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30th January 1948
30th January 1948
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Sews of

the Week Many Thornycroft Nippy vehicles are operated by th: British Railway Executioe (Western Region) and further •...

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Diagnosis: Tyre Maintenance • T • railer Marks L AST week the

Institute of Road Transport 'Engineers . held its second 'ideas Exchange and Mari" at the Royal Society of Arts. Following a...

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T HE descriptio " No. 1 weapon in the war against

privation and poor standards of living," might fairly be applied to the tractor. Track-laying or wheeled, it daily plays a star...

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CUTTING DOWN MACHINING COSTS

By Using Modern Machinery, it is Possible to Obtain Higher Efficiency with the Manpower Available, Thereby Reducing Production...

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EXPORT HINTS FROM A READER IN VENEZUELA

A LTHOUGH a constant reader of your journal while 1 — k in Britain, I am now in Venezuela, and shall be glad if you will send...

PROPER RATES FOR HIRE CARS I AM not in the habit of writing to newspapers or

journals with the object of seeing my name in print, but an article in your issue dated January 9, entitled "Private Car Hirers...

BONDED RUBBER CAN REDUCE DECLUTCHING MOVEMENT

I OBSERVE in your issue of January 2, that my lecture I on rubber-to-metal bonding given before the members of The Institute of...

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A TRANSPORT MANAGER'S LEGAL DIFFICULTY

WOULD you kindly advise me as to the legal position " in the following case? I was recently appointed garage and transport...

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Farmers Want Bulk Grain Transport

IF the railways arc not prepared to lincur the necessary expenditure on special rolling stock for the bulk handling of grain,...

Action Over Fluid Transmission B EFOR E Mr. Justice Vaisey, in

the Chancery Division, on January 21, Fluid Flywheels, Ltd., Worton Road, Isleworth, Middlesex, y draulie Coupling Patents,...

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WAYS OF RECORDING ESTABLISHMENT COSTS

A Small Operator Asks S.T.R. to Outline Methods of Keeping Track of Those Items of Cost which are Easily Overlooked HAD a visit...

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Electric Refuse Collectors Make Headway in France

Q LOWLY but steadily, battery-electrics for the collection of domestic refuse are making headway on the Con tinent. A...

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Makes Good Progress with Prefabrication

I N the issue of "The Commercial Motor " dated July 18 last, a prototype bus body in light alloy, then under construction by...

Interchangeable Bodies for Cattle or Beet

A CATTLE-TRUCK body that is I - 1 interchangeable with a drop-sided body has been built for a Maudslay Mogul Mk. II chassis by...

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Restraining Heat Expansion in Pistons

P ATENT No. 591,871 deals with a means for restrainini the heat expansion of a light-alloy piston, and comes from Wellworthy...