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4th August 1931
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Are Free Wheels Coming?

HERE is no doubt in many minds that the T •free wheel, in one form or another, will eventually become a standardized part of...

Features of this Issue

New' constructional features are to be found in the latest type of all-metal body. Page 855. Our road test article has for its...

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LOOSE LEAVES

W E cannot congratulate T h e Institute of Public Cleansing on its Press arrangements in connection with the First...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY The wheels of wealth will be slowed

by all difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by The roughness of the roads over which it...

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MUNICIPAL PURCHASES AND PROPOSALS

DUBLIN Fire Brigade has ordered a Merryweather turntable fire ladder. Borough of CROYDON has indented for a Dennis...

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A Variable-compression Engine

W HEN employing fuels other than petrol, such, for instance, as producer gas, in an engine of normal design, it is usually...

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THE COST OF REFUSE

COLLECTION AND CLEANSING Some Facts and Figures Relating to the Cost of Refuse Collection and Street Sweeping by Mechanized...

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A New Electric Destination Indicator

I N our issue dated January 6th, when describing the Whitley destination indicator, we mentioned that the Whitley Tool Co.,...

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A New Trailing-axle 1 0-tonner

The Latest Addition to the K-type Range of Heavyduty Goods Models Produced by Karrier Motors, Ltd. MI OR many years the K-type...

Horsebox Design

—an interesting ramp detail INFORMATION reaches us concern.ling an interesting detail in connection with ramps for horseboxes,...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

More About Rutway Transport. Are Streamlined, Rear-engined Buses Coming? Misleading Statements on Regulations Suggestions...

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PUBLIC CLEANSING APE JANCES DEMONSTRATED

How the Appliances and Refuse-coth in Connection with Last Week's Cleansing Impressed the Delega on Vehicles Demonstrated at...

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A Big Increase in French Commercial Motors

_Lill RITISH, American and German visitors to France are often inclined to regard that country as lagging far behind the times...

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Road Transport Activities

in PARLIAMENT By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent THE LONDON PASSENGER TRANSPORT BILL. I N the course of the...

M. of T. Estimates.

A N interesting discussion took place in the House of Commons on the estimates for the Ministry of Transporr, which were...

Huge Expenditure.

W ITH regard to the trunk-road and the five-years programmes, the former envisaged a total expenditure of £21,000,000 for works...

Prophecies Falsified.

A LLUDING to the fall in the "appalling number of accidents and casualties on the road," Sir Gervais Rentoul said it was clear...

Act as to the results which would ensue if the speed limits were abolished or raised had been falsified.

Some Suggestions. IR WILLIAM BRASS said they did Onot know how or why the number of accidents had decreased since the passing...

A NOTHER suggestion Sir William Brass offered was that in making

new trunk roads there should be a double roadway. In making important roads consideration should be given to the banking of...

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Problems of the

HAULIER and CARRIER The Much-discussed Item of Overhead Charges and Its Particular Application to the Difficulties of the...

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New Constructional Features in

ALL-METAL BODIES I N passing from the offices to the Midland Works of the Metropolitan-Cammell Carriage, Wagon and Finance...

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Ingenious Features of the

LATEST CURTIS HORSEBOXES THE • designing of, a horsebox body for mounting upon a motor chassis calls for a long experience and...

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Reclaiming Used Engine Oil

An Interesting New De Laval Plant Constructed for the Benefit of Vehicle Users O NEof the troubles which always faces the...

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A CAPABLE VAN

from COWLEY The Inexpensive Morris 81 0-ctot. Van Put Through Its Paces. A Use All-round Per formance by a Vehicle of...

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Regulations for Public Service Vehicles

10‘TEW provisional regulations concern ing the equipment and use of public service vehicles have just been issued by the...

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OPERATING ASPECTS

of Passenger Transport THE COMMISSIONERS' FORTHCOMING PUBLIC SITTINGS Details Extracted from the Gazettes Published by Area...

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IMPROVING BUS FARES IN THE NORTHERN AREA

The Railways Willing to Cooperate in this Important Matter T IIE decision of the Northern Area Traffic Commissioners to...

THE LONDON-FELIXSTOWE ROUTE CONSIDERED

Remarkable Statistical Evidence of the Popularity of Motor Coaches R ECENTLY the Eastern Traffic Commissioners have considered...

SOME GREEN LINE FIGURES REVEALED

Evidence Given to East Midland Commissioners in Connection with the LutonLondon Route I N the past few days there has been a...

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LIVERPOOL'S MUNICIPAL BUSES UNDER A CLOUD

Facts and Figures Embodied in the Latest Report Convey, in our Opinion, an Erroneous Impression as to the Merits of Buses A...

HOW RAILWAY-SUBSIDIZED SERVICES ARE GETTING THE TRAFFIC More Interesting Statistics •

Revealed at a Recent Southern Area Sitting A T the Dorchester sitting of the Southern Area Traffic Commissioners recently the...

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A BETTER VIEW

AHEAD Our Bodybuilding Expert Deals with the Windscreen and Front Windows of the Coach and Bus, introducing the Subject of...

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A Novel Mounting for Steering Wheels

T HE method of mounting steering wheels, which is shown in patent No. 351,379, by Achille Arato, 47 eorso Pratte* Turin, is...