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23rd August 1957
23rd August 1957
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Fundamental Rights Undermined

Proposed Loading Bans Conflict with Common Law on the Use of Roads CE N T successful A appeal by a driver against his...

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A Dangerous Argument

R EFERENCFS to private motorists and motor...cyclists made by the London Transport Executive in their 1956 review are in the...

Passing Comments

Why 'Fuel Tankers? F I LMING the discussion of the paper entitled London Airport," read recently before the . Royal SkietY of...

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One Hears

That the great problem now at all popular venues is where to put the rapidly massing number of motor vehicles. A three-year...

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Hire-purchase Interest to be Reduced

L OWER interest charges on hire-purchase transactions covering commercial vehicles will come into force next month. Lengthy...

London Busmen Want to Restore Differential

I FADERS of London's 53,000 busmen J.-. have decided to press for a pay rise anda shorter working week. This move, forecast by...

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User Changed : No Extra A Licence

A N appeal against a decision by the Northern Licensing Authority is being considered by Claude Hughes and Co. (Carlisle), Ltd....

Roads: T.U.C. and Employers Agree

IN the report to the annual congress I of the Trades Union Congress, published on Tuesday, it is revealed that representatives...

Men in the News

Mn. ARTHUR GILES has been appointed a director of H. Leverton and Ca., Ltd. • Ma. W. J. MCCARTHY, Mn. G. E. PHIPPS and MR. T....

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Western Hauliers Want Interworking

A PLAN for interworking will be discussed at Plymouth on September 4 by the long-distance hauliers' committee of the Devon and...

Micrograms " Royal " at Bristol: Next year's Royal Show will be held at Bristol.

Pay Increase: Along with other ground staff 'employed in civil air transport, drivers have been awarded an extra 8s. 3d. a...

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Miniature Bar on Thames Chassis

A NEW mobile demonstration bar, built on a standard Thames petrol-engincd chassis,, will shortly begin touring the British...

" B.R. Diesels 'Hitting Bus Companies "

THE Diesel services which have been introduced by British Railways are takirig traffic away from road-passenger transport,...

Decisions Reserved on Angling Trips

D ECIS1ONS were reserved by the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners at Leeds on Monday, when Mr. Emmanuel Jeffcock, Balaclava Road,...

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T.G.W.U. Still Pressing Hauliers

rTHE September issue of the Transport I. and General Workers Record says that the Union are constantly trying to persuade the...

Kirkstall Forge 'Ahead

TAKING the view that there will be an increasing demand for their products, Kirkstall Forge Engineering, Ltd., are going ahead...

Scottish Contest Plans Completed 11

A RRANGEMENTS have now been completed for the Scottish Commercial Vehicle Driver of the Year Competition. A new venue—Keir and...

£30,000 Lorry Theft : Haulier Charged

rHARGED at Aldershot on Monday with being concerned in a £30,000 theft of a British Road Services lorry at Hook, Hants, on...

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Charges Follow Road Checks

A NUMBER of prosecutions was heard by Monmouth ma g istrates last week followin g a series of vehicle examinations carried out...

Big Dodge Demand For Leyland Engines

L ARGE initial orders for 5.76-litre type 0.350 en g ines have been placed by Dod g e Bros. (Britain), Ltd., with Leyland...

New Zealand Lifts Import Controls

U NASSEMBLED commercial vehicles imported into New Zealand from non-schednled countries have been freed froin licensin g...

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Retractable Wheel-arch Land-Rover Prices Body in Production Up 2 Per Cent.

COMMERCIAL production has now be g un of a refuse collector with barrier loadin g and retractable wheelarches, desi g ned by...

p RICES of Land-Rover Vehicles were increased on Monday by about

2+ per cent. The , followin g arc the new prices: 88-in, wheelbase: petrol-engined, £630; oilengined, £730; station wagon....

0.008 in. Bore Wear After 510,000 Miles.

W HEN a Leyland 0.600 9,8-litre en g ine was dismantled for the first time after coverin g 510,000 miles, it was found that the...

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The North-West

A TRANSPORT Among the Healthy Plants of Lancashire Too Many Vicious Growths Tend to Stifle Development O VER the years,...

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First Time First Class

T HE firstzclass organization of 'he Plymouth eliminating round of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition was praised by...

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U.S. Capital Turns to Britain

Washington'S Bus Company Converting 105 White Petrol-engined Vehicles to Leyland Oilers. Great Improvement in Economy -- A I :...

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Morale Issue

ESEARCH commands respect whenever it is con cerned with something that fits in with the general idea of what is scientific, We...

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Engine Overhauls Round the Clock

M OST of the oil-engine and - chassis overhauls undertaken by Tilsley and Lovatt, Ltd., Newstead Trading Estate, Trentham,...

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Mobile Bank for Rhodesia

A MOBILE cinema-office-bank desft tined tined for Northern Rhodesia has been shipped from Liverpool. The body, based on a...

New Magnetic Fuel Filter

rhESIGNED to trap ferrous contamina tion, such as rust scale and so on. before it is able to clog fuel lines, a magnetic fuel...

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"Tulips Upon Dunghills"

E VERY day, on the tide, about a dozen barges are towed up Vange Creek to three wharves near Pitsea, Essex, where the vessels'...

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Still Grounded

B RITISI-I manufacturers are allowing America and Germany to steal a march" on them in the matter of air suspension. R. A....

Safety Conversion for Double-decker

•W HEN an accident occurred to the rear of a 1946 Guy 5LW rear-entrance double-decker, the Potteries Motor Traction Co.,. Ltd.,...

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Staff Cars Choosing and Buying Them

Different Methods of Providing Itinerant Employees with Means fir Personal Travel and Paying for Mileage L AST week some...

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An Improved Pneumatic Governor

P NEUMAT1C governors, as used in injection pumps, suffer from the defect that they respond not only to the general suction, but...