F OUR of the seven days devoted to the committee stage of the Transport Bill in the House of Commons have now elapsed and over...

E XPORT or starve, successive Governments have told industry. The commercial vehicle industry has responded magnificently to...

Pumping by the Thousand F EW companies can have 'had more interesting histories than Varley Pumps and Engineering, Ltd., of...

Of more hay-wire than hay in the Opposition benches. That elusive costs in the transport business are those of human...

A PROMISE to consider the Minister of Transport's invitation for a trade union representative to sit on the Disposals Board,...

A N amendment is shortly to be made to the Construction and Use Regulations to permit land tractors to draw agricultural...

A PPEALS against the grant enabling Northern Roadways, Ltd., to run coaches direct from Glasgow to Bournemouth from...

THE EARL OF DERRY, M.C., has been elected president of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. MR. ARTHUR J. SALMON,...

T HE United Kingdom distribution organization of Fina Petroleum Products, Ltd., has undergone changes and alterations have been...

T HE appeal of Messrs. Safeway Services against a decision of the Western Licensing Authority refusing to grant a new licence...

IN an effort to accelerate the adjust ment of fares to meet changing conditions, the Ministry of Transport has decided to...

Q TAT1NG that he considered that the applicant had been running his lorry illegally, the Northern Licensing Authority granted...

Yorks, Derby and Barton Apply S INCE last Sunday, the minimum adult single fare on trams and buses operated by Edinburgh...

The levy on road transport is expected to cost the Post Office £70,000 a year. Special five-day coach toug to Killarney are to...

to promote a comprehensive Road Traffic Bill which will deal with a number of matters requiring attention, such as rear...

A LOAD-CARRYING full-track I - 1 tractor has been introduced by the Atkinson-Hacker Tractor Co., Ltd., Clitheroe, Lancs....

A STATEMENT clarifying the procedure for taxing utility vehicles next year, when the private-car rate becomes f12 10s. per...

F IRST production models of 100 newly styled double-deckers for the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., have left...

I sa partly completed road a road within the meaning of the Road Traffic Act? This point was argued before Southport...

No Delay in Denationalization Amendments to Slow Down Sales Defeated; Minister Hopes to Complete Disposals Next Year: Bigger...

fork-lift truck was not designed for cross-country work, it was able to carry its full load of 30. cwt.. -over grassland and on...

Many Developments Proposed by Chief of Scottish Bus Group in Henry Spurrier Lecture to the Institute of Transport " D il -...

T HE sight of a short-wheelbase tipper loaded to an excessive height to increase the payload capacity is common, and serves to...

I T is now possible to send consign ments from any part of Britain to any part of France and almost com pletely avoid packaging...

By Alfred Woolf, 6 6 °MANTIC " is an adjective with few applica tions to modern road transport, but it may be . justifiably...

Conditions as Favourable to Nationalization as Those Existing Immediately After the War Unlikely to Return : Public Preference...

By C. S. Dunbar, Minst.T. FOR more than 20 years Section 19 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, has been as fixed in the minds of...

H AVING lost one business to the Road Haulage Executive and subsequently bought another, Bloggs, who is an opening-time friend...

B.R.S. Repair Methods T OUR report of Mr. Woodburn's Commons statement on B.R.S. comparative repair costs, which appeared in...

Pays Dividends "The Commercial Motor "• Costs Expert Argues That in Normal Conditions it is Economic to Keep a Fleet up to...

• CROM Bendix Aviation Corporation, I . South Bend, Indiana, U.S.A., comes patent No. 678,248, in which is described a...