S OME things get better as time passes; some things—like fuel tax— just seem to get steadily worse, no matter what is done...

Bird's Eye View By The Hawk A NOTHER honour has been bestowed on the T.R.T.A.'s cricketing president, Mr. K. C. Turner. This...

G UY CRANE, the administrative director of Cranes (Dereham), Ltd., is endeavouring to ensure that, before long, his company...

U NTIL now, diesel-powered vehicles have not been much in evidence on U.S. roads but, faced with persistent demands by hauliers...

R OAD hauliers from Sheffield, Doncaster, North Derbyshire. and North Notts. refused on Monday to continue workin g contract A...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT 'THE time limit expires today for the lod g in g of objections to the proposals for hi g her...

T HE followin g statement was issued on Monday by Sir Henry Spurrier, chairman and mana g in g director, Leyland Motors, Ltd.:—...

A STRONG protest a g ainst "petty 21. persecution" and "astonishin g lack of ima g ination or sense of proportion" was made by...

F IGURES relating to availability of vehicles and earnings did not impress Mr. C. J. Macdonald, deputizing for the Western...

VOUR-HLTNDRED men staged a oneI day strike at the engineering works of the Ulster Transport Authority at Duncrue Street,...

Division Announced M R. S. SCHOFIELD is to be chairman of.the new division of the Traders Road Transport Association which has...

T SMITH (BICKNOR), LTD., English j • Bicknor. Gloucestershire, made an unsuccessful application to Mr. C. J. Macdonald,...

at the York Trailer Co., Ltd., depot at 2105 London Road. To['cross, Glasgow, E.2. Mr. .1. Newton, on reaching retiring age,...

Mr. Douglas Buchanan-Smith, chief inspector of Scarnmell Lorries, Ltd., is retiring this month. Mr. P. L. McIlmoyle has been...

A DARLINGTON company, Spinks Transport Services, Ltd., successfully applied to the Deputy Metropolitan Licensing Authority,...

A LTHOUGH the new York Trailer Co., PA Ltd., depot has been operating for some weeks past, a large number of operators from...

A LLEGED to have carried on a haul age business at 273 Poyser Street, Bethnal Green, London, four lorry drivers were committed...

T HE conveyance of coal by road for distances over 25 miles is causing British Railways extreme worry, said Mr. A. J. F....

B RITISH ROAD SERVICES have now completed work, it was announced this week, on a new general haulage depot at Leads Road, Hull,...

A N applicant already operating three vehicles on B licence applied to Mr. C. J. Macdonald, deputizing for the Western...

THE first of 160 single-decker buses I ordered by Belgrade Municipal Transport will be included in Leyland exhibits at the...

Crostini' Transport Committee recommends the purchase of (a) a Bedford TK end tipper to replace a Foden 6-ton tipping lorry, at...

HE towing of outsize mobile caravans 1 over long distances by road may present a problem in the future, but for the moment...

uld Prune Bid " O N the second day of the hearing of the Western Welsh Omnibus Co.. Ltd., fares application, the opening of...

A LTHOUGI-I the new central transport offices, in Lombard Street, Hull, will not be officially opened until September 29, the...

A HAULAGE firm "bursting at the 1-- X seams " with work was last week granted two A licences for the addition of one...

TN an attempt to avoid transhipment and delaying consignments until suitable 'vehicles were available, Harrison Brothers...

S TRONG opposition from British Railways faced an application by Ramsden's Haulage (Contractors), Ltd., at Preston last Friday....

IT would be impossible to grant a licence to an operator who only wished to cater for the cream of the traffic available,...

A ONE-MAN bus for miners work ing at Wharncliffe Woodmoor pit can run again. Mr. Alvin Brookes, of Turner Street, Great...

B ELFAST Transport Committee is to LP ask sanction for revisions of fares and stages, the main points of which arc the...

G LASGOW, Edinburgh and Aberdeen transport undertakings may be involved in airport operation in the future. Edinburgh...

A LTHOUGH Glasgow's municipal 1 - 1 transport services carried 21 m. fewer passengers in the financial year ending May 31,...

A WORKING profit of £420,654 is 1--1 shown in the accounts of Coras lompair Eireann for the year ended March 31, 1961, as...

A £12m. Modernization Programme Has Been Completed by the Largest Privately Owned Transport Company in the World T HE city of...

Manufacturers are Read and Waiting European Mainland Regarded by Many As The Place Where Most Expansion Can Take Place :...

M ORE people than ever before are coming into Central London by public transport in the rush-hours, but more of them are...

Large Grocery Distributor in Midlands Finds that Employing Light-alloy Demountable Containers has Reduced the Number of Prime...

T HAVE been following with great interest the series of articles you have been publishing on the many aspects affecting road...

kAANY people outside the haulage I.V 1 industry regard it as a closed shop. into which newcomers cannot break because of...

R EACT1ONS have been slow in coming from traders and hauliers on the judgments of the Court of Appeal in the cases of...

D ESPITE suggestions by Mr. Nelson, the Western Licensing Authority, that he is not satisfied that there is a need for more...

Replies to Readers Concern . the Effects of the New Proposals Submitted by the Road Haulage • Wages Council—R.H.(71): 5-tonner...

P ATENT No. 869,264 shows a poweroperated gearchange unit that can be readily attached to a normal type of manually operated...