T HERE is far too strong a spirit of pessimism in the road-transport industry. Certainly matters have not been too bright in...

W HAT is going on behind the stage of the Transport Advisory Council? This question is being asked by many thinking members of...

D URING the past few weeks police activities in the north-west have resulted in commercial-vehicle owners being summoned for...

That a dead load is seldom quick. That the tipping gear is still holcling its own amongst many users. Of a driver saying...

by all difficulties of transport, at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the roughness of the roads over which it...

A QUICK-RELEASE HOSE CLIP. The Griptite hose clip, made by the Jorjon Manufacturing Co., Lorne Gardens, Holland Park Avenue,...

T HE well-known Tapley meter provides the user with the actual pull exerted by his vehicle, measured in lb. per ton ; it does...

STINCTIVE PERFORMANCE S EARCHING without being unfairly exacting, the system of road-testing that has been evolved and...

How to Economize in Elementary Facts Concern Timber Buyin g • By a Timberman R ATHER than return a vehicle to the...

S PEAKING at a luncheon given on brIonday at the works of Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., Sir Montague Hughman, chairman of...

Increased Tonnage S OME applicants are finding difficulty in producing satisfactory evidence to justify increases in , their...

TWO-WHEELED trailers for 2-3I cwt. and 7-8-cwt. loads are being produced by Messrs. Pashley Carrier Cycles, 59, Digbeth,...

O NLY 13 months ago—in January, 1934—Red Arrow Deliveries, Ltd., South Yardley, Birmingham, came into being. It is an...

T HE Devon and Cornwall Joint Conciliation Board, of which Mr. K. G. Foster (Road Haulage Association) and Mr. J. Jasper...

BIG HILLMAN DEVELOPMENTS. I 2v1PORTANT developments may he expected shortly in connection with 1-Tillman's Airways, Ltd. In...

A PLEA FOR A RAISING OF THE SPEED LIMIT ON HEAVY VEHICLES. [4597] I should like, through your valuable paper, to point out to...

L OADING devices of efficient design serve a most useful purpose in connection with road transport in the reduction of terminal...

Passenger Transport PUSHED OFF ROAD: NO COMPENSATION WJE, learn that Holliday and Bangs, VV Ltd., London, S.W., proprietor of...

T HE high cost of imported petrol and other liquid fuels, in Italy, has kept the gas producer alive in that country longer than...

In Parliament By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent PROPOSALS TO AMEND ABNORMAL-LOADS ORDERS. I N the House of Commons,...

'WHAT will be the effect of the VI' operation of the Road and Rail . Traffic Act, 1933, upon the activities of the small...

F OLLOWING the recent introduction by T.S. Motors, Ltd., Maidstone, of its New Express passenger chassis, a road-test report of...

IMPORTANT statements on a point relating to bases from which hauliers may work were given at a meeting of the Plymouth and...

PROBLEMS of th CARRIER M Y idea of writing one or two articles dealing specifically with overloading arose from a recent...

T HE well-known name of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., 32, dsnaburgh Street, London, N.W.1, appears in patent No. 429,963...