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5th June 1942
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The Bogy of Nationalization

A GAIN a demand for the co-ordination of all forms Road Transport Must Not Lose of road transport under Its Birthright by...

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Why Not 30 m.p.h. for Light Trailer Outfits?

T HE British system of law making undoubtedly possesses many advantages, but one of the difficulties presented by it is that in...

Passing Comments

Calling-up of Drivers r r'HERE are still too many Reduces Transport L cases of transfers of vehicle Efficiency drivers which do...

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One Hears

That adjustments with care save wear and tear. That a marriage certificate is not required for a trailer attachment The...

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Notes on the Government Road Haulage Scheme

CHARTERED FLEET.—At the end of May, vehicles on charter numbered 358. New offers for charter are still coming in steadily and...

Rates Details Delivery for a Pooled Service

K NOWN as Chester Mutual Delivery Ps.Service, Ltd., is an organization which comprises an interesting experiment in locally...

REGISTERING WITH TYRE DEPOTS

U NDER the ContrOl of Rubber Tyres (No. 5) Order, which came into force on May 28, vehicle owners are prohibited, without the...

S.J.C. TO CONSIDER LONG-TERM POLICY

rrITE next meeting of the executive 1 committee of the Standing Joint Committee will be held on July 15, ac which members of...

A.R.O. AREA ARRANGES PARTS EXCHANGE

Devon and Cornwall Area T i l l /S E A.R.O. has arranged a spare-parts exchange bureau for its members, so that these can...

GAS DECONTAMINATION DUTIES OF HAULIERS

rrHE Road Transport Section of the 1 Liverpool. Chamber of Commerce has had under consideration the question of the...

MANY PRODUCER-GAS BUSES PROMISED

A DDRESSING Middlesbrough Rotary . Club, Sir John Maxwell, Northern Regional Transport Commissioner, said that the plan for...

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S.M.T. CAPITAL REPAYMENT

I N a circular to stockholders of the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., the secretary refers to the intimation in the annual...

HAULAGE BUSINESS SOLD FOR 14,150

S OME days ago the haulage business of Messrs. S. W. Hedges, at Bushey Heath, Herts, was put up for sale by Messrs. Goddard and...

EDINBURGH FOOD CONCERNS START A DELIVERY POOL OLLOWING the development

of a delivery pool by many of the leading Glasgow and Edinburgh stores, seven of the leading Edinburgh food concerns have...

I. OF T. ACCEPTS "HENRY SPURRIER " MEMORIAL TRUST have just received from Mr. E. L.

Cadwallader, hon. secretary, the "Henry Spurner" Memorial Fund, information that the Institute of Transport, having been...

PERSONAL PARS

MR, D. J, MORT has been appointed chief administrative officer of the civil defence transport service at Swansea. MR, 3. H....

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L.P.T.B.• TO OPERATE 20 PRODUCER-GAS BUSES

L AST Tuesday, a demonstration was held of an L.P.T.I3. bus equipped to run on producer gas. It is the forerunner of a fleet of...

NEVER SURRENDER—EXCEPT YOUR OLD BOOKS AND PAPERS!

L ECTURING recently before the Royal Society of Arts on "Making Use of Waste Products," Mr. J. C. Dawes, 0.13.E., Controller of...

MAINTENANCE ENGINEER REQUIRES POSITION

A MAINTENANCE engineer of con1 — ksiderable experience in the servicing of commercial vehicles, both for goods and passengers,...

SCOTS CRITICIZE MEATTRANSPORT SCHEME S EVERE criticism is being made in

Scottish meat-trade circles of the " scandalous " waste of transport involved in the present system of sending live sheep into...

DAY'S PAY LOST FOR A FEW MINUTES

B AD feeling amongst the drivers at the Stewartly depot of the London Brick Co., Ltd., is being engendered by what appears to...

Prominent Haulier's Views on a Rates Schedule

Wi AT he termed surprising results f - i i- om tests of the rates schedule formulated by the Nottingham Area Management...

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MINISTRY APPEAL FOR OLD TYRES AND TUBES

A MINISTRY OF SUPPLY ad ver/ - t tisement in this issue draws attention to the country's urgent need of rubber, and an appeal...

DISTRIBUTION HARMED BY COAL RATIONING?

D URHAM County and North YorkL./shire Coal Merchants Association has decided to oppose any coal-ration ing plan. It is asserted...

Castor Trailer in a New Producergas-plant Range A A NEW range

of producer-gas equipment for commercial vehicles has been introduced by Messrs. Industrial Producer Gas, 35, Paradise Street,...

Agreed Rates for Sand and Gravel

A GREEMENTS have recently been reached in North Wales, Northumberland and Durham on rates which should be charged for the...

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Mixed Tractor lea for Mixed Farming

A Fleet of .to Machines of Five Types Performs a Variety of Useful Agricultural Operations on South Downs Work I T is not only...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

WHY NOT ENCOURAGE GOOD GAS-PRODUCER FUELS? IN view of the activities which are now taking place in the producer-gas world for...

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Sweden Adapts 75,000 Motors • to Producer Gas S CARCITY of imported

liquid motor fuel has prompted an extensive use of producer-gas traction in Sweden. Long before the war Swedish engineers had...

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Road Trans Irt Helps in SALVAGING CR. 3FIED AIRCRAFT

E VEN id the best arranged wars aircraft make entirely_ unlockedfor descents on any part of the countryside and the possibility...

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Drivers and the Home Guard 1T " . an B t Y a.us"

Useful Advice to Operators and Men on• Essential Work Who Have Little Free Time D RIVERS of road vehicles-1n common with...

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Why Was It Designed Like This ?

According to the Writer Designers Are Often Blamed Unfairly for Lack of Accessibility and Other Alleged Faults for Many of...

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Checking Up Or the Leeds Schedule

Whilst Accepting the Principle of a Country-wide Scale of Rates, There Seems to be Room for Criticism of the Figures in the...

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To Adjust, Individually, Injection-pump _Elements

A Resume of Patent Specifications That Have Recently Been Published I N an injection pump for a multi' cylindered engine, all...