Should Cyclists THE managing director of Freely Use all Main Raleigh Industries, Mr. Roads G. H. B. Wilson, who is also...

"How sensible of .Leeds to abandon the blues!" Of those who regard the Kirriflriuir affair as just another example of R.H.E....

I N furtherance of a scheme agreed upon between the two companies. to merge the West Riding Automobile Co., Ltd., Wakefield,...

G RANTING an interim interdict against the proposal of the Railway Executive to close certain stations and passenger services...

I N the first 20 weeks of the year, the revenue of British Road Services totalled £22,134,000. During this period, the...

WHEN the Draft Transferred W Undertakings (Compensation to Employees) Regulations, 1950, were approved by the House of Commons....

" THERE has been much forensic by-play about this wicked Commission bleeding the public, and its sadistic regard for making...

D ERAT1ONING of fuel "flowed naturally from the efforts of the oil companies to provide ample supplies of petroleum products...

S INCE February 1, 50,000 small hauliers had been' " sitting on a barrel of gunpowder," said Mr. Frank F. Fowler, chairman,...

A DISPUTE over cOrripensation pay able by the British Transport Commission for property other than a goods vehicle is to be...

A NXIOUS to exploit the regulations permitting vehicles of 3D ft. overall length, and unable to acquire early delivery of...

makers, the second edition of the "British Diesel Engine Catalogue," has now been published by Temple Press Ltd., Bowling Green...

D URING the 12 months to April, 1950, the number of C-licensed vehicles rose from 619,268 to 697,674. A total of 6,346 vehicles...

MR. H. 0. FIELD has been appointed general manager of Henry Meadows, Ltd., and has joined the board of the company, MR. C. E....

W ITH the blessings of the Commissioner of Metropolitan Police, a London taxi driver. Mr. L. Wightman, this week introduced a...

,Q N the average, nearly id. of every fare paid by passengers of Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., was taken by the Government in...

P OSTERS put up in bus shelters at Prudhoe-on-Tyne as part of the campaign against bus nationalization are being voluntarily...

A N issue of 750.000 ordinary shares of 10s. each at 15s. per share was made yesterday by the A.P.V. Co., Ltd. The authorized...

the British Transport Commission, with his observations, the Commission's scheme for passenger' transport in the North of...

Kirkstall Forge, Ltd., was acquired by Kirkstall Forge Engineering. Ltd. Now the former company will be liquidated, and from...

T HE measure which relieves farmers from the necessity of paying the extra duty on fuel—the Agricultural (Miscellaneous...

to increase fares, Dundee Town Council agreed last week that infornlation on 'different types of transport" should be...

George Wimpey and Co.. Ltd., which was alleged to have used vehicles for hire or reward under C licences and to have infringed...

A NEW type of bus, made by the General Motors concern, Port Elizabeth, has been on a 3,000-mile tour of South Africa. It has...

Standard Motor Co., Ltd., confirmed the report published in "The Commercial Motor," last week, that the company has designed...

litated by an understanding which has been reached between that country and Great Britain. It has been arrived at within the...

A NEW book, "Britain's Motor

and Cockeran-PublishersLtd.. 72-78. Fleet Street, London, E.C.4, at 21s. net. Its author is H. G. Castle, and the consulting...

the corporations mentioned in "The Commercial Motor" of April 7, which had ordered 7-ft. 9-in, wide bodies for mounting on...

are to be charged on Morris vans and Morris-Commercial vehicles sod on or after July1:-Morris 5-cwt. van or van chassis, £50...

exported without incurring freight charges in addition to those payable On stripped chassis, Bonallack and So s, Ltd., Cable...

W regret to record the death of MR. WATSON, traffic superintendent of the Tynemouth and District TrartspOrt Co., Ltd.

MEGOTIATIONS are in progress in 1 "London, writes. a correspondent, for building a fleet of buses for Ceylon, each with the...

General Electric Co., Ltd., which developed the process in its research laboratories, now include examples of joints which are...

1 House of Commons, the Minister of Transport stated that he could not instruct Licensing Authorities to grant a temporary...

! Benz L3500 3A-ton oiler, introduced nine months ago, have been developed by the Daimler-Benz, A.G., Stuttgart, Unterturkheim....

to lattempt to apply the same yardstick to road haulage in Scotland as in England, said Mr. W. D. Gilmour, cb4irmart of the...

All is Not Well in the Rank and File of the Road Haulage Executive, Says Our Contributor. Numerous Efforts Are Made to Tell...

Seddon Tractor with Scammell Coupling and Two-speed Axle for Operation as a lo-ton Articulated Unit T HIS week, "The Commercial...

Ashley Taylor A.I.R.T.E. L U RKING in so many of us to-day is a kind of Communist-consciousness which, perhaps, necessitates...

By L. J. COTTON, M.I.R.T.E. W HEN making a routine check on the weighbridge with the Otter oil-engined chassis, I was warned...

WAS very amused by the delightful cartoon on I page . 539 of your journal, dated June 16, and it prompts, me to write to you on...

I N last week's micle I gave a list of some of the miscellanea which hauliers carry iu rural areas and I quoted some typical...

F ROM E. Ottoway, J. Wicks and London passenger Transport Board, 55, Broadway, London, S.W.I, comes patent No. 637,265,...