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9th March 1934
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Municipal Transport Tendencies

T HE employment of motor vehicles and appliances by the municipalities of this country can now be looked upon as one of the...

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Passing Comments

T N some quarters it is recommended that vehicles I should be suspended from use in cases of serious road offences being...

Special Features of This Issue

Luton has successfully replaced trams by buses. Page 122, S.T.R. gives reasons for increasing municipal haulage rates. Page...

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One Hears

That the keynote of most dangerous driving is selfishness. That any road vehicle is unsuited to modern needs when its presence...

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WHEELS of INDUSTRY The wheels of wealth will be slowed

by all difficulties of transport, at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the roughness of the roads over which it...

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MUNICIPAL PURCHASES and PROPOSALS

EASTBOURNE Corporation is buying six Leyland 53-seater buses. PLYMOUTH Corporation is buying four Karrier 3-ton refuse...

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Road Transport Activities

IN PARLIAMENT By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent PRIORITY LISTS OF WEAK BRIDGES. A N inquiry was made by Capt....

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GROWING MUNICIPAL BUS-SERVICE ENTERPRISE

M UNICIPAL enterprise in the provision of passenger-transport facilities continues to present many features of interest. The...

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THE REFUSE COI

_sECTOR of TO-MORROW Body Designs That Make for Rapid and Dustless Loading and Easy Discharge. What the Future is Likely to...

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VITAL FACTORS

in Rc ND-MATERIAL HAULAGE T HE paragraph entitled "Tenders of Interest to Hauliers," which, at this time of the year, forms a...

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How Motors Have Replaced Horses at Leicester

I N Most of our prominent cities the street-cleansing and refuse-collection departments are merged, so that it is possible to...

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Luton's First Two Years of Bus Operation

L AST week Luton Corporation completed its first two years of motorbus operation. Luton was one of the first municipal...

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PROTECTIVE MEASURES

in a LEADING PORT Southampton Corporation's Refuse-collection System in the Melting Pot. A Possibility of the More Extensive...

Page 106

Can the Cost of

TROLLEYBUS CURRENT be Reduced? Y EARS of really hard spadework have been put into the development of the trolleybus, both by...

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YORK'S PROBLE1V

in MOTORIZATION Interesting Facts and Figures Concerning the Refuse Collecting, Street Cleansing, Fire-fighting and Ambulance...

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DIRECT VERSUS CONTRACT REFUSE COLLECTION

'THE cleansing superintendent of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington, Mr. F. E. Browning, expresses his views on the...

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Unified Passenger Transport

In the Manchester Area ? Over £10,000,000 is Involved in the Proposal to Form a Joint Municipal Passenger Transport Board in...

Page 112

The Revival of the Battery-electric Vehicle

T HE obvious attractive features of the battery-electric vehicle, combined with the minimizing of its inherent limitations,...

Page 116

PUBLIC CLEANSING IN A PROGRESSIVE BOROUGH

How Some 30,000 Bins and Ash Pits, and About 4,200 Gullies are Emptied in the Metropolitan Borough of Fulham by a Fleet of...

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Our Anahois of MUNICIPAL BUS SERVICES

Our Annual Compilation, Based Upon Official Returns, Giving Details of the Composition of the Motorbus and Trolleybus Fleets of...

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Licensing Problems Elucidated

A STEADY flow of inquiries concerning the operation of the licensing section of the Road and Rail Traffic Act continues to...

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Special Motors Meet Gateshead's Needs

G ATESHEAD, that old-established and esentially industrial town of 122,500 population, situated on the southern bank of the...

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MUNICIPAL MOT(

■ S Abridged Specifications A Unique List of the Mobile Appliances on the British Market Which Are Designed and Built to Serve...

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operatin g

Aspects of PASSENGER TRANSPORT NEW PRE-BOOKED PARTY LICENSING SCHEME EVOLVED Yorkshire Operators Frame Important Amendments...

THREE DAYS' HEARING OF CARDIFF CORPORATION APPEAL

Important Points Raised in Case Against Four Bus Companies THREE days were occupied, last 1 week, in the hearing of the appeal...

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THE LATEST NEWS OF IMPORTANT EVENTS

THREE DAYS' SITTING OF ARBITRATION TRIBUNAL. O N. Monday last, the London Passenger Transport Arbitration Tribunal heard a...

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Arresting Corrosion in Cylinder Liners T HE recently published report of

research work carried out by the Research and Standardization Committee of the Institution of Automobile Engineers, with the...

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OPINIONS and QUERIES

OPERATING COSTS OF MOTORBUS, • TROLLEYBUS AND TRAMCAR. The Editor, TEE COMMERLAL MOTOR. [4268.1 Sir,—Your contributor Mr. H....

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Municipal Aerodromes—Hopeful Progress I N our municipal number dated March 17,

1933, an article appeared calling attention to the urgent need for municipal aerodromes to provide the necessary link between...

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The Isolation of Fluid-operated Brakes

A Resum6 of Recently Published Patent Specifications M EANS by which hydraulic brakes may be kept in' the "on" position when...