B Y next Tuesday evening the road transport indus try will know whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer has heeded its urgent...

W HAT continued nationalization would have meant to road transport was well described recently by Sir Alfred Faulkner, C.B.E.,...

Up on Their Toes! IN the days when the writer of these words had bare I and, probably, grubby knees " fare-dodging " was a...

What about Shopmobile "? ' 'That one might think the levy was all at C. That a balanced wheel can save the bank balance....

THE heavy goods vehicle driver's licence should be re-introduced. I This is one of the points which a conference of national...

G RAVE concern over "the continued use of some C licence vehicles for the carriage of removals" is expressed in the annual...

IT is understood that representatives J. from various finance houses have been canvassing Road Haulage Executive depots...

and Dorset Succeed Extension of Rights H AVING, at the end of a three-day silting at Salisbury, last week, announced that he...

Bridgford Urban District Council Bill, which came before a Select Committee of •the House of Commons recently, that proposes...

I T is understood that the national council of the Road Haulage Association, at their quarterly meeting last week,. decided on...

MR. AI BERT PARKINI,ON, Chairman and joint managing director of Crompton Parkinson, Ltd., has resigned the position of...

A NOTHER coach operator has refused to appear before a "vigilante " committee in the West Midlands. He was alleged to have...

UfAXIMUM benefits from converting AVI vehicles to run on oil are realized only when the weekly mileage is over 75. This is the...

B ELFAST Corporation are to reconskier their plan to increase the minimum adult single fare to 3d. Mtieh criticism of the...

A NEW factory at Amersfoort, Hott'k land, has been built by J. J. Molenaar's Automobielbedrijf, N.V., and it is at present...

RATTERY-ELECTRIC vehicles of LP various makes are to be shown at an exhibition or g anized by the South Eastern Electricity...

THREE Fer g uson tractors have I replaced 13 horses at the Crown Paten Fuel Works of the National Coal Board at Cardiff docks....

By A. E. Sherlock-Mesher B Y combining hired transport with its own ,fleet of over 60 vehicles, Whiteways Cyder Co.. Ltd., is...

A u co il _ rant A u co il _ rant Nationalization of Long-distance Road Haulage had Little Effect on the Growth of Ancillary...

D EPLACING the V8 petrol engine in the Thames 3-tormer by a Perkins unit is a straightforward conversion requiring little...

IN January, registrations of new vehicles, excluding cars and motorcycles, were nearly double those for the previous month, but...

B UlLT as a compact unit of high output per-litre capacity, the Perkins R-type six-cylindered oil engine is designed primarily...

'2OLLECTION passed to you By Alfred Woolf, B.A. P ' ART of the function of a technical . journal is to provide information,...

Political Commentary By JANUS S ENATOR McCARTHY might not be a bad choice for one or other of the vacancies shortly to occur...

M R.. CANT is anxious to claim the credit for organiz ing the opposition to the raising of the 20 m.p.h. speed limit on heavy...

Further Investigation into the Difficulties of Applying Standard Charges and the Provisions that Have to be Made to Assure a...

yet needing only five pairs of gears is disclosed in Patent No. 686,782, by A. Taylor and David Brown and Sons (Huddersfield),...