Some Important Problems Upon Economic Future 0, UR future stability as-a nation, owing to the con • gested population and...

M EMBERS of the Government have admitted that experiments in nationalization cannot be made without some mistakes, and have...

The Monetary Value WE have had occasion of a Traffic Superin" before to calI,attention to tendent the meagre salaries which are...

Of hard currency being well adMinistered. Of Wall's "hot dog" drivers sporting cool, straw boaters. Of some twin tyres set so...

Complete Machinery for Negotiation Down to Local Level T HKEE . National Joint Negotiating Committees will be set up under an...

NCOURAGEMENT to shareholders .1—• was given by Mr. W. Wilson Hamill, chairman and managing director of Henry Meadows, Ltd., at...

A START is reported to have been .1 - 3. made on preliminary survey work for the construction . of a LeedsSheffield motorway,...

T HE Road Haulage Executive announces that 17,272 applications have been received for original permits to operate beyond a...

W HAT is claimed as Britain's first Continental express service will be started on November 5, if the Western Licensing...

E ARLY next month a new garage costing 030,000 is expected to he completed in Quinton for Birmingham Transport Department. It...

Dy taking-over 41 road haulage busi .nesses between July 24 and July 31, the British Transport Commission raised to 1 . 65 the,...

TO-ORDINATION between the 1 ......Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., and Derby Corporation is being highly developed. Last Sunday...

p R ICES of Austin commercial chassis have been increased by £20, and of complete vans by £30. The 16 h.p. taxicab chassis and...

MR. HORACE SHANKLAND, director of national sales of the Dunlop Rubber Co.. Ltd., is slowly recovering from his recent illness,...

U NABLE itself to meet a demand for transport facilities to Tottenham's Northumberland Park factory colony, London Transport...

A CORRESPONDENT to The " Financial Times" wrote on August 6:— " Rail traffic is declining generally and State monopoly gives...

A CC ORDING to a preliminary Pl.survey, 70,403 circulars were issued from the Road Haulage Association's area offices in the...

U NDER a decentralization of responsibility at the Leeds offices of the National Road Transport Federation, following Mr. G. H....

SS UBJECT to the granting of the licences, Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., and Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd.,...

N EW relaxations in the use of special vehicles on the road are contained in the Motor Vehicles (Authorization of Special...

The title . of S. Wolf and Co., Ltd., has been changed to Wolf Electric Tools, Ltd. Verdik, Ltd., has moved its London office...

D ESP1TE the recent dock strike, which reduced shipments of commercial vehicles in June to fewer than 6,400, 11,300 more...

T HE case for the proposal to make permanent the substitution of buses for 'trams on the Sheffield-Rotherham route, a change...

D OTHER /IA M Town Council has ‘rejected an application by employees of the passenger transport department to join the...

T HE South African Centre of the Institute of Transport has been granted recognition as the Institute of Transport, Southern...

TRANCE is making great strides in 1 . the production of motor vehicles. Its output in the first half of this year was nearly...

rENTRAL control of rates for a ll forms of transport, similar to, that to be set up in Britain under the Transport Act, is...

B OTH in standardization of models and in simplification of industrial practices, the United States has made greater progress...

VERY year the Gleniffer Laundry, Catford, London, S.E.6, holds a concours d'elegance of its vehicles, The company has 28 vans,...

V EHICLES are included in the schedule of exports from the Unit e d Kingdom that Brazil will take under a new trade agreement....

in Glasgow have a new problem to solve in the ever-growing number of taxis applying for hire in the city, The exiSting by-laws...

Federation is to be set up in South Africa. According to Mr. Eric Blackwell, director of the Society of • Automotive...

Co.. Ltd., Abbcydale Road, Wembley, for the Rawlplug Co., Ltd., Rawlplug House, Cromwell Road, "London, S.W.I, the whole of...

U ST. of yellow headlights will become compulsory again on French roads from January 1, White headlight's were first prohibited...

T HE subject of this year's Lord Wakefield Gold Medal Essay Competition will be "Credit Control in the Retail Motor Industry."...

have decided to nationalize road transport and to set up statutory corporations in which the railways -will have a 20 per...

I DO not suppose that many transport men in the south-east of England have heard of the plan for Kent, which the county...

'displacement of 13.6 cubic ft. per minute, and with a working pressure of 100 . lb. per-sq. in., has recently been added to...

Those behind cried " Forward!" And those before cried " Back !" T HIS, according to Macaulay, represents the unhappy state of...

A LTHOUGH the B.U.T. transit" type trolleybus, model ETB.1, was designed for either right-hand or lefthand control. most...

Standardization? Asks P. G. TUCKER W HILST `-` The Commercial Motor" is not an advocate of standardization to the point of...

Goods!: J UDGING by the nurnoer and .variety of body types which have been produced during the past few months in connection...

spells SUCCESS in painting Synthetic Enamels, Undercoats and Finishing Coats 'are Discussed in the Third Instalment of a...

T HE - first goods vehicle to be made in Holland was recently completed in the D.A.F. works, at Eindhoven. An interesting...

versus The Haulier H ERE ERE is a problem which often has to be solved by all types of commercial vehicle user. A contract of...

A SCHEME for using the powered implement-lifting gear of a tractor as a means for raising it from the ground, is shown in...