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19th May 1950
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The Phantom of Liaison

T, ITTLE is heard, of the workings of the liaison machinery hopefully set up by the Road Haulage Executive and -the Road...

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Passing Comments

Ses.vice that the IT is understood that the 16 R.H.E. Could Not 'outstanding applications to Give the Road Haulage Executive...

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One

Hears— That as well as a stab in the back, operators have had one in the carburetter or injection pump. That Sir Stafford's...

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R.H.E. Not to Increase its Fleet

Restrictions Placed on 7,125 Permits Out of 11,000 Granted T HE Road Haulage Executive has no intention of increasing its fleet...

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Favour for S.M.T Causes Dispute

rONTRACTS with private bus corn panies for the carriage of workers to the site of a Government-sponsored oil refinery under...

A.E.C. Coaches Lead in Rally

F OR the second year in succession a British coach based on an A.E.C. Regal Mk. III chassis has carried off the highest award...

B.R.S. Fined: ," Fly Biting Elephant."

A NY fine which we impose on these huge nationalized bodies will have about as much effect as the bite of a fly on an...

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Men in the News

MR. J. W. RATLEDGE has become a director of David MacBrayne, Ltd. MR, G. H. STONES! REET has been appointed manager of the...

10 Comets Replace 40 Bullock Carts

T o augment the Leyland Comet oilengined refuse collectors which were put into service by Bombay Health Department last year,...

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Chancellor is Asked to Receive Industry Sets Up Operators Fares

Question Fluid New Records A PPLICATION has been made by PA the Public Transport Association, the Municipal Passenger Transport...

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R.H.E. Divisional Conferences D IVISIONAL conferences under the L./chairmanship of the

divisional managers were held last week in the south-eastern and south-western divisions of the Road Haulage Executive, at...

" Perverse 39 Ruling in Petrol Case

D ISSENTING from the view of the majority of five judges of the King's Bench Divisional Court that a police appeal in a " red"...

Taxi Owners Fight Late Bus Services WOLVERHAMPTON taxi, proVV prietors

are protesting against the proposal of Wolverhampton Corporation to run occasionatnight bus' services to meet late trains. When...

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59 Per Cent. of Output Exported

T AST year the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., 1—• produced 73,070 commercial vehicles and tractors, of which 42,973 (58.8 per cent.)...

Ulster Might Hand Back Haulage R EPLYING to a question asked

in the Northern Ireland Parliament, last week, the Minister of Commerce indicated that a time might come when the Government...

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BUS PROFITS FROM THE SEA

Yarmouth and Lowestoft have to Deal with Summer Peak Problems. The Presence of a Fishing Industry and Sport Enables These Small...

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A Full-sized Bus

on a Small Scale Q1NCE its introduction 0- 3 exactly two years ago, th Austin 25-cwt. chassis has established an enviable...

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Political Commentary By JAN US

Dropping the Pilot B EFORE 1945, Minister of Transport succeeded unto Minister like mediocre batsmen on a bowler's wicket. One...

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B.T.C. Expects a Loss of i/15,000,000

London Charges Scheme Estimated to Yield an Extra 0,700,000 VLORE than 100 organizations are LV1 objecting to the interim...

Guildford Opens New Bus Station

A NEW bus station that ranks as one of the finest in the south of England was officially opened at Guildford last week by Aid....

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A Mobile Bar with Fluorescent Lighting

A MOBILE bar for outdoor functions has recently been completed by Wilsdon and Co., Ltd., Solihull, for Flower and Sons, Ltd.,...

A See-saw Ramp

O F value to operators of vehicles weighing up to 2 tons, a new ramp developed by Chamberlain Industries, LtdStaffa Road,...

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These Loads are

DYNAMITE! Says A. G. Thomson F AMILIAR sights to drivers proceeding along the highways of the Witwatersrand area of the...

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How and When

PURCHASE TAX Must be Paid Official Statement Confirms that Road Haulage Tractors and Trailers are Exempt, but Tax Must be...

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NEW RANGE OF MOM 10-cwt. MODELS

By 1. J. COTTON, M.I.R.T.E. W rILN the present Morris Oxford car was announced, a forecast was made in "The Commercial Motor"...

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Work the R.H.E. Cannot Do By E. H. B. Palmer, O.B.E. F.R.S.A. I HAVE been known to claim that

the underlying intention of the authorities is to eliminate the carrier for hire or reward, and to state that his days are...

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Should Exhaust Systems be Modified?

I EXPECT that by now many modifications have been made, at least in the drawing-board stage, to the design of commercial...

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A Busman's Holiday

A Brief Record of a Coach Tour in Scotland made by a Party of I.R.T.E. Members T HE 1950 tour of the Institute of Road...

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The Chancellor's Budget And Yours

Some Examples of How Costs and Rates Will Have to be Increased Are Given in This Article, Which Also Outlines Methods of...

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A Hydraulic-powered Steering System

p A TEN T No. 635,483, comes from the 'Ross Gear and Tool Co., Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A., and deals with the application • of...