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31st July 1942
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Reorganizing the Industry

T HE Standing Joint Committee's long-term policy is a sound one, inasmuch as it provides for segregation with autonomy,...

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What Constitutes "Safety" in Glass ?

QO far as we are aware, there are only two types of "safety glass" used in this country on commercial vehicles. These are the...

Passing comments

Farming.Films A RRANGEMENTS have change Between r - k been made by the Ministry Britain and America of Information to exchange...

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One Hears— That to the wheels of industry " control " may be synonymous with "can't roll."

That the amount of skilled labour left in the commercial vehicle industry is' now dangerously small. Of about 120,000 as the...

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News of the Week

VEHICLE AND DRIVER LICENSING SIMPLIFIED save time, man-power and paper by the Ministry and, operators, the M, of W.T. has...

Film Transporters Aim to Promote Economy

S T EPS are being taken by Associated Film Carriers to effect drastic economies in the -number and mileage of vehicles used for...

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Points from A.R.O. Director Report

T HE report of the director of A.R.O., Mr. R. W. Sewill, M.A., M.Inst.T., was submitted at the annual general meeting of that...

Personal Pars

MR. F. G. BRISTOW, C.B.E., general secretary of the C.M.U.A., has accepted an invitation to join the .Standhig Joint...

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RESTRICTED EXPORTS TO SOUTH AFRICA

T HE export of all goods to South Africa and Southern Rhodesia is now subject to licence. Another Order by the Board of Trade,...

Mr. Noel-Baker's Views on "Smalls"

T HE President, Mr. James Paterson, speaking at the general meeting of the National Conference of Express Carriers on July 22,...

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Waste Which Is Not Penalized

"Tantalus 11 A N endeavour was made in my article " Place Principles Before Platitudes," published on July 17, to emphasize...

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OPINIONS and Q UERIES SUPPORT FOR A MODERNIZED STEAK-DRIVEN VEHICLE I HAVE read several of the articles on steam vehicles

by " Azote," and myself, having been employed in the transport world all my life, strongly support the view that a steam-driven...

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MINING WITHOUT MINER,_ to Supply the Nation's Fuel

WHAT is the future of coal mining? VV What is the eventual solution of dwindling production, miners' wages, absenteeism, and,...

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CHARTERED FLEET

T HE operation of the Chartered Fleet of vehicles by the Ministry of War Transport is doing one good thing for the industry,...

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How Australia Makes Producer Charcoal

W HILST this country naturally turns to its indigenous coal as an alternative to petrol, charcoal is an excellent gas-producer...

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Shape of the Industry to Come

S.T .R.'s Friends, Bill and Charley, are given something Solving the Problems to think about, and Bill discloses a Few Secrets...

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War's Demands Stimulate Metal Practice

F EW processes have attracted so much interest in the past few years as flame hardening, in which steel parts are hardened by...

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Panama's Largest Fleet Delivers Beer

. DR013ABLY the largest road-trans1 port fleet in all Panama is operated "by Cervezas Panamerias, an important brewery of the...

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Low-pressure

njection valve Opening A CCORDING to patent No. 545,559 tilt is difficult, in the case of highspeed direct-injection engines,...