M R. CHURCHILL has already attacked his formidable task with ferocious energy and an urgent sense of realism. His appointmen t...

I T is to be hoped that the Hon. John Scott Maclay, the new Minister of Transport, will shortly call the leaders of the Road...

Bonding to Replace Riveting I T is strange bow certain old practices continue to be followed despite their known and...

Of a driver who sighed for a fork-lift to shift a traffic block. That his mate said it would only pile up the jam. That...

" To Facilitate Extension of Private Road Haulage Activities" paoposAis will be made to facilitate the extension of private...

'TEE Road Haulage Executive. which I lost over Lim. last year, is now making a profit. Sir Reginald Wilson, comptroller of the...

N O decsion had been made known 'by Tuesday evening on the laim for higher pay for engineering, maintenance and repair grades...

port and General Workers' Union passed a resolution this week attacking proposals for the denationalization of road haulage.

A PROJECT involving the construeAA lion of a bus station in the heart of the city, with ramps for the entry and exit of buses,...

F IVE hauliers who had lodged objections to another operator's application for the transfer of an A licence, but whose notices...

A T last week's meeting of Brighton Town Council, the transport committee was instructed to review the new bus fare scales in...

T " Quebec Road Transport Association will ask the Provincial Prime Minister to appeal to the Privy Council against a recent...

A SMALL town bus, based on com ponents employed in the 3-ton goods chassis, is' to be produced by Seddon Diesels, Ltd., Oldham,...

T WO agreements made with West Bromwich Corporation by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., last March have been...

" j DO not think you should anticipate 1 completely new dawn for road transport as a result of the change of Government. In my...

MOTWITHSTANDING an objection I 'by Huddersfield and Halifax district committee of the East and West Ridings Regional Boa, d for...

THE annual report of John I. Thorny' croft and Co., Ltd., states that ils wholly owned subsidiary, Transport Equipment...

the News MR. G. A. HUNT and MR. L A. JARVIS have been appointed directors of High Duty Alloys, Ltd. MR. W. LITTLE, general...

T HE use of road transport for coal, because of railway difficulties, was the theme of a series of applications recently heard...

IT seemed extraordinary that the rail. I ways should ask for goods to be sent by other services at a time when they were not...

A N application by Messrs. Sunter Bros., Northallerton, to operate direct services from R.A.F stations in Yorkshire to various...

THERE should be a uniform standard 1 of street lighting throughout the country. This suggestion is to be put. to the 1952...

H AVING been successful in obtaining permission to increase fares last January, Potteries Motor Traction Co.. Ltd.. again...

iF the Road Haulage and Railway lExecutives wished to encourage companies to stay open on Saturdays in receive goods, they must...

C LAIMED to be the first underfloorengined vehicle to operate in East Africa, a Leyland Royal Tiger with Duple bodywork has...

I N an open letter to the new Minister , of Transport, the British Road Federation states that the efficiency of road transport...

A TYPE of service operated in Athens which he thought could well be adopted in this country to deal with peak-hour traffic, was...

A N explanation why the manager of the Bermondsey group of British Road Services failed to appear in court recently after a...

A N action brought by Scottish Agri. cultural Industries, Ltd., Aberdeen, against Messrs. Alfred Wilkie, Friockheim hauliers,...

F UTURE meetings of the Institute of I Transport Include the following;— November 13, Humberside section, lecture on material...

-THREE of.the new Ministers who are 1 directly or indirectly concerned with transport are men under 50. The Minister of...

A FTER long negotiations with Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd. Maidstone Borough Council has decided not to sell...

O VER £650 in prize money is to be won in the 1952 drawing and handicraft competition organized by the Institute of British...

FROM my experience so far, there is a genuine desire and effort on the part of the Railway and Road Haulage Executives and the...

T HE poor standard of goods-vehicle rear lighting was criticized last week by Dr. W. H. Glanville, C.B.E., director of road...

Labour Problem Causes Warm Discussion Among M.P.T.A. Conference Delegates : American Flatrate Fares Criticized A LTHOUGH...

I N connection with a scheme for training prospective drivers of road vehicles, the Southern Region of British Railways last...

Rough but Ready "Trade and Industry . . . Should Welcome the Proposals for Denationalization all the more Readily Because they...

S boarding and alighting from .public service vehicles safer for all." . Unfortunately for the force of their altruistic...

A S part of the drive to ensure economic use of the country's fuel supplies, the Southern Gas Board has taken delivery of a new...

to a Struggle to Obtain Sufficient and Suitable Staff. The Attraction of the Five-day Week in Industry can be Overcome,...

IT is not surprising that your correspondents, P. R. A Smith and R. B. Davies, in your issues dated October 19 and September...

B OTH chassis and bodies of 110-new service single-deckers on order for Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., are to be built by Leyland...

A T a ceremony at the Charlton Athletic football ground last Friday, Mr. F. Penfold, managing director of Penfold Motors, Ltd.,...

and Depreciation Compromise must be Resorted to in Reckoning with this Difficult Item of Operating Cost T HE most difficult...

T O supplement the work of the conveyor systems andheavy types of works truck, Hoover; Ltd., Perivale, Middx., has ordered six...

H EADED by a Diamond - 1 six-wheeler powered by a Herceles 250 b.h.p. oil engine, and tailed by a Scammell four-wheeler, one of...

A LORRY with its own loading crane forms -the subject of patent No. 657,326, which comes from S. Peterson, Vinas, Mora, Sweden....