T HE task of Sir Cyril Hurcomb, chairman of the British Traffic Commission, and his henchmen is certainly not a light one. All...

E VER since the goods road transport licensing machinery was first set in motion, the Appeal Tribunal, the Licensing...

Chief Constable THE Chief Constable of Invents a Simple Safety 1 North Riding, Lieut.-Col. Game J C. Chaytor, has invented a...

Of more storms brewing. That nationalization will mean higher for hire. Of much transport reorganization enforced by the...

RIG MOVE IN LONDON STAGGERING A GREEMENT has been reached between the City of London Local Transport Group and representatives...

appointed under the Road Transport Act. The railways will, under nationalization, come under Sir Eustace Missenden, who was...

the R.H.A. done towards VV fighting the battle against State control of transport? "More than most people think " is a fair...

the trend towards combining body with chassis into the trailer manufacturing field, has just been introduced by R. A. Dyson...

MR. IVAN WALLER, formerly with Rolls-Royce, Ltd., has been appointed technical manager in the sales department of Small and...

A N interesting and most comprehensive booklet entitled "impressions of Roads and Road Research in North America," has just...

A N interesting little social event took 1place recently, when sotne eight chief engineers of the larger passengertransport...

ABERDONIANS TO PAY MORE FOR THEIR RIDES? A BOLITION of the penny fare by f't increasing the minimum charge to Id. and a rise...

T O ease road-traffic pressure in and around Doncaster during the St. .Leger race meeting from September 1013, the scheme...

N EW progress in trolleybus design is exemplified in an interesting chassis . now being produced by Crossley Motors, Ltd.,...

I N view of the high reputation established by the 30 m.p.h. Seddon oilengined vehicle, particular interest is attached to the...

rIOACH owners who operate in country districts are at disadvantage as compared with their town competitors, inasmuch as the...

ACCURATE CONTROL By J. Pickles, A.M.I.Mech.E. F OR a long period the search for the ideal method of insulating the load of a...

By Ashley F. Taylot Rule at Newcastle A LTHOUGH passengers on the corporation transport system in Newcastle-upon-Tyne have...

says H. Scott Hal', mech.E., M.1.R.T.E. W IDELY known as 'The Rhubarb King,': Mr. Maurice Tiplady, proprietor of Allan Gray,...

the Road Haulage Central Wages Board has before it a further application on behalf of road haulage workers for wage and...

A S a regular reader of "The Commercial Motor" r - k I follow all of the articles by S.T.R. with much interest. The one...

T OUR journal being the most influential of its kind in this country, may I ask you why the streets of London cannot be kept at...

as editor of the handbook "The Motorist's Law of the Road," draw attention to an error in the new Highway Code? On page 26,...

chances of obtaining a licence to carry " furniture and vegetables, etc.? I am in a position to obtain plenty of work in the...

A TASMANIAN concern of millers, Pl. Gibson's, Ltd., has been running a Commer RC model chain-driven 3-4tonner for 33 years. Mr....

VER since the earliest days of the employntent of iron, manufacturers and users of articles,made in this material have been...

Q NE of the most interesting visits paid this session by members of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers was that to the...

An Opposed-piston Engine T HE usual type of engine disposes of its waste gases long before all the energy has been removed...