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29th May 1959
29th May 1959
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The Wider View

T HERE is a fairly widespread feeling among the citizens of this hardy island race that many of the conferences that occur from...

Passing Comments

Deep Freeze on Motorways THERE is general acceptance of the view that with the I coming of the motorways the traffic flow will...

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One Hears—

That the real art of selling is the ability to turn a " No " into a " Yes." Of some who have method in their madness and...

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Abnormal Loads Will be Allowed on Motorways

U NLESS overwhelming pressure is brought to bear upon the Minister of Transport, vehicles carrying abnormal indivisible loads...

Big B.R.S. Transfer for Exeter - Unopposed A N unopposed application by

British Road Services, Ltd., to add 18 vehicles (91 tons 3 cwt.) and six trailers to their A licence for their Exeter base was...

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Cheap Fares for Old-age Pensioners Railways Press Silver

Cause Alarm in Yorkshire A PPLICATIONS proposing the introduction of concessionary fares for .4-1old-age pensioners on certain...

Roadways for Figures

A N application by Silver Roadways. Ltd., to Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, at Liverpool; on...

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Men in the News

MR. CHARLES A. HERBERT, claims superintendent of Leicester City Transport, has retired after 46 years' service. MR. J. A....

Eighty Applications For Camp Services

cOME 80 applications, to operate services between camps on Salisbury Plain and various parts of the country, were before the...

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Renationalization a Vital Issue, Viscount Hailsham Tells R.H.A.

" YOU have been singled out for this attack through no fault of your own. No one can accuse you of being a monopoly. On the...

Monastery Trips for Tombola Games

DUBUC travelling facilities to Ponta saph Monastery, St. Asapli, for the tombola games there needed . imProvement, the North...

PERKINS TURBINES: VEHICLE PROJECT

A N American company with whom Perkins Gas Turbines, Ltd., have agreed to ,make industrial gas turbines, are developing such...

Short-term Licences Granted After Expiry

'f 'THE Northern Licensing Authority, HE J. A. T. Hanlon, at Newcastle, reminded hauliers that application to renew licences...

NEW LOW-PRICE TROJAN RURAL

A NEW 13-seat bus built to full p.s.v. specifications has been introduced by Trojan, Ltd., Purley Way, Croydon. It is based on...

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York Hauliers Plan Continental Pallet Exchange Service

TEE possibility of the interchange of loading pallets between Britain and the Continent on an extensive scale is envisaged as a...

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Two Vehicles Withdrawn After Breach of Normal User

A FTER a Birmingham . haulier had been given a "warning light" by another operator, he continued to use his four vehicles in...

16 Extra Parcels Vans Sought : Big Increase in Complaints

A TRAFFIC clerk employed by a Midlands parcels carrier told the West Midland Licensing Authority, Mr. W. P. James, at...

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C-licensees Resist Restriction

A SUGGESTION by Mr. Ernest 1-1, Davies, M.P., Labour's front-bench spokesman on transport matters, that it would be necessary...

Pantechnicon by Rail Saves Two Days

A SAVING of two days on their PAregular 3,000 miles shuttle-service between the eastern and western sides of Australia has been...

No Right to Use Roads for Parking

IT must soon be accepted that no_ one I would have the right, at anytime; to use the highway for parking, except in authorized...

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April Vehicle Output a Record for Month

P RODUCTION of commercial vehicles I in April was the highest for that month in any year. Output was at the rate of 7,223 a...

Overseas Trade Swings Up

A FTER a drop in February from the January figure, exports of commercial vehicles in March at 10,304 almost reached the total...

Perkins to Manufacture in Brazil

UNDER an agreement between F. Perkins, Ltd., and Murray Simonsen S.A.; of Brazil, announced on Wednesday, a new company,...

U.S.S.R. A GOOD MARKET R USS1A was short of lorries, buses

and I V specialized vehicles, and Britain had a good chance of supplying them. This was stated by Sir David Eccles, president...

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New A Licence for Nine Lorries : User Restricted to "B" Conditions

A N application by Avonmouth Trans1- 1 , port Contractors, Ltd., St. Andrews Road, Avonmouth, for a new A licence for nine...

"TooMuch Transport" in Britain

B RITAIN had "too much transport," 11 -; said Mr. R. J. Gunter in his presidential address to the conference of the Transport...

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Double-safety Tools

"THREE electric drills have been produced by Wolf Electric 1 Tools, Ltd., .Hanger Lane, • London, W.5, who describe them as the...

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Meat Loaded by Monorail at New Market

E QUIPPED . with the most up-to-dale I— , refrigeration plant and meathandling aids, the new market operatedL by the Luton Meat...

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Good Maintem Adds Two Ye to Vehicle Li

says P. A. C. Brockington, A.M.I.Mech.E. Protection of Vehicle Components from Fly Ash on Tipping Sites, a Difficult Problem...

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Self-cleaning Air Filters

K NOWN as the Far-Air Rotonamic, an IN. air filter for oil engines being produced under licence to the American Farr company of...

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Polyesters Outlast Steel Five Times

IN a review of new materials available Ito transport undertakings, Mr. K. Blenkle, a director .of the Berlin undertaking and...

• Raismg Service Efficiency

' A DAPTATION DAPTATTON of passenger vehicles to other road traffic, the suppression of noise and the .need to cater for...

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Economics of Large Buses

I NCREASING the capacity of public service vehicles on urban routes, notably by using the articulated type, reduced operating...

Eliminating Traffic Peaks

E CONOMIC advantages to the trans1 .--4 port operator of a " continuous day" with staggered working hours, were the subject of...

Electronics in Administration

DRACTICAL applications of electronic calculating machines to virtually every type of high volume office work were illustrated...

Varying Service Frequency Quoting the work of the Baltimore Transit

Company, Mr. Mross said that an electronic machine had produced a time-table in 20 min. which would normally have occupied an...

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The Champion Eliminated

T HE reigning Lorry Driver of the Year, W. T. Haywood (Geo. Prince, Ltd., Austin) gained only second place in his class at the...

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Hidden Hand

A CCORDING to tradition, the civil servant has an impassive and completely neutral attitude towards the work that his...

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"White Elephant" Becomes a Haulage Headquarters

By a Special Correspondent N OT many haulage undertakings can boast of the antiquity of their premises, but it seems road...

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What Is An Economic Write-off ?

T the annual conference of the British Association of Overseas Furniture Removers this month I had the A. opportunity of...

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Semi-automatic Gear-change Control

DATENT No. 810,895 shows a device for activating the clutch of a vehicle and controlling the engine speed during gear changing...