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1st August 1952
1st August 1952
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Unlucky 13

Transport Tribunal Saddled with Impossible Task by Section 13 of Transport Bill S UPERST1TIOUS people are not alone in...

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Time For Guidance

A DEMOCRATIC organization such as the Road Haulage Association must be guided in its decisions on important matters of...

Passing Comments

Good Appearance Impresses Passengers F ROM Mr. C. R. H. Wreathall, A.C.A., M.Inst.T., of East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd.,...

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T.U.C. Organizing Campaign Against Denationalization

npposmoN to the denationalization of road transport is beginning to take an organized pattern. A campaign is to be waged by the...

T.A.T. Increases Compensation

T HE Transport Arbitration Tribunal has awarded £30,718 compensation to Mr. E. E. Burton, 29 Lynn Road, Wisbech, whose road...

P.S.V. Licensing Investigators

A COMMITTEE of seven men, with Mr. G. A. Thesiger, Q,C., Recorder of Hastings, as chairman; is to inquire into the public...

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B.M.M.O. Accused of Hiding Scope of Application

A LLEGATIONS that Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., had changed its ground were made by a respondent when the...

Two New Atkinson Export Chassis

T WO new export chassis are to be introduced at the Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court by Atkinson Lorries (1933), Ltd.,...

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Men in the News

MR. A. ROBERT JENKINS has been installed president of the Institute of Welding. MR. H. B. FERGUSSON has become vice-president....

B.R.S. Revenue Up: Traffic Down

I N the four weeks to July 13, British Road Services earned traffic receipts of 15,909,000, bringing the total for the first 28...

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Minor Changesin Sentinel Models

A Lle Sentinel vehicles to be shown it the Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court, will be fitted with the maker's...

Appeal for Lowloaders Fails D ECLARING that there was a co rn plete

lack of evidence, the chairman of the Transport Tribunal, Mr. H. Hull, last week dismissed the appeal of Martin Cowley, Ltd.,...

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M.P. Champions Mr. Hurst: Minister Can Do Nothing

I N the House of Commons, last .Friday, Mr. Gurney Braithwaite, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, defended...

Mr. Drayton Thanks Operators

A T the annual general meeting, last week. of the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., Mr. H. C. Drayton, chairman, paid...

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Labour Fears Over Scottish Transport

I A BOU R Members expressed L. apprehension about the effects on Scotland of road transport denationalization in a debate on...

Men Being Driven from Industry ?

D RAWING attention to "the way in L./which the Road Haulage Executive are closing depots of long standing in some parts of the...

Special Guy Coach for London Transport

A N export version of the Guy Otter 1 - 1,with a 12-ft. 9i-in. wheelbase, and an Otter chassis with a 15-ft. wheelbase, as...

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BUS FEEDER LINES in a Tram Stronghold

Selection of Types . of Vehicle to Run on Particular Routes in Hamburg Depends Upon Traffic Density : Motorbuses and •...

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The Government Lighting a Forest Fire

The Levy, Combined with Relaxation of Licensing, Will Create Conditions Under which Rate-cutting will be Encouraged and the...

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Latest News of Fares

Grimsby.— Cleethorpes Merger. Suggested In Place of Additions to Individual Fare Values, Operators Now Tend to Overhaul...

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GREATER EC COOLER RI] 1NOMY: NING

The Our Cha Eng Ove Sins racteristics were Revealed Test of a Sentinel Bus with Direct-injection Oil though it was Loaded to is...

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Leyland Units in Ballast Crusher A MOBILE ballast crusher, capable of

producing 40 cubic yards of ballast an hour, has been built by Tapper Construction, Ltd., Whangerei, New Zealand, using an...

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Mother Carey's Chickens

L ATTERLY, whenever there has been a dispute about transport, I have expected to see the members of the Transport Tribunal...

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Opinions and Queries

Restore Original Permits I WRITE as the director and manager of a middle' distance transport company. We had our original...

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Curtain-raiser on the Bill

Minister Offers to Discuss Denationalization with All Interests : B.T.C.'s Annual Report Shows Failure of Integration says Mr....

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Safety Week Starts Tomorrow TO-MORROW (August 2) National

Road Safety Week begins. It is the first attempt, on a nation-wide scale, to combat the danger of road accidents during the...

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OVERTIME PAYS

if the Assessment of Rates is Made After the Orthodox Fashion, Overtime Benefits Both the Master and the Man I MUST begin this...

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Better Steering for Three Wheelers

P ATENT No. 673,758 (B. Wade and Dot Cycle and Motor Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Arundel Street, Manchester, 15) refers to small...