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31st March 1944
31st March 1944
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Potential Risks of Producer Gas

S EVERAL times we and others have commented upon the potential dangers lurking in producer gas, which consists, to a larRe...

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Are We Propagandists ?

MHE president of a well-known association, 'whilst congratulating a contemporary on its 25th anniversary, made the somewhat...

Passing Comments

Mr. W. Foden Makes IN the view of Mr. William Strong Plea for Private 1 Foden, managing - director of Enterprise . . . Fodens,...

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One Hears—

He_ taxis that never were so few wanted by so many.' It said that an operetta is a fleet - Owner of the fair sex. That the...

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News of the Week

WAGES BOARD ADVISES INCREASES A T its meeting on March 23, the ,Road Haulage Central Wages Board decided to ask the Minister...

Select Committee Criticizes M.O.W.T. Haulage T lIE Third Report for 1943-44

from the Select Committee on National Expenditure deals with rail and road transport. It points out that in a memorandum...

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Transport Correspondence Courses for the Services

S INCE 1 9 41, the Institute of Transport, has sponsored an -arrangement whereby correspondence courses for its own...

How Voluntary Pooling Saves Transport

T HE Mansion House Association On Transport held its luncheon meeting on March 21 at the,COnnatight Rooms, London, W.C.2, when...

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KM.F., Statement' Disputed

W Speight a letter in which he says that whilst H.M.F. professes to be one of the protagonists of unity amongst small...

Joint Conference Report "Too Vague"

A RESOLUTION not to take any further steps to implement the Perry scheme for the unification of operators' , organizations...

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Fleet Engineers Will Get Together

A Concise Explanation of the Main Objects of the Proposed Institute of Road Transport Engineers, Together With a Few . Further...

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Plan Municipal Post-war Transport Now

The Writer of thi4 -Article, Who is a Cleansing Superintendent, Suggests that no Time Should be Lost by the Makers of...

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Difficulties of Taxation by Pay-load • T HE suggestion was made to

the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the House of Commons, last week, by COlonel Gre . enwelI, that, in view of the fact that...

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Futility the Ton-mile as a Costs Basis

I N my article in last week's issue of " The Commercial Motor" I tried to explain to a young friend of mine, new to the...

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INFLUENCE 01 ,EADED FUELS

on Post-war hide Design By W, ,indsay C OMPARATIVE calm has succeeded the spate of complaints directed against MT 80 fuel—...

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Efficient Road Transport Depends on Small Men

Mr. R. W. Sewill, Addressing A.R.O. ' Members at Norwich, Described Compulsory Amalgamation of Hauliers as Flying in the Face...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

THE INFLUENCE OF VOTING POWER T HE leading article, entitled The Sleeping Giant," • in your issue of March 17, must certainly...

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A Cure for Valve Disease

I N view ot the fact that, operators cannot look to a cure for. their , present-day valve troubles in a change of. fuel, it is...

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Have "The Eight" Satisfied the Critics?

The Case Made Cut for the Publication of the Booklet By and for the Views Contained in it is Not a Strong "Tantalus " One...

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A Petrol or Oil Engine at Will

A NOVEL type of engine is shown PA in patent No. '558,851, by L. Miller and .C. Bell, Muncie, Ind., U.S.A. It is an engine...