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3rd February 1940
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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

By The Rt. Hon. R. S. Hudson, I N my message to the readers of the Outlook and Export Number of your journal at the beginning...

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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...

Over 1,000,000 Acres Newly Ploughed A PPLICATIONS for the grant of

£2 per acre for the ploughing up of seven-year grassland have been received for some 850,000 acres in England and Wales, and...

Milk Haulage Rates in Scotland

A FTER coniultation with the joint haulage committee, the Scottish Milk Marketing Board has determined the following scale of...

O NE of our readers at Penzance ‘../holds a large stock

of cylinders suitable for gas, with capacities ranging from 10 to 40 cubic ft. There are about 50 of the larger size and 150 of...

Coal Traffic Beyond Railway's Capacity T HE revelation that, through warJ.

time restrictions on road transport, over 300,000 tons of coal traffic have been transferred from road to rail in Yorkshire was...

LEYLAND KEEPS EYE ON OVERSEAS MARKETS

S PEAKING at the annual general meeting of Leyland Motors, Ltd., Mr. J. H. Toulmin, J.P., chairman of the company, pointed out...

Another Brush - KoeIa Distributor W E are advised that Commer-Karriet (Midland), Ltd.,

Great Hampton Street, Birmingham, 18, bas been appointed distributor for the BrushKoela gas producer for the counties of...

Special Licences Allowing for Easter A S a result of representation

made by the C.M.U.A. and other bodies to the Minister of Transport, the latter, availablefrom $arch has now announced that Road...

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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...

Mn. H. .D. GIBBS, who has been well known in

the motor industry for many years, has joined the maker of Dymlite products, Richfield Electrical Components, pending his call...

Passenger Services to Evacuation Areas AVE understand from the C.M.U.A.

IT that committees of passenge:vehicle operators are being set up in the various Traffic Areas to discuss ways and means of...

Twenty A.E.C. Trolleybuses to Join Shanghai Fleet M ORE A.E.C. trolleybuses

are to pplement the large number already running in the-Far East. A contract recently received by the Associated Equipment Co.,...

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...

A.E.C. by the same undertaking in 1937 and 1938.

Additional orders have been received from the Argentine. One, from the Automotres Chevallier, is for an 8.8litre oil-engined...

Joint Organization Discusses Wages

L AST week, the annual general meet1--Aing of the East Lancashire Road Transport Association and the Commercial Motor Users...

BRITISH FORD POLICY

"THE policy of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., is largely governed by the material available for export and domestic sales after...

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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,...

Lantern Lecture on Gas Producers

r - IN Wednesday, February 7, at a %-/meeting of the Institution of Engineering Inspection, an illustrated lantern lecture will...

War Endorses Road Motor's Value

N EARLY 100 people assembled on the occasion of the ninth annual dinner of the Manchester and District Traffic Association,...

Pickford's New Cardiff Office

O WING to the expiration of the %/lease, Pickford's, Ltd., has closed its haulage office at 122, Queen Street, Cardiff, and it...

NATIONAL SERVICE DRIVING LICENCES rrHE issue of National Service driving

J. licences will be discontinued, and new drivers will be required to obtain provisional licences, with a view to passing the...

Railways Devoid of Enterprise D AILWAY companies were strongly IV

criticized by Mr. Robert Taylor, general secretary of the Scottish Horse and Motormen's Association, in an address which he...

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

Group of 30 Vehicles, Based on Thames Chassis, Built for Use Under Arctic Conditions in the Finnish War B UILT in London for...

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BRITISH EXPORTS

to the WORLD MARKETS An Explicit Summary of the British Overseas Trade in Commercial Vehicles, Indicating the Most Important...

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Aggressive Export Policy Essential

Intimate Knowledge of Market Possibilities, Requirements, Restrictions and Regulations More Imperative Than Ever By R. J....

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Sales Potential of Empire Markets

Valuable Survey of Overseas Markets From Information Supplied by the Department of Overseas Trade CANADA MUST HAVE GOOD...

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Marketing the Oil Engine

at Horne and Abroad By F. A. Perkins Chairman, F. Perkins, Ltd. • A Well-informed and Authoritative Resume of the Problems...

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Points Made by Mr. Perkins

* With reasonable Governmental assistance, sales problems' at home and abroad can be overcome. * Apart from economy and...

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Sales Position of the Industry

By William E. Rootes, HILST it is, of necessity, difficult to forecast with any degree of certainty the future trend of the...

Export Business Must Be Maintained •

By Ewart Guy, Commercial Director, Guy Motors, Ltd. T HE statistics for new registrations are an indication of the extent to...

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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

A General Outline of the Functioning and Construction of Vehicle Plant With a Brief Consideration of the Influence of Gas on...

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Makers Divulge Their Home and Export Marketing Plans

Factors which must receive attention if production for the export and home trade is to be maintained Many interesting...

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Commons Reject Gas Bill Amendments

By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent Road Transport Topics in -Parliament Gas and Steam Vehicles (Excise Duties) Bill...