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5th August 1955
5th August 1955
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SIMMS MOTOR UNITS LTD

FURTHER EXPANSION OF OUTPUT AND PROFIT MR. LIARD FT'S STATEMENT The Annual General Meeting of Simms Motor Units Ltd., was held...

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Action on the Docks

R.H.A. Calling Together Affected Interests to Try to End Excessive Delays U RGENT measures a r e necessary to overcome the...

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Odd Woman Out

DUYERS of transport units should take warn ing from the case, reported in The Commercial Motor last week, in which a woman who...

Passing Comments

A Load on His Mind A READER says that he has been caused anxiety " by the way some distributors of household equipment...

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One Hears

That the special Mercedes-Benz lorry can race a racer to (but not in) a race. Of a reader's wife disappointed to find that a...

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R.H.A. TO FIGHT GOVERNMENT

Strenuous Opposition to New Disposal Policy : 2,500 Extra Lorries Enough ' THE Road Haulage Association have refused to accept...

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One-vehicle Operator Loses Business : Appeal Fails

THE Transport Tribunal have now I dismissed an appeal, during the hearing of which (The Commercial Motor, May 13) they said...

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Men in the News

MR. A. R. M. ELLis, barrister-at-law, has been appointed East Midland Deputy Licensing Authority. MR. R. W. MCCRONE, chairman...

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" No Stranglehold, Says Authority

I REFUSE to grant licences which enable one haulier . to . have a stranglehold on these small hauliers with one or two...

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Hay Merchants Not Engaged in "Agriculture," says Mr. Hanlon

"A "you telling me that someone buying or selling hay and straw or cattle is engaged in agriculture? I must regard that as...

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Speed Limit Off Land-Rovers ?

I F Parliament agrees, all dual-purpose vehicles, including vehicles of the Land-Rover type, will be exempt from speed limits...

Injury on Coach Park: Operators Not Liable

S TATING that he was satisfied that Kendricks Transport, Ltd., Brewery Street. Dudley, coach owners, had not been negligent,...

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59 More Trunk Road Works E'IFTY-NINE more works on trunk

I highways, which it was hoped to authorize between now and 1959, were announced in the House of Commons last week by the...

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Continuing a Century Of Service

How Two Family Businesses in Yeadon Have Come Through Recent Tribulations to Maintain Unusually Efficient Facilities for a...

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Average Speeds Quickly Computed

A USEFUL average-speed calculator has been produced by the Goodyear Tyre arid Rubber Co., Ltd., Wolverhampton, and is being...

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Cheap to Buy and to Operate

Says John F. Moon, A.M.I:R.T.E. L " initial cost, £.5 annual tax and a low fuel-consumption rate make the new Reliant 5-cwt....

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Promising Rubber Suspension System

T HE employment of rubber in vehicle suspension systems has oftdri been attempted in the -past, but not always with complete...

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Seven Simple Rules that Form an Invariable—

Accident DRILL By Our Legal Adviser I T is astonishing how many people fail to do the correct thing upon being involved in an...

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20 Tons at 1 Ed. a Mile

One-Driver, One-Vehicle Policy Strictly Followed by Lumley Saville Concern and Favourable Cost Figures are Returned Despite...

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Useful Combination Tool Set

THE Bimbo combination tool' set, • sold at 8s. 6d. by Lexington Products, Ltd., 2 Lexington Street, London, W.1, is applicable...

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Are Your Log Sheets True?

A Reminder of the Legal Provisions Concerning the Keeping of Drivers' Records, and the Importance of Strict Adherence to the...

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Wide or Narrow Double-deckers?

WITH regard to the letter from E. Greenwood, headed vv "Wide Buses on Narrow Roads" and published in your issue dated July 15,...

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Trunk Calls

A S on one or two previous occasions, the Association of British Chambers of Commerce have contrived to introduce something...

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Mr. Cusick Starts Up in the South

Forms Parkstone Transport Co., Ltd. with 32 Vehicles Bought from B.R.S. O F 44 vehicles and seven trailers bought from British...

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How a Charge Should be Quoted

If Weekly Mileages Are Low, Rates Are Best Based on Time, But a Tonnage Scale, as Well as the Usual Mileage Method, May he...

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Pallet Trailer or Fork Truck

L -1 A SELF-LOADING pallet trailer which does duty as a . fork-lift truck has been introduced by Lansing Bagnall, Ltd.,...

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An Improved Injection-pump Tester

T HE Hartridge injection-pomp tester is a well-known piece of apparatus arid patent No. 729,431 shows the latest improvements...