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23rd February 1934
23rd February 1934
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A Pig-by-Rail Monopoly

A DRASTIC example of the dire effects which railway agreed charges May exercise upon the future of transport by road, is shown...

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Passing Comments

T "goods-transport side of the industry can certainly take heart from the figures of new registrations for the back half of...

Special Features of This Issue

We deal with features of interest at the British Industries Fair. Page 58. Low back pressure is afforded by the new Vokes...

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One Hears

Of few contests so carefully jildged as that for the road travel slogan. That it is not on record that Christopher Stone took...

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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...

Page 37

News of Municipal Activities

Bid to Restrict Loading and Unloading. The highways committee of Durham County Council is to apply to the Minister of...

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MUNICIPAL PURCHASES and PROPOSALS

RAWTENSTALL Highways Committee has decided to buy two Leyland doubledeck oil-engined buses. A special committee of FULHAM...

The Oiler Concisely Explained

WHILST oil engines for road-transvv port purposes are now definitely established among operators of large fleets of vehicles,...

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Road Transport Activities

IN PARLIAMENT By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent HYDROGENATION AND ROYALTIES. T HE Secretary for Mines was asked to...

Page 40

GOODS BODIES for• RAPT

UNLOADING Arranging Lorry Bodywork for Tipping and for the Self discharge of• a Variety of Bulk Loads, such as Sand, Gravel,...

Page 42

Operating Costs of Motorbus, Trolleybus

and Tramcar By H. Scott Hall, Some Considerations on the Costs of Operation of Different Types of Passenger Vehicle to...

Page 43

A Link Between Operator and Driver

New Cetex Scheme Enables a Driver in the Metropolis to Pick Up Instructions Without Referring to His Provincial Headquarters...

Page 44

Disc-type Combustion Chamber in a German Oil Engine

Description of Two Kam per Models at Present Offered. Provision for Starting and Warming Up on Petrol if Required RODUCED by a...

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Railway Policy Declared

Following the New Act The Railway Companies State Their Future Intentions Concerning Applications for Goods Licences in the...

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GOOD FEATURES in a NE

ROTARY-VALVE ENGINE The McLaren-Lewis Petrol Engine which Incorporates a Design of Rotary Valve Possessing Certain Entirely...

Page 48

The Institute of Transport limner

T HE, annual dinner of the Institute of Transport was held on Friday last at the Connaught Rooms, London, the president, Mr....

Page 49

Licensing Problems Elucidated

The 13th Article of the Series in which We Answer Typical Questions on Different Subjects Resulting from the Passing of the...

Page 50

AIR TRANSPORT NEWS

POLICY OF THE RAILWAYS. In some papers articles have appeared which claim to give authoritative information of the air policy...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES Educating the Public in Road Sense. Unprotected Inventions at the B.I.F. The R.H.A. for

Every Haulier Will the New Act Save the Haulage Industry ? The Effect of Taxation on Economical Vehicle Operation NATIONAL...

Page 52

Low Back Pressure in a New Silencer

H AVING for some years specialized in the design and Iproduction of air, fuel and lubricant filters, C. G. Vokes, Ltd., 95,...

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An Improved Automatic Vaporizer

Simplicity of Control a Feature of the Latest Headen Hamilton Apparatus O NE of the first devices for running ‘..../petrol...

C.M.U.A. President-Elect on the New Act

N EARLY 500 operators heard an address on "The Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933, as it Affects the Commercial User," by Mr....

Page 54

The British Industries Fair

Castle Bromwich Section a Realistic Exhibition of Recent Engineering Progress. Considerable Transport Interest at Olympia and...

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Operating Aspects of

PASSENGER TRANSPORT "THE ROADS ARE YOURS, USE THEM ! " Winning Entry in M.H.C.S.A. Road Passenger Transport Slogan...

THE LATEST NEWS OF IMPORTANT EVENTS

FEWER NEW HACKNEYS IN 1933, A DECLINE from 5,091 in 1932 to 3,877 in 1933 is shown in recently issued statistics of the...

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The Latest Running-time Recorder

A New Coltagraph Instrument Which May be Opened for Chart Examination, but. Cannot be Interfered With S IMPLE in mechanism, of...

A Simple Gearbox Power Take-off

O UR attention is drawn by S. Smith and Sons (Motor Accessories), Ltd., Cricklewood Works, London, N.W.2, to a new standardized...

Valuable Features in a New Plug

S UCCESSFUL results are, we learn, being obtained by the Massa Sparking Plug Co., Ltd., 1711, High Street, Teddington,...

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Where to Find Haulage Business

Bright Prospects for Industry. Good Business in Cutlery. BC0172 in the Motor Trade Woollen Manufacturers Active. Many Orders...

Tenders of Interest to Hauliers

MENDERS are invited by the following (latest dates given in parentheses):—Wrexham B.C. for macadam, also motor vehicles. Apply...

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Problems of the

HAULIER and CARRIER rr HERE is a widespread appreciation of the fact that one of the tendencies of the Road and Rail Traffic...

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Hydraulic Operation of Engine Valves

A Risumi of Patent Specifica. (ions That Have Recently Been Published N OVEL proposals are made in patent No. 404,426, by A....