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Page 77
In 50 Years Commercial Road Transport has Developed From\an Infant To a Giant p ROUDLY we bring to the notice of our readers in...
Page 78
W HEN my father, the late Edmund Dangerfield, founded The Commercial Motor, he had already obtained considerable experience...
Liquefied Gas Aids Machining IN America increasing interest is being shown in the employment of liquid carbon-dioxide (COO) as...
Page 79
Of hopes that we'll hear a toll for the toll road. That the Gore-Trellin "motorcoach " seems to have been something like a...
Page 80
Council last Friday issued R.H. (53), which proposes to increase the wages of adult road haulage workers by 10s. a week and to...
Page 81
L IST R.5 has been another great success. With decisions on 68 of the 808 vehicles on offer still deferred, over 76 per cent,...
C LAIMS which have been established for loss of development value under the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947, may be held by...
" A NY suggestion that tolls may be imposed on the new motor roads must, I think, be resisted vigorously by British industry,"...
T HE eight-month delay by the Government in producing new consolidated Construction and Use Regulations was severely criticized...
Page 82
MR. R. WHALLEY, general manager of Burnley. Caine and Nelson Transport Department, is to retire on March 31. MR. A. E. BREWER...
N EWLY elected officers of sub-areas of the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Area of the Road Haulage Association are as...
Page 83
BY OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT P OSS1BLE changes in the proposals for inspection of vehicles. and the adoption of a "...
Page 84
Placed Needs Too High ? A LLEGATIONS that two large bus companies in the north had over" provided for their needs in...
Two Big Yorkshire Applications (-RANTING permission to Bristol Is.- 1 Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., to abolish workers'...
Page 85
k YEAR after being formed with a — k capital of £300,000 to take over - ansport units from British Road ervices, Charles...
THE road problem would never be solved until the Government tackled it with the energy appropriate to a national crisis, Mr....
TRANSPORT was a growing J. problem to retail co-operative societies because the number of commercial vehicles had risen by...
Page 86
12 variations of a basic 3-ton vehicle to meet the "special and exacting requirements of the War Office and Air Ministry " were...
%WHEN Maidstone and District Motor Int Services. Ltd., and their associated company, the Chatham and District Traction Co.,...
T HE United States Air Force in Britain has placed orders worth nearly £Lm. with three British manufacturers for the supply of...
Page 87
T HE danger of diluting a low-viscosity oil as the result of an injector or fuel-supply fault indicates the necessity of good...
TENDERS are to he invited by 1 Liverpool Transport Committee for the supply of .130 buses for normal replacement purposes and...
Page 88
A MEMBER company of the Traders' Road Transport Association has been successfully defended against a charge concerning a driver...
The sales divisiOn of the Acrograph Co.. Ltd., arc moving to 47 Holborn Viaduct, London, E.C.1. McGill's Bus Service, Ltd.....
F OUR Leyland Royal Tiger Worldmaster chassis are to be put to stringent trials for a number of years by Luxury Landliners....
W ILL the latest wage award to engineers send up vehicle prices? Manufacturers to whom this question was put by The Commercial...
Page 89
Growing Popularity of Cab-over-engine Types of Heavy-duty Lorry : High-horsepower Units Running on Petrol or Liquid Gas VIOST...
Page 90
CLLIL M. F. BARNARD, MinsLT., President, Mansion House Association on Transport. I N congratulating you on the splendid...
Page 104
O F all the competitors in the field of vehicle propulsion which the petrol engine has had to face, none has been so successful...
Page 108
Materials and Appearances of Goods Bodies have Changed, but the Fundamental Ideas Stay Much the Same Despite the Passing of...
Page 111
Part Played by Oil Technologists in Development of Motor Vehicles ; Growing Importance of Chemist in Application of Additives...
Page 112
1 F I were asked to name the cornponents which had play ed the most important part in the develoPment of the mechanical road...
Page 114
horns in acknowledgment as Grandma, an Edwardian Leyland chassis and predecessor of the modern Comet, showed her paces in her...
Page 116
By B. G. Bonallack, Joint Managing Director, Bonallack and Sons, Ltd. A s one of the oldest concerns of commercial...
Page 123
By Alan Smith P - 1LEANSING engineers' constant demands for efficient machines 6 • -/ and the. complexities of their sks have...
Page 126
I N 1906 there were 24 prominent makes of steamer in Britain. These included Foden, Leyland, Thornycroft and Sentinel, whose...
Page 127
During the Past 50 Years the Passenger Vehicle has Developed to the Mutual Benefit of Passenger and Operator by Andrew...
Page 136
Notable Goods and Passenger Vehicles of the Past 50 Years that Were Destined to Establish for Their Creators a Reputation that...
Page 141
Many Famous Names have been Associated with the Commercial vehicle Industry since 1905, but Not Al! have Stood the Test of...
Page 150
Tram v. Motorbus Controversy Debated.' RoadRail Competition Starts : Steam Gives Way to Peirol : Users Should Pay for Roads 11...
Page 152
ALL BEGAN Men Who have Directed "The Commercial Motor" Since Its Foundation 50 Years Ago T WO outstanding personalities were...
Page 156
Pat ical Str ife by C. S. Dunbar, M. Inst. T. W HEN The Commercial Motor was born, commercial motor vehicles were of so little...
Page 160
Recollections of Three Pioneer in the Field of Commercial-vehicle Manufacture in 1905, as Described to Ashley Taylor, ....
Page 164
to include in this issue some reminiscences from current readers who had taken The Commercial Motor in 1905, its feasibility...
Page 176
Some of the Chief Activities, in Certain of Which This Journal Took a Prominent Part, Which have Marked Road Transport Progress...
Page 183
How "The Commercial Motor" Has Put Thousands of Hauliers on the Right Road • Since Its Inception by Giving Guidance in the...
Page 187
By C. S. Dunbar, M.Inst.T. London Gave a Lead in : Part Played by Railways:. Existing Agreements Derived from Tram Days N the...
Page 189
- 10MPETITION has become thoroughly respectable even in the Ivory Tower. Rarely these days do -- 'members and officials of the...
Page 190
More Purchases than Ever Before Reported This Week : Cusick (Oldham) Ltd., Buy 12 R.5 Units A RECORD number of purchases of...
Page 194
First Staged in 1905, Various Interruptions Make This the 25th International Event : British Interest Maintained, but Foreign...
Page 200
MOVELTY in two-stroke engine design I is shown in patent No. 723,111, which comes from J. Goodman, 7 Barnsley Road, Edgbaston,...