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21st December 1951
21st December 1951
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Co-operation in Trailer Design

is developOnly Beneficial Results Could ing in this country with Follow Closer Liaison Between quiet dignity, in many spheres...

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Liquid Fuel Fires

T HE recent tragic explosion and fire which occurred while a petrol wagon was replenishing a sunken tank at a filling station,...

Passing Comments

Struck by Lightning I T is not often that a motor vehicle is struck by lightning, although this does sometimes happen to...

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One Hears

"This good E.R.F." That the problem of lead supply is one of those in the lead. That if it becomes more difficult it may...

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Appeal Against Sir Arnold's Plan

D ECLARING that it was entirely outside the scope of the Licensing Authority's function to prepare fare tables and impose them...

M.o.T. Sees R.H.A.: Men Hostile

T HE Minister of Transport, Mr. J. S. Maclay, last week received a deputation from the Road Haulage Association to discuss the...

T.A.T. Ruling on Compromises: £450,000 for Six Hauliers

rOMPROM1SE agreements between the Road Haulage Executive and acquired undertakings should show clearly the matters on which...

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"Reserves and Fares" Unrelated: Councils Oppose Aldershot Co.

T HE long-standing dispute between the Aldershot and District Traction Co., Ltd., and local authorities on whether increased...

Bristol Sell-out to B.T.C. Opposed

W HEN Bristol City Council discussed the deteriorating financial position of the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., last...

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Traders Reject R.H.E. Increases

QTRONG resistance has been put up 6--) by Birmingham Chamber of Commerce to the revised scale of charges recently issued by the...

Men in t he News

MR. PERCY G. CLADISH has been appointed sales manager of Brockhouse Engineering (Southport), Ltd. MR. D. J. HOPI.EY has been...

Fare Stages to be Restored

L AST week, Brighton Town Council endorsed recommendations that some 30 of the 68 fare stages which were revised on October 14...

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R.H.E. Withdrew Special Vehicle

A WITNESS who supported an application by A. Stevens (Haulage), Ltd., Great Ayton, near Middlesbrough, to the Northern...

Tankers Needed for Pre-mixed Mortar

INCREASING use by builders of preI mixed mortar necessitated the operation of additional vehicles, the Northern Licensing...

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ublic Bondage to Bus Operators ', F OR the second tirne this

year. United Automobile Services, Ltd., has been granted an increase in fares by the Northern Licensing Authority. Proposals in...

East Yorkshire Record Traffic

I N his annual report, Mr. J. S. Wills, M.Inst.T., chairman of East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., dealt largely with the...

IN A LINE OR TWO

Briggs Motor Bodies, Ltd., is to double its present capital of Lim. A war-time bus has b e ers converted by Chesterfield...

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More Co-operation in Trailer Field

A NSWER I NG questions put by members of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (Automobile Division), in London, last week,...

Licences Not to Be Converted

A N appeal by the Premier Bus Co., Watford has been dismissed with costs by the Minister of Transport. it was against the...

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ROUND HOLES or SQUARE PEGS

Longer Life and Lower Weight are the Two Factors which Bodybuilders Attempt to Relate in Their Designs : Three Modern Methods...

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A Challenge to Other Correspondents

O PINIONS differ concerning the Transport Act of 1947; now the same applies to denationalization. The writers of the letters...

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Big Load in Experimental Leyland

A NEW Leyland Royal Tiger single1 - 1. decker with a specially designed body built by the Commonwealth Engineering Co., Ltd.....

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Two Main Causes of Higher Costs

Peak-hour Problem and Reduction of Population Per Acre on Housing Estates Increase Expenses of Municipal Bus U ndertakings T...

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Private terprise the der in West Indies

By Harold Cha T HE West Indies is a very far-flung part of what remains of our far-flung Empire. Ii is so little known that a...

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How Transport Methods Affect the Kinds of Packing Employed in

the Delivery of Electric Cooking Stoves, Chinaware 'and Porcelain Electrical Components Part One By P. A. C. Brockington,...

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Pearks Reaches Out with Mobile Shops

MO meet the needs of customers in I outlying districts, Pearks Dairies, Ltd., has recently put into service the first of a...

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Political Commentary

1066 and All That By JANUS I HAVE it from my usual unreliable sources that the British Transport Commission intends this year...

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What

LIGHT VANS Cost to Run I CONCLUDED the previous article in this series by stating the problem of a haulier who proposed to...

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British Built for Canadian Television

T HE circumstances surrounding the recent delivery by Marshall Motor Bodies, Ltd., Cambridge, of two television vans to the...

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Self-Feeding Carburettor

DATENT No. 658,941 comes from 1 the 511 Carburetter Co., Ltd., Wood Lane, Birmingham, 24, and deals with a carburetter which...