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4th May 1951
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No Sauce for the Gander

Transport Operations Alone Expected to Keep Charges Stable . in a World of Soaring Prices is it thai the transport : operator ....

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Resurrection in Germany

A FTER visiting various German factories and the Frankfurt Motor Show, it is difficult to believe that the Germans have fought...

Passing Comments

Worries o Drivers A SMALL book prepared in Great Exhibition for visitors to the Great Year Exhibition of 1851 reveals some of...

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One Hears—

That many a motorist's holiday plans have been nipped in the Budget. That the Swedish Minister of Finance proposes to double...

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Hauliers' Drive for New Traffic• West Riding Gets A DIRECT

MAIL drive, foreshadowed in "The Commercial Motor" last week, is to be launched all over the country by members of the Road...

WITHIN 24 hours of the hearing, the IN Yorkshire Licensing

Authority last week granted the application of the West Riding Automobile Co., Ltd., to vary fares on 247 services. All single...

25-mile Limit: Summonses Fail

FF OUR summonses alleging that William Alfred C,astell, 13, The Bungalows, Great Finborough, had infringed the conditions of an...

FUEL PRICES UP AGAIN 'INCREASES in tanker freight rates land

other causes have forced the Ministry of Fuel and Power to raise the maximum permissible prices for petroleum products. The...

SUCCESSOR TO SIR H. PIGGOTT

O N June 1, Mr. C. J. Macdonald, C.B.E., assistant secretary in charge of the road goods transport division of the Ministry of...

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O UR office has still to learn of one of our members holding an

■ riginal permit or substituted permit for he carriage of foodstuffs. . . By aking this action, the Road 'Haulage ixecutive...

YEOMAN CASE ENDS

T HE Transport Arbitration Tribunal this week concluded its hearing of the application by Messrs. C. and G. Yeoman for...

• Minister Seeking Agreement on Speed Limit

T HE handicap that vehicles suffer from the artificial restriction of he speed limit can be solved arbitrarily or by agreement....

" Unscrambling is Possible"

THE committee which considered the I Transport (Amendment) Bill should have been based on technical considerations. Instead, it...

MORE NATIONALIZATION IN INDIA

T HE West Punjab Transport Board Act, 1948, has been promulgated. It provides for the setting-up of a transport board to take...

FREERE-ENTRY TO CAR PARKS?

T HE question of free re-entry to car parks in the South Bank area has been taken up by the Traders' Road Transport...

R.H.A: CONFERENCE PLANS A BRAINS TRUST is to be held

1 - 1. during the final session, on October 18, of the Road Haulage Association's conference at Torquay. Mr. Donald McCullough,...

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Men in the News

Ma. C. E M Haltom, F.C.A., has been appointed a director of Vokes. Ltd. MR. A. G. ELLIOTT. CUE., has been appointed joint...

New R.H.A. Area Appointments

rHA1RMEN and vice-chairmen have been appointed by four areas of the Road Haulage Association. They are as follows :— East...

TRADES COUNCIL BACKS B.T.C.

A PLEA for workers' organizations to consider using fully the facilities offered by British Railways was made at a recent...

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Another Two B.E.T. Companies tsk for More : Oldham Fares Up

rOR the first time in 30 years, the North Western Road Car Co., Ltd., a B.E.T. associate, has applied for all-round fares...

OXFORD-CAMBRIDGE SERVICE

A LUXURY coach service between 1 - .Oxford and Cambridge is being run by Premier Travel, Ltd., Cambridge. This new facility is...

,CONGRESS PLANS THE programme for the Industrial Transport Association's congress

from June 7-9 has been published. Headquarters will be the Charing Cross Hotel, London.. The Minister of Transport will speak...

Lines-Crellin Negotiations

I N the Chancery Division, last Friday, counsel for the Lines Trailer Co., Ltd., said that negotiations were proceeding between...

MONTREAL RATES RISE

NAONTREAL transport rates have Iv' risen after a ruling by the Quebec Transportation Board on an application by the Automotive...

RED AND WHITE JUBILEE BOOK

T HE jubilee of Red and White Services, Ltd., in 1949, has now been marked by a well-produced book, Red and White Services,...

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Backing for Northern Roadways : Duplication Cut

ENDING that there was ample evidence of need for additional road services from Edinburgh and Glasgow to .London, the...

In a Line or Two

Last week's report of the Wragg appeal, referred inadvertently to the Landon, instead of the Lambert, decision. A quarry-type...

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lewandre to Make U.S.-type Brakes

RODUCTION of Bendix-Westinghouse air-brake equipment is ected to commence immediately at Lincoln works of Clayton Dewan, Ltd.,...

,YSTALL FACTORY MOVED IN FOUR HOURS N increase in the

demand for Laystall crankshafts has caused iduction to be transferred from the :dnesfield works of the Laystall gineering Co.,...

AMAZONIAN SUPPORT

UHEN G. Patterson and Sons, Ltd., V Beadnell, applied to the Northern censing Authority, at Berwick. for rmission to run a new...

BEN CENTRES MEETING ?RANCH centres of the Motor and Cycle

Trades Benevolent Fund will eet in conference at the Connaught ooms, London, W.C.2, on May 17. the morning, considera4ion will...

ASTERN COUNTIES CASE FAILS N application by the Eastern Counties

Omnibus Co., Ltd., to run (cursions and tours from Horseheath as discussed by the Eastern Licensing ,uthority. "We think that...

DEPUTATION TO MINISTER

A DEPUTATION representing local L'It interests met the Minister of Transport last week to stress the congestion problem on the...

Compromise Ruling on Annis Appeal

A FTER a legal battle, over the past . 2i years, lasting nine days before the Metropolitan Licensing Authority and 18 days...

NO M.o.T. DIRECTIVE

QUPPORTING an application before the Northern Licensing Authority, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne; recently, Mr. T. Campbell Wardlaw...

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A BIGGER ANL TTER COMET

By L. J. COTTON, M .I.R.T.E. B IGGER engine, increased pay load rating and the Eaton two-speed axle as standard equipment are...

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Long Timber Easily Handled

QUILT specially to combat problems encountered in U. moving timber, in both woodlands and timber yards, a new type of crane...

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Road Transport and the FESTIVAL

Visitors to the South Bank Will See a Parade of Britain's Finest Commercial Vehicles : In the Construction of the Exhibition,...

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Transportivity

Government Attempts to Strike an Artificial Balance Between Road and Rail Defeat Their Own Object by Increasing Road Transport...

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NEW DAIMLER FLAT-ENGEN

Centrally Mounted Power Unit Provides Straight-through Transmission Line. Steering Layout Allows Full Wheel Deflection....

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- Bournemouth Banks on Trolleybuses

Provision of Comfortable Vehicles Stimulates Traffic: Receipts Rise by 107 Per Cent. in 13 Years ) VER the past 17 years,...

T.A. Conference D ESPITE the summary withdrawal from membership -of the

Public Transport Association by the State-owned bus companies and the London Transport Executive, on December 31, last, over...

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H.D. Oils Lengthen Engine Life L.T.E. Experiments Prove Higher Cost

of Detergent Oils is justified H EAVY-DUTY oils were proved in a three-year test conducted by the London Transport Executive...

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First British Trolleybuses for Colombo

"OLOMBO, capital city of Ceylon, is joining the growing number of overseas capitals hich have started the operation of...

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France Welcomes the I.R.T.E.

Factories, Roads and Operators' Systems Inspected in a Week's Tour Around Paris I 4 AST Sunday, a party of members of the...

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Ten Royal Tiger Ambassadors for Southdown

IAINTAINING its policy of offering superlative comfort for passengers Continental and home tours, Southwn Motor Services, Ltd.,...

Free Haulier Solves Exhibitor's Problems

IRIVATE-ENTERPRISE road haulage last week carried out an unusual transport job in connection th the British Industries Fair at...

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Partial Success for Annis

Right of the Annis Company to Participate in Heavy Haulage Upheld : Two Tractors Withdrawn from Licence and One Trailer Added :...

Vehicle Lost and Won

I N an appeal decision issued last week, the Appeal. Tribunal upheld the action of the South Wales Licensing Authority in...

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"Sidelines" for Fleet Operators

NCREAS1NG numbers of opera tors have recently augmented their vehicle fleets to include contractors' quipment of various types....

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Costing by Time

arid Mileage pr HE more I gain experience in the assessment of costs and charges and the more problems I have to solve in...

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An Automatic Grease Gun

A UTOMATIC greasing systems are . known, and consist Of a master gun, the output of which is piped to numerous lubrication...