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3rd February 1939
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The Nation's watchword is SAVE

You can help in this saving campaign by placing your order for "The Commercial Motor" in advance. W AR-TIME conditions neces...

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The Industry's Contribution to Trade

T HIS special issue of The Commercial Motor con tains a vast amount of information concerning the export and home markets in...

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No Greater Service to the Nation

I N my message to the readers of the Outlook and Export Number of your journal at the beginning of the past year s I referred...

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Passing Comments

Road Transport Once no ECENT weather conditions, Again Proves Its l‘regarding which we may Superiority. . . . now speak without...

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Hears— Of bus-fare anomalies that need looking into. That incursions into the export market call for excursions by experts....

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NEWS of the WEEK

RETURN OF IMPRESSED VEHICLES CAUSING HARDSHIP C ONSIDERABLE hardship is being suffered by many small operators whose vehicles...

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AIMING AT EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE IN FUEL

R EVELATION that meetings are being held with Government Departments with a view to " adjust-• ing " petrol rationing was made...

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PERSONAL PARS,'

MR: CYRIL F. DENNIS, who recently joined the R.A.S.C. as a 2nd Lieutenant, has, we are glad to learn, been given his...

Meat Distribution—TA Road-transport Triumph

TT is now possible to give, in greater 'detail, particulars of the methods by which livestock and dead meat are being...

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E.V.A. EXHIBITION OF BATTERY-ELECTRICS

T HE fourth annual exhibition of battery-electric vehicles will be held on February 20 and 21 at 230, Deansgate, Manchester,...

Yorkshire Reaction to New Wages Demands

I N Yorkshire, where the Road Haulage Central Wages Board's scheme of wages and conditions was fought by the employers to the...

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THE TECHNIQUE EXPORT APPEAL

I N spite of the grave obstacles imposed upon our overseas trade by the present crisis, some consolation may be drawn from the...

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British Ambulances for Service in Finland

B UILT in London for service in FinViand, 30 specially designed ambulances and auxiliary vehicles, including a mobile workshop,...

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BRITISH EXPORTS

to the WORLD MARKETS T HE British commercialmotor industry faced the year 1939 with a considerable confidence in the future...

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Aggressive Export Policy Essential

'TWELVE months ago, writing in the " Outlook and Export Number" of The Commercial Motor, I advocated a more aggressive policy...

Make Export Trade Attractive Possibly some feel that there is

no inducement to become embroiled in all the regulations and restrictions surrounding overseas business, and that even in...

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Sales Potential of Empire Markets

CANADA MUST HAVE GOOD SERVICE A S was stated in last year's corresponding Special Number, the Canadian market presents...

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Marketing the Oil Engine

at Horne and Abroad P ARTICULARLY glad am L to be able to take advantage of your offer to give a statement regarding sales...

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Sales Position of the Industry

HILST it is, of necessity, difficult to forecast with any degree of certainty the future trend of the commercial vehicle...

Export Business Must Be Maintained • T HE statistics for new registrations

are an indication of the extent to which the production of vehicles for sale to commercial users has been affected by the...

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An Engine Suspension System fof Cross-country Conditions

THAT British manufacturers are I conversant with the requirements oi overseas operators, and appreciate se conditions with...

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WHAT YOU SHO D KNOW ABOUT PRODUCER GAS

B ny a long head, the most outstandDing technical development that has resulted from the war is the progress of producer gas....

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Makers Divulge Their Home and Export Marketing Plans

BETTER PLACED THAN WAS EXPECTED By G. Cozens, Director, Commser Cars, Ltd. D ESPITE heavy calls on our productive facilities...

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Road Transport Topics in -Parliament

Gas and Steam Vehicles (Excise Duties) Bill was considered in Committee of the House of Commons last week when a series of...

Commons Reject Gas Bill Amendments

By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent MANUFACTURERS' READY RESPONSE vehicles would certainly get the allowance they...

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New German Bomber appears

AIRCRAFT IDENTIFICATION Second Edition Completely Revised and Enlarged Aircraft Identification—the handy pocket-size book,...