'T HE refusal of the Transport and °metal Workers' Union to accept the award of the Industrial Court of an increase of 8s. 6d....

A N industry as varied and variable in its conditions as road haulage requires the utmost efficiency in its system of...

G.M.C. Interest in Monorail WHEN an organization such as the General Motors " Corporation of America takes an interest in the...

T HE pay award of 8s. 6d. a week recommended by the Industrial Court for Central London bus crews has been rejected by the...

700 Coach• Operators Would be Affected by New Licence Conditions Proposed by Commissioners M ORE than 70 coach and bus...

CIVIL estimates for 1958-59 show an ‘--.• increase of £13.5m. for expenditure on the roads. Total expenditure in En g land and...

Q i3JECTING to an application for a collection and delivery vehicle at Glas g ow, last week, British Railways claimed that they...

S MALL bus operators sharing co-ordinated noted services with big companies must not think they were entitled to automatic fare...

MR. JACK HARRISON, one of the joint managing directors of A. W. Chapman, Ltd., is now Mayor-elect of Surbiton. MR. FRANK...

A PETITION is to be presented to the Minister of Transport by Hudson's Bus Co., Horncastle, Lines, who object to the East...

LECTIONS in the Road Haulage Association's Metropolitan and South Eastern Area have now been completed. The new area chairman...

T RADERS were not interested in cutthroat competition among transport operators or in the creation of a surplus of transport,...

QEVENTEEN market services operated by Mid-Wales Motorways, Ltd., Newtown, were all losing an average of £200 a year, the North...

T O avoid inconveniencing passengers if flight arrangements at - Newcastle Airport should be cancelled, R. Dickson Junr., Ltd.,...

T HE close association between private enterprise hauliers and British Road Services in serving Sheffield's steel industry...

T HE new Tyne Tunnel project will probably be authorized by the Minister of Transport next year, the House Of Commons was told...

A SCOTTISH haulier was warned last week that if he had further convictions for failing to maintain his vehicles, he would be...

A FIER hearing witnesses say that the grant of two articulated collection and delivery outfits to Road Services (Caledonian),...

Hindley, applied to Mr. J. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, on Tuesday to add two vehicles to his A...

" DO not want to criticize the people " DO not want to criticize the people who help us so much on rail-road committees, but...

" IAM strongly opposed to traders attempting to become limited public hauliers. If a C-licence holder sought to carry other...

A TWO-TIER road, with the upper PA carriageway 25 ft. above the ground, or up to 65 ft. to pass over a factory. may be built...

A BOUT 40,000 tons of wood pulp will be moved each year from the new works of the Sudbury Pulp Mill, Ltd.. near Chepstow, when...

T HE importance of semi-trailer body length to hauliers in the United States is emphasized by the latest International design...

T WO new battery-electric fork-lift trucks have been added to the NR range of Ransomes, •Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., Orwell...

T WO Torquay coach concerns will be taken over by Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., on April 1. They are Cream Cars (Torquay), Ltd.,...

on six miners' services in North Wales. T. and H. R. Roberts were opposed by the National Coal Board when they appeared before...

WHEN Mr. A. Webb, director of VI' A. E. Clarke and Co. (Tools), Ltd.. Snow Hill, Birmingham, and Mr. A. Organ, sales...

TN the third quarter of last year there were 209 prosecutions and 207 convictions for breaches of the law concerning drivers'...

'THROUGH a clerical error, an AL licence vehicle operated by I. and R. Wright, Glasgow, was removed from the licence without a...

IN his two years as a haulier, Thomas I William Brown, Harle Syke, Lanes, lost £2,352 on the sale of two lorries. This was...

I N their plans for renationalization of road transport, the Socialists have made no direct reference to the restrictions which...

By P. A. C. Brockington, A.M.I.Mech.E. L IFE is not easy for hauliers in the East Midlands. Since I toured the area two years...

A PART from greatly speeding up message handlirig, the new London pressbutton teleprinter centre of British Road Services in...

Dunlop Advances with Air Suspension' Include Adaptations of Existing Chassis to Incorporate Pneuride Air Bellows : Little Extra...

A. FOUR-WHEELED refuse trailer 1—1 and a special dump trailer have been added to the range produced by Whitlock Brothers, Ltd.,...

And when the Philistine looked about, and saw David, he disdained him ; for he was but a youth, and ruddy, and of a fair...

nRIV1NG is greatly simplified by the Simms-Eberspacher exhaust turbocharger fitted to the 11.3-litre oil engine of a post-war...

Tool Tray Aids Maintenance A LIPPED metal tray, 11 in. square, mounted on a sliding tube giving 9 in. of vertical adjustment,...

By G. Mackenzie Junner, M.I.Mech.E, E International Motor Show at Geneva is always p opular, and that which closes on Sunday...

I UNDERSTAND that the Minister of Transport has decided I to hold the census of road transport in the week beginning April 21,...

INLESS the tax on bus fuel is abolished in the Budget, the cuts in rural and other services, which are already alarming, will...

A VAN of 1,237-cu.-ft.. capacity built by The Wokingham Pantechnicon, Broad Street, Wokingham, Berks, for Lomath Bros., Ltd.,...

A LUTON body of 1,800-cu.-ft. capacity has been built by Barking Garage and Engineering Co., Ltd., Barking, Essex, on a Thames...

T 0 an increasing extent the routine weekly maintenance of the 2,096 depot vehicles operated by ShellMcx and B.P., Ltd., is...

A N application by Mr, S. Brown. Preston, to convert a vehicle from contract-A to B licence was refused by the North Western...

MUCH is heard about work study in manufacturing "today: it is therefore appropriate to ascertain if the principles can be...

I WOULD like to comment on the views of two of your correspondents whose letters appeared in The Commercial Motor on February...

By JANUS A CADEMIC studies in transport ought to be encouraged. They provoke thought and sometimes controversy, and help to...

A FORTNIGHT ago I dealt with the 10 items into which the cost of operating a vehicle can be conveniently divided. These...

A USTIN trucks are playing a great part in this enteTrise. Kinnear Moodie & Co. Ltd. are the Civil Engineering Contractors...

P ATENT No. 790,125 discloses a transmission system in which an enginedriven pump supplies fluid under pressure to individual...