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25th March 1938
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Motor Roads Must Come!

The Increasing Congestion of Oar Main Roads Will Force the Adoption of Motor Highways S OONER or later, and preferably t h e...

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Passing Comments

D URING February, 1936, "Alexander Duckham and Co., Ltd., installed a Perkins Wolf high-speed oil engine in one of its staff...

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One Hears

Divided we stand; united we could move. The query "How did the Luton type of van body obtain its name?" That trade goes in...

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NEWS of the WEEK

AGREEMENT REACHED ON WAGES. At a meeting of the National Joint Conciliation Board, on Friday last, agreement was reached on...

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Important Contract-licence Pointer C AN C AN a man who also has a

canal business engage with a road haulier for a contract vehicle to do the transport for his sand and gravel business? In the...

Railways' Effort to "Remove the Most Efficient Man"

THE question of procedure on an I application for regrant of a licence w as raised by Mr. H. Backhouse Jnr., before the...

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Employers' Panels' Authority Questioned

IT is understood that the Minister of Transport is to have a consultation with members of the National Joint Conciliation...

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Jowett 10-cwt. Flat-four Van Makes its Debut

Latest Machine Available in either Van or Lorry Form, at £180, with Guaranteed Overload of 2 cwt. ITHERTO, jowett Cars, Ltd.,...

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FORDSON 5-cwt. VAN SETS UP NEW CLASS RECORDS

Road Test No. 271 B EFORE becoming acquainted with the new Fordson 5-cwt. van, which is the subject of this road-test report,...

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Ministry Analyses 200,000 Road Accidents

S AFETY-FIRST propagandists and others associated with the efforts to grapple with the road-accident problem will obtain much...

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C ONSIDERAf3LE publicity has been given to the mechanization of the

British Army, and it is a matter that is closely associated with our industry and of much interest to readers of this paper....

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Why Not Delay That Rebore? •

An Engine-reconditioning Service Utilizing Special Rings. Existing Pistons Made Oversize by Peening TSIE use of special piston...

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Gambling With the Haulage Industry

Some Further Reasons Why Hauliers Should Delay in Disposing of Their Businesses By S.T.R. T HE title of this article may neea...

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THE A B C OF B.B.( ROAD TRANSPORT

T HE British Broadcasting Corporation is proud of its ownership of a splendid fleet of transport vehicles. Yet, so discreetly...

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Russia Speeds Up Production

Mass Production Increases and Many New Models are Being Brought Out in Goods and Passenger Classes S OVIET factories, for the...

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Road Transport Topics By Our Special in Parliament Parliamentary Correspondent

DISSATISFACTION WITH APPEAL TRIBUNAL DECISION. UA.D the Minister's attention, asked 1 IMr. Holdsworth, been drawn to a...

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What the Associations Are Doing

ECHO OF THE NORTH SHIELDS FISH-HAULAGE CASE. " We do not feel justified in placing any further proposals before the Minister,...

Civil War Stopped by 1930 Act

C OACti owners were not the only people to be harassed by the Government, for to give the maximum freedom to all you had to put...

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WAGE INCREASES THAT ARE NOT ENFORCEABLE.

At a meeting of the North London and Eastern Sub-areas of ARC., held last week, Mr. H. Norman Letts, dealing with the wages...

Class of Work Governs Grade of Vehicles.

On Friday of last week S.T.R., The Commercial Motor costs expert, delivered a special address to the Norwich Traffic Club, He...

S.T.R.'s Sugar-beet Haulage Scheme A T an open meeting of

sugar-beet .rthauliers held at Wellington, Salop. on Thursday of last week, with Mr.. G. F. Goodwin, secretary of the West...

Tenders of Interest to Hauliers

(VENDERS are invited by the following. I. (Latest dates given in parentheses):— AInvoldt U.D.C. for whinstone chippings....

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RECORD YOUR TYRE COSTS TC A FRACTION

It Pays to Keep a Separate Record of Every Tyre Throughout Its Life, Whether It be in Use or Not N 0 doubt many readers will...

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Progress in Metallurgy

That Benefits the Commercial-vehicle industry There is Always Something New in Metals and Some of the Latest Products Have...

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OPINIONS and

QUERIES WHY SELL NOW' [5299] S.T.R., in dealing with the question of mergers, sounds a timely warning against selling...

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New Water-jacket-deposit Removal Service

D EPOSITS in water jackets cause unequal cooling, leading to distortion and possibly even to fracture of manifold, cylinder...

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Operating Aspects of Passenger Transport

OBJECTION "BORDERING ON ABSURDITY" A Napplication by the Trent Motor Traction Co. to run a service from Derby to the new gun...

RAILWAY CHECKS BUS-ROUTE TIMES

A T a sitting at Hartlepool, last week, the Northern Area Traffic Commissioners promised to investigate allegations made by the...

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ELASTIC TIME-TABLES ADVOCATED

A T a sitting of the Southern ScotAland Traffic Commissioners in Dumfries on March 17, Chief Constable William Black put...

Year Starts on Dull Note in New Registrations

CO far as the registrations of new P./goods vehicles are concerned, the year 1938 opened on a dull note and the total of 7,256...

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A Convertible Endless-track Vehicle

A Résumé of Recently Published Patent Specifications A VEHICLE which may be run either with or without endless tracks, is...