I T is one thing for local authorities and police, as the bodies responsible for traffic control, to institute overall schemes...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT A.DE Union leaders are to launch comprehensive probe into Britain's port problems. The broad...

DROPOSED maximum noise levels laid I down by the Ministry of Transport as a basis for future legislation are meaningless to the...

U NDER the Hire-purchase and Credit Sale (Agreements) (Control) Order, 1960, it is specifically required that the total amount...

electrical engineers, has found that the increase in height of domestic refrigerators and various other home appliances has...

. anch at Marsh Barton Trading , Exeter, is now in full operation le old depot at Polsloe Bridge has 1. With a platform 160 ft....

TRAFFIC wardens appointed to administer parking meter schemes "tended to be officious at first, but after a time settled down...

A N amendment to the Graduatcship examination has been announced by the Institute of Transport Commencing with the November,...

freight on West German highways is being hauled by non-German carriers, says the Institute of German Industry. From 1958 to...

OM next Thursday, Shell-Mex and B.P. Ltd. will be marketing a new ne lubricating oil in the U.K. Called Visco-static Longlife,...

BY ASHLEY TAYLOR TRAFFIC carried by the Speedfreight container services operated between London and Manchester by the railways'...

EE assertion by Dr. Beeching that no ietailed analysis of road transport I change his assessment of rail irements in the future...

board of directors of the company. es over complete responsibility for tering department operations on nber 1, following the...

THREE Traffic Commissioners, two police inspectors and two officials of Westmorland County Council were among the 11...

far the largest application to be 3ted this week is to be found in the shire " Applications and Decisions " r. a B licence for...

Darlin g ton, to bring its ices into line with the wei g ht of the era, were adjourned by the Northern nsin g Authority, Mr. J....

has recently taken over a bankrupt ness, was on Friday refused an applim for an A licence to Operate the cle taken over from...

QUNTER BROS. LTD., of North aIlerton, unsuccessfully applied to the Northern Licensin g Authority at Darlin g ton on Friday to...

E VEN a small modification needed .1—+ ade q uate evidence, said the North Western deputy Licensin g Authority, Mr. A. H....

A COACH body designed for the Bedford VAL chassis, and a new 36 ft. chassis shortly to be announced. is one of three new...

a high standard of comfort has recently been placed in service by Scottish Omnibuses Ltd. to operate the 42-mile service from...

FLEET of six new attractive Park Royalbodied Leyland Leopard hes is currently being placed in cc by Birch Bros. Ltd. on its...

A N attempt to turn the first Beeching rail-closure inquiry into a slanging match was firmly countered by Mr. H. N. Tuff,...

O o a recent visit to Dowty Hydraulic Units Ltd., Ashchurch, Glos, by a member of The Commercial Motor staff details were...

C OMFORTABLE accommodation for 12 paying passengers in addition to the driver, is provided in a new coach conversion of a...

`OMPREHENSIVE leasing plan has een started by Smith's Delivery les Ltd., Gateshead-on-Tyne, covers range of electric delivery...

'URNS compiled from informam received by the Ministry of port from Registration and Licenkuthorities in Great Britain show...

!.ES totalling £3,000 are to be 'ered by the Ministry of Transport competition for the design of a rary flyover structure,...

A N addition to the Dempster range of body units offered by Powell Duffryn Engineering Co. Ltd. of Cardiff is the Dempster...

A t the same time as it has recommended the use of multigrade oils for its A, R and C-type power units, The British Motor...

A PROTOTYPE of a hydraulic lorry rt loader has been produced by Abelson and Co. (Engineers) Ltd., Sheldon, Birmingham, 6. It is...

A NEW type of screw which is made by the Duro Dyne Corp. of America for fixing sheet metal and is marketed in Britain by Van...

3 enable a vehicle fitted with a twospeed axle to extricate itself from aery ground is the object of a differal-gear locking...

4 improved design of bus door, said to give the driver better visibility to nearside and to impose minimum ing on the operating...

PA A SIMPLE but effective method of allowing relative movement between a tractor and a trailer is shown in patent No. 910,660....

A FRIEND with a head for statistics told me recently that, unless his research had been faulty, it appeared that a procession...

-u NLIKE the purchase of a used motor car, where the controlling factor is obviously the amount of money available for its...

By John F. Moon, A.M.I.R.T. ROAD TEST: Morris FG-Series Diesel-engined 5-tonner A SIGN of the growth of the British...

By F. K. MOSES 0 NE hears constant references in bus operating circles of the need for priority to be given to the bus in our...

T week hinted that road transport operators might ot be as black as some of the Licensing Authorities ainted them, and that a...

rt A SPECIAL silo at Uskmouth A Power Station has a capacity of two-days' output of ash, which must be cleared from the silo to...

VER since the issue in March this year of the plan for the reshaping of British Railways, many of the opposers have naïvely...