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23rd July 1954
23rd July 1954
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Profit Without Risk

p RESENT economic and political conditions are discouraging to municipal passenger transport operators. If they continue, some...

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A Fundamental Error?

THE action of the Northern Licensing Authority 1 (reported in The Commercial Motor, July 16) in refusing to allow the...

Passing Comments

Tail Eats Dog H AULIERS are angrily asking why the B.R.S. tail should be allowed to wag the road haulage dog. Faced with the...

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'One Hears

Of a claim that 10 Tiger Cubs have saved nearly £150 a month. That the Zoological Society should be informed of this at once...

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Limit on Financial Probing into Bus Companies' Affairs

V ALUABLE guidance on the principles to be followed in dealing with applications for increased fares has been given by the...

3s. Increase Agreed After Fierce Fight

A FTER heated argument at a meet1 - 1 ing which began at 10 a.m, and ended at 8 p.m., the Road Haulage Wages Council last week...

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Seven-hour Ban on Waiting in London

L OAD1NG and unloading during a I— , period of seven hours each day are to be banned over stretches of road much longer than 45...

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Men in the News

MR. A. HEALEY, a former Dunlop director, who retired this year after 38 years service, has been appointed a member of the...

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" Newcomer," 26 Years in Haulage, Refused Licence

A HAULIER with 26 years' experience was treated as a newcomer by the Northern Licensing Authority last week. Mr. R. Kelso,...

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Perkins Engines for U.S. Vehicles

P ERKINS engines are now being offered as original equipment by the International Harvester Co., one of the largest American...

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U.A.S. Seek to Costs: Wilts and

D ECENT wage increases had added £120,000 to the annual pay bill of United Automobile Services, Ltd., and £47,000 had to be...

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Leicester to Run Beyond Boundary ?

A PPLICAT1ON is to be made by 1.1 . Leicester Corporation to run buses beyond the city boundary to Nether Hall estate—an area...

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Output and E xports in May

T HE average weekly output of commercial vehicles during May was 5,161 units, the month's total being 20,644. In the first five...

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MUD—PLUGGING By,ohnF Moon

T HERE are very few oil-engined, medium-range four-wheel-drive vehicles in use at the present, mainly because most operators of...

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Mobile Shop for Outlying Districts

NABLING its operator to provide shop facilities for members of outlying communities formerly dependent upon visits to the...

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YEARS OF PARCELS ARRYING

By P. G. Tucker I N the first six days of starting in the parcels carry ing business, N. Francis and Co., Ltd., Parkholme...

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Coachbuilt Cabs for Austin-Eagle Refuse Collectors

A COACHBUILT six-seat crew cab is PA a notable feature of refusecollector bodies of varying capacities recently completed by...

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Light-alloy Bodywork for Special Uses

A N unusual feature of a light-alloy I,150-cu.-ft pantechnicon body milt on a Kafrier Gamecock chassis by Wm, Collett and...

Mobile Welding Laboratory

QPECIALLY designed by Pilgrim ■ --) Mobile Units, Ltd., Ringwood, Ilants, a mobile radiographic and weldtesting laboratory is...

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Special A Licence Refused

Vehicle Not to be Transferred from Hull to King's Lynn T HE Eastern Licensing Authority has refused to grant a special A...

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Multiple Accident Claims Settled

A T Birmingham Assizes last week, Mr. Justice Lynskey awarded damages to a bus driver and the widow of a lorry driver in...

In a Line or Two

The London office of Vokes, Ltd., is now at 123 Victoria Street London, S.W,I, * Judella Castings, Ltd. makers of lighting...

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Wild Goose Chase

" You won't make yourse0 a bit realer by crying," Theedkdee remarked: "there's nothing to cry about." "ii I wasn't real,"...

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Coach Parking Fees Excessive

A T nearly all holiday resorts coach operators are, 1 J — k venture to suggest, being held to ransom by the imposition of...

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Bonuses for Work or Safety

Many Hauliers Offer Financial Inducement to Their Drivers to Increase Revenue or Reduce Operating Costs : Two Incentive Schemes...

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A Powered Rear-Loading Shovel

A SELF-LOADING device for a lorry forms the subject of patent No. 710,217 (C. Frisk, 15 Malmbergsvligen, Giillivare, Sweden)....