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17th September 1948
17th September 1948
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The C-Licence Scare

T HERE appears to be, quite an amount of perturbation regarding the considerable increase in the total number . of ancillary...

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The Turn of Road Passenger Transport

T HE purchase by the British Transport Commission of a large and most important group of companies operating in the...

Passing Comments

Artificial Wood Board MANY are the uses for Produced in Long iv artificial board, which is Lengths made of a waste material,...

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One Hears—

Of a dial-type tension-tester for hacksaw blades. That South Africa may eventually have petrol from coal. That " Officwik "...

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News of the Week

HEAD LAMPS MUST BE FITTED 2 FT. FROM GROUND A S from January 1 next, head lamps and pass lamps, unless used only in fog or...

Show Advanced

for Overseas Buyers THIS will be the first time that the 1 Commercial Motor Show, which opens at Earls Court on October 1, has...

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£24,800,000 for Tilting: Initial

Payment to Oswald Tillotson QURPR1SE was caused by the announcement, last week, that Thomas Tilling, Ltd., expects to receive...

Operating Centres May be Changed After October 1 A S from

October 1, an A or Blicensee may apply to the Licensing Authority for Goods Vehicles to have the operating centre of a vehicle...

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July Exports Beat All Records JULY'S shipments of commercial J vehicles created an all-time record

and for the third time this year their value exceeded the target of £3,200,000 set by the Government as the monthly average for...

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New Morris. Commercial 80 b.h.p.

Petrol Engine has Longer Stroke A S a result of the ample power output of the new Morris-Commercial four-cylindered 3.77-litre...

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"Appointed Day" a Long Way Off?

A LTHOUGH he is surprised at the speed at which the Transport Act is being implemented, Mr. H. Rossington, chairman of the...

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Beadle and Sentinel Build a Chassisless Bus ,

C 0-OPERATION between John C. Beadle (Coachbuilders), Ltd., Dartford, and Sentinel (Shrewsbury), Ltd., Shrewsbury, has...

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How to Assess "Electric" Performance

H. W. Heyman, B.Sc. (hens.) J. H. Cansdale, M.I.E.E. A SSESSMENT of performance is more difficult in the case of a . battery...

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200 Vehicles Employed in War on Pests

By H. Scott Hall, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.R.T.E. S OME particularly interesting facts emerged in the course of a recent visit to the...

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New Dennis 5-litre Oil Engine

A NEW power unit to be introduced at the Commercial Motor Show will be the Dennis 5.06-litre oil engine, the first small oil...

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Uncured Rubber Used in New Shock Absorber

A SHOCK absorber in which the resistance element is uncured synthetic rubber in its plastic state, has recently been introduced...

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Engine Behind Cab hi New

Mechanical Horse M ODERN in appearance, yet accessible in every detail, the new Scammell Scarab range of Mechanical Horse...

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BEATING THE BONUS BOGY U NDER this heading, in your issue

dated August 6, Production Engineer " makes an attack on the bonus system. He describes the demand for more pay by the workmen...

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A Surprising Reason for Rate-cutting

M Y friend Mr. F. F. Fowler. chairman of the national rates committee of the Road Haulage Association. has circularized members...

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An Outsize in Single-deckers

O NE of the largest single-deck buses to be seen at the Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court will be an Albion CX 41 chassis...

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A Torsion-bar Suspension Layout

IMPROVEMENTS in torsion-bar sus" pension systems are shown in patent No. 602,065, by M. Julian, Toulouse, France. The main...