Do Municipalities WHY is it that battery Realize the Value of TY electrics are employed to Electri■m? such a small extent by...

Of interesting moves in battery-electric politics. That some people think that there are too many makes . with small outputs....

EMERGENCY ORGANIZATION. rIPERATORS of goods vehicles are 1 ...../reminded by the Minister of Transport that the basis of the...

DEFENCE COMES FIRST WITH AUTHORITIES. WHEN several cases against haulage VV contractors and lorry drivers were heard at Bury...

Scots Haulier L AST week, the Appeal Tribunal sat at Dumfries to consider an appeal by the London, Midland and Scottish...

GOODS AND HACKNEY VEHICLES STILL FALLING. HE number of new motor vehicles 1 registered, for the first time, in February, 1939,...

W E understand that Affiliated TransIT ports, Ltd., of Great George Street, Leeds, has withdrawn its application to take over...

Morris-Commercial 3O-cwt. Chasssis as Basis of Mobile Grocer's Shop T HE somewhat striking vehicle shown in the accompanying...

U NQUESTIONABLE attractions are held by the rigid six-wheeler which steers through four wheels and drives through the other...

I N a new depot which Arthur Batty, Ltd., has opened in Marsh Street, off Manchester Road, Bradford,are combined facilities for...

A LTHOUGH the number of operators I - 1 of battery-electric vehicles in the London area is not large, it is a noteworthy fact...

T HE latest issue of the Ministry of Transport Returns shows that there are now 4,674 electrically propelled goods vehicles in...

T HERE are more commercial vehicles running on 32 x 6 M.D. tyres than on any other, so the following facts and figures should...

F OR house-to-house . and shop-toshop delivery work in fairly limited areas, the electric vehicle has the strongest claims to...

F ROM a perusal of other sections of this issue it will be made clear that, for a variety of purposes, the battery-electric,...

the imaginative mind numerous desirable characteristics are called up by the word "Superpoise." It suggests, for example,...

AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS COMPANY LTD., LEAMINGTON SPA, ENGLAND damper, drives the +camshaft; in the oil system is a floating intake...

O wING to the stable nature of their trade, it is frequently possible for co-operative societies to take the long view in the...

IT has always been particularly important that the operating cost of electric vehicles should be assessed on a proper • basis,...

A 2i-cubic-yd. Machine With Singlecylindered Two-stroke Oil Engine I N addition to its well-known range of road rollers and...

P OTENTIAL operators of batteryelectric vehicles and all those interested in the application of electricity to road transport,...

F OR over a century and a half, Ebbw Vale, Monmouthshire, has been asso ciated with steel works. Its natural resources led to...

A PETROL-ELECTRIC brazing hearth that will save costs in the repair shop by eliminating starting delays, will maintain a steady...

A GAS PRODUCER UNREPRESENTED AT SWANSEA. W E have to draw your attention to a deficiency in the information presented to the...

E. Twin-ram Gear on a Chassis of Unusual Design A RECENT purchase by T. F. Nash Construction, Ltd., Hayes, Middlesex, is an...

CASE LAW SYSTEM PROVIDES A CHARTER. Mr. Henry Backhouse, junr., in an address to the Liverpool C.M.U.A. Luncheon Club, on...

A FEW days ago a letter appeared in The Times, from the pen of Mr. Ernest Short, general secretary of the British Railway...

A.R.O., which last year had a passenger operator as its chairman, in Mr. J. J. Granter, of Upton, this year has a haulage...

W E recently made inquiries from the Government of Northern Ireland concerning the procedure for coaches visiting that country....

Is "CHEAP AND OFTEN" L IKE most people', I regard personal observations as impertinent, and most of my haulier friends with ....

PASSENGER TRANSPORT POLICE CRITICIZED AT LEAMINGTON D EFENDING in a case at Leamington, on Monday last, a solicitor alleged...

A S reported in our issue dated April 7, Brighton Corporation introduced its new buses on April 1, and, by Whitsun, the new...

T HE developments which have been made during the past few years in electric vehicles of the battery type have been due,...

T HE . aim of countless inventors has been the infinitely variable gear, and the latest trend appears to be the epicyclic type...