• Passenger Vehicles. - FOR a long time past there have not been lacking severe criticisms Of the older types of bus in...

N UE had the opportunity last week for dist' cussing with an operator of both direct services and day-coaching tours the ratio...

R EALLY qualified men in the industry do not usually take long to get into harness again after leaving an important position....

Of invitations to the third party. Of much road transport share hunting. Of some excessively slippery roads lately. Of the...

by on difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the roughness of the roads over which it...

We were much interested recently on visiting the Vulcan works at Southport to find Mr. H. E. Fitzpatrick installed as home...

MARLBOROUGH Town Council has resolved to purchase a new motor ambulance. The water committee of BOLTON Corporation has...

Although it has not proved possible to deal in the Motor Cars (Excessive Noise) Regulations, 1929, which came into force on...

The highways committee of Sheffield Corporation recently reported upon the traffic census which was taken during the month of...

SIX-WHEELED BUS Details of an Experimental Type Embodying the A.E.C. Renown Six-cylindered Engine and Providing Greater Speed...

with SLIDING DOORS TN the course of a year a consider.able number number of mishaps occurs owing to the opening of taxicab...

ON THE ROYAL COMMISSION'S REPORT What Prominent Men in the Industry Think of the Recommendations Dealing With the Control of...

Road and Rail Transport in New Zealand. IN the New Zealand Parliament not long ago the Minister of Railways stated that he...

THE construction of a road from the port of Assab in Eritrea to the town of Dessie in Ethiopia and the concession to the...

SEATS FOR COACHES AND BUSES Some Helpful Information on the Subject of the Construction of Bus and Coach Seats and Advice as...

A CCORDING to an American computation there are 31,778,203 motor vehicles in the world. Of these no fewer than 24,493,124 are...

P ERHAPS the most striking rigid-frame six-wheeler which has yet been built is that produced by the Four Wheel Drive Lorry Co.,...

Letters should be on one side of the paper only and, preferably, typewritten. The right of abbreviation is reserved, and no...

• The Editor, THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [2864] Sir,-I am a regular reader of your journal and have been so for some years, and I...

Notes on Every Aspect of Coach and Bus Development. TUBE omnibus has recently completed 1 a century of effective work in...

of discussion in the city of Gloucester and its environs concerning the much vexed transport problem. One outcome is the...

R ETURNING to England from two all-too-short' voyages finds me the recipient of a complimentary copy of Command Paper 3365—the...

T N the latter part of an article entitled " Specialists in Horsebox Design," which appeared in the issue of The Commercial...

A LTHOUGH the three-wheeled parcelcar is now quite a familiar sight on English streets, this form of light-delivery vehicle is...

An Impression of the Delivery Work of a Busy Yorkshire Brewery Bringing into Light the Particular Requirements of this Class of...

AND CARRIER A Warning and Useful Advice to Those Hauliers Who are Considering the— A REQUEST that I should deal this week...

A Note on the Arrangement and Dimensions of the Latest Vulcan Goods Chassis. I N the centre pages of our issue for last week...

AREAS from FIRE THERE must be many of our readers who _L have seen and enjoyed that music hall sketch in which the principal...

W HEN it is desired rapidly to wear away metal—as when grinding-in valves—it is customary to utilize abrasive material. On the...

T HERE are many parts of a motor vehicle which it is not possible to clean efficiently without the aid of a brush working in...

Interesting Contributions from Maintenance Engineers, Drivers and Mechanics. Getting Home with a Water Leak in a Cylinder. O...

A Simple Hand-brake Lever. yurki have seen before hand-brake V V levers that have no trigger to actnate the pawl, but that...