B RITISH road transport oil engines, their injection pumps, and the maintenance of both, also of the injectors, must be in the...

L■OR about 15 years, manufacturers andopera- 1 1 tors have been pressing the Minister of Transport to authorize the...

Red Petrol Found in WHEN the Minister of Fuel Car's Secret Second " was explaining to us the Tank steps tobe taken against the...

• That son - le clubs have boring bars. That commercial vehicles are not yet being bought on •" frog" currency. That the new...

HE Road Transport Executive's three-man working party, set up to deal with the north-eastern area road passenger Lansport...

, a D IFFICILJLTY in obtaining new 1--"drivers was one of the reasons why there had been contraventions of Section 19 of the...

MR. H. WARING has just completed 50 years with Leyland Motors, Ltd. MR. LEONARD TRIGG has been appointed' sales manager of...

OPERATORS HINDERING BUS PRODUCTION? is bus. production being impeded by 'operators' insistence on variations in design to suit...

T AST week Mr. V. W. Pilkington, " M B.E M.I.Mech.E., director of engineering, Leyland Motors, Ltd., gave a lecture in London...

A Mile a Day QECONDARY roads can be made at 1.-- 1 the rate of a mile-a day with one machine at a single pass. claims the...

rOMPLETE conversion of the Cardiff tram system 'to motorbus a . nd trolleYbus working depends not so much on the transport...

A GREAT feat in cartography has been achieved by the London Transport Executive in the design of a new map that shows the whale...

says K. Firth Butterfield, Who Thinks That Many Operators Will Regret NO Having Negotiated Voluntary Acquisitions With the ET...

By A. J. HIRST, B.Sc., A.M.I.Mech.E. HE development of vehicle-engine mounting on sound engineering lines starts from an...

CI A NEW design of heavy tipping gear is now 'being produced at ihe Carley factory for use with vehicles carrying loads up to...

A FTER reading the altogether-admirable leading article in your issue of January 14, I hope you will allow me to withdraw any...

By The Technical Editors A 114 . 1-10LIGII, as "The Comniercial Motor explained last :Week in describing the British exhibits...

Super Beaver's Attractions, Strenuous Tests Over Rough Surfaces• Failed to Show Weaknesses W , HEN taking over for test the...

" Q.S." ON .THE TRANSPORT ACT I N an attempt to explain to the opera tor, in simple 'language, that part Of the Transport Act,...

But Production Still Falls Far Short of Demands T HE British Commonwealth is the world's second largest . user . of oil...

Little U.S. Oil Expected in Europe After 1950 I T is expected that by 1951 the United States will virtually disappear as a...

LTHOUGH not so much in the A as the major • factoring industries,' lime production is essential in many ways to our daily...

CLERICAL COSTS I ] • ST week I dealt with establishment costs in a most eleme ntary way and from the viewpoint of the...

p ATENT No. 608,402 discloses the latest proposals in the design of road-sweeping vehicles. The patentees are Lewin Road...