial Motor costs expert, S.T.R., will open his 1938-1939 series of lectures at the Star...

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Success of Leeds Transport Exhibition WELL-DESERVED congratulations YV were extended

to the Leeds Chamber of Commerce at the opening, last Monday, of the exhibition on roadtransport problems. The central feature...

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Stability Depends on Tyre Inflation

The Effects of Insufficient Pressure in the Tyres are Manifold, But Lack of Stability is the Most Marked and the Most...

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ROAD MOTORS A VITAL L11\ IN THE COTTON INDUSTRY

p REVIOUSLY known as Quilt Manufacturers, Ltd., and comprising a group of what were formerly a dozen . separate manufacturing...

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A Jack-of-all-trades Tractor

Machine which sells for £115 Has Threespeed Power Pulley. Wheelbase of 5 ft. Gives Excellent Manceuvrability A TYPE of tractor...

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Those Licence Extensions

New Provisional Regulations, Now in Force, Concerning the Cost of the Longer-period Carriers' Ltcences, Those for Shorter Toms,...

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OVER TWENTY MILLION MILES A YEAR IN EIRE

Many Visitors are Attracted to Eire by the Passenger Services of the Great Southern Railways, Whilst Wellorganized Goods...

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Unfair Penalties On Hauliers

" IT is hardly fair to inflict punish ment for a particular offence and make that punishment life-long," said Mr. Howard...

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OPINIONS

and UERIES PRIVATE-CAR COMPETITION WITH TAXICABS. [5448] I notice in a recent issue of The Commercial Motor that a fellow...

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From Straked Wheel to Pneumatics in Three Minutes

New Type of Wheel Stroke, Put Into or Out of Action Without the Use of Tools A NEW type of wheel strake, known as the Opperman...

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GLASGOW'S FIGHT FOR TROLLEYBUSES

T "E possibility that an experiment may be made in Glasgow with the operation of trolleybuses, has been brought nearer by a -...

NEWCASTLE'S BIG BUS PROFITS.

D URING the year ended March 31, 1938, the motorbuses of Newcastleupon-Tyne Corporation were operated at a profit of £52,707,...

THE TRAM-BUS WAR IN MANCHESTER

O N Wednesday of last week, Manchester City Council referred its projected scheme for abolishing its tramway system, to the...

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NEW RESTRICTION ON DOUBLE-DECKERS

ik NEW restriction on the use of i% double-deck buses was announced by Mr. W. Chamberlain, chairman of the North-Western...

Radio Reduces Lorry Operating Costs

D IRECT evidence of the value of radio as an important factor in reducing the operating costs of his fleet of lorries is...

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Valve Location in Oil Engines

A Resume' of Recently Published Patent Specifications I N designing an oil engine with rocker operated overhead valves, it is...