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7th March 1947
7th March 1947
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Amateurs in Transport

T RANSPORT by road or rail involves such a Why Does the Government multiplicity of factors. Think That It Can Operate that it...

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France Shows the Way

W HILST the Labour Government of Britain is forcing through, as speedily as possible, legislation for the nationalization of...

Passing Comments

American Research on THE effects of chromium Chromium-plated ' plating piston rings are Piston Rings. . . referred to in the...

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One Hears

That unofficial strikes belabour Labour. That members of the Transport Managers Club help each other in cases of vehicle...

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News of the Week

'THE National . Conference of Trade I and Industry on Transport has informed the Prime Minister and the Minister of Transport...

How 44-Hour Week Will Work

THE 44-hour week for road goods transport workers came into force from the week ending on the first pay day on or after March...

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Government Stifles Debate on Bill A NOTHER nail has been driven

into the coffin of British democracy by the Government's action in stifling free discussion on the Transport Bill. With the...

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Personal Pars

MR, GILBERT BOUGHTON has been appointed technical sales director of Jenks Bros., Ltd., Wolverhampton. MR. J R. McDoNato has...

In a Line or Two

Staggering of hours in London is expected to begin this month. A conference of all interested associations, to investigate...

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How They

Carried On n URING the power black-out, the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., lent 135 Fordson Major tractors to factories all over the...

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Enter the Proctor

A NEW 5-6. - ON OILER Perkins P6 Engine and Moss Gears Figure in Specification of 3o-rn.p.h.-class Goods Vehicle S OME weeks...

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Initiative Defeats Power Cuts

T E-IIRTY hours of feverish improvisation during the week-end of February 8-9 enabled the engineer's department of Hay's Wharf...

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The Whitewashing Paper THE B EDITOR S URELY the Economic Survey for 1947,

which is virtually an extension of the first White Paper issued recently on this subject, is one of the most tragic documents...

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By Alex. H. Lashbrooke I T is, of course, now a

matter of history,that in 1955 the people of Britain, . their physical strength depleted by 16 years of bare subsistence...

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Stronger and Lighter Bodies

that are easy to repair Hay's Wharf Cartage Co., Ltd., Develops All-metal Construction by the Use of Tubular Body Members...

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How Croydon Corporation Runs its Fleet of 53 Vehicles on

Gas Less Cylinder Wear and Reduced Carbon Formation . Make for Lower Maintenance Costs W RIES T we , have; from lime to time,...

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War Robs Ex-Serviceman of Livelihood

A N ex-Serviceman who sold his road r - ktransport business before he was enlisted applied to the North-Western Licensing...

What Will Become of "Bristol"?

WHAT will happen to the Bristol VY Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., if the Transport Bill becomes law? This question was...

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• TOWARDS NATIONALIZATION—

in a headlong rush By Our Legal Adviser T HE Transport Bill is creating Parliamentary history. It has been explained in one Of...

What Has Been Done So Far

WHEN a company is being floated, it YV naturally takes very wide powers to do anything which it may conceivably want to do at...

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Moving the Coal

IMMEDIATELY the serious nature of the fuel crisis and the results of the excessively severe weather on the rail -transport of...

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"'THE NATION BEFORE IDEOLOGIES" VOUR excellent article on the above,

remarkable for A its moderation, deserves the widest publicity. The Government appears to be quite indifferent to the effect...

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A Case of Understatement

How Ignorance of the Elements of Costing Caused an Operator to Accept a Contract for the Use of a 20-seater Coach at a Figure...

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A Novel Fuel Injector

A Rjsum of Recently Published Patent Specifications P ATENT No. 582,783, from G. Kammer, Morton House, Mornington Villas,...