A N announcement of importance as to the policy of the Government in connection with its scheme for nationalizing trunk roads...

T HE situation regarding the employment of vehicles operated under trade licences is by no means clear, particularly in respect...

A Tribulation to NOWN as an inveterate Which an Editor is I:I-leg-puller, Mr. F. A. Flin has been endeavouring to make us a...

Reserved decisions which hive been given by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority on applications by the L.N.E. Railway for...

M.R.S., Ltd., Liverpool, was outlined before the North-Western Licensing Authority, at Liverpool, on Monday, when Edward Box...

"The wheels of wealth will be stowed by all difficulties of transport, at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the...

Four employers' representatives resigned from the North-Western Conciliation Board at a meeting held last week to discuss final...

ADMIRAL HARRISON has been elected president of the Diesel Engine Users Association, in succession to MR. A. E....

Evidence of an acute shortage of tipping vehicles in the Manchester area, in addition to concrete offers of work, were of no...

R ATE-CUTTING by the L.N.E. Railway Co. in order to acquire the traffic in bricks from Peterborough yards to Leicester—which...

O UTSPOKEN comments on the \/privileged position occupied by the railways in being granted A, instead of B, licences were made...

Statements by a farmer of 1,000 acres and by a Mansfield potato merchant that road haulage was more convenient and quicker than...

imprisonment in the second division was passed on a lorry driver who was tried at Leeds Assizes, last week, on a charge of...

to-the boot and shoe industry were described by the traffic manager of an important Leicester manufacturing concern, with its...

LASTL AST week a large party of operators, from the London district, visited the recently extended works of Morris Commercial...

On October 1., new minimum rates of pay for road-transport workers in the retail distributive, trades in the provinces will...

Worksop Town Council requires a vehicle for the electrical department. Wakefield Corporation is to obtain tenders for the...

addition to three railways, appeared at Liverpool, on Monday, when Convoys, Ltd., 30 Bouverie Street, London, E.C.4, applied...

Conditions in the road-transport industry were criticized at the conference of the National Union of Railwaymen, at Hull, last...

L.M.S. OBJECTION CLAIMED ILLEGAL. A submission that an objection by the L.M.S. Railway Co. should be ruled out because it did...

A.R.O. SECURES P.S.V. CONCESSION. solvency of the insurer, failure to comply with the obligation to insure, the condi - 6"ns...

the desire of A.R.0. Devon and Cornwall Area for full local self-government was passed at the area's committee meeting, last...

T HE case of the C-licence holder was • again discussed at a committee meeting of A.R.O., Devon and Cornwall Area, at Plymouth...

['EST INTERNATIONAL 3 TONNER NTRODUCED in January, 1935, the International 3-tonner has amply fulfilled the forecast that we...

I T would appear that there is no indignity or injustice which officialdom is prepared to spare the haulage contractor. Not the...

THE 20th annual edition of Garcke's " Motor Transport Year-Book and Directory" (30s.) has recently been published by...

By Our Paris Representative I T is a curious fact that Paris, with only about half the population of Landon, has nearly three...

XiCES LOCKED-UP CAPITAL R OAD transport, in its rapid growth, has seen romantic progress on the part of many who 'have allied...

Value of Keeping Careful Watch on Outgoings and Revenue. The Vexed Question of Depreciation "(A wise proverb the Arabs have)._...

S TANDARDIZATION of method has effected such a consistency of result in the road testing Of vehicles by The Commercial Motor...

VOR some time magnetic chucks em bodying fixed magnets have proved their utility in many classes of engineering work, but,...

Fourth Instalment of .a Series of Articles on Accountancy for Hauliers. Previous Contributions Published on April 17, June 5...

By Modern Filtration Methods, Lubricant Drawn from Engine Sumps Can be Rendered as Good as New. Regular Reconditioning Reduces...

Passenger Transport INQUIRY INTO LANCS ROAD PROHIBITIONS I AST Friday, a Ministry of Transla port inquiry was held at Preston...

S HOULD a company be compelled to use a municipal bus station when it proposes to build accommodation of its own? This issue...

R ECENTLY, S.T.R., Die Commercial Motor costs expert, gave his 39th lecture. The occasion was the conference of area...

and QUERIES The Editor invites correspondence on dl subjects connected with the use of commercial motors. Letters should be...

L T EICESTER Gas Department is using a showroom trailer to propagate interest in the merits of gas power. Mounted upon a...

In Parliament STATE CONTROL OF TRUNK ROADS. T HE Forth and Tay road-bridge projects, traffic estimates for which are being...

Road Hauliers Keenly Contest L.M.S. Application for 23' Vehicles and 16 Trailers A NOTHER phase of the Yorkshire tihauliers'...

Ingenious Equipment Used in Large scale Mechanization of Timber Transport in Germany. Loads of 36 Tons Comprise a Unit PA A...

P ATENT No. 448,356 comes from H. Fulton and Albion Motors, Ltd., South Street, Scotstoun, Glasgow, and deals with a...