B LUNT maybe, but ultimately this is the inevitable question when a commercial transaction is being negotiated. Whether it be a...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT A N extra 3d. an hour (from 8d. to 11d.) on night-duty rates for work between 7 p.m. and 6...

IF the rail closures in North Devon pro posed in the Beeching Report are fully implemented there will be an urgent need for the...

A NEW set of draft regulations aimed at the prevention of excessive noise from motor vehicles has been circulated to interested...

is being provided by the Transport Ferry Service, with effect from June 16. The number of sailings between Tilbury and...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDE NT WHEN the E.E.C. Council of Ministers " met in Brussels on Friday to discuss the Commission's...

THE 1963 edition of " The Commercial Motor Tables of Operating Costs" will be published next v.eck, price 4s. or 4s. 6d. post...

G OODS vehicle maintenance will be discussed at an open meeting of the West Midland Maintenance Advisory Committee at the...

G LASGOW Corporation highways committee has Approved major restrictions in the • use of city-centre streets in an effort to...

T HE long-awaited experimental reorganization of the parcel post service in East Anglia will start on June 23. It was in•...

I " AM firmly of the opinion that under present day conditions there are very strong arguments for giving all forms of...

S UGGESTIONS that only rear-view mirrors should be used as a guide by drivers reversing their vehicles in the tests of the...

WHEN the latest Commer and Karrier WV forward-control goods chassis were introduced earlier this year (The Commercial Motor,...

A NEW trophy presented by the Road PA Haulage Association will be held for one year by the best Aor B-licence vehicle driver...

F ORTY drivers from five depots of Reed Transport Ltd. took part in the company's Lorry Driver of the Year contest at...

Weights Changes Rejected W HEN the House of Lords returned to the Wei g hts and Measures Bill after the Whitsun recess, Lord...

T HIS might be a g ood time to revise I the law controlling bus services, without going back to "internecine competition ",...

A DRIVING offence committed before May 29, when the "three offences in three years" disqualification came into effect, will...

F RANCE has dropped its adherence to the vehicle weights and dimensions limits agreed at the 1960 convention of the E.C.M.T. On...

L'OLLOWING a demand by passengers I for the "cruiser" type of Continental tour which involves spending no more than two nights...

A T Exeter last week Greenslades Tours Ltd. and Excelsior European Motorways, Bournemouth, appealed against a grant by the...

IN a reserved decision this week, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, the North Western deputy Licensing Authority, granted one vehicle on A...

'THE Transport Tribunal, sitting in 1 London last week, reserved judgment in an appeal by British Road Services, and the...

London, for a new B licence to add 12 vehicles to its existing fleet of seven for the transport of cars was adjourned by Mr. D....

A NEW venture by Wallace Arnold r -1 Tours was revealed by the company's traffic manager, Mr. G. Steele, at a hearing at Leeds...

BY NORMAN H. TILSLEY T HE thorny question of whether incomplete objection notices nullify an objection has come up again, this...

—but circumstances were exceptional CiN the face of it, the report carried 'kJ in last week's issue of The Commercial Motor...

for a "small" I excursions-and-tours operator to complain that the larger companies are trying to put him off the road. Such a...

A N interesting application has been made to the Air Transport Licensing Board by Cunard Eagle Airways Ltd., to vary certain...

1-- X A B-LICENCE switch constitutes this week's largest application to be notified. Whittons Trimsport Ltd., of Cullompton...

F OLLOWING the amendment of an application by Brewer and Turnbull Ltd., Blackpool, at Manchester last Monday, an objection by...

A T the annual general meeting of B.E.T. Omnibus Services Ltd., in London, Mr. John Spencer Wills, chairman, reported that the...

lUIR. J. M. BARR, chairman of Barr IVI and Wallace Arnold Trust, denied in his annual report that the Becching rail proposals...

QPEA KING in the Coventry City Council debate on Atlanteans versus Flectlines (reported in The Commercial Motor last week),...

T HE continuing loss of traffic on stage carriage services, the failure of the Chancellor to see the light with regard to the...

A SURVEY of all aspects of the B e lf as t Corporation Transport Department, undertaken by Urwick, On and Partners Ltd.,...

the Public Transport Association, a position which he has occupied since May, 1961, His place has been taken by Mr. W. M....

ri A COMPLETE detail design for a hydrostatic transmission intended for use in a motor bus has been completed and the basic...

T HE news that two diesel-engine manufacturers are considering incorporating Glacier Metal Co.'s new Ramrod system of bearing...

C UTS in the retail price of some grades of petrol have been made by leading companies. Last Friday Shell-Mex and B.P....

WILLOWBROOK BODIES FOR SOUTH WALES. RENOWN S: Amongst bodywork orders recently received by Duple Group Sales Ltd. is one from...

rl A NEW ambulance based on the NEW .LIZ semi-forward-control chassis has been announced by Martin. Walter Ltd. The standard...

commercial-vehicle division of Mercedes-Benz (Great Britain) Ltd., Unimog vehicles will be available for hire. The scheme...

IMPROVED service to overseas opera' tors is the aim of a team of service engineers formed by Leyland Motors Ltd. The engineers...

W HEN a new version of the Renault 15-cwt. van was exclusively described and illustrated in The Commercial Motor of May 31, it...

D EMONSTRATIONS were given recently of Bendix cleaners which are now being produced and marketed by a newly formed Chemical...

A LTHOUGH primarily introduced for r - k cars, 0.25-pint tins of enamel introduced by Holt Products Ltd., New Addington,...

A NEW light-alloy container which has been developed by Rollalong Ltd., Ringwood, Hants, in conjunction with Boss (Engineers)...

QCREWDRIVERS incorporating a 0, -/ spring-loaded sleeve over the shank, to hold the screw being inserted or removed firmly in...

W HEN I tested the original 10/12-cwt.. version of the Renault Estafette early in 1961 (a test report appeared in The...

T HE irritation, danger and economic loss caused to the community through intense snowfalls such as those experienced in the...

T HREE security vehicles—two with bodywork by Glover, Webb and Liversidge Ltd.—were the main features of the International...

By A. J. P. WILDING 0 N Tuesday the second International Construction Equipment Exhibition opens at Crystal Palace, London. It...

IN a column of optimism and bonhomie such as this, I hesitate to broach a subject so potentially painful as that of money, or...

less difficult than achieving it. In many industries it is related to the volume of production of the individual worker in a...

By S. Buckley Assoc. Inst. T. T HE 1963 (47th) edition of "The Tables" is due to be published on June 26, price 4s. through...