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5th December 1947
5th December 1947
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Do C-Licensees Accept Haulage? • T HE position of the Clicensee; that

is the man who normally carries only his own goods and must not work for "hire or reward," is definitely a delicate one. On one...

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Passing Comments

The Biggest Thing MANY times we and other Ever in Railway "A journals in the transport Crossings field have complained of the...

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One Hears—

That "Whoa " to the wheel means more woe than weal. .0 Of tail-bored car 'drivers behind some big lorries that hug the road...

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News of the Week

T HE recent forecast by Sir Stafford Cripps of the cuts in capital expenditure to be made on roads and transport was largely...

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N.I.R.T.B. Slowly Reducing Debt A WARNING as to higher costs and

likely increases in charges, is embodied in the annual report of the Northern Ireland Road Transport Board. This year, states...

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Personal Pars MR, J. W. WOMAR is the new chairman

of Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., replacing MR. R. P. BEDDOW. MR. J. S. WILLS has resigned from chairmanship of Ribble Motor...

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Tyres and Steering Geometry ECTUR1NG on "Tyres and Steer ing

Geometry" before the members of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers on November 27, Mr. J. H. Hardman, of the product...

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Halifax Shows How to Speed the Snow Plough L ESSONS of

last winter have not been lost on local authorities, particularly those whose areas lie along the Pennines, where so many roads...

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Home 'Regulations Cramp Vehicle Exporters

pp• EGULATIONS under which the 1%. British commercial-vehicle manufacturer operated had hampered the export drive, said Mr. V....

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Road Trc

sport Forms HE CHILDREN'S WAITER T O-DAY, if little Tommy lives any great distance from his school, there is often a special...

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Priva te-car Refinements Offered in

ANEW LIGHT VAN WITH changes in chassis and . body design, the new Comrner 8 cwt. Supervan . specification now includes the...

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OIL ECONOMY REAR AXLES IN the issue of " The

Commercial Motor" dated I November 7, Mr. Brewster, of J. Brewster and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, raised some queries regarding...

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Costs and Conditions for

CONTRACT CARRIAGES More About the Difficulties—Legal and Otherwise—That Beset Those Who Seek to Take Up Private-hire Work as a...

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No Quick Solution of Transmission Problems

Says Professor Ewen M'Ewen, B.Sc. (Eng.), A.M.I.Mech.E., in a Paper Read to the I.Mech.E. A N excellent paper "Recent...

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Passenger Transport News

N.J.I.C. Being Undermined? COVENTRY Corporation's decision %---• to pay its transport operatives higher wages than those...

New Wide-range Ticket Machine

A N improved edition of the Speed model register, manufactured by Sctright Registers, Ltd., Claremont Road, London, E.17,...

COVENTRY PRESSES ITS TAXI PLAN THERE has been strong opposition

to 1 the Coventry Corporation Bill, which, amongst its 21 main clauses, covers the entry of the corporation into the fields of...

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An Oil-cooled Piston

A NOVEL design of piston for which many advantages are claimed is shown in patent No. 591,348, by Shell Development ,Co., San...