M UCH can be learned about current vehicle designs by eavesdropping on conversations between drivers in cafés. By doing so,...

OLLAPSIBLE tanks for the haulage of liquids in which can be carried on normal platform and drop-sided vehicles and rolled up...

Trading With the U.S.S.R. D ESPITE all the political disturbances between the U.S.S.R. and some capitalist countries, the...

That easy hire-purchase may mean less-easy road conditions. Of a belief that American railways will cease, by 1970, to cater...

BY OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT pt EHIND-THE-SCENES efforts by Conservative backbenchers at Li Westminster to persuade the...

L ONDON central busmen refused to send delegates to the meeting held in London on Tuesday by the Transport and General Workers'...

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT CONTROVERSY has been caused by a new method now being used by • –' the Road Haulage Association to...

B US operators who hire vehicles to building contractors must have a road service licence if workers pay for their travel by...

MR. G. T. EAs - rwooD has been appointed sales manager of Regal Garage (Old Kent Road), Ltd., London, S.E.15. AID. C. A....

R EPEAT orders are already being received by Leyland Motors from undertakings who have ordered Leyland Atlantean rear-engined...

M.P.s are to urge ‘•-•• the adoption of the Continental system of a single vehicle fulfilling many different functions. This...

D ESPITE a defence plea that drivers had .not been asked to work excessive hours, H. Blacker and CO., hauliers, f3ondiate,...

nY appealing against the grant of a I-) collection and delivery vehicle to a long-distance haulier, the British Trans-' port...

A FTER a stormy five-hour meeting on 1 - 1 Tuesday, delegates representing provincial company _and municipal bus workers agreed...

S IX major coach operators appeared before the North Western Traffic Commissioners this week to defend their road service...

A SCOTTISH haulage . company operating 16 vehicles on special A licence and three on B licence were granted a new A licence on...

T HE managing director of a Carlisle haulage company claimed at a Ministry of Housing inquiry, last week, that farm buildings...

B y 1960, toughened glass will be used for combined wrap-round and wrapover windscreens, which will mean coaches and buses...

PA A VEHICLE operator who was questioned about exceeding his radius threatened to write to the Prime Minister, the Leader of...

THE tanker fleet operated by Y o rkshire Transporters, Ltd., Batley, earned £18,000 in ei g ht months, and in the same period...

T HREE hauliers who appeared before Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, last week, complained that a transport...

A RULING on the minimum charge ra. for a Continental tour was made by the North Western Traffic Commissioners, last week. They...

A SERIES of objections and crossI – % objections to proposals by three bus operators serving Leicester were smoothed out before...

L OCAL bus operators should be given preference when services are needed for new housing estates, it was submitted at a...

Buses Soon A N increase from 30 ft. to 35 ft. in a ' the maximum legal overall length of coaches and buses was urged last week...

A LTHOUGH they were opposed by the police, two local authorities, and the Western National Omnibus Co., Ltd., two operators of...

A FEATURE of the new 1-1-ton N.C.B. 1-1 heavy-duty dairy truck introduced by Smith's Delivery Vehicles, Ltd., is its fully...

IN its latest form the VT15 range of 1 Albion Victor passenger chassis is powered by a 5.5-litre 4-cylindered directinjection...

W ITH the acceptance of motor-scooter combinations as a commercial proposition for light delivery work, the manufacturers of...

by British commercial three-wheeler manufacturers, the Crescent 2-cwt, chassis exhibited by R. and C. Autocars, Ltd. (Stand...

THE lack of liaison between a factory's personnel staff and local transport operators was described as "extraordinary" by Mr....

ADIO control of collection and delivery vehicles in the Isle of Wight was inaugurated last week by British Road Services....

the highest feature in the island. It is in direct line communication with the master station at Newport, where the traffic...

employed the six-cylinder version on their C.305 semi-horizontal unit, which is used in the new Commer mediumduty...

WHENEVER I make a trip to the West Country I am impressed by the affection VV with which operators regard Mr. S. W. Nelson, the...

isition 31 I N the history of the Bristol Omnibus Co., Ltd., the past two or three years will rank as a period of transition...

T HE country which had the best conditions in . Europe for dustless refuse collection, Britain, had probably made the least...

A PRE-CAST concrete garage designed specially for commercial vehicles has been added to the range of portable buildings...

A REMARKABLE combination of research facilities will go into action at Ferodo, Ltd., Chapel-enle-Frith, following the formal...

INTERESTING transmission • contrasts were provided by three vehicles equipped with hydrostatic transmission at the • Public...

A PANTECHNICON recently supplied e`i to Sragowitz and Gillman, Ltd., Glasgow, incorporates a number of chassis modifications to...

/ POINTED out last week how unnecessarily punctilious the Association of British Chambers of Commerce were in their attempt to...

M AINLY engaged in clearing building sites, the Eltham Transport Co., Ltd:, Well Hall 'Road, London, S.E.9, have two sections...

A HAULAGE concern who lost two A-licence vehicles through revocation last July applied at Sheffield, last week, for a new...

I N discussing operators' maintenance problems, last week, I stressed that differences in maintenance costs per mile were not...

Dust particles of any size carried in diesel fuel cause wear of injection equipment, but for a given weight of abrasive the...

A DEVICE that automatically takes up wear in a disc brake is described in patent • No. 802,942. It operates by friction and is...