A PLAN which may become known among free hauliers as "Operation Isolation" has bepn devised by the British Transport Commission...

Americans Like Queues NAANY American visitors have paid tribute to our I excellent bus services, not only in the capital, but...

"Gentlemen, the toast 'is to freedom." Of Persia as the Thief of Bagged Oil. That Britain really needs an anti-freeze. Of the...

D RIVERS and conductors employed by private bus companies have been awarded an increase of 8s. per week by the Brierley...

A LLEGED persistent and wilful L'A. breaches of the conditions of his licence resulted in a Dundee haulier, Mr. A. B. Greig, of...

TWENTY-FOUR resolutions dealing 1 with road safety, road transport legislation, bulk buying and rebates, taxation,...

3 EVERAL urgent questions were discussed by members of the National Association Of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers, at...

DROTECTIVE fares figured in argu.1. ment before the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, at Leeds, last week. An objection that fare...

U NDER Statutory Instrument 1951. No. 1,800, dated October 4, another wartime emergency Order is removed from the Statute Book....

A CONTENTION that the Northern In. Licensing Authority had not acted impartially, was made by Mr. I. L. R. Croft, representing...

T HE attitude of the Railway Executive in not objecting to applications by State-owned bus companies to run long-distance...

MR. L. C. OAK has been appointed chief traffic assistant of West Hartlepool Transport Department. MR. P. G. S. CLARK has...

E XPERIMENTS with the large 1.B.U.T. single-deck iroileybus, built to carry 62 passengers, have proved successful, states a...

E VIDENCE of a new attitude towards the problem of higher fares L.. appears in the latest decisions of the Licensing...

T O emphasize the need for greater effort in conserving raw materials, Leyland Motors, Ltd., staged at its Farington factory,...

restrictions upon road transport and the improvement of the highway system are contained in a statement of policy circulated to...

A FOUR-WHEELED vehicle which is being towed with two of its wheels suspended clear of the ground by a crane, is still a...

N 'proposals to produce £41m. a year in addition to the extra £16.6m. a year sought by the British Transport Commission's draft...

D iSCUSSIONS continue between the Transport and General Workers' Union and the Road Haulage Executive about a 3d.-per-hour...

Restrictions • A SUCCESSFUL appeal was made last week by Mr. L. J. French to the Transport (Appeal) Tribunal. in London,...

N EW aids to road safety arc always welcome, and the Notek Electric Co., Ltd., 23, London Road, Bromley, Kent, announces two...

1111010S far Alan 0 F all housc-to-house collection and delivery vehicles, those in the service of laundries probably form...

1951 ISSUE OH' MOTOR INDUSTRY YEARBOOK J INVALUABLE to economists and Istudents of the motor industry, the Society of Motor...

"Road Transport before Nationalization was a Monopoly, which is a Bad Thing; it also had Cut-throat Competition, which is...

to power, they " would be committed largely to a reversal of the policies carried out by the Socialists under the Transport...

TO SAVE says A. B. B. Valentine T HAT nearly all London routes operated by single-deck buses failed to earn their keep, that...

Versatility By Ashley Taylor, A.M. I. R.T.E. A LTHOUGH Express Motor Carriers, of . Oswestry, Salop, have changed little in...

PIA PARALLEL chassis frame, a more powerful motor and a larger battery are among the improvements in the new lielecs Intruder...

A TTENTION was drawn to the new Motor Vehicles (Authorisation of Special Types) Order, 1951, governing the transport of...

T HE growth of road transport in Canada is well illustrated by figures recently issued by the Canadian Bureau of Statistics....

A N important technical advance which has enabled United Dairies, Ltd., to obtain fuller use of its heavy articulated vehicles...

One of the five Perkins mobile schools is on its way to Australia. Peterhead Streets Committee has accepted an offer by W....

LOWER RATES M OST schedules of rates for traffic by road specify the size of the consignment. The rate for a 7-ton load is...

A N A N improved design of double reduction rear axle is disclosed in . patent No. 657,264, by Kirkstall Forge, Ltd„...