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23rd September 1949
23rd September 1949
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Warning to the C Licensee

A NYONE who has made a close study of the first British Transport Commission annual report of the Obviously Perturbed at Growth...

Page 30

An "Elastic" Single-decker

rr HIS week "The Commercial Motor" is able to give an exclusive report of a 46-seater single-deck luxury coach, the first of...

Passing Comments

American Truck-Bus A N interesting six-wheeled Supplements Rail truck-bus, developed by Service the Kenworth Motor Truck •...

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No N.R.T.O.A. Resignations in N. E. Area Dispute : Minister's Haste to Sieze Passenger Transport

A REPORT that Mr. R. G. Hunter, secretary, and the committee of the Northern Road Transport Owners' Association, of...

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"Prune Services to Save Fuel

wi-itt.E. the country's economic posiW tion remained as it was, the Licensing Authority would prefer a reduction of services to...

Devaluation Surprises Industry

R EACT1ONS of leading commercial ' Xvehicle manufacturers to the devaluation of the pound and its possible effects on exports...

Purchase Tax on Vans?

R EPRESENTAT1ONS have been made by the National Employers' Association of Vehicle Builders against a Government proposal to...

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"Mass" Escape from Nat ionalization A REPORT in the "Leicester Mercury" tells

of a Sharnford road transport contractor whose concern has recently been nationalized, and who has handed in his resignation,...

Men in the News

Ma. R. H. HAINSWORTH has been appointed a director of Specialloid. Ltd. MR. FREDERICK BOLTON has resigned from the board of...

POPULAR MOTOR SHOW RENDEZVOUS

O NE of the most popular resorts of the members of the motor industry is the Albany Club. 3, Savile Row, London. W.I.'During...

Dr. in One Ledger : Cr. in Another

T HE Road Haulage Executive was fined £5, with 11 15s. costs, at Otley, on September. 16, for using a vehicle of exceptional...

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July Output Cut by 1,000 a Week.

H OLIDAYS reduced the production of commercialvehicles in the fourweek period of July to 3,175 a week, compared. with 4,022 a...

Death of • Sir Witham Thomson

WE much re g ret to learn of the death, VY on September 18, of SIR WILLIAM J. THOMSON, D.L., LL.D., chairman and mana g in g...

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Higher Fares No Cure for Losses

THAT it was wrong for transport I undertakings to regard increases in fares as the only way to avoid deficits was an opinion...

Export Level Still Good

A LTHOUGI1, in general, exports itl.from this country declined in July, commercial-vehicle manufacturers maintained an...

In a-Line or Two

In our issue dated September 9 on page 144, the A.B.C. double-decker was a Regent Mark III. The Scottish Motor Show will be...

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New Specialized Unit to Fight Aircraft Fires

A SPECIALIST concern in the design of airfield crash tenders, the Pyrene Cot , Dd., Great . West Road, Brentford, Middlesex, is...

I.R.T.E. Programme for the Autumn

TRADE friends of the Institute of 1 Road Transport Engineers will be welcomed at the annual dinner and dance to be held at the...

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Aspects of the B.T.C. Report

This Second Article Concerns More General Matters, such as Important Dates, Organization, Charges and C-licence Competition D...

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"Not With a Bang, but a Whimper"

By JANUS I NSTITUTIONS have a way of outliving the ideals that first brought them into being. The ideal of a united road...

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LINCOLNSHIR

its Municipc 3us Services By C. S. D U N BAR, M.inst.T. 4 AST week I indicated the extent to which Lincolnshire depends for...

Page 43

Curing Industrial Aches and Pains

Relations Between Employer and Employee as Themes of Papers Read at the Annual 1.0.T.A. Conference W ITH the common theme,...

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Single-decker wit] 'wo Deck Levels

D RIVERS and conductors left their buses to stare, and bystanders stood with mouths agape, at the Crellin Duplex 46seater...

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130 Vehicles

By L. J. Cotton, M.I.R.T.E. N EVER before has so much been done by so few. This near-Churchillian phrase may well be applied...

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Non-stop Buses to Relieve Load

IT will probably be of interest to Mr. Ashley Taylor, whose article dealing with the movement from work to home appears in...

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The Half-hour Synthetics

This, the Last of the Series of Painting Articles, Deals with the Limited Uses of the Quick-drying Enamels T HE idea of an...

Van Carries £10,000 Payload

:A A N order for a large-capacity 'body, based on an economical and manceuvrable chassis, has recently been carried out by...

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Drop-Sided Lorries on

MUNICIPAL HAULAGE / N my article published in "The Commercial Motor," for last week, I dealt in detail with the cost of...

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High Torque at Low Engine Speed

P ATENT No. 624,810 bears the name of H. Ricardo, 21, Suffolk Street, London, S.W.1, and shows this wellknown designer's latest...