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Motoring Law Badly Administered

D RITISH justice has been universally respected S for . its impartiality, but, so far as the road user is concerned, it is now...

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Passing Comments

Russia Developing IT is believed that the authoriAlcohol as a Motor I ties vin Russia are attaching Fuel great importance to...

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TRANSPORT WAGES CONTROL: COMMITTEE FORMED.

Following the announcement made last week by the Government, the Ministers of Labour and Transport have now appointed the...

NEWS of the WEEK

The wheels of wealth will be slowed by all difficulties of (rampart, al Whatever paints arising, as a carriage is by the...

Are Railways Acting illegally ?

CURNITURE removals by rail under A licences, when cheap fares were granted to the families removing, were declared to be...

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RAIL MONOPOLY BID FAILS.

A question of the effect of the road haulage of pipes on railway traffic of a similar character was raised before Mr. J. H....

L.M.S. Admits Barefaced Rate-cutting

WHEN the final day's hearing of the YV application by Stevenson Transport, Ltd., for A licences for four tractors and three...

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IMPORT AND EXPORT RETURNS MARK IMPROVEMENT.

Import and export returns for last month are encouraging. The value of commercial vehicles, cars, chassis and accessories...

Municipal Purchases and Proposals

Dudley Watch Committee is buying an Austin ambulan cc. Hampton Urban District Council requires a. refuse collector. — Cwmbran...

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VARIATION APPLICATION HEARD IN CAMERA.

The first EaSt Midland traffic court to be held in camera was conducted by Mr, J. H. Stirk in Leicester, on Tuesday, to hear an...

£1 2 5 Penalty on ioo Charges

ATA T Bristol, last week, the Western Authority, represented by Mr. R. P. Holloway, prosecuted Messrs. Knee Bros., of Bristol,...

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OPERATORS IN MINISTRY OF LABOUR INQUIRY.

Complaints that haulage concerns are failing, despite warnings, to observe conditions as to wages and hours, resulted in a...

Modified Matadors for Gold Transport A N accompanying illustration shows one

of three A.E.C. Matador Mark II chassis recently ordered by the Egyptian Government. The vehicles have been modified for work...

May Registrations Show Trade Improvement

R EGISTRATIONS of new commercial vehicles in May, 1936, went up with a jump, compared with the figures for May, 1935....

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Railways Rule the Licensing "Racket"

Inconsistency of Argument in Applications for Increased Tonnage Glossed Over, Under the Guise of Implementing Public Policy and...

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Timbers that "Speak for Themselves"

Woods of High Publicity Value Suitable for the Construction and Decoration of Commercial-vehicle Bodywork By a Timberman A...

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The Latest jowett

Exhibits Economy and Efficiency Road Test No. 242 O PPOSED cylinders, arranged horizontally, have so much to • recommend them...

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British Supremacy in Welding Practice

WELDING is one of the many imW portant scientific processes which have made great advancement during the past few years. In...

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RATE CUTTING for the ;ake of it

Some Stories of the Extraordinarily Low Rates at Which Road Haulage Contractors are Still Content to Work I N the course of my...

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New Features in a Range of Oil Reclaimers Additions to the Metafilter Range Include a New Pumpoperated Apparatus

IN our issue dated February 14 last we described a new method of oil filtration developed by Metafiltration Co., Ltd.,...

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The Asset of a

Well-trained Driver Keen Selection of Applicants and the Institution of Thorough Tests are Important N OT long ago anyone...

A Silencer of Exceptional Efficiency T HE requirements of a silencer

are that it should carry outits work effectively to the necessary 'degree whilst causing the minimum amount of obstruction and,...

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Special Body Layouts for Churns and Crates

Lorry and Van Body Designs for the Milk and Other Trades, Ensuring Safe and Speedy Loading and Unloading I N the wholesale...

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Combine Harvesting Comes to Stay

Investigations by the Institute for Research in Agricultural Engineering and the Experience of Users Augurs Well for the...

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OPINIoNs

and QUERIES The Editor invites correspondence on ail subjects connected with the use of commercial motors. Letters should he...

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Road Transport Topics

In Parliament By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent NATIONAL DEFENCE AND ROAD TRANSPORT. T WO interesting questions...

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Operating Aspects of

Passenger Transport LANCS MERGER DEAD A s forecast in The Commercial lifotol a fortnight ago, the scheme for the...

Action Against Minister Fails

J TJDGMENT was given by Lord Carmont, in the Court of Session, last Friday,, in an action by W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd.,...

Workers' Dispute in Industrial Court

A FTER a protracted dispute between the United Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., and its employees, which resulted in a strike in...

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BRISTOL TRAMS TO BE SCRAPPED

(IN Tuesday, Bristol Corporation V./considered two schemes for the purchase of the city tramways system. A decision was reached...

FALSE ALLEGATIONS BY COUNCILLORS.

T HAT conncils stlould refrain from passing resolutions on councillors' unsupported statements was an opinion expressed at...

CONSENT FOR HALIFAX.

O N Tuesday, the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners granted Halifax Corporation consent to operate a motorbus service between...

ASSENT FOR HULL BILL.

H ULL Corporation's trolleybus Bill has received Royal Assent. Complete conversion from tram to trolleybus operation is...

TIME - TABLE BAN LIFTED.

L AST September the railways banned " .Hutchinson's A-Z Time-tables," because they contained details of competing services....

PUBLIC ASKED TO SUPPORT TOURS

A N appeal for the support of the travelling public in a protest against tours restrictions is being made by the Lancashire •...

COMMISSIONERS' POWER TO REGULATE SEATING CAPACITY.

T HE Minister of Transport has dismissed an appeal by the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., against a refusal to grant a...

"COLD SHOULDER" FOR FARES • COMMITTEES?

I N future, the Traffic Commissioners are likely, in dealing with proposed revisions to fare lists, to call conferences of...

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Saurer Oil-engine Developments

T wOpatents are disclosed, this week, by S. A. Adolphe Saurer, of Arbon, Switzerland, each describing improvements. in the...