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31st December 1937
31st December 1937
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The Industry, in 1938

There is Reason to Believe that Road Transport is Winning Through to Security 0-MORROW marks the Commencement of a New Year,...

Comparing Bodywork Prices

I T is considered that for cvery five new vehicles put into service, two of them have bodywork which has been specially built...

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Passing Comments

A DRIVER was busy unloading rolls of paper from his oil-engined vehicle when his attention was called to a suspicious pool of...

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One Hears

Of rate-liNing surprises in the offing. That transport operators do not like the " waits." Of Messrs. Bristow and Sewill each...

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NEWS of the WEEK

Plans for National "Merger" Advanced T RUNK services over the main transport routes throughout the country and local coverage...

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Carrying Milk for a Gallon

T HE fact that he carried milk at 4rd. a gallon was disclosed by a haulier at a •Chaster sitting of the NorthWestern Deputy...

Transit insurance Notes

Machinery Transport Risks A LTHOUGH the transport .11.of machinery is really a specialist's job, many hauliers have an...

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PERSONAL PARS.

Dundee Police and Fire Brigade Committee unanimously recommended, on Monday, that MR. WILLIAM MACKEY, deputy firemaster since...

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How Secret Checks are Conducted

P ROCEDURE adopted by the Ministry of Transport for carrying out secret checks on commercial vehicles, with a view to detecting...

Col. Redman Says Goodbye

T HE need for uniformity of wages and conditions of employment in the haulage industry was among the points stressed by Col. A....

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"CARELESSNESS" CAUSES LOSS OF LICENCE.

A haulage contractor, said to have been guilty of " gross carelessness," had his contract A licence revoked when a special...

Railways Claim Privileged Position

A N attempt to penalize a haulier for wishing to provide similar facilities to those offered by the railways was made before...

Business Sale Causes Assizes Action T HE sale of a haulage

business to a well-known Horton-on-Trent concern had a sequel at Birmingham Assizes, last week, when Mr. Justice Finlay heard a...

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TRADERS JOINING THE FRAY.

Boston (Lincolnshire) Chamber of Commerce, since its intervention on behalf of the trade and industry of the town at the recent...

Driver Daniel and the Lions' Den

An Authentic Story of a Transport Feat which Ranks Almost as High as the Adventures of Baron Munchausen MT have received from...

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MUST FURNITURE VAN IE ANGULAR?

Pointers in Design Outlined by Our Bodybuilding Expert, who Suggests Methods of Constructing Motor and Container Bodies D OES...

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What the Years Have Taught Us

A User Who Contributed His Experiences to "The Commercial Motor," nearly Thirty Years Ago, Compares Conditions of tgog With...

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Electric Refuse Collectors Gaining Ground in France

Favourable Price of Current Combines with Effective Compression of Refuse to Promote Popularity T HE particular advantages of...

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Why Rates Must be Flexible

/ ‘ 4 . AGREE with the previous speaker," chimed in another of the informal audience which gathered after my lecture meeting...

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Appealing to the American Coach Operator

Brief Details of a New 20-seater Passenger Vehicle with Forward Control and Streamline Construction , [WHILST fully...

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Let's Have the Facts

66 HE vast majority of bus ser vices in the country are controlled by the dual com , 'bine of Thomas Tilling, Ltd, and the...

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Higher Fuel Tax Causes French Outburst

Coach . Companies Stage 24hour "Warning" Strike as Dernonstra lion of Disapproval A GREAT public outcry has arisen in France...

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Pioneering the " FlatTwelve" fir passenger service

American White Company Produces Design of Horizontally opposed Petrol Engine Which is Built in Three Sizes to Power Fast...

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By H. Scott Hall, M.I.A.E., M.I.T.A.

T HOSE who opine that the flat-rate system of charg ing for transport is inequitable will be surprised to learn of the method...

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"VVe Must Have . . ."

" W/E Want' or 'May We W Have? ' " the title of an editorial in The Commercial Motor, provided Mr. J. A. M. Bright, chairman...

Stabilizing Rates for Milk C ONTINUANCE of the present ...methods of

fixing rates for the carriage of milk is not in the interests of carriers, farmers or dairies, said an official of the C.M.U.A....

Manchester Meat Carriers Combine

THERE has just been formed the IL Manchester Meat Carriers Association, membership of which comprises and is open to meat...

What the Associations

Are Doing LECTURES ON LUBRICANTS. In reporting, in last week's issue. S.T.R. 's lecture tour of South Wales, we inadvertently...

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Producer Gas From Wood Overcoming Tarring Troubles

Research into the Operation of Motor Vehicles on Wood Gas Reveals Causes of Gas Contamination by Tar. Advice on How this...

Government Restrictions Impede Use of Coal Gas

I N an article in a recent issue of the French journal, Mecartique, the author states that compressed town gas undoubtedly...

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OPINIONS

and QUERIES IN DEFENCE OF SPLINED SHAFTS. [5228] Referring to the article "Transmission Unit Efficiency" in your issue for...

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Lightweight 8-tonner Added to Crane Range

A N accompanying illustration shows one of the latest four-wheeled trailers made by Cranes (Dereham), Ltd., South Green Works,...

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Road Transport Topics IN PARLIAMENT

By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent BIG GRANT FOR NEW WATERLOO BRIDGE. B EFORE the Christmas recess Mr. 1. , H....

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The Trolleybus Turns Up Trumps

nURING 1936-37, the number of pas sengers carried by trolleybuses operated by local authorities and companies, excluding London...

SIX-CYLINDER OILERS SUPREME

" IS it true that there is a tendency 1 for motorbus operators to go back from six-cylindered engines to fourcylinclered...

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Tour Speed Schedules Being Watched

T HE North-Western Traffic Commissioners are having the schedules of all long-distance coach tours carefully scrutinized, in...

Bringing Back Those "Period" Passengers

T HE question of providing accommodation for returning coach passengers holding period tickets was raised by an application...

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PRINCIPLES OF FARE FIXATION

WHERE monopolies prevail, the VV public is entitled to benefit by such low fares as it may be possible to introduce, as a...

How the Battery-electric Might be Improved

Outlining Some of the Advantages and Limitations of the Type, . a Contributor Makes Constructive Criticisms and Suggests Means...

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Universal Joint for a Front-wheel Drive

A Resume of, Recently Published Patent Spec ific a lions D RIVEN wheels which are also steerable present many problems in the...