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9th August 1946
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No Early or Late Deliveries

C ONSISTENTLY and frequently throughout the long fight against nationalization, we have referred to the value to the community...

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Money for Jam

S TATISTICS issued by the Government to show the present average level of wages in industry, reveal a disturbing trend when...

Passing Comments

Tree-shearing Tractors MEWS from the U.S.A. conWhich Will Expedite "cerns still another use for Felling tractors. Experiments a...

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One Hears

That thieves are now removing small fittings such as speedometers , Of pirate ' breakdown outfits which haul away locked and...

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News of the Week

PRODUCTION MUST BE INCREASED DLEAS made by " The Commercial Motor" for increased production by workers were supported by Sir...

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OCTOBER CONFERENCE AT MARGATE T HE coastal resort of Margate is

the venue of the Road Transport Conference of the National Road Transport Federation, arranged to take place from October 9 to...

Another Licensing Authority on Guard r 1GHT applicants appeared before

Sir 1-4Alfred Faulkener, Licensing Authority for the Eastern Traffic Area, when he held his first post-war public inquiry in...

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GOVERNMENT INEFFICIENCY. IN CONTROL OF TRANSPORT

C klARGES 'of extravagance and ‘... , inefficiency by the Government in the running of transport were recently made by a...

Workers to Fight Nationalization

A PAMPHLET issued by the Independent Transport Worker s' Association, 7, Gothic Arcade, Snow Hill, Birmingham, 4, of which Mr....

Freedom of Speech in Danger

T HE daily Press reports that Mr. HE Isaacs, Minister of Labour, recently refused to open a Press conference at Newcastle...

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Personal Pars MR. J. HARRISON, of Blackpool, has been appointed rolling-stock superin' tendent to Blackburn Corporation.

MR. B. M. LINDSAY FYNN has been appointed chairman, and LT.-Cot. R. T. HARTMANN, deputy chairman, of Lintafelt, Ltd. _...

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Centralized Transport for unicipalities

Is Transport Costing More Than It Should ? The Author Suggests That Central Control Provides a Satisfactory Answer to this...

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A Return to Brisk Business fo

Eastbourne ' s Buses W HEN you are responsible for a whole town's transport, with your country's fight for its very existence...

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Skeleton Luton Vans Carry Cabs

O VER a number of years Briggs Motor Bodies, Ltd., Dagenham. has supplied cabs to Commer Cars, Ltd., Luton, for that concern's...

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Petroleum Industry's "Backroom" Work in the War

Many are the New Products and Processes that Have Arisen from the Full Exploitation of the Petroleum Industry in Time of...

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SENTINEL INTF DUCES AN 01L-ENC [ED 7-8-TONNER

et rot Engine Offered in New h the Power Unit is Mounted Frame Behind the Cab T HE Sentinel 7-8-tonners which figured in the...

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Solving the Problems of the Carrier

Some Simple Sums Arising out of Positive Proof that Many Operators are Still Thinking in Terms of Pre-war Costs and Ned Advice...

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New Registrations Drop by 80 Per Cent.

N EARLY five times as many mechanically propelled vehicles were registered for the first time in the year ended December 31,...

Licensing Officials Honoured

A LUNCHEON in honour of Mr. Gleeson E. Robinson, C.B., M.C.. LL.D.. who has been appointed chairman of the Appeal Tribunal...

"Dog-in-the-Manger" Attitude Alleged

IN Manchester on August 1 six conkerns applied for permission to operate 23 extra excursion vehicles from Bolton. The companies...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

CAN PSYCHIATRISTS HELP TO RESTORE THE WILL TO WORK? 'THE THE only way for us to return to our former is for those employed in...

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Metallurgy Aids Production Speed-up

Striking Amongst Recent Laboratory Developments to Enter the Sphere of Works Practice is the New Sodium-hydrideF used Bath...

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A New Track-layer for Row Cultivation

rt A NEW oil-engined track-laying tractor, capable of drawing a threefurrow plough in average land and suitable for disc...

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Novel Design for a Light Tractor

A Résumé of Patent Specifications that have Recently been Published. Copies May be Obtained From the Patent ORe. Price 11Each...