A LTHOUGH they probably did not intend it, the Traders Road .Transport Association have this week pointed out the fact that...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT R OAD haulage operations will increase by at least 26 per cent over the next five years if...

T OCAL authorities in England have I—I now been informed by the Minister of Transport that more than 40 classified road schemes...

A NNUAL charges ranging from 19 10s. for a small van to f14 10s. For an eight-wheeler, to cover one major annual inspection,...

some definite hope that the strikers at a number of Birmingham haulage companies might • return to work. As reported last...

T O-ORDINATION of Co-operative transport is under survey in Scotland, where operation of area transport pools may become the...

rORRINGDON LTD., of Hunters 14 – , Manor, Weldon, Northants, has been acquired by British Road Services Ltd., the transfer...

• The matter • was raised at the longscheduled second meeting of the National Committee on Tuesday hut it proved impossible to...

From A. J. P. Wilding, Frankfurt, Wednesday. THE biggest influence on exhibits at I the Frankfurt Show, which officially opens...

BUT ROAD AND RAIL UNIONS DISAGREE ON LINER TRAINS From Our Industrial Correspondent nNILY one voice was raised against the...

THE whole of the issued share capital L of London and Welsh Transport Service Ltd., Cardiff, has been acquired by Transport...

Commission of the International Chamber of Commerce will take place at the ICC headquarters in Paris on September 29. Among...

THIS Atkinson tractive unit (below) built for Mr. Ci. A. Stamper, of Culeaith. Penrith. is an experimental model with a second...

T HE interpretation of whether the phrase "permanent base or centre" includes a base that is only temporary was argued before...

niPERATORS should realize that if their vehicles were kept in tip - top order they would be better off, and that public safety...

AIDLAND RED employees, uniformed IVI or otherwise, tailed buses of Everton Coaches Ltd., and made frequent observations of the...

which no operators attended, the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, adjourned proposals to vary the...

Stockton last week the Northern . aflic Commissioners ruled that it tssible to grant " blanket consent " is routes without the...

transport under; have been granted permission by orthern Traffic Commissioners to e a new bus service between :sbrough and the...

Minister of Transport has ordered rehearing of the application by son's Coaches (Overtown) Ltd. for cc to operate a stage...

A RID for two artics on B licence was strenuously contested at Preston last Friday. when Greenore Ferry Services Ltd., of...

SCOTLAND (SOUTH) APPLICATIONS (September 11, 1%1) David D. Tod, West Calder, new A lie.. I veh. (610 (tanker). Milk:...

Stockton-onTees Corporation transport department, has been appointed rolling stock engineer to the Chesterfield Corporation...

T FANCY lant not alone in thinking that the failure of a considerable proportion of I applicants for carrier's or passenger...

WONDER how many readers of "Notices and Proceedings" bother to peruse some of the provisions and regulations which officialdom...

CASEBOOK By JOHN DARKER standard conditions go back to Ns and Ps No. 383 dated September 27, 1946, but special conditions for...

THE tipper " invasion " of the KampI shire operators, all sub-contractors to Mid Southern Tipping Group Ltd., into Essex...

T HE threat of a new ban on overtime by its busmen faces London Transport Board. Delegates representing nearly 30.000 bus crews...

T HE steering committee for the transportation survey of South-east Lancashire and North-east Cheshire met in Manchester last...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT rI A MEETING of the National Joint Council for the Road Passenger Transport Industry, called...

T HE plan to switch to an all-single-deck bus fleet with flat fares and pre-purchased, token-operated ticket machines was...

DERS for 256 new vehicles at a ost of about £1.5m. are involved in 966 vehicle replacement programme 'ed by the Scottish Bus...

B USES of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. Ltd. may shortly be worked on the one-man principle in urban as well as...

Running By DEREK MOSES an now be recorded that London Transport has operated. normal passenger service, its first rear-engined,...

IN addition to the 9-25-ton-capacity fifthI wheel coupling which has been in production for some time, Scammell Lorries Ltd. is...

A. J. P. ILDING I Mech E, M I RTE QUCCESSFUL demonstrations of the 1, --/ new light/laden brake proportioning valve developed...

M AIN frames at the outer extremities are a feature of a new range of semi-trailers which are being offered by M. and G....

New Address: Engine and Special Equipment Operations, Ford Motor Co. Ltd., is now located at 1 Ley Street, Ilford, Essex (tel.:...

adhesion. and the only answer here was anti-skid devices. The very complex problems posed by these were now being investigated...

A ' part of its 24-hour recovery service Si'. Motors Ltd. of Humber Bridge Road, Grimsby, has built a heavy recovery outfit and...

SHELL CLAIM A REDUCTION OF ABOUT 30 HARTRIDGE UNITS FOR THEIR OWN S revealed in the September 3 issue of The Commercial Motor,...

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE recent news from Brussels that the Shell company of Belgium is marketing a smoke-depressant...

A 'Silly' 0V9 to Watch For N EW and strange happenings often pop up from nowhere in the world of transport, and it is those...

l'ECIALLY developed for commercial fleet operation is a new crankcase oil, BP Vanethis. This new oil, now being rketed in the...

using external hinged shelves and spring-loaded ash poles, is now being used by ;ee (Glass) Ltd. New Austinvehicles...

QPIROL spring pins—a development from the usual type of pin fastening—are now being made in alloy steel by Spiro! Pins Ltd....

unit made by Stellar Components Ltd.. introduced in collaboration with the Road Research Laboratory. This unit gives an...

top marks to Conquers Transport Ltd. for the clever brochure they put out announcing their move from Holborn to New Cross which...

By Ralph Cropper Sc (Econ), BA, A M Inst T OAD transport is often picked out as one of the best examples of an industry of...

Oft. tall and having 225 b.h.p., vorth tractive unit used by By R. D. rrailer Co. demonstrates the AMInst BE fity of 32 tons...

hniques and efficiency devices have to be adopted in ming the business in order to counteract the reduced ciency of the vehicle...

SERIES B y A P. E M.IRTE A A new range of tilt-cab V8-engined chassis up b .t.w. A NEW-DESIGN, high-quality tilt cab and...

R.D. ITER ii Inst BE T the last Commercial Motor Show numerous makes and types rehicles were offered with Cummins d, VINE....

Darkness Almos ; Prolonged LDOY Final I N an atmospnere of impending rain and approaching darkness, and after one of the...

G ENERAL relief ought to have been felt when in a major speech in Bristol a fortnight ago Mr. Harold Wilson made no reference...

roductivity, Manpower nd Training wised staffing problems are officially . forecast By S. Buckley Assoc lnst T 1RANSPORT...

A reader asks for up-to-date operating costs 'for a 2-ton van fitted with petrol engine. He is not aware advance of the actual...

Well Done, TDG 'THE market had expected the interim results of I TRANSPORT DEVELOPMENT GROUP to be good. If proof of this were...

:sign Progress ? OUR recent road test report of a mass-produced 7-ton truck (Morris FJ, August 6) left me wondering just much...

I READ with interest the letter from Mr. R. T. Antczak I (September 3) headed "Why Cummins? and I would like to express my...

I THINK it is about time that something was said for Leyland. From the PLSC Lion of the mid-1920s, the TDI low-bridge...

No Blame for Leyland R ECENT allegations that Leyland look control of AEC merely to run it down seem to me risible. One has...

I WOULD be grateful if you could find space for this I appeal A group of members within the Ipswich Land Transport Society is...

By George Wilmot Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Road Transport 4:...