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Another Factor in Injustice

A N opportunity of learning some inti mate details concerning the methods employed in running a magistrate's court presided...

Furniture Transporters Favour the Road

A STRIKING letter from a furniture manufacturer appeared recently in the Furnishing Record. The writer claims that there is an...

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Passing Comments

British Fuel the Best WE have received from the Where an Alternative " maker of Suncole—a coal is Plentiful . . . ....

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One Hears

That several women testers of drivers have had: to resign as the result of the nervous strain, attached to their work. "Road...

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NEWS of the WEEK

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

Bid for Reduction of L.M.S. Licences A REQUEST for the

removal from CA its licences of three vehicles run by the L.M.S. Railway Co. was made by Mr. V. R. Shepherd, for road...

Attempt to Prevent

Change of Customer S HOULD a B-licensee be allowed to change customers? This question was raised when Messrs. W. Holland and...

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REFUSE COLLECTORS MADE ILLEGAL.

Chelsea Borough Council has decided to make a strong protest to the Minister of Transport against the draft Motor Vehicles...

L.M.S. Wins—But Horses Must Go

QUBJECT to 20 horses being dis t , ...) posed of within one month," is a condition imposed by the Yorkshire Licensing...

Abstraction Alleged in Reheard Case S UGGESTIONS that cotton traffic ....)which

had gone to Southampton was now reverting to Liverpool were made by Mr. B. de H. Pereira, for the railway companies, when...

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SOVIET _MOTOR PRODUCTION FORGING AHEAD.

The Russian Soviet Union is rapidly becoming self-supporting, so far as motor vehicles are concerned, and especially so in the...

Railways Dislike Contract Licences

A LTHOUGH the railways take every opportunity of forcing applicants for A or B licences to accept contract A licences, they...

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PERSONAL PARS.

MR. E. H. CURTIS, chief inspector of Lincoln Corporation's transport department, has retired after 31 years' service. MR....

Middlesex Out to Stop Overloading

AIDDLESEX County Council is IVIzealous in enforcing the regulations concerning 'Vehicle laden weights. In 1035-36, says a...

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LATEST IN MOTOR FILMPRODUCING UNITS.

A Commer van, having Visatone sound-recording equipment and a body built by Gurney and Ewer, Ltd., Commer agent, of Ruislip,...

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A NEW LEYLAND SINGLE-DECK BODY.

Following the introduction of the new Leyland double-deck bus body, Leyland Motors, Ltd., now announces an all-metal...

Scottish RAC. Reports Trial Run of H.S.G. Lorry

T HE official report of the Royal Scottish Automobile Club on the performance, during a four - day trial, of the 4-ton lorry,...

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BUILDING THE Ban TO FIT THE WORK W ELL, Keen," said

Smithson, the baker, to his fellow-tradesman, at the club, " how many trays can you get into your new van?" " Sixty-seven,"...

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Stabilize Rates on "Tile C.M." Basis I N its discussion of

a scheme to stabilize haulage rates, the committee of A.R.O. Cambridge and Ely Subarea, next raised this point: " That fixed...

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The Variable Transmission Compromise

Is it the Last Word? O NE of the chief stumbling blocks in the development of an ideal transmission device affording an...

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How to Prepare an Application

G IJIDANCE for applicants for A and B licences is contained in memorandum G.M.F. 1)8, which has just been issued by the...

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01 1 11\ IONS

and QUERIES PUBLICITY FOR THE GOODS TRANSPORT INDUSTRY. • [4849] Whilst a very large amount of important work has been...

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New Belgian Motor Ferry to Ostend

r - I N Thursday of last week we were 4 ..../the guests of the Belgian Ministry of Transport at a function inaugurating the new...

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Vital Decisions of the Appeal Tribunal p R1NC IPLES of national

importance concerning applications for licences in connection with the acquisition of businesses, conditions to be imposed on B...

What is Good Evidence ?

B ECAUSE an operator (in this case the railway company) has carried large quantities of a certain class of goods, it does not...

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Should B Licences be Restricted ?

T HE decision of the West Midland Deputy Licensing Authority not to attach conditions to the B licence granted to Mr. James...

Ownership and Claimed Tonnage

U NUSUAL circumstances were connected with the appeal of the Southern Counties Road Transport Co., Ltd., Southampton, against...

Horsebox Operation Severely Restricted.

A PPEALS by Mr. W. H. Pocock, of Newbury, Major W. H. Borwick, of Wantage, and Sir Hugh Nugent (Lambourne Racehorse Transport...

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Road Transport Topics

In Parliament By Our Special Parliamentar*Correspondent NO SPEED INCREASE FOR CATTLE CARRIERS. A QUESTION of considerable...

Facilitating Battery Service

A USEFUL new device, known as the Topsel Unit, is being marketed by E. M. Francis, Ltd., 36, Heathcote Grove, Chingford,...

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WORKERS WIN WAGES - DISPUTE V ARIOUS important concessions have been granted

to over 500 employees of United Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., Northampton, under the award of the Industrial Court. Private...

Duplication Limits Cripple Bookings

DD ISAPPOINTING weather did not the Bank Holiday exodus by coach from London to the extent that might have been anticipated, as...

Buying Service to Suppress It O NJuly 30, the Metropolitan Traffic

Commissioner heard the joint applications by Geo. Ewer and Co., Ltd., 'United Service Transport Co., Ltd., and Valiant Direct...

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JOINT SERVICE SPLIT BY "OUTSIDE" SALE

ri-HE Yorkshire TrafficCommissioners" grant to the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., of permission to take over the services...

New Duplication Fight in Yorks D I:PLICATION of long-distance coach services

was an issue raised before the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, at York, when an application for the backing of licences for...

Latest Municipal Bus Results

T HE following are the latest results of municipal transport operation during the past year:— Hull. With record traffic...

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NO TROLLEYBUSES FOR GLASGOW ?

A DEPUTATION from Glasgow Transpert Committee, which has been visitin g certain En g lish centres to investi g ate the...

Hotchkiss Produces a Commercial Chassis

A N interestin g departure from its usual practice has just been made by the famous Hotchkiss automobile concern in the...

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IMPORTANT AIRWAYS MERGER.

O N July 25, British Airways, Ltd., and British Continental Airways, Ltd., announced that, subject to the approval of the...

EAST-COAST ROUTE AGAIN.

T HE air service which North Eastern Airways, Ltd., had to cease running in July, 1935, because wireless services in the north...

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THE LATEST RELIAN1

THREE-WHEELER Road Tested LMOST a year ago, when we published a road test report of the Reliant 7-cwt. threewheeler, we were...

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Servo Operation by Lubricating-oil Pressure

DATEN'T No 449,077 comes from P. J. .Riley, of the Riley Engine Co., Ltd., Coventry, and describes a scheme whereby the...