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Road Less Vulnerable Than Rail A PAPER read before the

Institute of Trans..port by the Inspector-General of Air Raid Precautions gives almost gruesome details of what might happen in...

Unemployment Insurance Extended to Chauffeurs

F OR it long time motor drivers and persons attending to mechanically propelled vehicles, whether , private or otherwise, where...

Passing Comments

Speed Limits Lead to A REPERCUS.-n I ON. of police Periodic Traffic Conpersecution is road overgestion on Main Roads crowding....

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One Hears—

Of hauliers who advertise cut rates: Of someone who thought that Layrub was an embrocation. That hauliers, thanks to S.T.R.,...

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NEWS of the WEEK

BOUTS-TILLOTSON DROP APPEAL. Bouts-Tillotson Transport, Ltd . ., has abandoned its . appeal against the decision of the...

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Rail Delay in Bacon Tram port VISH transport from Aberdeen

and 1 Lossiemouth to Glasgow will be facilitated by a decision issued at Aberdeen, last week, by Mr. Henry Riches, Northern...

Railways "Like Oliver Twist"

" I GIVE you five years' figures and, I like Oliver Twist, he asks for more! " said Mr. Henry Backhouse, Jnr., criticizing a...

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APPLICATION FOR MORE FISH TONNAGE.

The Northern Licensing Authority at Newcastle, last week, deferred decision in an application by J. M. Burgess, Ltd., of North...

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GOVERNMENT ORDERS IN FEBRUARY.

Only a relatively small number of orders for motor vehicles and allied . materials was given out by Government departments...

Licence Applications Succeed at Aberdeen.

At Aberdeen. last week, Messrs. Davidson's Road Transport, Aberdeen, were granted permission by Mr. Henry Riches, Northern...

RAILWAYS "NORTH WESTERN ". APPLICATIONS.

A long list of further applications by the railway companies appears in the current issue of the North Western "Applications...

Railways Stole the Traffic ? "

T HE Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Mr: J. Farndale, had before him on Monday last, at Leeds, an application in which a haulier...

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The Claims of The Extra-low-pressure Tyre

An Authority Puts For ward Some Sound Arguments on Why This Class of Tyre is Likely to Displace the Popular High-pressure Type...

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A 10-cwt. Van Addec o the Fordson Range

Entirely New Model with io h.p. Engine, Affording lig cubic ft. Loading Space and Offered at Li68 Complete T O meet a demand...

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Defending Transport Agatnst Air Attack

A iiiterpsting paper entitled " Defence of Transport Against Air Attack " was read last Monday before the Institute of...

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What the Associations

Are Doing ROADWAYS TRUST NOT FAVOURED. :A A PROPOSED scheme to co-ordinate all road-transport operators in this country in a...

Abuse of Private-car Trailers Alleged

IN the Liverpool area there was wide I abuse in connection with private-car trailers, alleged Mr. P. Stevenson at the A.R.O....

A Warning from Scotland

F INLESS they realized their responsi bilities to one another and to the industry as a whole, operators might one day find...

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LORD MAYOR OF BRISTOL SUPPORTS ROADS POLICY.

We do need new roads built with the idea that, in the future, road trailsport is just as necessary and just as important as...

NORTH SHIELDS FISH-HAULAGE FIGHT TO GO ON.

A letter from the B.R.F. regarding the revoking of licences of two North Shields haulage concerns, the business of which was...

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Why Sell Now? By S.T.R.

Rates Stabilization the Crux There is Astonishing Ignorance Amongst Hauliers of Imminence of Stabilization and its Inevitable...

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New Departure in Road-rail Tankers

f-IN Wednesday last, the L.M.S. ‘.../Railway Co. gave a demonstration, at Euston Station, of two of its new road-rail tankers...

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TRANSPORT PROBLEMS OF PHE CHINA-CLAY INDUSTRY

T HERE is only one place in the world from which best-quality china clay can be obtained, and that is in the district around...

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Road Transport Topics

in Parliament By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent NO GRANTS FOR SERVICE ROADS. T HE Minister could not accede to a...

Municipal. Purchases and Proposals

Blaokpool Corporation is buying a Leyland Cub passenger vehicle. Weymouth Corporation is to obtain tenders for the supply of an...

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A LEYLAND LYNX COMES UP 10 SCRATCH ON TEST

Latest 30 m.p.h 6-tonner Performs in an Exemplary Manner, and, on all Counts, Attains a High Standard of Efficiency OR lorries...

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Service Depends on Engineering Research

A Large Department for Technical Development has Recently been Completed by the Maker of Bedford Vehicles. It is Wholly Devoted...

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OPINIONS

and QUERIES POLICEMEN WHO MAKE CASES. [5306] I would like to draw your attention to a case that I had last week. I was...

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There's Business In the

Haulage of Coal for Hospitals Hauliers Should Not Miss the Opportunity of Getting Business from Hospitals and Institutions...

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SENSIBLE SCHEME FOR ROCHDALE

H OW the staggering of works closing times would assist Rochdale Corporation Passenger Transport Department was explained by...

EARLIER SUMMER TIME-TABLE

D ESPITE opposition by the LincolnL./shire Road Car Co., Mr. F. G. Wright, of Louth, was given permission by the East Midland...

NEW STATION FOR EASTERN NATIONAL.

B !ALT by Messrs. H. Smith and Sons, Pier Avenue, Clacton, to plans prepared by Mr. H. J. Starkey, A.I.A.S., 15, Curzon Street,...

AUTHORITY AND RESTRICTIVE ENACTMENTS

T HE sixth annual dinner and dance of the Croydon and District Motor Coach Owners Association was held on Thursday of last week...

COACHES FOR THE DERBY.

I N connection with the Derby. which will be run at Epsom on June 1, Blue Belle Coaching Services, Ltd., is running a special...

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ROUTES FOR EMPIRE EXHIBITION

A NUMBER of routes has been arranged by the Glasgow Police Traffic Department for vehicles bound for Bellahouston Park during...

A New 5-ton Tip-top Tipper T HE latest addition to the

comprehensive range of tipping models produced by Commer Cars, Ltd., Luton, is a 5-ton end-tipper, which, complete with a...

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Financial News of the Industry

NEW COMPANIES. Tannage Transport, Ltd.—Private company. Reg. March 13. Cap. £ L000 in 1,000 shares of 21 each. General...

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A Double-acting Four-stroke Engine

T HE double-acting engine is now receiving a considerable amount of attention an over the world, and in patent No. 479,967 is...