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27th July 1940
27th July 1940
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Vehicle Life Prolongation Essential

N OW that the acquisition and disposal of new (unregistered) commercial vehicles, both goods and passenger-carrying, are...

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Passing Comments

How to Line EffecTHE adhesion of the white tively Steel Bearing metal linings of bearings Shells . . depends upon having a...

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One Hears

That the CA/. has no filth column on any page. That " shop " colour may be the most suitable for vehicles to Make them less...

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NEWS of the WEEK VALUABLE SCHEME FOR FINANCING MAINTENANCE TUST as we had completed the

ing article for this issue, came particularly interesting news from United Dominions Trust, Ltd., Regis House, King William...

Rates to Charge for Sugar-beet Haulage

T HE accompanying schedule embodies rates which hauliers throughout the country should charge for the carriage of sugar beet...

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A.R.O. FINANCIAL POSITION

T HE accounts of Associated Road Operators will be presented when the Association meets at the Royal Empire Society,...

Emergency Fish-transport Plan

CIRST meeting has been held at I Plymouth of a Port Shadow Committee, consisting of representatives of the industry which has...

Stabilized Rates for " Smalls "

D ATES for the carriage of " smalls " "Aare already fixed in Glasgow and the districts immediately surrounding the city....

Crossley Motors Defence Corps

S OME time ago, in connection with the national defence movement, Crossley Motors, Ltd., formed a local defence volunteer...

Edmunds, Walker West-country Re-arrangement

T FIE service and supplies organization at Plymouth of Edmunds, ,Walker and Co., Ltd., the headquarters of which are at the...

Fuel Without Coupons Dropped

A N interesting denouement is reported, concerning a recent short paragraph in this journal, about a northern firm handling...

Spare Parts Specialist's New Address

T UE spare parts and supplies business of Scottorn, Ltd., has been removed from Chelsea, London, to 173, Kingston Road, New...

PERSONAL PARS MR. THOMAS CREANEY has been appointed Glasgow district secretary of the Transport and General Workers' Union.

MR. J. Wzray, managing director of Walter Burgess, Ltd., a Keighley concern of automobile engineers an traders, has presented...

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ADVICE ON VEHICLE IMMOBILIZATION

O PEI-ZATORS owning vehicles ‘../equipped with Scintilla Vertex magnetos may be ptizzled to know how hcst to immobilize their...

• Need for Warnings of Military Road Blocks

T HE need for easily removable warn' ing signs, to enable users of the road to have some previous notice of a military road...

L.C.C. Builds Up Big Auxiliary Services

A REPORT of the London County I - 1. Council mentions that 112 auxiliary ambulance stations supplement the 20 stations of the...

Expert Transport Engineer Available Iy/E know of a man, age

51, who has VY been a works manager with complete control of motor repair works and garages covering up to 1,200 commercial and...

Transport Facilities for Wounded Service Men

A REQUEST was made in the House of Commons last week by Mr. Butcher that the Minister of Transport should make arrangements...

Big Increase in Driving Licences rIGURES supplied by Captain Crookshank,

Secretary to the Treasury, show that the number of motor-vehicle driving licences issued in 1929 was approximately 2,687,000,...

Liable to £30,000 Petrol-storage Penalty

A FORMER Provost of Rothesay. CI and managing , director of a motor hiring company, Mr. James MacMillan, was fined £5 at the...

AIR RAID AND ROAD CASUALTIES

T HE Secretary of the National " Safety First " Association strongly deprecates the comparisons which have recently been drawn...

Horseboxes as Ambulances

THE emergency committee of Northants County Council has authorized the purchase of eight motor horseboxes, which were...

Financial News of the Industry

NEW COMPANIES Hauliers (Metropolitan and Horne Counties), Ltd.—Private company. Reg. July 17. Cap. 4100 in 41 shares. Haulage...

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CALL TO DOUBLE-MAN AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY

I N a letter published in The Times last Wednesday, Mr. D. R. Bomford, Chairman, Tractor Users' Association, refers to the...

Petrol Price - cutting Alleged A !LEGATIONS of petrol pricecutting in Bradford, and

outside that city, were made at a meeting of the Bradford and District Petrol Retailers' Association held last week under the...

Brush Encourages the Social Side

THE new headquarters of the sports and social club of the Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., Loughborough, were opened a...

GROWING USE OF HOME-PRODUCED FUEL

A CCORDING to a statement by Sir John Reith, a total of 605 goods or public service vehicles was converted fro'm petrol to gas...

Haulage From Glasgow Docks

rrHE secretary of the Scottish I Carriers' and Haulage Contractors' Association draws the attention of hauliers who collect...

£25 Fines for Mixing Paraffin with Petrol

S TATED to have rendered themselves liable to a Customs penalty of 4306 5s., Messrs. Carswell's Parcel Express, and Mr. Percy...

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Picture-book of Tyre Troubles

No. 8. The Cost of Overloading O VERLOADING results in forms of tyre failure which are strikingly similar to those caused by...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

The Editor incites cormpondence on all subjects connected with the use of commercial motors. Letters should be written on only...

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New 'Foden Five-speed Gearbox

Compact Component Giving Direct Drive in "Top" and Having an Emergency "First" Incorporating Double-reduction Gearing O F the...

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good Fortune Follows

All-oil Policy of Small Haulier How Gardner-erzgined E.R.F. and Maudslay Vehicles Have Contributed to the Efficient and...

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PLANNING A RATES SCHEDULE FOR LOCAL TRAFFIC

A Logically Compiled Series of Rates for Local Traffic in Loose Material, up to 30 Miles Radius and Applicable When One Man...

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Think Aheac o Ward Off WINTER'S GRIP ON AR-TIME TRANSPORT

S NOW certainly seems an inappropriate topic for July, but it is wise in warfare to take time by the forelock. If the winter...

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Operating Aspects o

PASSENGER TRANSPORT WOMEN CONDUCTORS PLEASE GLASGOW G LASGOVV"frausport Department is '4-1 thoroughly satisfied with the...

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Trailer Independent Suspension System

CRO!" the Eagle Engineering Co., I Ltd., and E. Collier, Eagle Works, Warwick, comes in patent No. 522,103 a design for an...