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6th April 1934
6th April 1934
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Still More Legislation !

T HE new Road Traffic Bill is a cUriously mixed measure, but one with which , commercial-vehicle interests need not be...

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Passing Comments 1.40E0N signs and other similarly coloured lights

form a bad background for traffic signal lamps, yet often driving difficulties are thus augmented. In some cases, especially if...

Special Features of This Issue

We include a résumé of the Road Traffic Bill. Page 262. The use of gyroplanes can solve the air-service terminal delay...

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One Hears

That 30 m.p.h. would increase traffic congestion. That 35-40 m.p.h. would be a more reasonable limit. That this would be just...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY

"The wheels of wealth will be slowed by all difficulties of transport, at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the...

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News of Municipal Activities

Weighbridges : Omissions from New Act. Comments on omissions from the provisions of the Road and Rail Traffic Act which deal...

MUNICIPAL PURCHASES and PROPOSALS

Guildford Corporation is buying a Karrier sweeper. Barking Corporation has ordered a Leyland Cub passenger. chassis. The...

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A New Moderate-capacity Crossley Oil Engine

First and Full Particulars of an Interesting Four cylindered Unit Embracing Many Noteworthy Features, and Smaller in Size than...

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Saving Weight in Tipping Bodies I N view of the

need, these days, for obtaining the highest ratio of pay - load capacity to the gross weight of a vehicle the question of...

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ATTRACTIVE DELIVERY

VANS of MARKED UTILITY Our Bodybuilding Expert Shows How to Combine Attractive Body Lines and Decorative Displays with...

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The Road Traffic Bill

A Safety-first Measure Amending the Road Traffic Act, 193o, and Section 34 of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, /933 GENERAL SPEED...

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Solvin the Terminal-delay Problem

THE problem of shortening the terminal delays of air travel may be simplified as the resuit of recent technical progress with...

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CALCULATIONS

RATES and FA ES The Fundamental Conditions of Air Transport C o m pared with Those of R. .d and ail. Aviation's Heavy Fixed...

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Latest News of

1" ailway Air Services, td. T N our air-transport news pages duri in g the past few weeks we have recorded the formation of...

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A NEW i6-PASSE

GER MONOPLANE Details of the Avro 642, a Large capacity Ms derately Priced Air.transport Craft, with Cruising Speed of 1135...

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The Prospects of London Scotland Air Tra

Is There Not a Danger That Companies Having Big Financial Resources Will Step In and Profit by The Hard-earned Experience of...

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Air-transport Concerns Must Co-operate

I T is not meet, at this juncture, to make speculative pronouncements on the policy which the railway companies and imperial...

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AIR TRANSPORT NEWS

INAUGURATION OF SCOTLAND AND BELFAST SERVICES. Lord Londonderry is to inaugurate the Londoa-Glasgow and LondonBelfast daily...

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Commercial Development Neglected• in Haulage

An Excellent Opera! , ing and Maintenance System Does 'Not Counterbalance Incient Management and Accountancy By E. H. B....

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

The New Act Regarded as "Unfair and Onesided." What Are the Lives of Passenger Vehicles? The Term "All-metal Coach" Generally a...

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Armstrong-Saurer's New Eight-wheeler

Further Details of the Samson Oiler, which has a High Pay-load Capacity in Relation to its Unladen Weight I N our issue dated...

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, Operating Aspects of •

PASSENGER TRANSPORT IMPORTANT P.S.V. REVISIONS IN NEW BILL Position Concerning Corridor Areas Simplified. No Help for...

THE LATEST NEWS OF IMPORTANT EVENTS

BIG NEW OFFICES FOR WEST YORKSHIRE CO. , T HE erection has just been completed of new head offices for the West Yorkshire Road...

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A CAPACIOUS

iHREE-WHEELER for 8-cwt. loads tha s economical to run How the James Samson Handyvan, with Improved Protection for the...

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Developthents in

Fan-belt Manufacture Interesting Construction of "National" Belting in its Improved Form Affords High Efficiency and...

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Road Transport Activities

IN PARLIAMENT By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent THE SEARCH FOR OIL IN BRITAIN. T HE Secretary for Mines, Mr. E....

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What the Item of P roble ms Establishment Costs of the HAULIER and CARRIER

Means to an Ownerdriver Small Sums that Become Formidable Totals in the Course of a Year F EW owner-drivers appreciate that...

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A Pneumatic Coupling

A Resume of Recently Published Patent Specifications A CONTRIVANCE which PI may be used for a number of purposes is described...