O N 10 occasions representatives of the four main associations of road passenger transport operators have met Treasury...

Evan Cook T HOSE who know George Evan Cook, chairman of Evan Cook's group of companies, may find some difficulty in...

A CCORDING to the directory of hauliers issued by the Eastern Area of the Road Haulage Association, Essex Carriers, Ltd., cater...

T HE principle that there must be no trafficking in licences, whether special A, or otherwise, was upheld by Leeds City...

BY OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT A s the Budget approaches once again, talk revolves round the question of the fuel duty, and...

nPFRATORS have been recom1 / 4 - 1 mended to boycott the Brighton Coach Rally, to be held on April 23-24. This decision has...

IF objections are lodged against an application by Mr. R. Read, of Greys tones, Longhope, Glos., for the renewal of his A...

O BJECTIONS by the British Transport Commission were overcome at Liverpool, on Monday, when the radius of a normal user...

'THE post of chief executive officer and 1. secretary of the Road Haulage Association has been advertised this week. It calls...

MR. P. SPRAWSON, secretary and chief accountant of the British Piston Ring C.o. - , Ltd., has been appointed a director. MR....

and manufacture is the subject of a . lecture to be given by - MF., F. M Lincoln ,chief designer of Morris Cornmercial Cars . ,...

Loss Doubled: Ceylon Transport Board lost £739:650 last year, more than double the - 1958 .deficit... Nearing Completion: The...

TRAFFIC on the trunk and Class 1 1 roads of England and Wales has increased by more than half in the past five years. A census...

RIG IN ALLY estimated to cost £12.5m. in 1955, the Mt finally involved a sum of £21.5m. The Preston motorway, first thought to...

T HE proposed agreement between the Brighton, Hove and District Omnibus Co., Ltd., Brighton Transport Department and Southdown...

Nif R. CHARLES HEWITT, of Queens way, Annan, who was alleged to have made a false statement in his application tor a special A...

A SERIES of B-licence applications Pl. affecting 17 vehicles, made by Fred Chappell, Ltd., Batley, was approved by Mr.. J. H....

VTAUXHALL MOTORS plan to open V a new factory principally for the production of commercial vehicles, at Ellesmere Port on the...

A TOTAL of 27 A.E.C. Mammoth PA Majors has been ordered by British Road Services during the past two weeks. Of this number 22...

M ORE than five hundred Scottish dairy farmers have had, or are having, milk storage tanks installed on their farms to...

between Leicester and Rugby, failed to persuade the 'Transport Tribunal in London last week to allow him to carry furniture to...

Cutting Charges " S QUGGESTIONS that the South Durham Steel and ho n Co., Ltd., were attempting to• cut• rates for the carriage...

S TUDIFS of the traffic experiment at Putney High Street, London, S.W.15, have been ordered by the Minister of Transport, The...

T HE difficulties inherent in the operation of a mixed fleet of A and B vehicles are obvious to anyone who stops to think about...

THE MI had presented the authorities i with a new complication so far as the reckoning of the average speed of vehicles was...

W HY have so few abnormal indivisible loads been carried on the London-Birmingham motorway? Hertfordshire Constabulary put this...

G ENERAL trade plates had been used by a Walsall haulage concern as an "economic way" of putting a six-wheeler on the road, it...

A BUSMEN'S delegate conference, in defiance of officials of the Transport 4-1 and General Workers' Union, proposed a ban on...

"gomE slow poison which manifests a•Jitself first in the victim's extremities, later closing in towards the heart "—this was...

P ATENTS have been taken out jointly by Mr. W. M. Little, general manager, Edinburgh Transport Department, and Leyland Motors,...

T HE Wankel engine might compete seriously with established types, said Mr. W. V. Appleby, chief power-unit designer of the...

A N alternating-current generator introduced by Joseph Lucas, Ltd., last week, is intended forlight vehicles fitted with...

A N appeal by Bradfield Rural District Council to effect a fare reduction on the service of the Thames Valley Traction Co.,...

A LTHOUGH listed at only £1,576 (or E22 less if 7.50-20 in. (12-ply) tyres are fitted), the Bedford 12-ton prime mover proved,...

REVITHICK'S 1804 locomotive and the Wright brothers' flying machine must have me( with the same degree of incredulity which is...

By Tom Walkerley C OACH operators throughout the country are reporting record bookings for their 1960 holiday tours. Although...

/IANY features to enhance passenger IV' comfort are incorporated in a new fleet of 40 A.E.C. Reliance 41-seat coaches being...

F OR every mile of overhead telephone wire which one can see in this country there are 15 miles underground, or more than 36m....

IN the report of the Febry case in The Commercial Motor dated February 19, it was stated that Mr. L. R. Beattie, senior traffic...

I F the Ulster Transport Authority had not had to take over the Northern Ireland section of the Great Northern Railway, they...

IT was imperative that the railways I should be put on a basis of proper accountability, claimed Mr. W. R. Rees Davies, M.P.,...

the coining financial year totalled £105m., £114m, more than for the current year, said Mr. John Hay, Parliamentary Secretary...

A LETTER from the office of the PI West Midland Licensing Authority was described as " very puzzlin g ," " astonishing " and...

N ° grant can be made by the Ministry of Transport this year towards the administrative expenses of the Lorry Driver of the...

DRODUCTION of the D.9 72-scat double-decker •has begun at the Edgbaston works of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co.,...

By G. Duncan Jewell T HE railways must be well satisfied with the Transport Tribunal's decision in the McKelvie appeal (" The...

B EFORE long, if not already, the politicians will be just where the railway lobby want them. Public opinion, even as reflected...

New Bodybuilding Aid S OME bodybuilders have employed sandwich-construction panelling already. Usually, this has taken the form...

V EHICLE insurers may show a loss for 1959 for the fifth year in succession. In 1958 the companies lost almost £10m., and...

to Zurich with a cargo of frozen chickens. . . just one of many Austins in use on continental routes today. Her owners are...

N OW engaged upon a three-month tour of Holland, Belgium, France and Germany, a mobile showroom for the display of...

No. 826,893 is intended for the joint between the light-alloy head and castiron cylinder block of an oil engine. (Motoren-Werke...