A LTHOUGH the Speaker's casting vote dend hauliers a well-deserved victory over the Government, the debate on road haulage in...

A Paradise on Two L s IKE the proverbial old Decks and Four oldier, buses seem to prefer Wheels fading away to dying. We are...

Purchase Tax to be Paid on Articulated Outfits : Works Trucks Exempt. OAD-HAULAGE tractors and. separate trailers are not...

lkAUST drivers employed by the Road IVI . Haulage 'Execntive keep records? Section 16 of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933,...

" A GRAVE problem" has been set the South Wales Transport Co., Lid.; by the Budget proposals. The higher cost of fuel will...

H e O rc L h E a S n A t s L E a re f rt eo ti m t p a l a n i d a n v g e g o e f t a t b h l e rn e length of time taken by...

RECAUSE the French Railways can now run extra trains whenever necessary, the French Ministry of Transport has unexpectedly...

Operators Investigating Cost Increases ' Caused by Budget Proposals N EXT Monday, when the 16i-per-cent. increase in railway...

TRADERS have responded well to 1 the formation of Road Hauliers (East Midlands), Ltd., 3, Arkwright Street, Nottingham.. This ....

T HE time will soon arrive wnen the Netherlands Railways, which claims to be the only State-owned railway in the world that...

MR. A. DUCKITT has resigned his directorship of the Moss Gear Co., Ltd. MR. G. E. LIARDET and MR H. A. Scorr have been...

Bradford's last trans was withdrawn last Week ie. favour - of motorbus operation. In the first 12 weeks of this year the Road...

A THIRD international Customs convention, concerning uniform formalities covcring goods carried by road, will come into effect...

rURTAILMENT of coach services from Forces stations at week-ends, was discussed in the House of Commons, last week. Mr. John...

A MERICAN support is being given, it is understood, to the. Berlin Motor Show which will take place in the Funkturm in the...

r' °ACHES on excursions to Scar borough have to set down their passengers at Weaponness Valley Road park, 30 minutes' walk...

G ERMAN hauliers arc for the first time since the war engaging in international road transport_ Kiihne und Nagel, a Hamburg...

W EATHERPROOFING of vehicles will be tested in new plant in the Leyland works which reproduces heavy rain. It Consists of a...

INDER the Motor Fuel (Control) (Amendment) Order, 1950, which came into operation on May 8, heavy oil, as well as commercial...

T HE Appeal Tribunal will be sitting in the Crown Court, Chester Castle, on May 16 and 17. On the first day, the first case to...

N EW applications of Celanese plastic materials are to be shown at an exhibition organized by British Celanese, Ltd., at...

Can Do," the analysis of the performance of 100 goods and passenger vehicles published in the April 28 issue of "The Commercial...

are to be operated next week with 8-ft.-wide buses. This is to be a largescale test to judge the suitability of this type in...

services, the Northern General Transport Co.,, Ltd., and' Sunderland District Omnibus Co. have refused to ,withdraw their...

COR using a goods vehicle taxed at 1 £35 when, in fact, it had been modified and had been increased by 8 cwt. in unladen weight...

be 1 nssembled by the Ford Motor Co. Exports Inc., Sao Paulo. Hitherto, complete vehicles have been exported to Brazil, but...

/ -1 A HINT that the Transport and General Workers' Union proposes to make an onslaught on operators of seasonal services, is...

S INCE the war, the Yorkshire Woollen District Transport Co., Ltd.. has spent £772,000 on replacing vehicles. and within the...

L'REE haulage has 50,000 experts running 130,000 lorries; that is why the Road Haulage Executive cannot cornoete with them in...

A.T.O.-Van Gen'd and Loos. has stopped its regular haulage service to Czechoslovakia. At a recent trial in Prague, the company...

IN the interests of good housekeeping, the rationing of commercial petrol was still necessary, said Mr. F. G. Smith, at the...

T HE summer meeting of the Automobile Division of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers will be held in Birmingham on June...

B Y spending large sums on modernizing machinery and processes, the Clayton Dewandre Co., Ltd., has been able to reduce the...

p o e n r d s d o a n a 1 T v r a i e n w s i r t s t h c a o t if Ltd ., has made large profits or accumulated funds, they...

A N addition to the number of lowpowered cultivators and tractors available is found in a new machine being handled by G. W....

L OCAL chambers are likely to be 1-4advised by the National Chamber of Trade strongly to oppose any proposals by the Minister...

make the scandal of the groundnuts scheme pale into insignificance in the not-far-distant future," said Mr. H. T Campbell...

the development of road transport in the past 50 years-was praised by Mr. R. Stuart Pitcher, West Midlands Licensing Authority,...

A . REGULAR bus service for tourists is to be run between Amsterdam and Frankfurt-am-Main by Nederlandse Buurtspoorweg...

S ERVING a population of 140,000 in an area which suffered badly from war-time bombing, Tottenham Borough Council libraries...

for vehicle and Workshop A N efficient filter is a vital necessity any lair line that is to be used for spray painting or for...

for Oil Discovery F OUR different vehicles form a reflection unit of the type whicb Hands-England Oilfields Equipment, Ltd.,...

M AKERS of earth-moving and mechanical-handling equipment are showing many new and interesting machines in the hardware section...

when the experts were content to postulate that the transport they wished to see provided for the public should be quick, cheap...

A L THOUGH vehicles manufactured in any part of the world may be exhibited at the International Motor Show at Turin, the second...

A S quickly as possible, the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers is to prepare a standard schedule of...

A S one of those whom you so aptly describe as being " considerably perturbed," I would like to congratulate you on your...

A COUPLING that would seem, to incorporate all the features essential to efficiency for both air-pressure and vacuum braking...

Our Costs Expert Considers that the Milk Marketing Board Has Been Without Knowledge of the Way to Assess Operating Costs, and...

INCLUDED in the specification of the 1 new Electrojan, a battery-electric vehicle announced by Trojan, Ltd., Purley Way,...

A N independent suspension system of the parallel-link type forms the subject matter of patent No. 634,746, which comes from...