W ITH well scrubbed rubber gloved hands, the Thesiger Committee have dissected the subject of the control of road passenger...

F INANCE is one of the main problems of the denationalization of long-distance road haulage. The Road Haulage Disposal Board...

Decorative Panelling for Coaches A WELL - KNOWN interior decorative panelling for motor vehicles is Alhambrinal, which was...

£50m. from Road Fund in Next Three Years: Better Roads Between Wales and Midlands D ISAPPOINTMENT has been caused by the...

BY OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT. THE Minister said that the Govern' ment had reviewed the whole question of the need for...

" 'THE meagre sum allotted, when compared with the £360m. paid in taxation annually by motor users, will cause great...

Pi A LIST of over 320 urgent highwayimprovement requirements has been submitted to all Members of Parliament, including the...

MR. KAYE DON, managing director of U.S. Concessionaires, Ltd., is leaving England next week to visit Latil agents in Singapore,...

A LTHOUGH it is fitted with standard seating, a heater and folding doors at the rear, a double-deck body which Park .Royal...

D ESIGNED primarily for oil engines of medium size, a new starter has been produced by C.A.V., Ltd., London, W.3. It differs...

A 19-YEAR-OLD A.E.C. Regal 31-seat singleti decker has been converted to one-man operation by the Gosport and Fareham Omnibus...

" ITis our intention in the near future to extend the range of goods vehicles we manufacture to include others of heavier...

Warrington Corporation are recommended to buy a refuse collector. Sunderland Corporation have approved the purchase of a fire...

1 - 1 A NEW demister, known as the S.8 lightweight unit, is being produced by Clayton Dewandre Co., Ltd., Titanic Works,...

K NOWLEDGE of the effects of motor exhaust gases upon the creation of " smog " is incomplete and investigation is required, say...

T HE desirability of decentralizing the London Transport Executive into a number of sub-areas, each with its own board on which...

B RITISH oilfield vehicles and equipment have been successfully employed in locating an oil-bearing area at Learmouth in the...

A PROPRIETARY four-cylindered rt high-speed oil engine is now being developed for vans of 10-15-cwt. payload capacity. It has a...

By Laurence J. Cotton M.I.R.T.E. A CCORDING to a road-test report of just 18 years ago, when one of my predecessors was...

An Operator Installs a Four-cylindered Oil Engine In Place of the Cost Cutter Unit in a Thames 3-tanner Chassis, Using Fittings...

"The Commercial Motor" Annual Analysis of Municipal Bus Fleets p ERHAPS the most important feature revealed by this year's...

Conditions on Which Transport Unit Finance, Ltd., Will Buy Transport Units on Behalf of Tenderers A DVANCES will be made by...

A NEW 21-tonnir, employing a supercharged version of the 2.8litre oil engine fitted in the 11-ton and 2-ton . models, has been...

:hief Demand Remarkably High Mileages are Covered by Traders' Vans, Whose Owners are Keenly Selective Before Buying to Ensure...

plated Oil-control Rings THE long-wearing properties of chromium!. plated rings when fitted in the top piston grooves are such...

The Thesiger Report as a Student. of Transport Sees it : A Basis for Informal Discussion by C. S. Dunbar, M .1n st.T. M OST...

XHIB1TS of interest to the commercial-vehicle user, in addition to those reviewed in last week's issue, were revealed when the...

VOUR legal adviser •wrote in your issue datedOctober 1 30, under the heading ".Should Medical Examination be compulsory?" The...

I N the interesting article entitled "The Case for Thin-wall Bearings" in your issue dated October 23, there was a reference in...

IT strikes me as being particularly odd that with the I present trend of -design running towards underfloorengines, with the...

with P.3 Engine A STANDARD Morris-Commercial 30 - cwt. van has been converted to an oiler by Phillips Motor Services...

Appealing to Cesar " We have little doubt that if the services of such persons are incompetent or their fees extortionate, the...

I N 1946, hauliers were given a concession by the Government in what was called an "initial allowance." Like so many of the...

of the power piston. The pump crank carries a pinion (3) to transmit the drive to the auxiliaries. The extreme left end P...