I N his introduction of the Government's new road pro gramme • last week, Mr. Boyd-Carpenter, Minister of Transport, did his...

R ECENT wage awards to passenger-transport and haulage workers will probably cost the road transport industry about Sm. a year....

Mobile Shops a New Traffic Hazard? Production in the U.S.S.R. IN a recent leading article, the Manchester Guardian 'drew...

Of complete, sealed ball-races less than 0.2 in. in diameter. That Princess Wilhplmina has broadcast an appeal to the Dutch to...

r_RAVE concern at the political issues in local government which a freetravel policy would have was expressed in a memorandum...

F OR 18 months, Messrs. Mulleys Motorways, Bury St. Edmunds, have been providing free week-end travel from London to Bury St....

B ORROWING powers for up to £600m. by the British Transport Commission were approved by the House of Commons on Tuesday. The...

T HE Minister of Labour has issued an Order, which became effective on January 31, confirming the proposals of the Wages...

A N application for fare increases by Burton-on-Trent Transport Department was described as " completely justified" by the West...

Israeli public transport companies have ordered 100 British buses. The spring meeting of the Institute of Metals will be held...

G ROWERS were ripping up raspkJ berries because they could not get the fruit to market by rail, Lieut. Cdr. H. J. Gliddon, a...

seemed that British Railways hall held a pistol to the head of the Milk ,rketing Board with regard to charges the collection of...

A PPLICATIONS to take over certain bus services from Glasgow Transport Department were granted to the Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd.,...

T HE corporation should keep to stage services and leave other operators to handle contract-carriage work. Cllr. H. T. K....

THE need for speedy deliveries of perishable goods to distant markets was stressed by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority last...

for Rail ? THE hope was expressed by Lord Merrivale, president of the Institute of Traffic Administration, last Friday that a...

is understood that the Association if British Chambers of Commerce mtly sent a deputation to the lister of Transport to urge...

I - 1 A SPECIAL licence for abnormal indivisible loads is suggested in a list of amendments to the Road Traffic Bill to be...

)vvn on Liquid Gas I T is impossible, after a visit to the Amsterdam Commercial Vehicle Show, which opened on February 3 and...

TN reply to the last paragraph under "Passing Comments" in your issue dated January 28, concern ing wheel-wobble, you state...

THE views of various correspondents on the subject • of combines v. small companies in passenger trans3rt, which have been...

VER 300 platform, tipping, boxvan /and meat-haulage bodies have been tilt in the past year by Redhill Bodyaiding Industries,...

By John Savage Called which is strong in the longitudinal direction. When treated in this way the glass can be likened to a...

THE Authority was entitled to con stder the previous conduct of an applicant when he asked for a licence, the West Midland...

A N all-aluminium-alloy single-deck 1-3 . passenger body, built by Heaver, Ltd., Durrington, Wilts, in conjunction with the...

Motor Roads from London to Yorkshire and Preston to Birmingham Included in Government Programme : Tolls May be Charged B...

British Road Federation:—The scale of the proposals falls far short of the nation's urgent need, brought about by years of...

T HE concept of the motorway has met with general approval in the House of Commons, and there is enthusiasm for what is...

factories and of the finished products ' to other parts of the country, with a consequential saving in costs." Another...

C IVIL engineers would have welcomed a much bigger programme of road construction and improvement than that announced by the...

V HILST respecting the good intentions of the corporation of Birmingham, one may doubt their wisdom in continuing to press for...

for ex-B.R.S. vehicles comes from Valliant Direct Coaches, Ltd., 38 thcbridge Road, London, W.5, who have already resold the...

By Our Parliamentary CorrApondent Chancellor of the Exchequer, Ir. R. A. Butler, was at pains in tilway debate in the House of...

T HE problems in the business of private hire of cars are difficult: not least of the troubles which beset operators crop up...

A SCHEME for positively preventing sway during cornering by hydraulically tilting the chassis in the opposite direction is...