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28th March 1918
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Coal-gas: Keep Transport Going. . T HE NEED FOR conserving coal

is little understood generally because of official reticence concerning the reasons which have led up to the decision to cut...

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AMERICA WILL MAKE MISTAKES TOO!

W HEN ONE READS of some of the colossal manufacturing programmes which our great Allies across the Atlantic have straightway...

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ONE HEARS

More gas guesses, That tea follows coal. That, of course, transport will be kept going. That the war will be won at last by...

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WHEELS OF INDUSTRY.

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

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SHORT HAULS BY ROAD OR RAIL ?

Defining the Relative Spheres of Road Motor and Railway Transport. By Granville F. Bilbrough. N OTHING COULD BE more fatal to...

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HEREVER ONE MOVES in the French army one hears that the supply of fresh meat to

the troops has been handled in a remarkably business-like manner and with •piarfee t regularity from the first day of war in...

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RESEARCH—The Collection of Technical Information.

W E ARE ON the eve of an era of joint research and investigation by all the progressive industries of the country, to be...

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AGRDIOTOR NOTES.

Demonstrations in Oxfordshire. The Fordson at Work in Kent. The recent tractor demonstration held at Chipping Norton by thp...

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COAL-GAS CONVERSIONS.

Recent Developments, Improvements, Hints and Wrinkles. Central Gas-compression Plants. There is no gainsaying the fact that....

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MECHANICAL PRINCIPLES.

As Applied to the Loading and Unloading of Vehicles. M ANY OF THE detail improvements in commercial motor vehicles we owe...

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A NEW AMERICAN TRACTOR NOTION.

The Latest Improvements in the Knox Tractor Truck. By Henry Sturmey. Some three years ago, shortly after the outbreak of war,...

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THE SECOND-HAND QUESTION.

Thousand-guinea Steamers and the Alternative Second-hand Machine. By "The Inspector." I HAVE NEVER BEEN quite certain in my...

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OPINIONS FROM OTHERS.

Transport ! Transport !! Transport !! ! The Edttor, THE COMMERCIAL MOYOR.. [15951 Sir,—I have read with considerable interest...

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For DRIVERS, MECHANICS & FOREMEN.

A PRIZE OP TEN SHILLINGS is awarded each week to tlw sender of the best letter which we publish on this rage; all others are...

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PATENTS SUMMARIZED.

An Endless Track Machine. Sergeant Hatfield, in four specifications, describes the arrangerneut and details of a tractor of...