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2nd January 1953
2nd January 1953
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Passing Comments

C-licensees to Be Hauliers? WILL C-licensees buy transport units and engage " in road haulage for 'hire or reward? This...

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Ministry Anxious About Camp Services: Abstraction Feared

A NXIETY over the effects of the wholesale licensing of services from r - k camps is expTsed by an inspector of the Ministry of...

No Extra Vehicles in B.R.S. Zones T HE Scottish Deputy Licensing

Authority has stated that he is not inclined to license additional vehicles in districts where there are British Road Services...

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Hauliers Take C.I.E. Revenue: No Early Hope of Profit

rFFECTIVE steps should be taken to 'discourage unauthorized operations by private hauliers in Southern Ireland before they...

Mr. Beddow Attacks Local Authorities

A STRONG attack on local authorities was made on Tuesday by Mr. R. P. Beddow, chairman of the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., in...

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• £340 Fines in Hiring Margin Case: Agents Involved

F iN"totalling £340, with £7 19s. 6d. expenses and £21 advocates' fees, were imposed by Ellesmere Port magistrates upon James...

Road Deaths 'Fewer• than 5,000 Last Year

I T seems likely, although final figures are not yet known, that road deaths in 1952 will he below 5,000 for the first time in...

Men in the News

MR. A. M. HirreeiesoN has joined the board of Thompson Brothers (Bilston), Ltd. MR. Joute M. CLARK, formerly commercial...

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Radio Control of B.R.S. Dock

Traffic Cuts Delays A CTION to abate the congestion -1 - 1 for which the docks at Liverpool were notorious among hauliers,...

Originally, they were more or less static, but later, to

prevent matters from becoming too rule-bound, vans were provided and, more recently, the radio system has been installed to...

Application to Reduce Fares

B ECAUSE "a number of Very important points" arose from the case, the West Midland Licensing Authority last week reserved his...

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West Riding Wants £160,000 More: 2d. Single for Aberdeen

CONTINUED operation on the present scale of charges and at the present level of costs would mean a loss of £55,325, at the end...

Chassisless Bus Met with Reserve

I T was unfortunate that the chassisless passenger vehicle, which one would have thought to have been a normal advance in...

B.M.M.O.fs Third Application O N Tuesday the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus

Co., Ltd., made to the West Midland Licensing Authority its third application for increased fares in less than two years. Mr....

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Safe Transport for Children

By Laurence J. Cotton, M.1.R.T.E. Dennis School Bus has Many Safeguards for Passengers: Carrying Full Loud, it is Smooth,...

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New Award to Bus Drivers ?

WHEN Cllr. R. Gronow, chairman of VY Swansea Road Safety Committee, recently presented safe-driving awards to members of the...

IN A LINE OR TWO

Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., has been authorized to capitalize 1750,000 of reserves. The head office and sales...

33-ton Load Tilted to Reduce Width

c PECIAL dispensation for a 20-ft. I-in.-wide stern frame was not needed by Siddle C. Cook, Ltd., Consett, when the company...

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Rates and the Guillotine

U SE of the guillotine on some clauses of the Transport Bill during the committee stage was not as serious as the Opposition...

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Laying a Mile of Hose

T WO Merryweather fire engines, each capable of laying a mile of 31s-in..hose, have been ordered by the fire brigade in...

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Mobile Power Station for Venezuela

Il i AOUNTED on a Dyson 40-ton flat al low-bed trailer, a complete electrical sub-station built for the Shell Caribbean...

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PASSENGEF RA\TSPORT IN INDUST AL LAN CS

By Ashley 1 A. M .1. R.T. E. Fifty Years' History of Lanca: Proportion of Workpeople Tours and Private-hire Facilit Area :...

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5i-ton Semi-trailer has Retractable Wheels

D ELIVERY has recently been taken by the French Air Force of a 5i-ton semi-trailer fitted with four manually operated Deplirei...

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Keep Mobile Shops Rate-free

WE are writing to protest against the resolution of the " national executive of the National Union of Small Shopkeepers,...

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Oilers Can Pay on Low Mileages

THE idea dies hard that a vehicle must cover a large I yearly mileage if the savings in expenditure on fuel are to be...

By H. Scott Hall, M .I.M ech.E., M.I.R.T.E.

"The Commercial Motor Costs Consultant I have gathered from another source that, it is customary to regard refuse collectors...

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Customer Service

Rapid Collection and Delivery are Required of its Van Fleet by Tyresoles, Ltd., as Essentials to Business: These are Achieved...

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Costing for Beginners

When the -Transport Bill Comes into Effect a Simple Method of Recording Operating and Overhead Expenses Will be Required by...