N insignificant local authority in South Wales has attempted to destroy the fine balance of the whole of the licensing system...

T HE result of an accident which we witnessed 1, recently brought prominently to the fore the need for providing more adequate...

Advice on Posts by n UIUNG 1950, engineers Engineers' AppointI- 1 enrolled on the register of ments Bureau . . . the...

Of great transmission developments at Laycock. Of increasing concern abroad at potential dangers to liquid-fuel supplies....

F OLLOWING representations to the Ministry of Transport, requesting that the speed limit for cattle trucks be raised to 30...

Must Hold Licences and Apply to Licensing Authorities on Fares THE Court of Appeal found last Friday that Red and White...

WARNING against confusing the 1 strategic and the tactical objectives the road haulage industry was given Mr. F. M. Bennett,...

A NEW Mercedes-Benz bus, to be exhibited at the Frankfurt Motot Show, will have a system for controlling the temperature of the...

CLLR. R. LtolD,,chairman of Southport Transport Committee, is to be the town's next mayor. MR. G. H. B. WILSON, deputy...

T HE committee stage of the Transport (Amendment) Bill was due to have taken place in the House of Commons on Wednesday. The...

W HEN the transport section of North Staffs Chamber of Commerce met last week to consider reports of delays by British Road...

A total of 1,849 buses and 14,297 goods vehicles was newly registered in Italy from January-September, 1950. The headquarters...

F OR three years Seddon chassis had been supplied to Bombay State Transport and trials showed that they had given every...

A FTER Cllr. R. Eaves, chair an of Coventry Transport Co mince, had addressed the Canley br nch of the Amalgamated Engineering...

A BULKHEAD partition desi ned for fitting in Land-Rovers h s been produced by Messrs. Spill r and Wilkins. Chilmark, near S...

G OODS and passenger vehicles capable of operating at maximum speeds of 10 m.p.h. were advocated by Sir Kenneth Mitchell, in...

A NOTHER Scottish operator, R. PIDickson (Junr.), Ltd., Dundee, is proposing to operate an express service from Scotland to...

P RODUCTION of new types of trailer incorporating retractable wheels, whereby the loading platform may be lowered to ground...

MEGOTIATIONS for the acquisition 1 1 of what has been described as the oldest bus firm in Yorkshire, Messrs. R. Williamson and...

P ANGLOSS preached the doctrine that everything that happens in this world is for the est, and there is some excuse for hinking...

rLOTHES cleaned by modern N-•dry-cleaning processes have tobe carefully handled on the journey back from the cleaning works to...

F IFTY years ago, on August 5, 1901, Southampton Corporation introduced its first motorbus. The experiment was rather in...

to normal facilities, which are to he strengthened, will be operated by London Transport during the Festival Of -Britain. These...

Lancaster 15-cwt. Battery-electric Performs Well When Tested on a Freezing Day .. Over "The Commercial Motor" Standard Course...

.1"HE number of vehicles in use. must J. be reduced if _distributioncosts are to be cut. In Britain, there are 24 vehicles for...

T HE title of this resstme of a paper read by Mr. F. C. Lynam, F.R.Ac.S., technical director, the Airscrew Company and Jicwood,...

T HE latest addition to the range of Muir-Hill dump trucks made by E. Boydell and Co., Ltd., Manchester, has been specifically...

British Enterprise and Vast Capital Expenditure have been Involved in Discovering and Bringing Oil to the Surface in Persia....

endeavour to cut some of the heavy costs which, to my mind, are being forced upon us by these associations, which, when all is...

Many Small Hauliers are Afraid of the Task of Keeping Accurate Records of Costs, Although it can be Done Simply I HAD a...

P ATENT No. 649,383, comes from the Tatra concern of Czechoslovakia, and deals with a basic unit from which a crankshaft of any...