C-Licensee The Spur WRITING to "The Times," To Our Nationalized TY Mr. David Renton, M.P., Haulage said recently, on the...

That the surreptitious seat slashers are still busy. "Don't shake the battery-acid hydrometer when it is above eye level."...

r-IN Tuesday the Ministry Of Trans port informed The Commercial . Motor" that .5,743 applications for original permits had been...

MEGOTIAT1ONS are in progress for the acquisition by the British Transport Commission of the haulage businesses of R. Barr...

• BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT S INCE the Municipal Passenger Transport Association's conference at Portsmouth, last month, when...

T HE Republic of Ireland Transport Bill, 1949, was given a first reading in the Dail fast week, and the second reading will...

F R operating an 8-ft.-wide coach on O R road restricted to 7-ft. 6-in. vehicles, the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus...

INCREASES in pay varying between Is. and 6s a week for certain grades of road haulage worker are proposed by the Road Haulage...

nOUGLAS CORPORATION'S Bill 1--/ to confer enabling powers to operate motorbuses in an area two miles outside the borough has...

THIRTY-SIX More haulage underJ. takings were acquired by the British Transport Commission in the seven days from July 17-23. So...

THREE grades of petrol tilling 1. station; With minminun standards defined for each.. are recommended by the 'Petrol , Stations...

Users' Consultative Committees for Scotland and Wales. The committee for Scotland has 18 members, including Mr. Neil S....

division has -been: 'set. up '.by .Nuif;eid Exports, Ltd, to market:111e Natlield _Universal tractor overseas. Mr, George P....

S OME war-time permits and other authorizations to use passenger and goods vehicles and to act as drivers and conductors of...

T HE passenger transport system in the neighbouring North Wales resorts of Llandudno (population 18,000) ad Colwyn Bay (23,000)...

Demonstration of Prototype Proves Efficiency of H ydraulic System Under Arduous Conditions of Operation A DEMONSTRATION was...

T HERE are two reasons for painting vehicles. The first is primarily the protection of wood and metal against the effects of...

"S 0far ø I have been influenced in my term of office at the Ministry of Transport, I have been convinced—whether you agree...

of running, sometimes under most adverse operating conditions, does not come about by chance. In addition to a vast amount of...

T 0 meet the specialized requirements of aircraft lubrication service, Shell-Mex and B.P., Ltd., has recently introduced an...

local county council. He did so and to his surprise his tender had been accepted. He did not then know that the acceptance of...

A RECENT addition to the fleet of vehicles operated by the ,Sketchley 133,e Works, of which the peoptietor is A. E. Hawley and...

Local Delivery By L. J. COTTON, M.I.R.T.E. A LTHOUGH a three-wheeled machine, the Reliant 12-cwt. van can be driven round...

I SERIOUSLY suggest that there should be more l general opposition to applications for new licences and for variations of...

.1 - 1. A BRAKE which will vtomatieally apply itself at a Lertain road S pec i s disclosed in patent No, 621;195, by the...