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Service Licences and• Appeals

UCH good work was carried out at the joint meeting of the chairmen of the Traffic Commissioners and of officials of the...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY "The wheels of wealth will be slowed

by all difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the roughness of the roads over which it...

Experimental Work of the Roads Department.

The first report of the Technical Committee, appointed to advise the Minister on the experimental work carried out by the Roads...

COMPRESSION IGNITION ENGINES for Road Vehicles

A comprehensive Manual, with this title, is now in preparation and will be published shortly at 2s. 6d. by "The Commercial...

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Trailers Wanted in Egypt.

The Commercial Secretary to the Residency, Egypt, reports that the State Domains Administration, Ministry of Finance, Cairo, is...

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Leyland Cub Sales Arrangements.

Leyland Motors, Ltd., informs us that its policy is to sell its Cub goods model almost entirely through the trade. In fact, in...

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A NOVEL SCHEME FOR SECURING FUEL ECONOMY

O NE of the causes of wasteful use of fuel is the drawing of petrol through the slow-running jet of the carburetter when the...

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Russian Industry Progressing.

According to the Soviet Economic Revie i, the great l'aroslay industrialvehicle works is now in full operation, the first...

MUNICIPAL PURCHASES and PROPOSALS

The transport committee of BOTHERHA - m Corporation is to purchase a light van. Six Daimler double-deck Fluid Flywheel buses...

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The Railways' Success

with "The Mechanical Horse 9 9 A LL the leading British railway com1 - 1.panies are, at present, operating examples of the...

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THE LANCET IN

THE LIMELIGHT U NDOTJBTEDLY, one of the sensations of the Commercial Motor Show of 1931 was the introduction by Dennis...

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Derby Commences Trolley-bus Working

TurANy municipal authorities hold a 1.V.Lhigh opinion of the merits of the trolley-bus for passenger service, and the progress...

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• GARNER

introduces articulated SIX-WHEELERS A , announced on page 772 of our 'i.sue dated January 12th, Garner Motors, Ltd., Tyseley,...

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A LUXURIOUS

oil - engined 7-SEATER Impressions of a Special Armstrong-Saurer Demonstralion Vehicle on the Road , A N illustration of a...

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LARGE-SCALE BODY by a leadini JILDING OPERATIONS .hassis maker

addition to producing large numbers of passenger ve hicle chassis having capacities from 20 seats up to over 50 seats and...

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A Summary of Concrete-road Experience

T BE technical committee, appointed to advise the Minister of Transport on experimental work, expressed the opinion, some time...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES Road Licences for Two Years. Disagreement on Cattle Transport. Points on Forming a Clearing

House Why not Road-service Licences for Two Years? The Editor, THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [3630] Sir,—We are in the year 1932 and...

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Operating Aspects of

Passenger Transport MR. PICK REPLIES TO MR. GLEESON ROBINSON A Plea for Consultation of Public Wishes as to Coaches Entering...

THE FARES COMMITTEE SUBMITS FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS

A PROVISIONAL report upon pro gress that had been made by the Fares Committee, appointed by the Metropolitan and South-Eastern...

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FARE REVISIONS FOR GLASGOW CORPORATION SERVICES

A FEW -days ago the transport cornmittee of Glasgow Corporation unanimously adopted recommendations put forward for alteration...

LATEST NEWS FROM THE TRAFFIC AREAS

The Commissioners' Conference. INTERESTING information and contnumts concerning the conference between the chairman of Traffic...

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A New

French Oil Engine Details of a Delahaye Direct-injection Unit of Nearly 1 0 Litres Capacity I N the new 7-ton oil-engined...

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Impressions of

THE PAGEFIELD PLANTAGENE I N our series of 1932 programmes published in the issues preceding the Commercial Motor Show at...

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• Where to Find Haulage Business

R EPORTS from the markets are a little better this week and, although much of the improvement which is anticipated appears to...

Over 100 m.p.h . with an Oil-engined Vehicle

I N America Mr. C. L. Cummins has. achieved fame as an enthusiast for the compression-ignition-engined vehicle, and there...

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Problems of the

HAULIER AND CARRIER One Way of Keeping Track of Costs, and Correspondingly Making Sure of Profits, is to Use a Diary A T...

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A Heavy-fuel Gasifier Tested on the Road

I N our issue dated November 17th we gave a description of the Rector Gasifier, which is designed to permit the use of heavy...

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Attending to

DETAILS OF BUM DESIGN W ITH an emergency door at the back of a passenger vehicle there are three rear windows, the outline of...

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An Infinitely Variable Gear

ANY of the recently patented variable-speed gears have been described by their inventors as variable power gears, but in...