LAI ST December we published an urgent warning regarding the position of road transport in Northern Ireland and the possibility...

A A N investigation into the menace of the "lorry i r girl" has been conducted 1,y Mr. H. H. Lapsley, secretary of the...

Licensing Authority C OMMENDATION of the Likes Our Tables of 1 .-"Tables of Operating Costs Operating Costs . . published...

Of soaring mileages on Eagle trailers. Of some saying that in the road-transport busli: it is better to have friends than...

The wheels of wealth will be slowed by all digcultles of transport, at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the...

CouNcrar-oR A. SALISBURY, well known in the Blackpool coaching world, has been returned unopposed to Blackpool Town Council....

The South-Eastern Licensing Authority has altered the suspension penalty imposed upon Simpsons (Rye Harbour), Ltd., Rye...

T HE L.M.S. and L.N.E. Railway companies have not agreed to a meeting with Yorkshire road-transport representatives to discuss...

lk 40TION of no confidence in the 1V1Northern Ireland Road Transport Board was moved in Ulster Parliament, last week, by Major...

A CONTENTION with regard to Contract A licences made by Mr. G. H. P. Beames; on behalf of the railways, drew a protest from Mr....

Recent contracts placed by the War Department with Crossley Motors, Ltd., Gorton, Manchester, are for 191 forward-control...

Investigations into the desirability of allowing a Warminster operator to continue to hold a licence were carried out, last...

At a general meeting of the Institution of Automobile Engineers, to be held in the Hall of the Institution of Electrical...

A PROBLEM of bases arose before .t - 1. the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority at Liverpool, when Mr. T. Farnworth, of...

Poplar Borough Council is buying a Thornycroft 2-ton chatsia. Croydon Corporation recommends the purchase of a Leyland 142e...

It was announced, last Friday, by Mr. George Williams, Cardiff, chairman of the Industrial Development Council for South Wales...

A COMPANY known as Auto Diesels, Ltd., 246, Great Portland Street, London, W.1, has been formed to take over the sales of...

A LIVIOST exactly a year ago we described an interesting new semi-trailer marketed by Hands (Letchworth), ,Ltd., of Letchworth....

D ESIGNED for carrying long pipes, L./girders, timber, or similar loads, a novel type of semi-trailer attachment has been...

y HAVE been bearded in ray den, I or, perhaps, it is more accurate to state that I have been attacked in my eyrie, my office...

T rail battle for a monopoly of trunk services was resumed in Manchester on Thursday and Friday of last week, and will be...

A N A-licence holder is free to move his base as he wishes without notification during the currency period of his licence, said...

N OT the least surprising result of the Bouts-Tillotson case is its acclamation as a road-transpoi': victory. On all sides one...

F OR several months it has been known in our industry that F. Perkins, Ltd., Peterborough, has been making an oil engine of...

C ONDITIONS in the hopfields have changed considerably of late— and so have those relating to . the transport of hops. The...

By a Timberrnan A LTHOUGH timber is the oldest "commodity in the world, few people know much about it, and many hauliers are...

THE writer of the above article is a I timber expert, with an all-round knowledge of his subject, who has, in the past,...

and QUERIES OIL-ENGINED BUSES v. TROLLEYBUSES. [4914] 1 see that my old friend, Mr. Douglas Mackenzie, who helped me in 1907...

T HE Weights and Measures section of the Middlesex Public Control Department has recently acquired a Bedford 15-cwt. van, the...

I N order that the body of a commercial vehicle may be kept in good condition with a minimum of expense, it should be designed...

Concessions to Coal Dealers. G ENU1NE coal dealers who cannot economically operate their motor vehicles without working for...

WITHOUT a dissenting vote, Stoker/ on-Trent City Council decided, last week, to deposit a Bill in the next session of...

I N the King's Bench Division on uesday, Mr. Justice MacKinnon neard an action brought by Whippet Coaches, Ltd., Market Hill...

on Tuesday, of an application by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., and Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., for a Southport-Chester...

L AST year London Transport carried 3,648,000,000 passengers over 546,692,000 miles and earned total traffic revenue of...

A Nengine employing opposed pistons in conjunction with sleeve valves is shown in patent No. 453,740 by E, Schmid, of Usines de...