Prophecies of 1928 CHANCING to glance at a Which Have Been ' 1 / 4 ' sheet of newspaper dated Proved Wrong . . 1928 on a...

T osiMplify the application of the 33A per cent, purchase tax on goods vehicles, some remissions have been made by the...

Export Market Seriously Jeopardized : Devices to Protect Railways D ESPITE the slightly favourable modification in purchase...

Sir W. Wakefield, was a premium on efficiency. The reason that industrialists purchased vehicles in which to carry their goods...

A SUGGESTION that a ,short-term I — 'k subsidy be paid to the British Transport Commission as an alternative to the interim...

C OMPLETE satisfaction has been expressed by operators and manufacturers at this week's decision of the Minister of Transport....

C RITICS of Cardiff transport department were last week promised a full investigation into the administration of the system at...

MR. C. E. ALDRIDGE, general manager of Nuffield Exports, Ltd., retires on June 30, after 40 years in the motor industry. MR....

(South Africa), Ltd., is visiting this 'country on abusiness tn:p . and short vacation. He is due to arrive by the "Capetown...

D UE to the financial block imposed by the Treasury. the British road system was deteriorating, said Mr. W Rees Jeffreys,...

F ULL details of the week-end course on transport problems, arranged by Ashridge College in co-operation with the Institute of...

Taxi fares at Aberdeen will shortly be increased to 2s. 6d. for the first mile. Wolverhampton Corporation transport department...

T HEquestion of instituting shift rates of payment for passenger transport workers whose duties are. on a rotating basis was...

L AST week, the President of the Board of Trade announced that henceforward the base year of index numbers of the volume of...

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Licensing Authority for a licence to carry milk from his farm near K:!creggan to Dumbarton creamery, won his case despite...

O NE of the most interesting schemes for the internal lighting of longdistance buses and, later, probably coaches, was...

A N order for 50 7.4-litre oil engines has been placed with Leyland Motors, Ltd., by Ansair Pty., Ltd., a well-known Australian...

By JAN US I N the political jungle the tom-toms beat at regular intervals, giving the initiated the latest declaration of...

A SYSTEM of taxi control and maintenance which pays handsome dividends, is that run under the direction of the La Salle Taxi...

BRITAIN Municipal Vehicles and Lances Demonstrated at rorquay Cleansing Conice Were Notable for in Design, and Body ,...

Says L. J. Cotton, M.I.R.T.E. Refuse Collected by a Fleet of Battery-electrics is Used in Power Station to Generate Elec....

D ELEGATES attending the Cleansing Conference held at Torquay last week witnessed an impressive demonstration of the latest in...

AVING always been interested in the road transport " industry, I naturally kept up my subscription to The Commercial Motor"...

N OW that there is a renewed threat of rate cutting, partly as the result of nationalization and its cramp . ing effect on....

hygienic collection of refuse are made in patent No. 635,683, which comes from R. Riossonault, Montreal. This inventor...