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Speed-limit Misconceptions

Factors Which Indicate the Absurdity of Special Limits for Commercial Vehicles A WALKER, wishing to cross a street, looks...

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The German Clearing-house System

I N view of the great interest that is now being taken in the attempts to promote some scheme for the fixation of haulage...

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To-morrow's Wages and Rates Conference T "position arising from the application

for a national wages increase in the road haulage industry will be considered at a national conference of employers'...

"COMPLETE EXTERMINATION OF HAULIERS."

A note of alarm concerning the Appeal Tribunal's decision against the regrant of A licences to the Blyth Transport Co, Ltd.....

FOUR-FIVE YEARS TO COMPLETE RATES STRUCTURE?

Will the time Come when the present decentralization of transport control through Commissioners and Licensing Authorities is...

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OFFICIAL ORDERS IN JANUARY.

January proved a relatively quiet month as regards the orders for motor vehicles given out by Government Departments. The...

PERSONAL PARS.

Ma. D. W. MILLS has been appointed to take charge of advertising for Guy Motors, Ltd., at Wolverhampton. MR. ARTHUR GUY,...

Transit Insurance Notes

ESTIMATING AND INSURANCE COSTS I T is most unfortunate that there are many cases in which hauliers estimate for a load and...

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TRUNK SERVICES RESTRICTED TO 100 MILES?

Present railway classifications of goods should be discarded, as la step towards the stabilization of road and rail rates,...

"WHOLE ISSUE OF CARELESS DRIVERS."

" I insist on a complete and thorough record being kept of the hours worked by these drivers. It is not a matter of one...

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BLACKPOOL BAN SHELVED.

According to reports, the Blackpool police have given assurance that they are to shelve, for 12 months, the proposed ban on the...

Municipal Purchases and Proposals

Rawtfmstall Corporation recommends the purchase of a refuse collector. Warwick County Counell is to obtain tenders for the...

Road Transport Topics By Our Special in Parliament Parliamentary Correspondent

BUS STOPS DANGEROUSLY SITED? D ANGER caused by bus stopping places was the subject of a question asked by Mr. R. Gibson, The...

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Proper Organization Pa) in Keeping Costs

One Man's Ideas of How to Keep Costs and Details of the Forms that he Uses and the Information that is Readily Available from...

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A FODEN FIVE-SPEED OILER

Gains Full Marks on Test A Sound Engineering Job with a Performance that may be Accepted as a Criterion for Modern 7-8-ton...

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Tenders of Interest to Hauliers

MENDERS are invited by the following (latest 1 dates are given in parentheses):— Marple U.D.C., for granite macadam and...

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Some Tendencies in 3erman Design

The Main Features of the .Modem Vehicles are Propulsion by Oil, Gas or Electricity, Attention to Streamlining, Improved...

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OPINIONS

and • QUERIES WHO INTRODUCED VACUUM BRAKES FOR TRAILERS? 15283) In your issue dated December 17 last you published an...

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HOW A MODERN SUGA -BEET FACTORY IS RUN

T HE arrangements for handling deliveries of sugarbeet by road are better at Alls9ott than at any other factory that I have...

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A Self-cleaning Oil-film Air

Filter T HE use of a filter on the air inlet of a petrol or oil engine has long since been recognized as a safeguard against...

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Aids To Maintenance Efficiency

PXPEDITION and Quality of Workmanship are Governed Largely by the Nature of " 1 --: the Equipment at the Disposal Of the...

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Mobile Television Stations in America A TRAVELLING television transmit

ting station has recently been put in operation by the National Broadcasting Co., Radio City, New York, for experimental "...

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What the Associations Are Doing

S.T.R. LECTURE DATE CHANGE. The lecture which was to be given by S.T.R., The Commercial Motor costs expert, at the Castle...

M.P. and

Recompense for Lost Licences 7 • R EFERRING to a recent case at South Shields, when two operators were forced out of business...

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"THE WICKED RAILWAYS IN 1838"

Q UESTIONS as to why the railway companies should oppose applications by bus operators in respect of new business were asked by...

BIG JUMPS IN GLASGOW'S PROFITS.

A T its meeting on February 23, Glasgow Corporation transport finance subcommittee considered tenders for the supply of oil and...

DAY TRIPS NOT SO POPULAR

B EFORE the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, at Leeds last week, Mr. J. T. Rogers suggested that full-day coach trips were...

EXCURSIONS TO EMPIRE EXHIBITION.

A .ra sitting of the Northern Scotland Traffic Commissioners at Dundee on February 25, W. Alexander and Sons. Ltd., was granted...

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EXCURSIONISTS WELCOMED IN SCOTLAND

A T Aberdeen, last week, before the Northern Scotland Traffic .Commissioners, Mr. Alexander Burnett, of Mintlaw, asked...

RESTRICTED TO I 4-SEATERS

O JECTIONS to a request by Inverness County Council for restriction in the size of buses operating on tours between Inverness...

ALL-IN TOURS DISCOURAGED .

A T a public sitting of the NorthWestein Traffic Commissioners, on Friday last, another blow was struck at the extended or...

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Financial News of the Industry

NEW COMPANIES. South-Western Garage (New Maiden), Ltd.-Private company. Reg. Feb. 24. Cap. 2500 in 500 ordinary shares of 21...

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A Coil-magneto Ignition System Recently Published

Patent Patent Specifications rOIL ignition. now ‘.... , almost universal, is subject to certain disadvantages, chief amongst...