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9th November 1956
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To Denationalization frim.

A POST-MORTEM examination of the Road Haulage Disposal Board's work, contained in their seventh, and the final, report, says...

Passing Comments

Fuel Cleanliness Vital rINE of the most important factors in the successful operation of oil engines is cleanliness of the...

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One Hears

That " bagging " coal may bring trouble if the recipient has no right to it. That operators and passengers take a poor view of...

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5s. Rise fcr Busmen: "One-Man" Pay Dispute

A PAY increase of 5s. a week has been awarded to bus workers in municipal undertakings by the Industrial Disputes Tribunal....

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Vehicles Assigned After Application

E VIDENCE that part of their fleet had been assigned to the brother of the appliCants since the application was made, caused...

B.R.S. Objections Unsatisfactory

T HE Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Maj. F. S. Eastwood, expressed dissatisfaction with British Road Services procedure • and...

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Men in the News

MR. A. L. BLOWER and MR. G. W; HAY1 ER • have been appointed directors of Guy Motors, Ltd. CAPT. F. S. BELL has taken up an...

Haulier's Clerk. Fined on Record Charges .

A HAULIER'S clerk has been .fined 1:4 at Woodbridge, .Suffolk, fot aiding and abetting his employer in twice failing to cause...

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Warning on Rural Bus Services

THE time had come whet all operators must consider the curtailment of rural services. It was not right for an operator to...

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Partial Grant of Fantail Tours

IN a reserved decision, the North I Western Traffic Commissioners have granted only one of four new sevenday fantail tours...

Bus Service. Could Replace Branch Line

A LTHOUGH the railways were clos ing the Skelmersdale-Rainford Junction branch line, a bus service could be operated...

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Blackpool Parking Fees to Go Up?

W EDNESDAY'S meeting of Blackpool Town CoUncil was due to discuss further suggestions that parking fees for coaches should be...

Licence Refused Without Submissions

I -1 A N application by the Tees-side Rail less Traction Board to run a new bus service between Stockton and Saltburn had the...

Micrograms . • •

Prise Maintenance: Henley's 'Tyre and Rubber Co.. Ltd., intend to maintain resale tyre prices in accordance with the...

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Answer to Volume Producers

"nuR1NCi the year a great effort was made to accelerate new design and development work so that we could offer products...

Warm Fresh Air With All Windows Closed

A DEQUATE ventilation under all .t3. conditions, without the necessity of providing drop or sliding windows; is clrairned for a...

" Special A " R e . fusal .Appeals D ECISIONS by the West Midland

Licensing Authority refusing special A licences to two Scottish hauliers for the operation of lorries from bases in the...

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New International Traffic Rules Soon?

E International Convention on Road Traffic, which was signed at Geneva in September, 1949, may be ratified by the Government...

Speed Limit Meeting Postponed

T HE further discussion between the employers and the unions, expected to have taken place at the end of October, on the...

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BIGGEST PUBLI1 /ORM SHOW

I N both size and scope, the Public Works Exhibition, which is being held at Olympia, London, from November 12-17, will be the...

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£24-0. Paid for B.R.S. Units T HE sale of 19,303 British

Road Services' vehicles, premises and other assets in transport units and companies realized £24,557,000. About half the...

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Hauliers Augment an Ancillary Fleet

How Well-known Bristol Wine Merchants Resolve a Difficult Collection and DistribiRion Problem By L. M. Marshall importers'...

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Impact Recorder Traces Damage

A N impact recorder which registers the amplitude or the shocks encountered and the time at which they occur on any given...

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"Do It Yot Policy Pays Opera

Says Ashley Taylor, CIRCUMSTANCES attaching to the country-wide operation of heavy 'specialist transport in the Republic of...

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Has Air Cooling a Future?

Easy Starting in All Weathers an Inherent Merit of Air Cooling.' Weight and Space are Reduced, and Savings in First Cost and...

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Back on the Old Stand

S IIt. JOHN ELLIOT, chairman of London Transport was batting on the home wicket last week when he addressed the British...

C.I.E. Bus Has A.C. Electrical System

IT has been known for some time that C.A.V.. Ltd., have been carrying out development work in connection with A.C. generators...

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Ribble Worked "Too Near to

the Bone"—Mr. Bottomley Thirty-two Objectors to Application to Abolish or Raise Concession Fares A FAULT of his company was...

U.T.A. Build Metal Bodies on Tiger Cubs

'THE first ali-meial bodies to be built by the Ulster Transport Authority are being fitted to 60 Leyland Tiger Cub chassis at...

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By Any. Other Name

L AST week I remarked upon the curious way in which, at the Road Haulage Association's Bournemouth conference, the word "...

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Rates for Local Work

• . N owner of two B-licensed vehicles has put to me A some questions of wide interest which he wishes tile to discuss_ He...

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New . Minimum Rates for Haulage DECAUSE denationalization has caused -an

influx' of inex perienced operators, unaware of the basis of economic rate assessment, the National Conference of Road...

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An Exhaust-driven Supercharger

PA A COMPACT turbo-compressor unit for supercharging an engine by its own exhaust, forms the subject of patent No. 757,591. To...