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9th July 1948
9th July 1948
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Passing Comments

Parking Brake Becomes A FEATURE of the new Foot-operated on New rm G.M.C. truck of America G.M.C. is a foot-operated parking...

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One

Hears— Of sevcral new gadgets for locking petrol-tank caps. That the export-case trade might be well served by...

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Welsh Authorities Plan to Take Over Transport C HEPSTOW Urban District

Council was informed, last week, by Mr. Vernon Lawrence, clerk to Monmouth County Council, that a conference of local...

High Court Gives Judgment, Withoi 'osts, for L.T.E. in Injunction Case

I N the Chancery Division, on July 1, Mr. Justice Vaisey dismissed, without costs, the action by Mr. Wilfrid Herbert Smith, of...

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WITNESSES NOT EXPECTED TO PRODUCE BOOKS WITNESSES called by applicants

VV should not normally be expected to produce their books to prove statements as to occasions when they experienced transport...

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Fight on Against Nat i ona li zat ion, Says Socialist M.P. S PEAKING last week in London before the Transport Managers' Club,...

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Excursion Fuel Cut Overloads Stage Services R EFERENCES to the effects

of the cut in the fuel allocation for private-hire work and excursions and tours, the Government's inadequate quota of public...

Person at Pars

MR. PAUL N. MATFON, managing director of Trico-Folberth, Ltd., flew to America last Friday and will return on August 5. He will...

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TRIBUNAL URGES OPERATOR TO SEEK WIDER CONDMONS

THE Appeal Tribunal has dismissed I the appeal of W. E. Harvey and Son, Ltd., against the grant by the Western Licensing...

Additional Vehicles Not Justified to "Break" Rates Dispute THREE courses

of action that could be taken, in a case where a dispute over rates caused an artificial shortage of transport, are suggested...

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R.T.E. Chairman Meets Operators

WHEN they visited Yorkshire, last VV week, Major-General G. N. Russell, chairman of the Road Transport Executive, Mr. Henry T....

Hearing of Tyre Charges Adjourned E VIDENCE on charges of stealing

and receiving tyres was given at Huddersfield Police Court, last week, when hearing was continued of the ease in which goods,...

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Call for First , aid Training G ENERAL introduction of first-aid qualifications

for public service vehicle drivers and conductors was advocated by Major F. S. Eastwood, Yorkshire Licensing Authority, when he...

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By L. J. COTTON, M.I.R.T.E. W ITH the permission of Mr.

D M Sinclair, general manager of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd. "The Commercial Motor" is able to follow ....

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A MAINTENANCE SCHEME

for a medium-sited fleet An Adaptation of the Excellent System Devised by Capt. J. B Walton for the Fleet of Unilever, Ltd....

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Putting Getman Haulage Bacl

on to its Feet G ERMANY was very much in the melting pot when I first saw the city of Bremen, as an R.A.S.C. officer, in the...

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MAY I draw your attention to the frequent use of

"I the term " coach"? This has come to include all single-deck passenger vehicles from the expensive and luxurious down to...

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BRITAIN'S FIRST M :311ANICAL HANDLING E EBITION

A PRACTICAL way of assuring "increased output per man-hour," a much-used phrase these • days, lies in the extended employment...

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Aluminium Products in the Making

Apart from Producing Aluminium, the Northern Company has a Design Department to Assist Bodybuilders O NE of the most...

New Van for Film Sound Recording

VISE of a mobile unit for both studio 1/4--/ (indoor) and location (outdoor) film work has become the practice in most modern...

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Cleansing in 700 Miles of Streets

Liverpool Operates 67 Motor Refuse collection Units, as well as 140 Horsedrawn Containers. K EEPING a city like Liverpool...

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A Résumé of Recently Published Patent Specifications

Novelty in Injection Pump Design A N unorthodox design of injection pomp is shown in patent No. 598,454, by Ca!list°, a French...