T OMORROW will be the greatest day in the history of modern road haulage. Restored to Hauliers: Pattern All A-licensees will...

W ORSENING road congestion has started a bus-versus-car war. Biggest salvoes have so far been fired by two members of the...

A Hardy Veteran T O be actively engaged in road passenger transport at the age of 83, after nearly 70 years in the business,...

That our roads have progressed from the Middle Ages by muddle stages. That any law to prevent " bunching " would not go down...

• 25-mile Limit on Hauliers Lifted After Seven Years T°m ORROW (Saturday), after restriction for seven years, the 25-mile...

says James Barrie, National Chairman, Road fiaulaze Association A BOLITION of the 25-mile limit marks the culminating point of...

WITH tenders for 15 per cent. of the IN vehicles offered without premises in list 8 still undecided, 67 per cent. of the...

THE motor constructional works and bodybuilding shops at Brishington and the Kingswood engine-repair works will be transferred...

R.H.A. Attack Disposal Board's Policy : To Meet Minister on January 12 THE policy of the Road Haulage Disposal Board of...

THE Association of British Chambers of Commerce are considering writing to the Minister of Transport on the pace and methods...

A BSENTEEISM over Christmas seriously affected bus services in Nottingham. On Christmas Day, the Bilborough route was operated...

Kilbarchan to Abbotsinch and Barrhead to Paisley Cross are to be discontinued by Glasgow Corporation and taken over by the...

MR. H. C. THOMAS, director and secretary of the Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., is to retire. MR. J. P. SENIOR, deputy genera/...

T HE trade unions' claim for better pay for drivers of A and B licence vehicles is to be considered by the National Joint...

WHEN the Lachbroom Agricultural VI' Co., Ltd., applied to carry "mcf_t from Invergordon slaughterhouse south to Dingwall and...

A SPECIAL committee to report on Scottish transport is to be appointed by the Scottish Council (Development and Industry)....

T O maintain co-ordination with Nottingham Transport Department, Barton Transport, Ltd., have been granted permission to revise...

Q NE-MAN buses are to be introduced by 131ackpooI Transport Department. Fourteen existing vehicles are to be converted for this...

T HE Northern Ireland Transport Tribunal approved last week the introduction of a new fares structure by the Ulster Transport...

T ELEVISION is blamed by Glasgow L Transport Department for a drop of £40,665 in revenue, against an expected increase of...

T HE driver of a , sheep-carrying vehicle, Peter Smith; Lazonby, near Kendal, was fined £5 alt Clitheroe last week for...

September was followed by a further increase in October, the respective figures being 12.954 and 13,764. "Other goods." at...

" R OAD haulage is closely allied to warehousing and we are hopeful that the enlargement of our operations in this sphere will...

A RADIO was playing in a bus when it was involved in an accident at a corner. When the , driver was fined for careless driving...

T HE .East Midland Licensing Authority has allowed services from Kirk Hallam to Nottingham to be provided by Barton Transport....

the report of the Chambers Committee of Inquiry into London Transport by the end of January.

taking no immediate action to counteract the effect of the recent wage increase, which will cost £40,000 . a year, it is...

IN view of the proposal by British Road Services to dispose of their parcels fleet, some of his customers were worried about...

IGHTEEN farmers attended a hearing at Newcastle last week to support Mr. T. H. Stokeld, Middleton-inTeesdale, who applied to...

A N appeal by Glasgow Corporation against a decision of the Scottish Licensing Authority granting permission to Lowland...

S OME 170 additional driving and traffic examiners are to be recruited, the Minister of Transport told Mr. E. Davies last week....

" nURING the year, trading condi tions have become increasingly difficult, and the present prodaction capacity of the busand...

have opened a new depot on the Holyhead Road at Bethesda. The Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., have moved their Birmingham area...

A SUGGESTION that the Bath PA Tramways Motor Co., Ltd., should redesign a single-deck bus to avoid the risk of the driver's...

- were • VY allowed by the Scottish Deputy. Licensing Authority to curtail their Ardvasar-KyVakin service to one departure a...

A N order for 50 Leyland Comet forward-control oilers has been placed by Tozers Transport, Ltd., London, operators of 600...

D ELEGATES representing London's 58,000 busmen failed to agree at a conference last week On the pay offer made by the London...

to manufacture vehicles, machinery and other plant required in handling milk, has resulted in the Agricultural Machinery and...

yd. of bus stops on busy roads, the Ministry of Transport has been told by Bradford Watch Committee. It should be left to local...

in the • eight eight-day tours in Britain to be offered by South Midland Motor Services, Ltd., during the 1955 season. It will...

a incommittee to investigate complaints by the public has been taken by Hull Transport Committee. The suggestion came from the...

O N Christmas Day, the only internal bus service operated by West Bridgford Transport Department was withdrawn. It will run in...

THE Motor Traffic Amendment Bill having passed its Third Reading before the North Rhodesian Legislative Council, the Thatcher...

a vY bus corporation, representing the Government of Ceylon, Colombo Municipality, bus operators and other paseenger transport...

payer objecting to free travel on the corporation's transport services for. members of the council and employees of the...

S TATING that many people made the mistake of thinking that trolleybuses were cheaper to operate than motorbuses, Aid, J....

R OAD passenger transport in Orissa " 4 . will be completely nationalized by next month, when the Government will operate all...

T HE Transport (Borrowing Powers) Bill is due to have its second reading - ,in the House of Commons on January 25, the day...

A N industrial court recommended .1" — i last week that coach drivers employed by five subsidiary companies of Western...

WHEN appeals by Leeds Corporation vy against the curtailment by the , Yorkshire Licensing Authority of two proposed bus routes...

O N Sunday, the goodwill of the Newton Abbot Bishopsteignton Teignmoutb bus service will be -taken over from H. D. Gourd and...

C OACH and bus bodywork was in greater demand than for several years past, despite the poor season experienced by operators...

says A. E. Sherlock-Mesher I 4 'i i i. 1 ; 11 : R s s ee„T g t m ra p i s ly hire to a ZI Operators Ask : What Will Happen...

Survival of the Fittest By JANUS "Over the years rates control has vacillated between one objective and another and has now...

Increased Engine Power Gives the Latest '• Volvo Chassis Good All-round Performance: flydrovdc Braking Ensures Safety at High...

£100,000 Paid for Rugeley Depot of B.R.S. : Bristol Industries Buy 11 More Vehicles 1 ....TP to December 21, 12,054 vehicles...

O F more than 400 British Road Services' lorries for which they had tendered, his companies had been successful only in the...

Many Criticisms of Proposals for Compulsory Testing and Higher Maximum Fines : Parking Meters "Waste of Money" p ROPOSALS in...

Volkswagen Covers 2,117i Miles at 32.2 m.p.h. and a Con', sumption Rate of 26.9 m.p.g. A FEW days ago eight tired, hungry and...

THE bodies of a fleet of new refuse collecting vehicles being supplied tc the City of Rangtion Municipality are demountable,...

W ITH the extended use of plastics in body construction, the need has arisen for repair kits embracing all the essential...

Bus Drivers Underpaid HAVE followed the recent letters and comments on I bus drivers' pay with interest, also the controversy...

1-1 . A NEW type of recovery equipment has been produced by Mann Egerton and Co., Ltd., 5 Prince of Wales Road, Norwich, for...

1 0ME-BACK . Operators of 450 . Haulage Vehides Before Nationalization in 1949, Bristol Industries, Ltd., are Returning to...

All-welled Aluminium-alloy Body on Bedford Chassis is B.A.C.'s Latest Transport Project THE latest project of the transport...

Hauliers Are Apt to Overlook Certain Items of• Expense Which Do Not Appear to Be Direct Operating Costs But Which Nevertheless...

A CCORDING to patent No. 718,231, although disc brakes have many advantages, it has been difficult to arrange for their...