A Test Match in Miniature I N a calendar that contains many official functions, it is not easyto ensure the spontaneous...

That many other countries are streets ahead of us in road improvements. That Mr. Harold Watkinson seems to be fighting hard to...

T HE Transport Tribunal indicated to . respondents at a hearing in Edinburgh on Monday that they were not prepared to depart...

T HE - financial results of 1956-57, when Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., had almost the same net profit as the previous year,...

A N export passenger chassis, based on the Trident 12-tons-gross goods chassis, has been announced by Transport Equipment...

WE believe that in general trading conditions are slowly improving," states Mr. James Wild, chairman of Fodens, Ltd., in his...

DOTH sides in the provincial bus dis pute have now put their cases to the Ministry of Labour. The Union representatives saw...

W HETHER criminal proceedings could be taken as the result of hearings before a Licensing Authority was of no concern to him....

G ROWING competition from private cars, motorcycles and bicycles is blamed by Mr. R. P. Beddow, chairman of Maidstone and...

T HE final of the Scottish Commercial Vehicle Driver of the Year Competition will be held at Stockbridge, Linlithgow, near...

IT was impossible to lay down a fixed I percentage of "maintenance" vehicles for the whole of a large operator's fleet because...

A MEETING of the employers' panel on the Road Haulage Wages Council will be held next Wednesday. Principal business will be to...

%YJH ERE an established business VT sought to replace vehicles held under special A licences with others under ordinary A...

THERE were insufficient tipping 1 vehicles available in the Thirsk area to cope with the transport of large quantities of sand...

him to do work for them. Twenty hired vehicles had been regularly employed during the past 12 months and up to 50 were required...

A FTER applying for continuation of their three-vehicle B licence, last week, Messrs. 1„ Baggot and Sons, Rawcliffe Bridge,...

MR. L. P. ALTMAN has become a director of Carmo (Holdings), Ltd. MR. BERNARD DUNSBY, manager of the overseas technical liaison...

A NEW installation for the storage in hulk of vegetable oils, tallow, and similar materials has been erected on the quayside at...

A S from October 1, holders of provisional driving licences will once more have to be accompanied by qualified drivers when...

rALtd., for the transport of schoolchildren is claimed to be the first vehicle in the East Midlands to display the words "...

A N application to the North Western rt Traffic Commissioners by Messrs. E. J. Bostock and Sons, Congleton, for a substantive...

on February 5 (The Connerdal Motor, February 8) he added, and would expire on July 29. Experience showed that the service had...

S IG NI IC ANT improvements in distribution have been achieved by Vine Products, Ltd., and Britvic, Ltd., after six weeks'...

A N important case concerning a particular type of farm implement was heard at Shrewsbury magistrates' court on Tuesday. The...

Q UPP 0 RT I N G letters from customers produced by the applicants did not state in terms what work they wanted done, which...

T °'prove the distribution of coal to industrial and domestic consumers in Sheffield and district, Burnett and Hallamshire...

T HE South African Railways and Ilarbours -Administration have ordered a fleet of twenty 61-passenger vehicles from Albion...

T HE out-of-service licence granted to Manchester Corporation must not in future be regarded as appropriate for authorizing,...

D ES1GNED to serve the needs of more than 1m. passengers annually, the new coach station of Barr and Wallace Arnold Trust,...

A N eleetro- hydraulic 2-ton mobile hoist is now available from James H. Randall and Son, Ltd., Paddington Green Works, London,...

A DIFFICULT transport operation in. was completed without mishap when the Short. SC.1 research aircraft was taken by road and...

TI MED on a Dennis Lancet chassis, I- , a vehicle has been completed by James Whitson and Co., Ltd., High Street, Yiewsley,...

THE chairman of Sheffield Transport Committee, Cllr. S. I. Dyson, has issued a warning that fares on the municipal undertaking...

A N Austin van, the bodywork of which has been fashioned to present a distinct maritime appearance, even to front flashing...

A LL overtime working was banned last week by the Chester-le-Street branch of the Transport and General Workers' Union. This...

F ROM next August, electric trucks produced by the Yale and Towne Manufacturing Co., 13ritish Materials Handling Division,...

F li 1ED, as a trial venture, with a Perkins P6C oil engine developing 88 b.h.p. at 3,000 r.p.m. in place of the original...

MINE identical tenders were received 11 by Hull City Council when they offered a contract worth about £.100,000 for the supply...

T HE maximum permissible gross laden weights of Albion Clydesdale and Reiver models for the export market have been up-rated....

I the definition of a tower wagon now covers vehicles of the hydraulic platform type. This was agreed to in the House of...

of plant by modern equipment, productive industries would be unable to meet foreign competition, Mr. G. E. Liardet, chairman...

A N acute problem in passenger transport in Rosario, Argentina, is being alleviated by modern British buses. Fifty Leyland...

A N order for 10 heavy-duty dumpers based on Leyland Super-Hippo EH10B1, 15-ft. 6-in, wheelbase chassis, and 25 tippers based...

T HE new garage and terminal buildings at Worksop of East Midland Motor Services, Ltd,, were officially opened by the Mayor of...

U NTIL recently it has been necessary for operators purchasing a tankertrailer to order a tank and trailer separately, and...

A MOVE to ban smoking in all Belfast Corporation buses and trolleybuses is to be made at the next meeting of the transport...

D ESIGNATED the model 552, a new five-speed gearbox has been introduced by David Brown Industries, Ltd., Huddersfield. It has...

DEFORE the addition, last week, 1 .-/ of a 3,240-gal. (90-barre1) beer tanker to the fleet of Bass Ratcliff and Gretton, Ltd.,...

A COMPLETE range of hydraulic r materials-handling equipment, based on the use of several containers with one vehicle, and...

lin the use of rubber pads at level crossings is mentioned in the annual report of the Natural Rubber Development Board. Such...

A GRANT of £636,750 has been made by the Minister of Transport towards the cost of widening Cheapside, London, between Foster...

By Alan Smith, F.R.S.A. K EYNOTE of the operations of J. Spurting, Ltd., Peel Grove, London, E.2, described in my article...

S INCE 1952, the amount of road NJ traffic has increased by 8 per cent. a year, and congestion has grown worse although a...

By P. A. C. Brockington, A.M.I.Mech.E. p ROTECT1ON of his load against the effects of a damp atmosphere is the first...

New Engine Tester and Tuner LA A NEW engine tester and tuner, known as the Motormaster, is now available from Crypton...

D ESPITE a high standard of skill shown, last Sunday, by drivers of larger vehicles, the best performance in the first Lorry...

H IGH standards of administrative control an maintenance procedure must be kept by the Coln Valley Water Co., because their...

D ESIGNED expressly for shorthaul local delivery operation with a variety of semi-trailers, the Karrier Bantam 4-5-ton prime...

T HE Transport Users' Consultative Committees for the north-west and north-east have been reconstituted for third terms of...

"Every man and woman in British Transport can take a real personal pride in the achievements of 1956, revealed in the British...

I - 1 A NEW type' of coal lorry, aimed at cutting delivery schedules by up to 40 per cent., was demonstrated last week by...

engaged. Heavy-duty cross-country remoulded tyres are used. Gross weight of the outfit is 6 tons 9 cwt., and the overall...

A BRAKING system intended for r - i• tractor-trailer combinations is shown in patent No. 776,725. (Maschinenfabrik...