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6th June 1947
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Do Unto Others

T HERE can be no doubt that the Co-operative movement in this country is powerful and can exereige a considerable influence...

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Passing Comments

If You Wan t a TWO brothers who run a Job Done — Don't I small haulage business Interfere . sought to speed the day's work...

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News of the Week

ALBERT HALL RALLY AND VEHICLE PARADE TO-DAY, at 7.30 p.m., there is to be 1 a rally at the Albert Hall, Kensington, sponsored...

Special Vehicles for Attested Herds Not Justified

XIST1NG regulations as to the disin1-Jfection of vehicles are the best means for 'preventing the spread of disease among...

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Andrews Licence Not Transferred A S reported in "The Commercial

Motor" dated May 16,, Mr Trevor Morgan, K.C., South Wales Licensing Authority; reserved decision in an application by Bouts...

Private Enterprtse Guaranteed

ri A LUNCHEON in honour of Lord Wootton, P.C., C.H., D.L., LL.D., who was recently elected president of the National Road...

COVENANT SCHEME APPLIED TO LIGHT COMMERCIALS

L AST week we referred in " One Hears" to the possibility of new light commercial vehicles (up to 1 ton unladen) being brought...

OWNERS' NAMES ON VEHICLES IT has been ascertained by the

Traders' . J. Road Transport Association that under certain Scottish Acts it is still illegal for owners of goods vehicles not...

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NO HALF-MEASURES ON TRANSPORT BILL "'THE Transport Bill is a legislative.

1 economic and social catastrophe." said Mr. M. Clark Hall, public relations officer of the British Road Federation, at a...

DENNIS FIRE BRIGADE WINS EIGHT AWARDS 'TEAMS of the Dennis

works brigade 1, entered for the tournament held on Whit-Monday by the Surrey District of the National Fire Brigades'...

NUFFIELD WORKERS RECEIVE £960,000 IN DIVIDENDS

S INCE Lord Nuffield placed 1,000.000 stock units in trust on behalf of workers in the Nuffield factories, employees had...

FORD WORKERS TAKEN "BEHIND THE SCENES "

E MPLOYEES of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., have been told by the chairman and directors exactly how the company stands financially...

APPEALS AT BOURNEMOUTH

L -ROM June 11-13 the Appeal I Tribunal will sit at the Law Courts, Stafford Road, Bournemouth, to hear the following appeals:...

LORDS WILL BACK ELECTORATE THE Upper House, said Lord Mancroft,

M.B.E., in replying to a toast by Mr. Cyril M. Cohen, always revised and scrutinized Bills of the Lower House, but, as a matter...

Government Sponsors Research

THROUGH the Department of I Scientific and Industrial Research, the Government is setting up a special organization to carry...

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MERSEYSIDE DOCK DELAYS: DEMURRAGE TO BE CHARGED?

V JEHICLES bringing goods to Merseyside docks side docks for loading into outwardbound steamers, are still subject to delays in...

TYNE TUNNEL BUILDING STARTED

O N Wednesday last; Mr. A. Barnes, Minister of Transport, performed the inauguration ceremony to mark the start of the...

"TRAFFIC CASES" AGAIN

T HE familiar "Traffic Cases," edited by Eric F. M. Maxwell and E. S. Fay, and published by Sweet and Maxwell, Ltd., 2-3,...

R.A.C. VIEWS STATED BY CHAIRMAN Q PEAKING at ,the annual

general meeting of the Royal Automobile Club on May 30, the chairman, Mr. Wilfrid Andrews, declared that motorvehicle users...

PRISONERS TO TRAVEL IN COMFORT

H ULL CORPORATION has recently taken * delivery of a new prison van, with windows through which prisoners can see, but cannot...

IN A LINE OR TWO David Brown Tractors, Ltd., of

Meltham, has acquired a factory at Stanningley, Leeds, for the manufacture of farm implements. The London sales depot of the...

NO ACTION ON "DRASTIC ACTION" RESOLUTION

1 - 1 A PROPOSAL by Warrington Subarea of the Road Haulage Association for " drastic action' against the Transport Bill, is...

16 SNOW-PLOUGH BUSES VOR over two months during the I

winter, the Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd., had 16 snow-plough buses in service, said Mr. Raymond Birch, M.I.Mech.E.,...

BETTER MIDLANDS SERVICE

T O improve service facilities in, the Midlands, Praills Motors, Ltd., Hereford. has acquired the Raven Garage, Shrewsbury, as...

Person at Pars

MR, A. R. SADLER, a director of Pirelli, Ltd., is on his way to England from South Africa, and is due to arrive next week MR....

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Engine Oil Pressure Used to Lubricate Chassis

F OR far too long the lubrication of chassis parts has been carried out on a hit-and-miss principle, but if one can judge by...

Electric Vehicle as Butcher's Shop F OR some time St. Helens

Industrial Co-operative Society, Ltd., Lanes, has operated horse-drawn travelling butchers' shops to provide a muchappreciated...

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June 17: 8.30 p.m.. White Room, palace Hotel, informal reception

by the president, Mr. C. A. Hopkins, followed by a dance and cabaret in the ballroom, (Open to Invited guests and trade...

GUY REOPENS BUS BODY DEPARTMENT

T O speed deliveries of urgently needed buses, Guy Motors, Ltd., Wolverhampton, is reopening a bus body department which was...

SMALL OPERATORS COMBINE A PPLICATIONS were heard by the rIkScottish

Traffic Commissioners at Stornoway, on May 29, for permission to run bus services to the North Lochs district of Lewis. The...

P.S.V. APPEALS FAIL THE Minister of Transport has dis

missed the appeals of the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd. ., Mt. A. V. Meek and Red and White Set • vices, Ltd.,...

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A Service the State Cannot Provide

L IKE other branches of. i'oad transport, the furniture-removal industry, through the. development of the internal-combustion...

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Mechanical Handling Speeds Up Transport Service

An American Operator of 700 Vehicles Builds a Modern Terminal for Goods, in which Freight is moved on Trolleys Attached to an...

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The P.S.V. and The Law

SOLVING THE, PROBLEMS OF THE CARRIER W HEN is a bus not a bus, and when does it become a coach? When is a coach a contract...

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ilk :Atm NaAin

A LTHOUGH it has been known for two years that the builder of Foden goods vehicles had entered the field of passenger machines,...

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Newton Suspension Controller Easily Serviced

New Unit, Which is Interchangeable With Existing Newton Equipment, Can be Topped-up in a Few Minutes S USPENSION control...

A Tool Kit Vulcanizer

A SELF-CONTAINED vulcanizing outfit, known as the Autotherm and costing only £1 15s., has been introduced by William Frost...

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Prefabricated Parts for Rapid Bodybuilding

Steel Tube Interests Launch Scheme to By-pass Bottleneck in Labour and Materials for Bus-body Construction A LL over the world...

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The French Idea of . By L. Graham Davies

Road-Rail "Co-ordination" Although French Hauliers are Not Yet Threatened with Expropriation, They are Suffering Unfair...

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"Cost Recording Made Easy"

A BOOK entitled "Cost Recording Made Easy" has been published by the English Universities Press Ltd., for the Temple Press...

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Differential Gear with a Damped Action

MUITH a normal differential gear, the VII drive vanishes if one wheel slips, and many schemes have been propounded to prevent...