A PPARENTLY Lord Lucas, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport is not aware of the existence of the ,licensing...

N EVER before have members of the road haulage industry shown so emphatically their lack of co-operation, lack of cohesion,...

Secret of Success A COMMON practice of an Early Final ". favoured in connection Drive vvith bevel drives is for the pinion to...

That the farmers are growing restive. That Mr. Foley Egginton has started something. That as the B.T.C. can do no wrong, it...

('IN January 1 the Road Haulage \-/Executive is introducing interim standard conditions of carriage. These will apply until...

A NEW technique in opposing the renewal of ncences is being developed by the Road Haulage Executive. It Is claiming to take the...

Sir David: "Only by acquiring a service by agreement, or by making a scheme." Counsel maintained that on a strict...

T HESwan Motor Co., Ltd., and Swansea Bus Services, Ltd., operating services in Swansea and the Gower peninsula, are being...

H EAVY-VEHICLE manufacturers are taking .up the suggestion made by Sir John E. Thornycroft, governing director and chairman of...

'THE new 852,000-sq.-ft, extension to 1 the factory of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., at Luton, was formally opened on Tuesday. It is...

MR. T. R. HAWKES has been appointed a director of the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd. MR. I. D. Comwers., A.M.I.Mech.E.,...

P RESIDING Jit a meet i ng of Plymouth and E - a at Cornwall hauliers, last week, Mr. F. H. Pedrick, of Devonport, said that...

" T HE obvious solutions of some of the difficulties of the Road Haulage Executive are surely the appointment of clearing...

£92 to Vehicle " IF, during the year under review. income tax and profits tax had been eliminated, then, everything else being...

A RESOLUTION calling on the Minister of Transport and northern M.P.s to receive deputations from members of the Road Haulage...

THIS week, Mr. C. E. Jordan. chair". man of the West Midlands Area of the Traders' Road Transport AssociaFort and chairman of...

T HE sale of a 32-seater coach was the subject of a dispute in the Chancery Division in which judgment was given last week. Mr....

C OACHES which operators of Continental tours wish to retain in France throughout the season may require permits next year....

T HE Road Haulage Executive is putting up for auction another 130 lorries recently acquired. Surplus vehicles go under the...

D L A STE R E D with slogans, 250 vehicles of free hauliers in Leicestershire paraded last Saturday through the centre Of...

S TRIKE action as a protest .againsi the Road Haulage Executive's pal1cy on permits is to be considered at a forthcoming...

TERMS of the agreement on wages and conditions of all operating and ancillary grades of British Road Services, have been...

D URING the year ended July 31 last, the turnover of Joseph Lucas, Ltd., in all its activities, increased by an average of 20...

Frozen Meat A MEAT-CARRYING body which is r I commendable for its straightfor ■ %ard design, has recently been built by...

C HANGES 'have been made in the ...specification of the Bedford P s -ton to 5-ton range, which is powered by the "long-life"...

An Independent Expert Examines the Way the R.H.E. is Amalgamating the Acquired Undertakings and Creating a New National...

Suspension Systems Figure Prominently in the Latest Developments in the Design of Trailers and Semi-trailers trailers...

A LTHOUGH the Smithfield Show, which opens at Earls Court on Monday next, has the approval of the Society of Motor...

commercial vehicles J. were constructed, of which 13,56 1 3 were for export—" a very remarkable record," said Mr. G. R....

an action which arose I - 1 out of the disappearance of three lorry-loads of scrap lead were heard before the Court of Appeal...

T HE urgent problem of traffic congestion in Preston and Lancaster was put to the Minister of Transport, last week by a...

The Lady with the Lamp Taking Credit Where Credit is Due, the British Transport Commission Nevertheless Considers Itself...

UOW well "Janus " drives home the nails when 11.-: I 'describes the Earls Court .Show as a morgue. I enter the show and...

* FTER lengthy negotiaeon with Athe . battery electric vehicle • manufacturers, wit h t he co-operatioh of, the Electric...

By Arthur R. Wilson, M.I.R.T.E. T HE revocation and substitution of permits, mans of them held by removal contractors, brings...

Comparisonsin the Many items of Road Transport Cost that Have Increased in the Past Nine Months Are Described Here F EW will...

C ONFESSING himself to be severely shaken by the volume of protest which the decision to institute half fares for children from...

P ATENT No. 640,727, which aornes froin litrockhouse Engineering : (Southport), Ltd., shows a design far . , a hydraulic...