Above is the new VEHICLE CONTROL RECORD. But it is more than just a record to control every vehicle in your fleet. You can...

F OR many years successive Governments have shied at suggestions that they should take more practical steps towards the...

W ITH the growing use of the oil engine in the lighter types of vehicle, the time has passed when it was economical to use...

Light-alloy Body Sections by I.C.I. PURTHER to our reference of April 9, concernin g the A.E.C.-Strachans coaches for...

" Where do all the lost tyre-valve caps go?" That good as they are, valve cores should not be required to bear all the heat...

QECTION 61 (2) of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, and Section 25 (1) of the Road Traffic Act, 1934, should be repealed and replaced...

LORD RAMSDEN has, on account of illhealth, resigned his seat on the board of G. Beaton and Son, LW. MR. N. E. E. MURCH has...

News from Eight Areas MAMES of many of the 179 successful tenderers for transport units without premises in List RI arc now...

D URING the current financial year, Salford Transport Department expects to lose £32,900 because of the general recession in...

ICENSING AUTHORITIES seem to be willing to allow vehicles 1 " bought from British Road Services to be moved many miles from the...

A FTER meeting the demand for small units, the remainder of the assets of British Road Services should be sold at reasonable...

n ESPITE a short early setback, the motor industry's export trade improved later in 1953 and continued to do so during the...

V. W. M. Maitland (Hampshire Motors), Fordingbridge, to operate an express service between West Moors Army camp, Dorset, and...

Passenger Transport in Notts—Part 3 T HE history of the Midland General Omnibus Co., Ltd., and their associates. the Notts and...

Q NE of the largest 30 m.p.h. vehicles with a timber body yet made. a Bedford 1,500-cu.-ft. pantechnicon has been put into...

T HE latest Labour Party publication on British transport cannot make up its mind whether to be a broadsheet or a broadside, a...

W HILST it, is possible to test a vehicle on a flat road and take comparable tachometer and speedometer readings throughout its...

rACUUM metallizing of metal, plastics, glass and other substances with a highly reflective surface is being ended. The...

W E were grinding across the wilderness of the southern Sahara in an old Lancia oilengined lorry when suddenly, Vidal, the...

F OUR-WHEEL-DRIVE forestry tractors adapted for tropical working at altitudes up to 8.000 ft. in the Mount Kilimanjaro region,...

WE have been advised that our tender for unit 66/654 " of Bristol, which was re-offered in list R.I., has been refused, The...

A N increase of 75 per cent. in ' the annual vehicle mileage in the four years since 1949 and a corresponding fleet strength...

B ASED on a Dodge 144 7-ton chassis with a 141-in. wheelbase, a 6-cu.-yd. tipper has been placed in service on sand and gravel...

E ARLY in July, meat rationing is to end, and the control of imported and home-killed meat and fatstock will cease. For nearly...

are the farmers, some sending their fatstock to auction, others sending direct for slaughter and sale off the hook. It is...

The Postmaster-General hopes to make a statement soon about the development of V.H.F. broadcasting. Through the Ministry of...

The Cost involved in Keeping Old Vehicles Can Ruin a Haulier Not Only Because of Expensive Overhauls and Repairs, but Also...

I T is usual to design oil engines for a high compression ratio with a view to reducing the time lag between injection and...