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Motor Servants of Humanity

B ASICALLY, the services rendered to humanity by the commercial-motor industry, through the medium of the municipalities, may...

The Minister Complains of Tram Noise

T HE Minister of Transport presided at a recent lecture given by Wing Commander T. R. Cave-Browne-Cave, a member of the council...

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Passing Comments

NAosT persons concerned with road transport mainIvitain that there is already a surfeit of regulations, hut, the highways...

One Hears

That Brighton's refuse builds its roads. That increasing attention is being devoted to the problem of chassis-weight...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY

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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Personal Pars

Mr. H. M. Emery, M.B.E., has recently been elected a director of T.S. Motors, Ltd. Messrs. Harry Yager and Reuben Yager have...

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INTERESTING REFUSE VEHICLES FOR FLINT.

The Borough of Flint has recently taken delivery of the two Thornycroft Handy refuse collectors shown in an accompanying...

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VITAL RULING ON B-LICENCE OBJECTIONS.

Under the Road and Rail Traffic Act, a Licensing Authority is not directed to consider objections to the variation of a licence...

MUNICIPAL PURCHASES and PROPOSALS

Exeter Corporation is buying four Bristol Gardner oii - engined double-deck brims. Weymouth Corporation' le to invite tenders...

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OFFICIAL ORDERS IN FEBRUARY.

Among the orders for commercial vehicles given out by Government Departmt ruts during February last were the following: —By the...

Road Transport Topics

In Parliament By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent SAFETY GUARDS FOR ALL COMMERCIAL VEHICLES? T HE Minister of...

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Onus of Railways Defined

IMPORTANT points of principle are raised in the decision of the Appeal Tribunal on a large group of appeals by David Auld and...

Call to Drivers to Organize

A FORCEFUL exposition of the case for the road-haulage industry was made by speakers at a meeting of drivers, in London, on...

Restrictions on "A" Licences

A N attempt is being made to bridge the gulf left by the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933, which makes no provision for...

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MAKING PROFITS from

MUNICIPAL CONTRACTS I N a previous series of articles I have demonstrated the inadequacy of day rates paid in municipal...

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READING'S CLEANSING

SYSTEM REORGANIZED 0 • N . Monday 'next; April l,. a new systein of publit tleansing will be inaugurated ' at Reading,. a...

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The Transition Statistically from Tram to Bus Portrayed 0 NCE

again we present our annual summary of municipal passenger transport undertakings in their three categories—motorbuses,...

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SOME MULTI-PURPOSE

MUNICIPAL VEHICLES that reduce costs / N order that a motor vehicle shall be run economically, it must be constantly in use....

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FIRE PROTECTION IN AN INDUSTRIAL CITY I N a city like

Birmingham, which covers 51,147, acres of land and has a population of 1,028,000 persons, the problem of providing adequate...

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Keeping Abreast of

Urban Transport Needs D L'RING recent months, important developments in urban passenger-transport operation have been taking...

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Municipal Encouragement for Air Transport

W HETHER dominated by Labour or Conservative politics, municipalities have been slow to take the advice to provide aerodromes....

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A Streamlined Bus for Airport Service

A N accompanying illustration shows a striking bus of unusual appearance which has recently been put into service by Liverpool...

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Designing Bu Stations for maximum efficiency

L OCAL authorities have not been slow to take advantage of the powers conferred upon them by the Road Traffic Act, 1930, for...

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A Lightweight Turntable Fire Ladder

T HE need for a lightweight turntable fire ladder for use in residential and other districts where a maximum height of 70 ft....

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MUNICIPAL MOTO

RS Abridged Specifications F ROM the following lists of municipal motors the names of all, the leading manufacturers in this...

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BRIGHTON BUILDS ROADS

FROM REFUSE B RIGHTON, which has won the title of "The Queen of Watering Places," uses a large variety ot municipal motors in...

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The Influence of Changing Housing Conditions on Transport

S . INCE the end of the war, a problem that has been ever-present in the minds of transport officials, and especially those...

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Principal Services Mechanized at Bradford

T HE development of mechanical transport for municipal operation manifests itself in a multiplicity of ways, but several...

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The Persecution of Drivers

More Views on a Subject of Vital Importance to the Industry MISREPRESENTATION OF FACTS. I WOULD like to point out to your...

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r Meeting the Needs o f a

Rapidly Growing Borough N the short period of five years the population of Heston and Isleworth has increased from 70,000 to...

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Phases of Refuse Collection

in a variety of towns Unit Costs at Crgwe. At the end of March, 1934, the cleansing department of Crewe Corporation, of....

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Operating Aspects of

Passenger Transport "EAST KENT" TO RUN DOVER SERVICES? O (I N Tuesday, Dover Town Council to invite the East Kent Road Car...

FURTHER ADDITION TO BARR GROUP

QUBJECT to the sanction of the' 1..1 - Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, negotiations have been completed for Wallace Arnold...

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MERGERS IN MUNICIPAL TRANSPORT

niSCUSSION took place at the meet ing of the Manchester and Liverpool Section of the Institute of Transport, at Liverpool, last...

Prices range from £5 15s. 6d. for a four-day trip to £25 6s. 6d. for a tour to John o'Groats.

NEW STATION AT OXFORD. O XFORD Corporation has leased to City of Oxford Motor Services, Ltd., for 27 years the western...

BIG YORKSHIRE AMALGAMATION

A T an extraordinary general meeting of the Yorkshire (West Riding) Electric Tramways Co., Ltd., last week, it was decided...

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COMPANIES DISPUTE SALE OF BUSINESS

WHEN the Midland General OrnniVV bus Co., Ltd., applied to the East Midland Traffic Commissioners for permission to take over...

A New Rubber Suspension System

I N various rubber suspension systems which have been tried • during the past ten years the rubber has generally been employed...

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AIR TRANSPORT NEWS

POSSIBILITIES OF SERVICES TO IRISH FREE STATE. I N the past few months, several schemes for air services between the Irish...

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A Simple Multi-speed Gearbox

F ROM 0, D. North, P. G. Hugh, and Scammell Lorries, Ltd., 52-54, High Holborn, London, W.C.1, comes an interesting patent,....