S INCE the war there has been a marked increase in the incidence of pilferage of goods in transit by all forms of transport. It...

"TINE police in some areas are carrying out an 1 intensive campaign against road transport, and not only drivers, but operators...

Making Glass LaboraIT is difficult to imagine glass tory Apparatus to Las a material to be worked Precise Limits . . . within...

That America, like heaven, helps those who help themselves. That " Pool " will remain the game until the end of the year....

.B.T.C. TAKES OVER 23 HAULAGE COMPANIES A S announced in "The Commercial Motor" last week, the Holdsworth and Hanson group of...

of agricul tural tractors in this country has risen by 51,430. Census figures issued by the Ministry of Agriculture show that...

SQuaoRoN-LEADER R. G. E. CATT has been appointed sales manager of Tankard and Smith, Ltd. MR. ALFRED BAYNTON, 0.B.E., late...

DROGRESS has been made by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe in planning an international network of European...

G OVERNMENT sanction has been given to a proposal by Trent Oil Products Developments, Ltd., to build an oil refinery at North...

NAANY people wonder why, three IVIyears after the end of the war, liquid fuel should be in such short supply. The answer is...

T HE commercial vehicle export figures for June show a substantial increase over those for the previous month. The June total...

coach bodies are those now being produced for Millburn Motors, Ltd., Glasgow, by the Junction Motor Body Building Co., Ltd.,...

A FTER some hard bargaining the North Western (Western) Area of the Road Haulage Association and the Raw Cotton Commission have...

Needs British Vehicles U NDER the Polish three-year plan of reconstruction, roads and road transport are given an important...

There are still Worlds to Conquer in Design, Production and Operation, but whether the Achievement will be as Exciting as in...

C LOSE co-operation between bodymaker and operator is evident in an Austin 5-ton tipper which has been supplied to E_astwoods,...

I WAS recently able to compare the methods used by fleet operators in the overhaul of oil engines with those employed •by a...

R. W. Bent, M.I.Mech.E., Supplies the Ammer by Demonstrating the Relative Advantages and Disadvantages of Frontand Drive O...

E VERY driver has had experience of the occasions when the road is wet enough to cause the windscreen to be covered with mud,...

Mr. T. R. Charles worth, of the Laycock Engineering Co., Ltd., published in your issue dated July 30, he does not state w hat...

Charles" worth, I suggest that a reliable check on what type of coupling should be used, and where, can be made by looking...

suggest suitable names for passenger vehicles (which is included in a footnote to the letter, "is the Term ` Coach ' Being...

T HE inquiry which led to this article was perhaps as simple and straightforward as an inquiry could be. The operator wrote to...

DATENT No. 601,156 comes from The Timken-Detroit Axle Company, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., and discloses the latest practice in...