HE story unfolded in the In the Absence of Silver—Lines third annual report of the British Transport Cointhe Clouds Over the...

"Runners" Can Give UAULAGE contractors in Flexibility to Central"Liverpool have for many i7ed Concern . . • years found it...

COMPENSATION for cessation of 1 ......business under the Transport Act, 1947, should be assessed on the basis that the...

N EARLY 100 local authorities have decided to oppose the proposed south-west area scheme for passenger transport. This was...

YV about the prospect of nationalization and we are turning into the rate fund any profits we make, so they can be used to the...

p AY increases for 60,000 municipal passenger transport workers, offered by the employers, were approved by union delegates on...

A N attempt is being made by the Road Haulage Association to find out how many hauliers whose businesses have been compulsorily...

A RESOLUTION expressing concern 1 - 1. about the way 'in which tipping vehicles were being operated by the Road Haulage...

AA AY'S exports of commercial al vehicles, including dumpers and dump trucks, industrial trucks and trailers, set up a new ....

rONCESMONS to operators of heavy motor cars, trailers, works trucks, pedestrian-controlled vehicles and road sweepers are...

TUDGMENT for £62,420 was given J in the King's Bench Division, on Monday, for Mr. Walter Guildford Goode, an engineer, of...

in staff would mean a cut in transport services was given last week by Mr. A. B. Findlay. general manager of Leeds Transport...

T HE eastern area scheme for passenger transport could not possibly become law unless, in the process of local oPinion being...

MR. M. WHITFIELD has been appointed a director of the Standard Motor Co., Ltd. MR. M. A. CAMERON has replaced MR. MILES BEEVOR...

O RDERS for over 600 vehicles have recently been placed with A.C.V.. Sales, Ltd., from all over the world. The greatest number...

W HEN an employee of the Special Traffics (Pickfords) Division of British Road Services was accused of theft at Perth Sheriff...

A STERN warning to leaders of unofficial strikes, particularly in the road transport industry, was delivered last week at the...

State Companies and Municipalities Still Losing Heavily ' 11%1 the past week or so, eight appli'cations for higher Fares have...

I N the face of competition from 26 manufacturers from all over the world, Leyland Motors, Ltd., has obtained a £4m. order for...

H lGHER operational costs and a decline in traffic reflected themselves in last year's profits of Southdown Motor Services,...

rUSTOMS receipts on motor and aviation spirit totalled over £120m. in the year ended March 31. A further £19m. was obtained...

n URING the first quarter of the year. Britain maintained its position as the world's greatest producer of buses. In the field...

T AST week, Mr. Poole asked the 1-1 Minister of Transport why Ur. F. W. Holdich, chairman of the Peterborough area of the...

S AID by a solicitor to be the first application of its kind backed by the Ministry of Transport, Johnstons (Chopwell), Ltd.,...

I N the National first-aid competition organized by the National Road Passenger Transport . Ambulance Association and heldat...

A SERIOUS financial position confronts Cores Tompair Eireann, Mr. S. Lemass. Minister of Industry and Commerce. told the Dail...

DRICE reductions of between 3 per cent. and 9.5 per cent. on light goods vehicles have been announced by the International...

" MATIONALIZED road haulage has 1 1 1 not taken very long to get into the Ted," said Mr. R. B. Brittain, chairman of the Road...

T O avoid the development of a chaotic situation, delegates of the Swiss Federal Railway, the Swiss road hauliers' association...

S EVEN experts on road signs and signals will meet in Geneva on August 13 to devise a single world-wide road-sign system. Such...

chairman of Tilling-Stevens, Ltd., says that considerable reorganization has been necessary to pave the way for efficient...

rLAIMS for higher pay for 50,000 Post Office workers in the engineering, supplies and transport grades have been referred to...

T HE offer of Leyland Motors. Ltd., to acquire Albion Motors, Ltd., is reported to have been approved by the Albion shareholders.

T " provision of bus stations for ordinary stage-carriage services was a "questionable proposition," Mr. R. P. Beddow, chairman...

A NXIETY by Scottish furniture removers led the Scottish area of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and...

A T the recent Barcelona Fair, Gordon L. Poole and Co., Southampton, was the only exhibitor to show a full range of British...

over 500 people were killed in accidents at level crossings. A working party of transport specialists of the United Nations...

Asks P.A.C. Brockington, A.M.I.Mech.E. How the Relationship Between Bore and Stroke Dimensions Affects the Design of Engines,...

TO CENTRE I REAR ENG says L. J. COTTON, M.i.i T HERE are two schools of thought in Swedish passenger-transport companies on...

Sees 2-Reservists Under Training W HAT the value of Z-reservist training might be, is a question that agitated a good many...

B ODIES of 1,320-cubic-ft. capacity are now being built by Mann. Egerton and Co., Ltd., Norwich, upon Austin I5-ft. wheelbase...

The Excuse Superior, the Excuse Ingenuous, the Excuse Comparable and the Excuse Plaintive in the B.T.C.'s Annual Report are...

CROM the first choice of site to the final coat of paint, the garage which, as reported in "The Commercial Motor" last week,...

O BJECTIONS to the use of batteryelectric vehicles for heavy loads concern the size of the batteries that it is necessary to...

I N a new vehicle recently delivered to Black and White Motorways, Ltd., Cheltenham, luxury of the kind associated with...

DPASED on an extended Fordson 2-ton Uchassis, a mobile showroom has been put into service by the North of Scotland...

REGARDING Mr. E. J. Cooke's letter, published in " "The Commercial Motor" for July 6, I entirely disagree with his remarks...

"The Commer al Motor " Expert Continues his Argument to Show that Haulier who has no Methodical System of Recording xpenses can...

R EC ENTLY installed in the Farington works of Leyland Motors Ltd., is a machine which hardens valve-rocket pads by...

DATENT Vo. 654,121, shows a methoi of building-up crankshafts by welding, and although intended primarily for the larger sizes...