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Battery-electric Vehicle Possibilities

Several Important Factors are Turning Attention to the Merits of Battery Chassis T HE progress of the battery-electric vehicle...

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Views on Transport to be Broadcast

OMMENCING on April 28, a series of talks on the subject of transport will be broadcast, and we are glad to note that, contrary...

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Passing Comments

The Search for Natural L . • NGINEERS are still Oil Proceeding in 1 —.d endeavouring to discover Scotland . . . important...

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NEWS of the WEEK

NO CHALLENGE TO MINISTER'S AUTHORITY. Intimation that evidence submitted on behalf of the Minister of Transport was not to be...

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"CANNOT HAVE CONTRACTS HELD UP."

An extract from a letter by a concern of quarry owners was successfully offered as evidence by Mr. T. D. Corpe to the Western...

Railway Objects Despite Trader's Appeal

A T Liverpool, before the NorthWestern Deputy Licensing Authority (Sir William Hart), last week, it was revealed that the...

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CONCESSION REFUSED FOR ' STRAWBERRY TRAFFIC.

It was stated at Manchester, last week, that strawberries from the Wisbech district had to be picked before 3 p.m or 4 p.m. in...

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TRANSPORT DISPLAY AT ROOTES* OPENING.

, The opening of the first completed section of Rootes, Ltd.'s splendid new showrooms at Maidstone this week provided an...

Municipal Purchases and Proposals

Salford Watch Committee is to purchase a fire-engine, at an estimated cost of £2,000. York Corporation is to obtain tenders...

Metrovick Cuts Laundry Company's Costs

E CONOMY is practised by the Star Laundry Co., Ltd., of Hackney Downs, London, E.8, in the use of a Metrovick 18-22-cwt,...

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Co-operation Better Than Co - ordination A Method of Uniting Haulage Interests,

Which Possesses all the Essential Advantages and Avoids the Risks Involved in Financial Manipulations T HERE, is not an...

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Dairy Firm Forces Haulier's

PrHE fact that he had been to see the I Minister of Transport regarding the action of a dairy farm in taking their...

Wages Problems Continue in Yorkshire

!THE meeting of the Yorkshire Joint 1 Conciliation Board, called for Monday, April 4, at Leeds, to consider the wages position,...

TENDERS OF INTEREST TO HAULIERS.

TENDERS ire invited by the following -I(latest dates given In parentheses):— Berkhamsted U.D.C. for broken granite,...

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The Scope of the Battery-electric Vehicle

T HE large number of batteryeIectrics to be seen on the streets of any city is a sure pointer to the increasing interest being...

Pointers on Selection, Employment and General Design which Should be Studied by Potential Operators

Various characteristics determine the motor's power, but it is found that a speed of from 16 m.p.h. to 20 m.p.h. is sufficient...

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How a Big Opel

Itor Tackles BATTERYELECTRIC VIAINTENANCE PROBLEMS A LTHOUGH. it is hardly an exaggeration to state that the growing...

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Freedom of Choice: the Condition Precedent

G REAT play is being made over the decision of the Appeal Tribunal in the Blyth fish-transport case. It is clearly proving...

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A New Field for the Haulier

T HE haulier wl.o is looking for some method whereby he can expand his business and justify applications for additional...

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FACTORS AFFECTING ELEI ERIC-VEHICLE OPERATION

I CLAIM to be an electric-vehicle enthusiast. It has always been my conviction that it would, in time. come to be appreciated...

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Electrics Don't Loaf, says Hovis O VER all other forms of

transport, the battery-electric has one distinct advantage—that, owing to its reliability and freedom from breakdown, it...

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The Problem of Battery Charging

C E of the many advantages of electric vehicles for local delivery of milk, bread, groceries, etc., is the cheap running cost,...

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A Work-saving Device with Countless Uses

TAPERED, slotted and hardened, I like a tap, Shakeproof screws cut their own threads and can be driven into metal after merely...

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What Electric Vehict Vlakers Have to Offer

A MAKER with long experience in the construction of battery vehicles is Electricars, Ltd., Webb Lane, Hall Green, Birmingham,...

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Providing the "Fuel" for the Electric

T "growing and successful employment of the electric vehicle —factors which are really largely interdependent—demand two...

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Equipment for Efficient Charging

The Economy of the Electric Veh icle ehicle Largely Depends Upon the Means for Charging the Battery HE efficiency of an...

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A Big Bakery's Experience of Electrics THAT a saving of

as much as £1,300 1 per year can be effected by the substitution of eight electric vehicles for 12 horses and carts is...

Attracting Coach Visitors to Scotland?

T HE Northern Scotland Traffic Commissioners, in Perth, last week, approved a new scheme by which, it was estimated, 1,000...

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Is the Future "Electric" ?

Battery-electrics are Gaining Ground—We Investigate the Present Position and Point to Lines Along which Further Development...

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OPINIONS

and QUERIES SUCCESS OF ELECTRICS ON RETAIL COAL DELIVERY. [5314] I have been interested to note your estimates of operating...

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A British Servo Steering Gear

WHILST makers of the biggest VV vehicles employed in this country, in conjunction with steering-gear specialists, have tackled,...

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What the Associations are Doing

"READY TO SERVE 'THE COMMUNITY." That road transport would have to play an important part in times of national emergency was...

How Rates Stabilization Will Work U NDER the auspices of the

Scottish Carriers' and Haulage Contractors' Association, Glasgow, a meeting of A and B licence holders in Ayr and district was...

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AGRICULTURE NEEDS INCREASED ROAD HAULAGE.

Appreciation of the stimulus and help given to the agricultural industry by road transport was the keynote of much of the...

MEASURING AND CONVEYING SAND AND BALLAST.

The Weights and Measures (Sand and Ballast) Regulations, 1938, were recently issued by H.M. Stationery Office, at 5d., and all...

Minister's Disclaimer

at GM. U. A. Lunch " A LL LL operators of commercial motors should belong to the Commercial Motor Users' Association," said...

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Road Transport Topics By Our Special in Parliament Parliamentary Correspondent

SET UP SPECIAL COURTS. B EFORE the Lords' Committee on Road Accidents, last week, Lord Elton, representing the Road Accident...

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• Operating Aspects of

PASSENGER TRANSPORT AN OBJECTION TO DOUBLE-DECKERS PrHE introduction of double-deckers A to replace single-deckers belonging...

BIG FIFE BUS SERVICE TRANSFER

WHEN the Northern Scotland Traffic Commissioners met, at Dunfermline, on March 30, it was intimated that the business of...

THE FANTAIL PUZZLE AGAIN

S EVER AL operators of extended tours, with Llandudno as the main destination, had their excursions from that centre curtailed...

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NO PARCELS OUTSIDE BOUNDARY

A Napplication by Northampton Corporation for permission to deliver parcels just outside the borough boundary has been refused...

ECHO OF U.A.S. DUPLICATION FIGHT

I INDER the chairmanship of Mx. E. J. Keam-George, the Booking Agents Association of Great Britain held a social in London,...

WAS IT A

PRIVATE PARTY? . A T Liverpool Police Court, last week, Mr. Henry James Jones, of Allerton, was accused of having, on February...

BUS HALTS BATTLE IN PERTH

" 'THE great bulk of people who I travel on these excursions and tours are elderly people and invalids, and if they cannot be...

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Improved Hydraulic Master Cylinder

MO• obtain the rilvantages of a two pressure hydraulic braking system, without the complications of pressurecontrolled valves...