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3rd August 1951
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Passing Comments

Invention No Driver WHAT must undoubtedly be Can Afford to be " recorded as last month's Without brain-wave was observed in a...

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One Hears

That Britain is now an " ill-fare " state. That an unreliable transport service is no service to traders or the nation. That...

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New Army 3-tonner Climbs 1 in L6

CLAIMED to be capable of climbing I—. a gradient of 1 in 1.6 with a full load, a 3-ton four-wheel-drive generalservice vehicle...

B.R.S. MONTHLY REVENUE UP BY Om.

R EV E NUE of British Road Services for the four weeks ended June 17 last was £5,809,000, compared with £4,655,000 in the...

40 FOREIGN MAKES FOR BERLIN SHOW

I N addition to the German exhibits, there will be 40 foreign makes of car and commercial vehicle at the Berlin Motor Show,...

RISE FOR R.H.E. REPAIR MEN?

A N application for a wage increase for maintenance staff, which is understood to be substantial, was received by the Road...

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Improvisation Keeps Up Output

A LTHOUGH the output of private t - 1 cars fell in the first six months of this year, as compared with the first half of 1950,...

Men in the News

MR. R. W. NIELD. district organizer of the Road Haulage Association, has received a presentation from the Hereford sub urea in...

Two "Pen Strokes" Cost B.E.T. £2m.

B Y two strokes of the Whitehall pen, sonic £2m. have, within a period of 13 months, been added to our annual fuel bill," said...

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A Man Who Fought for His Principles

D AYING tribute to Lieut.-Col. H. R. Cauffield-Giles, the - retiring transport mana g er of Newton Chambers and Co, Ltd.,...

Depot Work After Driving No Offence

T HE THE Kin g 's Bench Divisional Court, week, q uashed the conviction at Manchester of John Parkinson, driver, and his...

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" Slaphappy " Case : Appeal Coming

W HEN a West Hartlepool haulier, Mr. J. R. Henderson, and three of his drivers, appeared at West Hartlepool Court - to answer...

COVENTRY TO INTRODUCE ECONOMIES

R ATHER than seek to raise fares at present, Coventry •Transport Department is to introduce working economies to combat the...

S.A. OPPORTUNITIES REMAIN LIMITED

THERE is little hope that South . 1 Africa will be able to increase import allocations for the motor industry. This statement...

ALEXANDER TOLD TO QUIT THE drill hall in Market Street, St.

Andrews, is occupied by W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., as a garage, but Fife County Territorial and Auxiliary Forces Association...

U.S. TO MAKE FIBRAK SEPARATORS A LARGE plant now being set

up at Boston, Mass., is to produce the Oldham Fibrak battery separator under licence. Fibrak separators are being fitted to an...

CEYLON REDUCES DUTY

R EDUCED import duties on commercial vehicles were announced, last week, by Mr. J. R. Jayawardene, Finance Minister of Ceylon....

R.H.(37) PUBLISHED COLLOWING the recent negotiations 1 regarding pay for

road transport workers, the Road Haulage Wages Council has published R.H.(37), which sets out the proposed new wage stales....

NEW 4 !C.M." INDEX AVAILABLE r'OPIES of the index to Volume

of "The Commercial Motor," August 4, 1950. to January 26, 1951, are now available price Is. 2d., postage included, from Temple...

Trades Council to Oppose B.M.M.O.

A NY further application by thern Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd, to raise fares will be strongly opposed by the...

,PAYEN WITHDRAWS DISCOUNT

I T is announced by J. Payen, Ltd., Slough, that the demand for its decarbonizing sets is so far in excess of available...

SAGLTENAY SELL-OUT KIEGOTIATIONS are proceeding for

1 1 the purchase of the Saguenay Autobus Co., Chicoutimi, by the Provincial Transport Co., Montreal. The owner of the Saguenay...

In a Line or Two

As from August 1, the address of the Traders' Traffic Conference is 124, Cardiff Road, Llandaff, Glamorganshire. The last...

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150 More Olympics for Argentina

IN addition to an order from Argentina for the supply, among other vehicles, of 300 Leyland-M.C.W. Olympic chassisless...

SPRAY-GUN BONDERIZING %WITH the introduction of the sprayVV gun Bonderizing

process, the advantages of the 13onderite pretreatment of sheet-metal surfaces are made available to those manufacturers whose...

HEAT TRANSFER CONFERENCE

T HERE will he a general discussion on the subject of heat transfer at a conference to be held in London from September 11-13,...

DETAILS OF CROSSLEY BODIES FOR N.Z.

A S announced in "The Commercial Motor" on July 20, 39 A.E.C. single-deckers with Crossley bodies are to be supplied to...

MOTORWAY PLANS FOR WEST RIDING

F I'VE motorways proposed by the 1 Minister of Transport are referred to in the recently published 20-year development plan of...

"Turning on Heat " in Maintenance L AST week, Dr, Somerville Hastings,

M.P., opened a new maintenance shop recently erected by the Crow Carrying Co., Ltd., Harts Lane, Barking. He remarked that it...

SOVIET DEVELOPING LONGDISTANCE COACH A NEW coach for inter-urban services -has

been approved by the Scientific-Technical Council of the Ministry of the U.S.S.R. Automobile and Tractor Industry. It is...

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HIGH AXLE RATIO BY BIG ENGINE

says 1. J. COTTON M.I.R.T.E. p ERCHED on a 2-ton iron weight attached to an 8-ft-wide chassis travelling at 50 m.p.h. along...

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Hungary Standardizes Bus Design . I NDER the present Five Year Plan,

V Hungary has arranged to produce two types of passenger vehicle, which will be built in the Ikarus factory at Budapest. The...

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Time on

Their Hands By a Special Correspondent Who Finds "a Peculiar Relationship Between the Inefficiency of British Road Services,...

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Collected, Manufactured al Delivered in 48 Hours

By Alfred Woolf, Full Use of a Zone of Vehicles El Smith's Potato Ltd., to Make Supplies Availabl All Over the C( C OOKED...

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Political Commentary By JAN US

Backing the Wrong Horse The Inherent Possibilities of Mechanical Handling Improve the Prospects of Road Transport's...

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F ROM the recently published fifth annual report of the National

Committee on Road Transport Education (summarized in "The Commercial Motor' for June 22) there emerges the hint of eventual...

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Geared to Modern Conveyor Methods

By Alan Smith Delivery Vans Form an Extension of Mechanized Production Lines in a Newly Formed Bottling Company, which Delivers...

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A Power Pack for Fluorescent Lighting

T HE power pack of the fluorescent lighting system produced by Barber Medico-Electronic Laboratories, Ltd., Bournville,...

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New Tipping Gear Reduces Body Height

A TRIPLE-EXTEMION Telehoist ram, recently introduced by W. W. Jenkins (Cheltenham), Ltd., Swindon Lane, Cheltenham, enables the...

Guide to London Docks

rINLY those who have had the experi ence will know the many difficulties attendant upon shipping or collecting cargo in the...

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Factors Which Determine Rates

In Building up a Charges Schedule from Costing Data Supplied by a Number of Operators, neither Extreme nor Average Figures...

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A New Transmission System for Tractors

A COMBINED gearbox and back axle for incorporation in a tractor is shown in patent No, 654,589, by D. Pobjoy, Box Farm,...