S OME years ago there were not wanting unwise, but apparently qualified, critics who suggested that the design of power units...

T HE regulations concerning brake tests of vehicles are delightfully vague on the questions of the methods to be adopted in...

A LEADIN G article in the "Journal of the Institute of Consulting Motor Engineers" contains inter sting comments upon...

G REAT disparity still occurs in the treatment of offences against the Traffic Acts. This matter is referred to in a recent...

That in some bus fleets well over 3s. of every 20s. of traffic receipts goes in taxation. Scathing criticism of N.A.F.W.R....

The approximate number of licences current in respect of goods motor vehicles at the end of May, 1937, was 458,100, this figure...

A PPLICATION for the regrant to Messrs. A. E. Keeling and Sons, of Viaduct Garage, Kirkstall Road, Leeds, of A licences in...

;The J.L. Transport. Co. has lodged an appeal against the North-Western Licensing Authority's refusal to grant permission to...

THE requirement by Licensing 1 HE that hauliers who change the character of their businesses Must prove need, was raised in a'...

A NEW reading of the Hawker appeal decision was suggested by Mr. Leslie Walsh to Sir Wm. Hart, North-Western Deputy Licensing...

A Nimportant opinion on the question of how long after an accident notice of the consideration of prosecution must be given by...

The Board of Trade returns for June, 1937, show that the value of commercial vehicles, cars, chassis and accessories imported...

Burden of Proof A HUGE job" was the comment of Mr. H. Backhouse, C.M.U.A. solicitor, when Sir William Hart, NorthWestern Deputy...

T HE Court of Appeal decided, an Monday, that if a motorist knocks down a pedestrian on an uncontrolled crossing, he cannot...

On Wednesday of last week, gold watches were presented to three drivers of Bon Marche (Liverpool), Ltd., the recipients being...

A RULING that by' reason of his right to carry agricultural produce for other people in his locality, a Clicence holder can...

COLONEL ARTHUR JERRETT, M.Inst.T., past president of the C.M.U.A., has been elected a member of the Council of the Institute...

A spectacular haulage job from Leicester to Hull will save months of work in dismantling and rebuilding a delicate hosiery...

Horbury Urban District Council is to buy an ambulance. Cardiff Corporation is buying three A,E.C. Regal. buses. Epsom and...

The L.M.S. Railway Company Establishes a Series of Schools at which Practical Instruction is Given and the Training of Drivers...

Developments in the Erren Combustion System Present interesting Possibilities in Connection with the Employment of...

FFIE REINTRODUCED G.M.C. The Latest G.M.C. 2I-3-tonner Shows that it has Good Performance Charac , teristics. Practical Layout...

Important Principles Laid Down by Appeal Tribunal in Stevenson Case, Railways Secure Deletion of One Vehicle oi tJESTIONS of...

Marks Int duction of Bleichert Range The Production in This Country of Bleichert Electric Goods Vehicles to be Accompanied by...

Few High Spots in Latest Returns, Which Show a Falling Off in Both Goods and Passenger-vehicle Divisions T HE-promise of...

k.R.O. DISCUSSES LICENSING PROBLEMS. k conference was held by A.R.O., London, last week, and Mr. H, rma.n Letts, the...

in A.R.O. ...)Yorkshire Area for the development of propaganda. activities. Mr. A. H. Butterwick, of Leeds, had agreed to take...

haulage concerns in Aberdeenshire decided, last week, to form themselves into an association and to affiliate with the Scottish...

Expressions of satisfaction have been made by A.R.O, concerning the efforts of the Parliamentary Road Group in combating the...

WITH a Leyland Beaver chassis as W its basis a new 1,200-gallon singlecompartment tar-spraying tanker has recently been...

T is now time to summarize these Ynriations in operating costs, to put there . together and to see what ferences are possible...

Provincial Hauliers Asscciation Accused of Many Misstatements 'HE chairman, Mr. D. L. Clarke, 0.B.E., of .the Northern Ireland...

B OOTLE Corporation is to make .1-/representations to the NorthWestern Traffic Commissioners with regard to the applications by...

N EXT Thursday the West Midland Traffic ,Commissioners will consider an application by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus...

D IFFICULTIES in the operation of services to football matches were mentioned by Mr. Gleeson E. Robinson, Metropolitan Traffic...

THAT the use .of rail transport for 1 trees felled for timber increased the transport costs by 3d. per ft., as compared with...

By Our Special Parliamentary Corresponderzt • RECEPTACLES AS UNLADEN WEIGHT. T HE amendments to Clause 7 of the Finance Bill,...

Long and . Ejficient Service from these Handy Items of Equipment is Apt to be Taken for Granted. It is Unreasonable to Expect...

and QUERIES HOW MANY CYLINDERS FOR TRACTOR ENGINES? [50921 I have read with interest the article entitled "One. Two, Three,...

A Resume of Patent Specifications That Have Recently Been Published A SERVO braking system in which power is derived from the...