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4th February 1944
4th February 1944
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Promoting a Transport War

S OMEONE remarked to us the other day that he coUld not understand why one journal, let alone several, should now find...

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The Disposal of Government Stocks

T HE commercial-vehicle industry has for long been greatly concerned regarding the matter of the disposal of Government stocks...

Passing Comments

H IGH-OCTANE petrol has to be removed from the tanks, etc., of aeroplanes before they are shipped from the U.S.A. to England,...

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One Hears—

Many comnients on Howes and whys. That road transport is bored with the Szlumper scheme, That the small haulier must refuse to...

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News of the Week

PROGRESS OF ROAD-TRANSPORT FEDERATION T nominations to the Shadow ' HE Governing Body of the Nati(Mal Transport Federation are...

Release of Key Men for Motor Industry

I-HE views of the'S.M.M.T. concern ing the, release of personnel from the Services have been outlined in a letter to Mr....

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The Government's Post-war Roads Policy

AST week, Mr. 1'. J. Noel-Baker, Joint Parliamentary Secretary, -M.O.W.T,, made th e followin g statement in the House of...

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Personal Pars

MR. G. W. QUICK SMITH, secretary of the Standing Joint Committee . of Road Hauliers National Organizations, has passed the Bar...

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Delay . May Mean Disaster If the National Road Transport Federation

and Its Constituent Associations Do Not Move Quickly • They May Be Too Late to Save and Serve the Industry By "Tantalus" I T...

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Wheeled War Vehith

Vith a "Go-anywhere" . Performance Non Track-laying Machines Demonstrate their Remarkable Ability to Negoti-ate Very Difficult...

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Sand and Ballast Rates When Conditions are Difficult

Building Around Some Actual Figures Supplied by an Operator to Formulate a Table of Rates for Sand and Ballast Haulage to meet...

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A.R.O. REPUDIATES BOOKLET

T HE Haulier Sectional Board of A.R.O. has informed us that it does not agree with the policy of compulsory amalgamation of...

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THE PART OF PLASTICS THE POST-WAR VEHICLE

The view is expressed that designers and builders of commercial motors have not yet appreciated the structural value of...

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Watchman, What of the Night . !

An Urgent Warning Against the Present Tendency Towards the Setting By . Up of Huge Semi or Complete Monopolies in the Haulage...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES AN OWNER-DRIVER'S THANKS TO WOULD-BE DICTATORS I

AM an owner-driver, recently discharged from the I Army, and I have been following with great interest your articles concerning...

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An Automatic Gas Torch for Producer Plants

T HOSE operators who use pieces of rag soaked in paraffin, or other similar means for getting their gas producers under way,...

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Ideas for Improving the Electric Vehicle

A Re'surne of Patent Specifications That Have Recently Been Published TWO patents from E. Kny;•4 - ; Dean's and the Associated...