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Page 49
W HY feature aluminium and plastics? Either utilized as separate materials, or both used in the same body, they can without...
Page 50
Willia wallow I T WAS in some gloom that I journeyed to Vauxhall's Luton works one recent day not, I hasten to say, because...
I N nine days time—on Sunday . September 17, to be precise— 'the cream of Britain's lorry drivers will be battling it out at...
Page 52
'THE Minister of Transport has decided to withdraw the proposals circulated I on January 11, 1960, regarding the revision of...
TOSEPH LUCAS (EXPORT), LTD., J have appointed 'an overseas service agency for the Girling franchise in Persia. The company,...
ARTON TRANSPORT, LTD.. of 1--P Nottingham. are negotiating for the purchase of Robin Hood (Coaches). Ltd., Nottingham....
C OPIES of the schedules giving full particulars of the Public Service and Commercial Vehicle Body Design Competitions 1961/2...
Page 53
1A1NOR changes in the Motor Vehicles IVI (Construction and Use) Regulations, come into force tomorrow, to coincide with the...
A SYMBOLIC service No. 1 bus, r - k crewed by the two longest-serving members of the platform staff, was driven through the...
THERE was a net surplus on the work ings of Rochdale Transport Department in the year ended March 31. last, of £3,821, compared...
Page 54
Mr. L. W. Gibson has been appointed a director of Northern Commercial Vehicles, Ltd. Mr. A. M. V. Simmons, well known for his...
Page 55
intended to overcome the difficulty of delivering goods in congested shopping areas has recently been built for H. J. Ryman....
L EICESTER Corporation buses lost LA over a million passengers during the year ended March 31, 1961. The annual report,...
Page 56
IN order to deal with all the demands 1. made upon their parcels service in the West Midland area, B.R.S. (Parcels), Ltd., had...
Page 57
Q PPOSIT1ON by five hauliers to shortterm applications by Flynn Bros. (Contractors), Ltd., resulted in one licence being...
A HITHERTO unannounced version of the A.E.C. AV410 six-cylindered diesel engine is being fitted by Dodge Brothers (Britain),...
VV 1DESPREAD modernization and extensions have been completed to British Road Services parcels depots at Cambridge Grove, Hove,...
Page 58
THERE was a significant increase in I 1960 in the number of people injured hoarding or alighting from public service vehicles,...
T HE South Wales Traffic Commissioners, at Newport (Mon.) last week granted an application to increase fares by the Cardiff...
Page 65
A CALL for the use of larger transport units to move oil products was made rA by Mr. C. T. Brunner, a director of Shell-Mex and...
C OLOUR-IMPREGNATED glass-fibre panels, on a hardwood frame with mild-steel pillars, arc used throu g hout a 1,200-cu.-ft....
Page 66
FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT I T is a well-recognized principle of the law relating to contracts that an innocent...
A S with previous months, registrations of new commercial vehicles in June continued to run at a high level, the final figure...
Page 69
S.M.T. Driver Designs Own Body F OLLOWING the article in The Commercial Motor of August 4, entitled "You Name It—They'll Build...
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• . • Britain's Largest User of Aluminium By Dr. E. G. West (Technical director, The Aluminium Development Association) The...
Page 81
Birmingham and Midland Motor . Omnibus Co., Ltd., Step Up Use of Plastics Bodywork and Develop New Techniques of Production to...
Page 86
Aluminium Alloy Bodywork and Colour-impregnated Plastics Panelling Used to Economic Advantage on Fleets Employed on Specialized...
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A TOOL which overcomes the problem of rusted or corroded nuts is now obtainable from E. P. Barrus (Concessionaires), Ltd.,...
REE new electric hand tools have I been added to the industrial range of S. N. Bridges and Co., Ltd., York Road. Battersea,...
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E VERY haulier would have been justified in applying a surcharge to his rates as soon as the Chancellor of the Exchequer...
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K NOWN as the Carveyor, a single-deck car transport, with a special type . of aluminium superstructure, has been built by the...
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A SALUTARY lesson was learnt by Mr. C. W. Raikes-May. managing director of Elkstone Quarries, Ltd., of Swindon, when he...
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ARGEST application this week comes from the North Western area where Vehicle Hire and Supply Co., Ltd., of Ellesmere Port, ask...
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Comparative Operating Costs and Revenues of Both 7-ton ' Tippers and 14-ton Gross Flats Show Savings By . Use of Aluminium...