VERYTHING is noisy in towns and cities. In fact, it is quite likely that a noise level of 90 dBA is reached in an average city...

By 11, B. COTTEE becoming very clear that 'mods lick operators, already hedged by a host of new regulations need in the past...

FOLLOWING a letter from the I Carmarthenshire and Cardiganshire police authority, the County Councils' Association has decided...

NTINENTAL FERRY TRAILERS I. Leftley Ltd.) is now installed in its depot on the River Road Industrial Barking. It is situated on...

RTHBOUND traffic for the Victoria F.mbankment crossing Blackfriars e, London, will be separated from traffic under an...

11Wednesday by Chrysler Motors Ltd., and Cummins Engine Co. Inc., it was officially confirmed that a new company...

A T the time of going to press. it Was understood that R.N. (75), which contains proposals relating to higher nightduty and...

W E used this phrase to close our previous page of Trailer Talk. We make no apology for opening with it here because we think...

A new electrically operated rotary welding jig has been installed at our Moor Park Works. It has an 8-ton capacity and welds...

it has to carry (which accounts for its toughness and long life). As for maintenance, this has been cut to an absolute minimum....

Transport) Ltd., of Whittlesey, ts, the Minister of Housing and Government has q uashed an cement notice served on the...

M R. MARPLES has used his powers to re q uire additional bus services to be operated in a g reein g to Dr.'Beechin g 's...

E Transport Committee of the lister Farmers' Union sees no valid n why the recommendations of the 3n Report on the closing of...

1 extensive survey of traffic moveTient is to be carried out for the stry of Transport in the southern of the Home Counties...

A SUGGESTED summer ban on the 1 - 1 movement of heavy and cumbersome lorry loads between 7 a.m, and 11 p.m. was turned down in...

figures showing the 1 - 1 value of road works carried out since the War will be produced next year by the Minister of...

DON busmen decided on Tuesday accept the L.T.B. offer of a 6s. a "scarcity allowance" for central rivers and 5s. a week for...

BLEMS in adapting buses designed ginally for use on the Continent to m with British Construction and egulations are preventing...

'LICATION for planning permison for a new single-storey building Afield, to house between 50 and 60 :s, has been made by...

1 curtailment of Sunday bus :rvices in Dublin is being discussed en C.I.E. and the unions represent. e workers. E. has found...

M R. BRIAN HARBOUR will retire from the London Transport Board when his term of office , expires in November. The Minister of...

DENNINE MOTOR SERVICES LTD., of Gargrave and Skipton, is building a new garage at Settle, Yorks, to house vehicles up to 36 ft....

Coventry Reduce Deficit: Net income of the City of Coventry Transport Undertaking for the year ended March 31 last was £23,552...

A A CONTRACT switch involving 13 vehicles (841 tons) was considered before the North Western deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A....

D ESPITE submission from road and rail objectors that a B licence was more appropriate, an application to convert a...

HOUGH a Northern haulage mpany, R. Martin and Sons Ltd., it appear ever to have had the unity of stating its case against Lion,...

application by G. Reyner Ltd. was ;I:flail); successful at Manchester veek, when the company was d two articulated vehicles on...

South London haulier is told in London last week by the politan Licensing Authority, Mr. R. Muir, that if he wanted to conin...

A N applicant who had brought a I -1 number of witnesses to a sitting of the deputy Scottish Licensing Authority at Perth last...

Highland Omnibuses Ltd. for a revised fares structure was reserved by the Scottish Traffic Commissioners at Inverness last...

E Minister of Transport has flowed two of the four appeals :el by Seaview Services Ltd. against ions of the South Eastern...

Western Road Car Co. Ltd., W. C. Standerwick Ltd. and Scout Motor Services Ltd., a similar application was made at Manchester...

A FTER the Scottish Traffic Commis sioners had granted Edinburgh Corporation's application for fares increases last week, the...

order to obtain maximum interailability from the company's fleet, Nuttall and Sons Ltd., Heywood, ied for a common A licence...

The following are the Contract A and C licence transfer requests among the applications listed this week: Contract A to A...

A LIGHT-ALLOY van serni-traler design known as the Weightsaver• has been developed by BonaHack and Sons Ltd., Basildon, Essex,...

PA A COMBINED liquid metal and sodium amalgam cell to power military vehicles is under study at the Allison Division of General...

A LORRY or trailer reflector said tc Pi have a "triple warning action" is being marketed by the Sampson Chemical and Pigment...

A BOUT one-third of all accidents and breakdowns on Britain's motorways are due to tyre failures, said the Minister of...

A NEW type of heavy-duty air cleaner incorporating an automatic dust unloader has been developed by the United Air Cleaner...

Minister of Transport has aalized the scheme fixing the route last 10 miles of motorway forme Midland motorway links. new...

been added to the 'self-drive hire fleet. This was revealed at the annual meeting of Godfrey Davis Ltd. held in London last...

In Japan. A.P.V. Kabushiki Kaisha has been formed in conjunction with A.P.V.'s present agents, the American Trading Co.. with...

- Baloney! BY THE EDITOR R ARELY can so much have been said, and so little really understood, about any subject affecting...

Ltd., has received an order for two Mammoth Major six-wheel tractive units for service with the Malayan Federal Army. They will...

A N improved version of the Bristol Model 303V automatic air compressor has been introduced by Bristol Pneumatic Tools Ltd.,...

R LISTPROOFING steel, controlling corrosion of aluminium and its alloys, and prevention of tarnish on all metals are claims...

A BRITISH Standard entitled "Dimensions of compression and oil control rings and piston-ring grooves for internal combustion...

C OMPLETE elimination of the risk of contamination during loading and easier filling are features of the Wanner 714 industrial...

T HE accepted method Of providing economical, long-term corrosion protection of iron and steel is by applying a coating of an...

- ieiv ONDONDERRY, reeling from the B Report shock, will make a last-ditch stand to save its rails. Political leaders,...

L. E. DRAISEY A LTHOUGH it can hardly be said that the manufacture of aluminium alloy road tanks is a new trend, it is...

A symposium of recent A licence appeals BY FRANK BURRAVOE T HE Transport Tribunal would be almost out of work nowadays but for...

By John F. Moon, A.M.I.R.T.E. ROAD TEST: Leyland Retriever . 20-ton gross 6 x 4 F OLLOWING the June 28 announcement that...

JANUS WRITES " OING public" is an expression much more in use than formerly among hauliers. . A comparatively small but...

>rde 2,500-gal. six-wheeled tanker, th Cummins 200-b.h.p. engine and sandwich , rings, is expected to cruise at 70 m.p.h. RING...

Efficiency The Harpers of Heath Hayes live their jobs—which promotes goodwill all round By P. A. C. BROCKINGTON, A.M.I.MECH.E....

By S. Buckley Assoc. Inst. T. iT week. in discussing the assessment of traffic 3tentiality, it was pointed out that although...