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1st March 1932
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Road Interests Must Fight

T HE . RE is apparently no sign of any peace conference between road and rail interests, audit is quite certain that there can...

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Road Transport the Common Benefactor

TT is announced that Waterloo Bridge is to be -I-pulled down and rebuilt at a cost of £1,295,000, but the important point...

Why Road Transport is Often Preferred

TT is regrettable that some sections of the daily -I-Press are so obviously biased against road transport. We have already...

A PARTY of Colonial Police Commissioners was recently being transported through

London on a police van of the type in which the occupants face each other on longitudinal seats and can be seen from the...

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ONE HEARS

That rubberized roads will come before rubber ones. Of road motors suffering too many protracted delays at level crossings....

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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...

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MUNICIPAL PURCHASES and PROPOSALS

Hsaaow Urban District Council is to purchase an S.D. Freighter at a cost of £790. The tramways committee of BAWTEN" STALL...

Useful Degreasing Plant for Garages

Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., Produces at Moderate Prices Two Smaller Editions of its Latest Trichloreethylene Plant A N...

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A Heavy-duty Trailer

for trunk-road work I N our issue for last week we dealt at some length with the transport organization of Bouts Brothers,...

Important Leyland Agent's New Venture

N 'premises of Kenyon and Co., Ltd., Marsh Lane, Preston, were formally opened last Wednesday. This is a well-known...

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Effective Plans for UPPER SALOONS

T HE covered-top double-decker has for some time past been a well-established type of public service vehicle, and it has...

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Pneumatic-tyred Six-wheeled

Trailer for 12-ton Loads The Latest Dyson Product Embodies a Number of Interesting Features and is Intended for Transporting...

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• OPINIO A IS and N QUERIES Is the Modern High-speed Oil Engine a Diesel? The Editor, THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR.

[3675] Sir,—In spite of all that has been written and published on the point of what is and what is not a " Diesel " engine, I...

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Important Data on

Compression-ignition Engines MO-DAY, March 1st, Mr. C. B. Dicksee, of the Associated .1 Equipment Co., Ltd., is to read a...

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A NEW FIRE-FIGHTER Jo

CR SS-COUNTRY WORK T HE fire protection of rural areas is a vastly different problem from that of dealing with conflagrations...

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New Hydraulic Tipping Gear for hand operation

'VCR many years tipping gears made by Bromilow and _12 Edwards, Ltd., of Foundry Street, Bolton, Lanes, have been well known in...

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Modern Accommodation for Birmingham's Municipal Buses

I N our issue for last week we announced briefly that an up-to-date garage for housing some of the buses in the large municipal...

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COMMERS

ON A COLONIAL COURSE Road Test No. 96 . W HEN we made the first announcement of the Commer 1932 programme, we stated that the...

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A NEW HYDRAULIC

TORQUE CONVERTER T HE pasttyear or so will unquestionably go down in transport history as marking the period when serious...

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Specializing in Cylinder Servicing

A S a result of specializing in the servicing of eugines, including reboring, sleeving and the fitting of new pistons, the...

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Operating Aspects of

Passenger Transport WORK THE M.H.C.S.A. IS DOING T HE representations made by the Motor Hirers and Coach Services...

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IMPORTANT ITEMS OF THE PAST WEEK

South Eastern Fares Committee Meeting To-day. R EFERENCES have been made in )this journal in the past few weeks to...

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THE TRAFFIC COMMISSIONERS' PUBLIC SITTINGS

T HE following are the times and places announced by Area Traffic Commissioners for their .forthcoming public sittings. In each...

FORTHCOMING EVENTS BEFORE THE COMMISSIONERS

Northern Scotland. FEW notices of objection appear in the Commissioners' list of applications to be dealt with at Aberdeen...

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Road Transport Activities

IN PARLIAMENT By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent Ignition Cables and Safeguarding Duties. TR. J. P. MORRIS called the...

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Problems of the

HAULIER AND CARRIER B Y a coincidence, just as I concluded the series of three articles dealing with the hazards of furniture...

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WHERE TO FIND HAULAGE BUSINESS

T TIEprospects this week are brighter than they have been since the beginning of the year. Whether this be the aetnal result of...

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A Simple Form of Servo Brake

T HE name of the Clayton Dewandre Co. ' Ltd., coupled with those of S. E. Edge and M. Payne, appear in Patent No. 365,655,...