• E welcome die mani W festol of the Conservative and U - n ion ist • Party, so far as our industry is concerned, mainly for...

Simple Casting Method A N interesting method of which Gives Great " casting which largely over Accuracy comes the need for...

The rallying cry, " Up, hauliers! and out 'em! " That if we, in the words of one haulier, "give 'em the push, we can give...

A PROMISE to check and reverse in.the process of road transport nationalization is contained in the Conservative Party's...

A FTER specializing for more than 20 years in the haulage of tyres and raw materials for a local tyre factory, Mr. T. Allen. of...

vulTH a fleet of over 40,000 vehicles, the loaded mileage of British Road Services is 10,000,000 a week, says a statement...

Goes On A DOPTING the attitude that as a non-political organization it is entitled to continue its anti-nationalization...

R EPRESENTATIVES of passenger transport operators and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders attended a meeting at the...

S ALES of Electricar industrial trucks, P...) formerly marketed by Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., have become the responsibility of...

T HIS year's conference of the Institute Public Cleansing will be held at Torquay from June 12-15, The exhibition and...

MR. A. FaasER, vice-chairman of Girling. Ltd., is visiting South Africa. Ma E. M. WILLIAMS is the new David Brown...

P RODUCTION of a new of vehicle engine is reported from Gourock. where the Cowal Engineering Co.. Ltd., is completing the...

A T the recent annual party of rifi. and H. Motorways, Ltd, now a State-owned concern, Mr. A. D. Huckvale reminded his audience...

R EFUSAL of leave to 30 employees Vs. of Sunderland Transport Department who wished to attend a Territorial Army summer camp...

York' shire Pennines village, who provided. themselves with a private-hire coach service, as reported in last week's issue, are...

A N export turnover in 1949 equal to the total turnover for 1945, was announced by Mr. Rowland Hartrick, managing director of...

Q PEN1NG an appeal against a decisionsion of the Deputy Licensing Authority for the Northern Area, Mr. .1. A. T. Hanlon,...

O N February 20, 176 former employee§ of the London Transport Executive, who were dismissed because they refused to join the...

S HAR1NG profits made by Keighley West Yorkshire Services, Ltd., on 25 services, Keighley Corporation and the West Yorkshire...

T O enable the undertaking to remain solvent, Aberdeen Transport Department has received permission to raise charges. The Id....

T HE Railway Executive, the Road Haulage Executive, Carter Paterson (B.T.C.), Ltd., and F. W. Buller' and Son (Holloway), Ltd.,...

thodies are to be manufactured in kit form by Hindustan Aircraft, Ltd.. 13anga1ore, India. The bodies would suit several...

D EPOTS and works of the Loxharns group covered an area from Burnley to Barrow and Kendal to Bamber Bridge, said Mr. Ewart...

C LAIMS for increased wage rates by bus and Metro employees ia Paris have been pressed by a new method. Without warning,...

AiVIONG future meetings of the tAInstitute of Traffic Administration are the following: February 14, lecture on traffic...

. B Y 1952, British refineries should be Uable to produce enough petrol for the home market and have a surplus available for -...

Commercial vehicles will be included in the Amsterdam Show, which opens on March 23. A commercial survey of Dominica has been...

Motocart is announced by its distributor, Jack Olding and Co.. Ltd., Hatfield, Herts. The cost is now £199. The tipping model...

and motorcycles, numbered 13,275. The figure for October was 14,166. The total number of vehicles registered for the first time...

A COURSE on transport problem.. t - twill be held at Ashridge College from September 8-11. The Institute of Transport is...

S INCE March 31, 1949, the South African Railways and Harbours Administration has added 437 routemiles to its road passenger...

THE Councils of the institutions of Civil, Mechanical, and Electrical Engineers will hold, in London, a Joint Engineering...

I N its first year, the Ulster Transport Authority incurred a loss of £164,938. Road passenger transport showed a profit of...

n OUBLE-ACT1NG pis to nt y hydraulic shock absorbers are now fitted as standard equipment on Bedford bus and coach chassis...

A N extreme-pressure soluble cutting oil, Supntmor Galactol EP., has been developed by Manchester Oil Refinery (Sales), Ltd.,...

EQUAL facing wear arid reliability under all normal temperature conditions are advantages which the fixed-cam brake with two...

A T the moment, it is difficult to say whether the complaints about original permits are a passing shower or the first...

" I NEVER read a book before r2viewing it: it prejudices the mind so." said Sydney Smith over 100 years ago. But in reviewing...

Van B ECAUSE the power and transmis. s:on units are located Forward of the front axle, the German D.K.W. two strokeengined...

OR many years I have been with an old-established ." transport concern, which was one of the first to feel the sting of...

rOMPREHENSiVE facilities for borrowers and librarian have been provided in the most recent addition to the fleet of mobile...

Goods Vehicles Licensing Authorities' Reports for 1947-48 Show a Decrease in Public Hauliers, But a Big Increase in Traders'...

B EFORE the war, most well-servicing and other equipment used on oilfields was made in America. The urgent need for conserving...

A SIMPLE form of instrument for locating and recording the intensity of vibration in a structure, is that known as a reed...

asks Eric Cant F ROM the time when the first acquired • undertaking fell into the hands of the British Transport Commission,...

By Ashley Taylor, A.I.R.T.E. W 1 - IF.N I first saw the illustration which accompanies this article I reached for my...

J. COTTON, M.I.R.T.E. S HOD with tyre equipment for operation on sand in Sarawak, the Scamrnell four-wheel-drive tipper chassis...

1 N the prelimin.try investigation in examining the relative economic merits of three sizes of vehicle, a 6-tonner (30,...

DEPRECIATION By Axel Mortensen . M . Y experience, 'acquired . during more than 20 years of selling•cOmmercial vehicles in...

the brakes of a trailer forms the subject of patent No. 631,378, from the Low Loading Trailer Co., Ltd., and C. Clarke. both of...