Y next year, commercial vehicle rallies will have become established events in the road transport calendar. Their growth must,...

I N his address yesterday to the Municipal Passenger Transport Association at Portsmouth, Mr. A. F. Neal, general manager of...

Saving Unsprung Weight A N interesting claim for a considerable . saving in " weight and, incidentally, that normally...

That the highway to unemployment could be paved with uneconomic wages. . That the list of entrants for the Geneva Show in...

O N Monday, the National Joint Industrial Council for the road passenger transport industry, who represent some 77,000 bus...

MEXT year the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition is likely to bp I taken over by a new independent controlling body on the...

Two Towns A S a first step towards nationalizing passenger transport in Singapore; the Singapore Government have appointed a...

T HE Western Licensing Authority told an applicant last week that he would be well advised to reconsider under-cutting rates...

E XTENSIVE services for hauliers working . into Manchester are planned by the Zenith Transport and Warehousing 'Co., the...

COL. D. A. Fows and MR. Davin SANDS have been appointed members of the Scottish Transport Users' Consultative Committee. MR....

L ITTLE new information was given at last week's meeting of organizations interested in dock delays, called on the initiative...

C HAIRMAN of the South Wales Licensing Authority, Mr. C. R. I Iodgson, said at Cardiff last week that the time had come to call...

cancel the transport levy, Wolverhampton area committee of the Traders' Road Transport Association decided last week. Mr. C. A....

W E are not in favour of absolutely unrestricted vehicle movement," commented Mr. H. Thom, chairman of the South Eastern...

T HE Metropolitan Deputy Licensing Authority has refused in tote an application by Birch Bros., Ltd., to run excursions and...

L AST week the employers' representatives on the National Joint Wages Board for the vehicle-building industry rejected a claim...

A LLEGATIONS that one or more officers of the Metropolitan Police had taken part in a plot to steal loads from lorries would be...

E XP RESS buses at peak periods arc to be introduced by London Transport on Iwo more routes. One will run between Muswell Hill...

THE increased use of one-man single". deck buses appeared to be the only answer to many of the town's transport problems, Mr,...

IT was a technical breach of the law to .'carry logs for firewood in vehicles operated under a farmer's licence, Barton, Lincs,...

The Land-Rover engine referred to last week is a 2 - litre unit, and not, as described, a 4-litre. Small and Parkes. Ltd., are...

IMPROVED co-ordination of bus I services is expected to result from the merger of the Chatham and District Traction Co. with...

A TABOUR Member of Parliament, 1 - 1 Mr. Ernest Davies, who is thought by some people to be a potential 7stinister of...

B ECAUSE they had in the past . 1 -)operated a service, on a private-hire basis. between Barton. Stacey camps and I .07tdort,...

WHEN Mr. E. C. Marsh, of Blagdon, VY Somerset, applied to the Western Licensing Authority on Monday to add a vehicle to his B...

S EVEN years have elapsed since any major alteration has been made to the Commer Superpoise range of 2-, 3-, 4and 5-ton goods...

A USTRAL1A'S rapid development of commercial-vehicle manufacture and assembly, now amounting to about 30 per cent. of her...

whose servant is the driver of a vehicle. It is directly relevant to the licensing of . goods vehicles, for Section 1 (3) of...

Runiingin or Out! nRIVING back from London on September 12, along " .. .the Great North Road, I came up behind five new...

TWO self-contained X-ray theatres i on Bedford S.B. passenger chassis have recently been delivered to the Durham and Scottish...

A VEHICLE destined for use in 4C - ' 1 . Greenland, and thought to he the largest produced in Britain for operalion north of...

I T was to be expected that the German vehicle manufacturers would be showing a large selection of new Models:at the 37th...

Wider Sphere for Civic Bus Operators? A WIDER sphere of operation for municipal buses was foreseen by Aid. R. Weir in his...

UR. NEAL strongly pressed the case alfor flexibility in wages to enable municipal operators to compete with other industries...

rA A MOBILE crane with a number of unusual features is being used by the Metropolitan Water Board, of Sydney, Australia. Of...

E . Q . U_AL,ITY for all was one of the slogans of the Socialists . during their lustrum. of nationalization. Control of key...

T RANSACTIONS by either Mr. A. Cusick, 282 Frederick Street, Oldham, or Cusick (Oldham), Ltd., Thornton Street North,...

}, ERE is a story of direct interest to all new owner driver operators. I hope it will not give them the wrong sort of ideas....

Says Geo. B. Lissenden, M.Inst.T. T "growth of road transport and of exports has been partly responsible for delays now being...

INTENDED for incorporation in the drive to a fan, a blower or a pump, is an overload clutch shown in patent No. 734,280, by...