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30th November 1951
30th November 1951
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The Thin End of the Wedge

A Committee s recorn LTHOUGH the Inglis ' Inglis Report Creates a Dangerous mendations for the Precedent for the Subjugation of...

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The Needs of Modern Braking

A SIGNIFICANT remark by the author of the paper concerning the trend of brake design as it affects service (a resume' of which...

Passing Comments

Would You Believe It? W HILE awaiting the arrival of a -Scammell-Crane combination carrying a 111-ton transformer, a...

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Mr. Thom Calls for Standardized Fares : Six-day Hearing in Wales

A FTER a three-day hearing at Swansea last week the South Wales Licensing Authority adjourned until December 10-12 the...

City Co. to Sell Out to B.T.C. ?.

A N indication that the City ,Coach Co., Ltd., Brentwood, one of the few remaining independents to operate a stage-carriage...

SMALLS 'EMBARRASS " THE

R.H.E. A STATEMENT by a Road Haulage Executive district manager's office that smalls were an embarrassment, was quoted by Mr....

T.R.T.A. ORGANIZER IN MIDLANDS TN its determination to safeguard the

I interests of C-licence holders, the West Midland Area of the Traders' Road Transport Association is to open sub-areas in all...

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Denationalization : P.V. 0. A. to Express Fares Next Ask for Talks With Government To Go Up?

A N assurance that consultations will shortly take place to decide methods for fulfilling the Conservatives' pledge to abandon...

A N increase of 6+ per cent. in express Pi

fares has been recommended by the Central Fares Committee as a result of last week's meeting. Mr. A. Baynton was in the chair....

Nuffield-Austin Merger : Duplication of Models

A LTHOUGH, according to an official rAstatement, "for some time past the boards of Morris Motors, Ltd., and the Austin Motor...

NO STATEMENT ON 1947 ACT A FTER Mr. R. Moehvyn

Hughes, K.C., for the London County Council, had asked the Transport Tribunal to express its opinion on a subsidy for the...

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B.R.S. Fails To Meet Users' Needs

CAILURE by British Road Services to provide a service to meet traffic requirements was criticized in a paper. The Function of...

"Inglis" Service Fails To Pay

T HE experimental shuttle bus service between the Pollok housing estate and Corkerhill railway station, Glasgow, is to be...

BAKERY-WASTE TRANSPORT

"UNPREDICTABLE" VVHEN Mr. F. J. Jennings, Poplar. W London, E.14, applied to the Metropolitan Licensing Authority recently for...

A PERMANENT HOME N EW premises of Brown Brothers. Ltd., in

Bromsgrove Street, Birmingham, were officially opened last week. Covering an area of 35,000 sq. ft., the two main floors have a...

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Lighting Report •

to Min ister A . REPORT on the lighting of vehicles, recommending revised and improved standards, is to be put before the...

Industry Can Still Be Major Exporter

THIS ...country has recently lost 1 ground in several markets; I believe, however, that there is no fundamental reason why the...

POWER-STEERING DAIMLERS FOR HALIFAX rLA1MED to be the first buses with

power-assisted steering to go into service with a municipal undertaking in England, six Daimler C.D. 650 doubledeckers are now...

REPAIR WORKERS' PAY UP 3d. PER HOUR

WAGES of skilled and semi-skilled W workers in the motor retail and repairing industry have been advanced by 3d. per hour, and...

LEYLAND ENGINE ORDERS.

T HE industrial units division of Leyland Motors, Ltd., has received an order for 360 direct-injection oil engines from Euclid...

• PRIVATE-HIRE RATES UP

. R ATES for the private hire of buses are to be increased, 'Stockton-onTees Transport Committee has decided. The proposed new...

MOBILE SALESMEN WERE PEDLARS

THREE Leeds men were prosecuted J. at Bradford last week for peddling without a certificate. They were seen going from house to...

GLASGOW-EDINBURGH EXPRESS

IN additionto the 15-minute service /at present run between Glasgow and Edinburgh by Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd., a new express...

TRAMS FOR 20 YEARS MORE TRAMS are not likely to be abolished

1 in Sunderland for 20 years. This opinion was expressed by the borough engineer, Mr. J. E. Lewis, when art inquiry was held...

ALLOCA110N FIGURE SOON

1 – X A SPOKESMAN of the Ministry of Supply told "The Commercial Motor" this week that the allocation figure for commercial...

IN A LINE OR TWO

The retail price of the Woodhead Monroe 1-in, shock absorber has been reduced to £2 I 1 s. 8d. The Nuffield Universal t.v.o....

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Upward Trend of Fares Accelerates

B.M.M.0,. to Apply Again : Edinburgh, TharnesValley, Aberdeen and Cardiff Succeed WITH the arm - mincer - trent by the...

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Coal Transport Lord Leathers's Big Job

S OME indication of the functions of Lord Leathers. Secretary of State for the Co-ordination of Transport, fuel and Power, was...

NO ROUND-BRITAIN TOUR

T HE Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority last week refused permission to Messrs. A. W. Watson and Co., Dundee, to operate a...

MEETINGS

UTURE meetings of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers are as follows:— December 3, Scottish centre, lecture on...

Lo.T. 'MEETINGS

MEXT month's meetings of the Institute of Transport include the following:— December 3, Metropolitan section, isr.nual...

PAY CLAIM FOR TRIBUNAL ?

I Tis reported that the trade unions have referred to_ the Ministry ofk labour their recent claim for a 6d.-perhour wage...

Ex-R.H.A. Members Want to Return.

A N associate members' section is to be formed by .the Road Haulage Association for the benefit of former members whose...

TRIBUTE TO 'FRANK PICK

A WELSH-SLATE tablet inscribed: " In tribute to Frank Pick, 18781941, a scholar of this school. He served his fellow-men, made...

" POLITICAL FOOTBALL"

THE chairman of the Railway Exemi live, Mr. John Elliott, said last week that transport must not become "a political...

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£534,000 for Six Haulage Businesses

T.A.T., Raises Compensation. in Two Cases : Depreciation of Ex-W. D. Vehicles CONIPENSATION of over £534,000 for the...

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A Key to Cost Reduction

By L. J. COTTON m.I.R.T.E. I N these days, when passenger transport companies .seek every means for cutting operating costs, a...

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Foden Coach Goes Fact-finding

2,050 Miles on the Continent Covered at an Average Speed of 30.2 m.p.h. and a Fuel consumption Rate of Wmp.g. T EST-BED...

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12.6 Per Cent. More P.S.V. Operators

I N the year ended March 31 last, the number of public service vehicle operators increased by 12.6 per cent. The total rose...

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Cheap, Intensive Se] :les in Gosport "Box"

A Statutory Bus Company, Working in an Area Measuring Six Miles by U miles, Keeps Down Costs By A. E. Sherlock-Mesher O NE of...

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Is Tyre Regrooving Wise?

IN your issue dated November 2, there appeared an article entitled "One-third More Wear from Tyres," which I read with some...

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Light-alloy Body Saves

1 /2 Ton A N A.E.C. Matador Mark 111 lorry recently supplied to Transport A.-G. Lan gna , La gna u, Berne; incorporates a...

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£50,000 Fleet to Deliver Frozen Foods

A SCHEME involving the expenditure of £50,000 on a fleet of refrigerated semi-trailer outfits for the delivery of fresh-frozen...

Steel Position Worse Than in War

A LTHOUGH there has been a greater r't interest taken in trolleybuses overseas, home demand has been quiet. The reasons include...

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Brake Design and Servicing

Girling Engineer Covers 20 Years of Brake Development, Indicates Modern Tendencies and Emphasizes Importance of Maintenance A...

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Political Commentary

Circumstances Alter Cases By JANUS Ophelia : "0 I What a noble mind is here o'erthrown." S OONER or later • it was bound...

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Four Ways of Quoting For Hire

The Prospect of Denationalization May Give Rise to Rate-cutting Again and a Return of the Returnload Bogey. "The Commercial...

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en in the News

MR. R. P. BIDDLE, C.B.E., has been elected 'chairman of the southern section of the Institute of Transport. MR. C. C. CATFORD...

Municipal Staff Not Civil Servants

DOLITICS are the greatest curse of the technician's life, according to a comment made by Mr. W. M, Little, general manager of...

Alloy and Non-alloy Steel on Ration

CONTROL of the distribution of %..".alloy and non-alloy steel, as announced by the Minister of Supply on November 12, will...

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About Aluminium . . .

ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES A LTHOUGH primarily a structural 1 - 1. material, aluminium has for many years been of some importance...