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27th December 1935
27th December 1935
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Make Slippery Roads Illegal

T HE prevalence of accidents mainly due to the skidding of motor vehicles has again brought into prominence the vital...

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Passing Comments Municipal Vehicles for IT is believed that the corn

Public Health I mercial-vehicle committee Exhibition? , . . has recommended to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders...

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One Hears—

That one still finds a lot of sympathy being wasted on the poor "overtaxed railway." That constant mesh is no longer a good...

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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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New Speeds for Track-type Vehicles

THE Minister of Transport has issued I. The Motor Vehicles (Variation of Speed Limit) Regulations, 1935. By these, the...

• PNEUGRIPPA PROGRESS.

We learn from Teealernit, Ltd., Brentford, that the Vigor Co., and the Continental Tyre and Rubber Co., both French concerns,...

Hours " Prosecution " Unnecessary," Says Magistrate.

" The prosecution seems to be rather unnecessary," said the chairman of the Chepstow magistrates, when asked for an advocate's...

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INCREASING REPAIR-SHOP EFFICIENCY.

A new step to increase still further the efficiency of the Ford dealers' repair-shop methods has just been announced, the Ford...

INDISCRIMINATE RAILWAY OBJECTIONS.

An energetic protest at what he described as " the frivolous objection of the railway companies " to the applications of small...

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What the Associations are Doing

Railway Representatives Attend . A.R.O. Meeting. That the railways and road transport should cease squabbling and get on with...

Yorkshire Merger Plan Goes Ahead

D ETERMINATION both to proceed with steps to secure the merging of road-transport associations and to oppose the National Joint...

Co-ordination and Chambers of Commerce

T HE Commercial Motor Users Association has had under consideration the inquiry addressed by the Association of British...

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\(1 AWE A EWArDE I T is chronicled that the Emperor Ping,

of the great Fong dynasty, strolled one day through his capital. With him was Fu Lem On, an old and sage counsellor. Coming...

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THE NEW E0 2 TONI\ ER TESTED

with a 50 per cent. overload A LTHOUGH it is contrary to our usual practice to test a vehicle with a load in excess of the...

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OPINIONS and

QUERIES HOW WILL THE NEW LIGHT CHASSIS COMPARE WITH THE OLD HEAVY? [4707] With regard to Mr. C. W. Reeve's last paragraph in...

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Germany Encourages Road Transport

rr HE results of farsighted motoring legislation in Germany during the past few years are becoming apparent in the progress...

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Operating Aspects of Passenger Transport

RAILWAY OBJECTS TO CO-ORDINATION! A MOVE in the direction of roadt% rail co-ordination, which, however, was opposed by the...

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L.N.E.R. Loses Appeal., but Gains Objective

W E are now able to amplify our reports, in last week's issue, of.the Minister of Transport's decisions on a number of...

HOW TO AVOID COSTS IN COURT

CWANSEA Stipendiary Magistrate has given a useful hint to defendants to summonses for breaches of road traffic regulations,...

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BRITISH GERMAN RECIPROCITY

A RRANGEMENTS have practically been completed between Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd„ Leeds, and German Motorways, Cologne, whereby...

A New Insulation System for Tankers

G BEAT interest attaches to an important new method of heat insulation for tankers for the transport of hot liquids, such as...

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COSTING PARADOX DISPUTED

I MET a man, the other day, who had the temerity to suggest that he did not agree with my " Paradox in Costing," which was the...

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New Features in Sunbeam-B,T.H.

Trolleybuses for Johannesburg J OHANNESBURG, one of many progressive overs , --qs municipalities that are introducing...

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ATTRACTIVE SPRING LITERATURE

A publication, of the type generally: but in this case rather misleadingly, described as a brochure, has recently been brought...

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MINIMIZING THE DANGER.

DF THE ROAD AT NIGHT I N view of the multifarious regulations that have been imposed upon road transport in general, it is...

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M.A. Highways Plan for Greater London

THE Roads Improvement Associa tion has recently submitted a memorandum to Sir Charles H. Bressey, G.B., F.S.I., setting out...

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A New A.E.CThe Crocodile 18-tonner

T HE accompanying illustration shows one of three similar machines that have just been built by the Associated Equipment Co.,...

A Good Cylinder-wear Record

Q0 many views have been expressed on the subject of cylinder wear in road-transport engines, running on both petrol and oil,...

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New Ideas Bodywork

for the bake tnd confectioner T HE manager of a thriving coachbuilding business, Mr. John 0a.kenhurst, had almost completed...

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Mechanized Methods Speed Up Parcels Traffic

T HOSE districts in Surrey which surround Kingston have for many years been served by Carter Paterson and Co., Ltd., from its...

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Air Transport News

COMPETITION FOR SCANDINAVIAN AIR LINES. B ESIDES British Airways,Ltd., and British Continental Airways, Ltd., a third company...

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The Latest Borg and Beck Clutch

P ATENT No. 438,396 comes from that well-known American concern, the Borg and Beck Co., of Chicago, and describes the company's...