mortal, the road trans THAT much harassed Attempts Being Made to Deprive mortal, the road trans Operational Technicians of...

N EWS of the activities of private, municipal and nationalized passenger-vehicle operators in this country seems nowadays to be...

Weighing Heavy A CCOR DING to " The Objects by Simple "Financial Times." the Device laboratories of the Midland Region of...

Of stout balloons as jacks for aircraft. That they are unlikely to be . employed for commercial vehicles. That London Coastal...

D URING 1950 the British motor industry handsomely exceeded all previous figures for the production and export of commercial...

TT is understood that Scot tish Omnibuses, Ltd., intends to appeal against the granting of a licence by the Scottish Licensing...

MR. W. R. SEWARD, export sales manager of John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., is to visit Venezuela and Colombo. MR. JOSEPH...

B RITAIN will eventually save 150m. dollars a year when a new agreement between the Government and the Standard Oil Co. of New...

OEN fare schedules, applied for last 1 1September, have been granted to Ilackburn Corporation and were put no effect last...

A TTACKS on C-licensees came from abroad as well as at home, said Mr. R. F. Page at a recent meeting of Cardiff traders...

'THREE prosecutions were brought at I Linlithgow court, last week, in connection with the carriage of extra-wide loads. The...

A NEW bus seat with a 6-in. stagger having been approved for longdistance and local-service vehicles in Sweden, the...

I MPROVED pay and conditions of work for staff engaged on specialized transport have recently been implemented. Wage rates in...

• I N our opinion, refuse' covers all 1 kinds of detritus, rubbish or material ejected or thrown away by the owner Ls being...

ik LONDON manufacturer recently obtained a contract to suppty items of furniture to the Ministry of Works. The terms of the...

'T HEyear 1950 saw the greatest increases in operating costs ever known to the transport industry, and it is anticipated that...

been working a four-day week because of restrictions on the supply of sheet steel. The short week will be in force until the...

R OA D transport was lowest in cost of any fo port in the U.S.A., and comparison with any ot world. A charge of 1 c was a fair...

D ETURN No. 150 (MechanicallyIN. propelled Road Vehicles, Great Britain), which has just been published by the Stationery...

Our Ref: T.(A.) B.1]. Your Ref T.A. 1947: Regarding the Part that Free Hauliers Should be Allowed to Play in an Integrated,...

S T. HELENS is keeping well abreast of the times in the design of its municipal buses. Recent deliveries to the corporation...

P. A. C. BROCKINGTON, A.M.I.Mech.E., Reveal that Investigations by A LTHOUGH satis fi ed by A cumulative evidence that...

" AINTING, sir,". said Dr. Johnson, "can ilk's trate, but cannot inform." . Whilst this may have been true in 1 - 784, the...

By with Ashley Taylor A.I.R.T.E. 7 ROAD A LONG the roads of Britain one frequently encounters the smart green vehicles of...

T HE life of a fuel-pump element was longer when the pump was fitted to an engine of a public service vehicle, said Mr. A. E....

'HE King's Bench Divisional Court recently held that a breakdown lorry drawing a disabled lorry was e an articulated vehicle...

Mr. W. M. Hall, General Manager of Liverpool Transport Department, Explains the Problems of Municipalities 1. AOST municipal...

Promotion of Human Relations in Transport Calls for Mutual Confidence, Says Mr. L. C. Harrison WELDING management and labour TV...

Mr. P. M. A. Thomas Outlines to I.R.T.E. Members the Latest Developments in Chassis Design 7HE paper, "Trends of Vehicle...

IN my previous article, I dealt with the minimum-daily charge method of rates assessment with particular reference to allowing...

k/IEMBERS of the Institute of Road Lill Transport Engineers yesterday iiscussed the work of the 'lyre lnspeeion Panels of the...

A NOVEL injection pump appears in patent No. 648,459. which comes from B. &send, Geneva. Switzerland. The pump shown will also...