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24th April 1936
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Trade and Industry First

T HE Government, m . its efforts to bolster up the railways at the expenSe of road, transport, fails lamentably to appreciate ,...

Brake Progress —A Lesson in Design

S HOULD the history of brakes one day be written, it would make interesting reading. Comprehensive as was the review of modern...

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Passing Comments

Signpost inscriptions -THOSE who are concerned That Require Bringing I with the repainting of Up t o D a t e , fingerposts...

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One Hears--

That we don't want our buses run on railway lines—either in practice or in theory. That the M.O.T. does not think that 80...

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NEWS of the WEEK

The wheels of wealth will be slowed by all difficulties of transport, at whatever points arising. as a carriage is by the...

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Low Transport Tenders Condemned p liBLIC authorities, and particularly Portsmouth City

Council, are growing restless over the uneconomic tenders offered by transport contractors. Protests were made when contracts...

Responsibility for Excessive Hours

TN Falkirk .Sheriff Court, last Friday, 1Sheriff Robertson gi've 'judgment in a case in which Mr. William Alexander Mitchell,...

Should Company Be Registered First ?

O BJECTION on a point of law was put forward by Mr. Merritt, for the L.N.E. Railway Co., against an application to Sir William...

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Garage Proprietor's Application Fails

I NTERESTING information was brought to light by a railway advocate at a sitting of the North-Western Deputy Licensing...

Personal Pars

Dn. H. F. lawoRru, M.Sc., B.ENG., M.I.MEcH.E., chief technical officer of Leyland Motors, Ltd., left England on Saturday last...

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CO-OPERATIVE UNION INSISTS ON AGREED WAGES, Over 1,000 cooperative societies

affiliated to the Co-operative Union have received a reCommendation from that unioe. stating that, in employing outside...

Fraud on Employers Alleged

ILLICIT transactions between long'distance drivers and garage proprietors are to be the subject of special investigation by the...

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What the Associations are 'Doing

Associations to Fight Rail Monopoly S.T.R. SPEAKS AT A.R.O. DINNER. The Northamptonshire sub-area of A.R.O. held its annual...

Start of Rates Stabilization

VORKSHIRE members of A.R.O. I are now being consulted at the meetings of the numerous sub-areas, as to their views on the...

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North-Western Passenger Merger Move

A PASSENGER board to represent practically the whole of the NorthWestern Area (except North Wales) was formed at a meeting in...

NEW HULL ASSOCIATION; C.M.U.A. PROTEST.

The formation of the Hull and East Yorkshire Operators' Association, the purpose of which is stated to be the handling of local...

February's Registrations Show Advances

I N reviewing the returns of new vehicles licensed in January, we commented on the fact that the year had opened on a...

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MAINTENANCE

for the small operator p ROMLNENT among the observations of the Licensing Authorities concerning the working of the Road and...

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DODGE ANNOUNCES A FINE NEW RANGE

I NMay of last year, Dodge Brothers (Britain), Ltd., Mortlake Road, Kew Gardens, Surrey, introduced a new 4tonner designed in...

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Platinum Points for K.L.G. Plugs

-rim fitting of platinum points to K.L.G. sparking plugs was an experiment carried out in the course of ordinary research...

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Railways Retract in Their Attack

WILL the Appeal Tribunal endorse IT an attempt by the railway companies to jeopardize the future security of the road-haulage...

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PROBLEMS OF CONFECTK

gERY TRANSPORT SOLVED N °THING so quickly demonstrates the peculiarities of a trade as its problems of transport. Chocolates...

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Successful Tyre-fire Extinguishing Tests

F OLLOWING upon the article "How Deflated 'Giants' May Cause Fire," which appeared in our issue dated April 17, comes news from...

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Maintaining Group Efficiency in transport

P REVIOUS articles of mine have dealt with individual costs and efficiency, and methods. whereby units of similar class,...

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Cutting Lorry-body Weight with Safety

M ODERN requirements, and the trend of present-day legislation, are giving a value to unladenweight ratio not dreamed of by the...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

SHOULD ANCILLARY USERS AND HAULIERS OBSERVE THE SAME WAGES? [4790] Unity of action is certainly ideal, worthy of every effort...

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A Carburetter with Self-varying Choke r HIEF of a number of

interesting %.-efeatures in the Gladwell Upthau g ht Carburetter (G.U.C.), a new product of Gladwell and Kell (1932) Ltd.,...

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Operating Aspects of

PASSENGER TRANSPORT One of 17 attractive Leyland buses with M.C.W. patented metal 4R-seater bodies, recently completed to the...

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NO -LONG-DISTANCE" BUSES FOR WORKERS

O N an application .fOr reconsideration of their previous decision regardingthe transport of workers from one area • to...

Bid to Sell Part of Joint Service

C OMPL/CATIONS arising from the joint operation by two concerns of an express service betweenHarrogate and 131ackpool were...

Deadlock at Leicester

A " JUDGMENT of Solomon" has 1 - 1 been delivered by the East Midland Traffic Commissioners on an application of Leicester...

Transfer Application Dispute

T EE refusal of a transfer of a licence from Messrs. Curtis Tours, Manchester, to Curtis Tours, Ltd., by the North-Western...

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SEMI-PRIVATE PARTY DIFFICULTIES

D IFFICULTIES created for club and L./association tour organizers in Lancashire by the regulation that precludes advertising of...

HEAVY FINE TO BE REMITTED?

A T the South-Western Police Court, London, on Monday, Mr. Claud Mullins, the magistrate, announced that he would ask the Home...

Bid for Extra

WHEN Stevenson Transport, Ltd., W Liverpool, applied before Sir William Hart, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, at...

Heavies"—Strong Opposition

roadway had been carried. Mr. Stevenson's experience with sub-contractors had not been a happy one. The facilities provided by...

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A Novel Form of Servo Motor

I N patent No. 444,127 is described a new au-mechanical servo motor which may be used for any desired purpose, and for brake...