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7th October 1955
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Liability for Servant's Crime

F ROM time to time there appear reports of incidents involving cases of assault on public service vehicles. Whilst many relate...

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Reporting Accident Damage

M ANY owners of motor vehicles and drivers will disagree most strongly with the decision of the Sheriff and the Scottish High...

Passing Comments

Electric Tools for Many Purposes " f T wo useful new "universal "-type hand tools are WO produced by Wolf Electric Tools, Ltd.,...

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One Hears

Of the march of progress for Leeds city passenger transport. That joint working of buses does not mean " artics " or trailers....

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No Local Pay Concessions for Municipal Busmen

MANCHESTER is not to be granted power to pay its municipal passenger transport employees wages above the nationally agreed...

Mr. Alexander Claims £600,000

A FTER a four-day hearing in Edinburgh, the Transport Arbitration Tribunal last week adjourned until November 24 the case of...

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T.R.T.A. and B.R.F. Call for End of Levy

T HE national council of the Traders' Road Transport Association decided, at a meeting in Edinburgh last week, to press for the...

Labour Supports Use of Coaches

QUPPORT for the action of Sheffield Transport Committee in operating 20 private hire coaches to supplement the municipal bus...

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Men in the News

MR. R. J. PINDER has been appointed a director of the Cleveland Petroleum Co., Ltd. MR, G. A. PLUMMER has been appointed to...

T.U.C. Complain of L.T.E. Appointment

T HEgeneral council of the Trades Union Congress have written to the Minister of Transport complaining about the appointment of...

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Road Procedure Too Slow, Say N.R.T.F.

rONCERN at the slow official procedure for road improvement is expressed by the National Road Transport Federation in their...

Bolton to End Workers Fares?

A PROPOSAL to abolish workers' returns on all stage services in Bolton Corporation's operating area has been made to the North...

Laden Lorry Flown to France

TA A BRISTOL Freighter aircraft of Air Charter, Ltd., 15 Great Cumberland Place, London. W.1, flew from Southend airport to...

£280 Fines on London Operators

F INES totalling £280, with £52 10s. costs, were imposed by the Clerk enwell magistrate upon William Varney, Ltd., 28-28a...

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Bus Company to Change Hands ?

A N Aylesbury coach company, Keith Garages, Ltd., are negotiating to take over at an early date a local bus company, Red Rover...

Trolleybuses Rescue Nottingham

A BIG surplus on trolleybuses was responsible for Nottingham Transport Department's first profit for seven years in the year...

P.V.O.A.. and Pollee Disagree on Speed

A DIFFERENCE of opinion between coach operators and the police on the question of speed limits became apparent at the annual...

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New Bearing Metal Cuts Wear

A NEW bearing metal developed to satisfy the arduous conditions imposed by oil engines has been developed by the Tin Research...

Converted Six-wheeler's 17 m.p.g.

'THE petrol-engined 7-tonner operated hy Mr. J. Holden, Blounts Hole Farm. Hollywood, Birmingham, until July of this year on...

Raise Fares, But Do Not Cut Service

[VI-1EN a small bus operator applied Ili to the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority last week to restrict a rural service in...

HEATER FOR UNDER-BONNET MOUNTING

n ESIGNED for installation under the bonnet, a new heater has been produced by the Key-Leather Co., Ltd., 5, Urswick Road,...

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Big Advances in Plastics Bodywork A ETER a series of

experiments begun .1 - 1 , early this year, striking developments in the use of resin-bonded glass fibre have been made by...

In a Line or Two

Tyresoles (Ireland), Ltd. have opened their fourth factory, at Coilooney. Louth Corporation arc considering introducing...

Oil Chief Attacks Road Failure

A N indictment of different Govern ments' failure to build modern. roads was delivered by Mr. F. A. C. Citiepin, vice-chairman...

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Bus Obstruction Charge Fails

nERBY magistrates last week dismissed a case in which a bus driver, Peter Arnold Henchliffe, of Hanclyside Road, Derby, was...

Extra Tour Allowed on Appeal

F OLLOWING an appeal, the Minister 1 of Transport has ordered the West Midland Licensing Authority to grant Stockland Garage,...

More " No Waiting" in London

N EW restrictions on standing vehicles are to be introduced experimentally at a number of important points in Central London on...

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Six Years to Success

I N just over six years there has developed what is claimed to be one of the largest clearing houses in the country—J. and H....

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Tankers Cut a Third of Cost

S AVINGS in transport costs arising in the course of the Scottish Milk Marketing Board's Kirkcudbright experiment are...

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German Ingenuity Emphasized

L AST week it was seen that foithcoming new construction and use regulations and the hope of military contracts were...

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CO-ORDINATION The Order in Big Group

T HE growth of the motor industry has brought in its train the development of many large industrial enterprises which function...

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SUPERIO SUPERPOIS

A LTHOUGH . most operators' attention will be focused on the cab and bodywork of the new range of Commer Superpoise vehicles...

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Should Wages be Local?

By A. E. Sherlock-Mesher Mr. A. F. Neal (Manchester), Aid. J. H. Whitaker (Todmorden), Mr. G. Cherry (Birkenhead), Mr. H....

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no clerk with

DUNLOP RUBBER CORNER PANELS Rustproof • Durable Economical FULL DETAILS FROM ANY DUNLOP DEPOT on city services, Mr. Neal...

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None Genuine Without A LTHOUGH some operators have their distinctive forms

of title-lettering, the road transport industry as a whole appears to shun anything in the way of trade-marks. Not having goods...

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Dockland Settlement

S ATISEACTORY as far as it goes, the announcement following the conference on dock delays convened by the Road Haulage...

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Bradford Haulier Buys 24 Lorries

22 Lorries in Big First Purchase Retained: Many More Buyers and Sellers A BRADFORD haulier. Mr. T. J. Hughes, 264 Dick Lane,...

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Book-keeping for Beginners

T HERE arc one or two points I would like to make before proceeding to describe this simple system of book-keeping. First of...

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A Twin-axle Suspension System

A SUSPENSION system for multi axled vehicles comes in patent No. 735,166, from Hendrickson Motor Truck Co., 8001 West 47th...