W HAT will happen to Uncertainty road transport if the Socialists are •returned Calls for a to power ? This is an urgent on...

TT is to be hoped that the efforts being made to 'organize operators of vehicles under C-hiring margins will be successful....

Inside Information H 0W many hauliers take the trouble to study the uses of the loads that they carry? One who does so is Mr....

That if we musf have tolls for special roads, at least the roads will come first. That the S.M.M.T. seem to be in the money—...

Replacing Sold Vehicles THE impending General Election and threats of renationalization are L largely to blame for the failure...

L'INAL results of list S.4 of transport I units show that only 9 per cent. of the vehicles have been sold. List SC.3, however,...

TWO-THIRDS of the 22,500 vehicles I offered by British Road Services had been sold, Mr. Boyd-Carpenter, Minister of Transport,...

additional vehicles in connection with a London-Ipswich trunk service came before the Transport Tribunal, in London, last week....

T HE Traders' Road Transport Association have protested against proposed regulations to prohibit the loading and unloading of...

MR, R. CLI FFORD has been elected chairman of the Northern Area of the Road Haulage Association. MR. A. E. CARROLL has been...

B Y altering the inlet ports and modifying the toroidal cavity in the pistons, Leyland Motors, Ltd., have increased the output...

Q N Wednesday, Mr. J. B. Mitchell, Mr. R. N. Ingram and Mr. Frank F. Fowler were elected national vicechairmen of the Road...

rONT IN U A N CE of the limit of 27 ft. on the length of double-deckers is hampering design and beginning to hold up...

A CLAIM for damages against a motor engineering company by the owners of a Leyland 6-tonner was dismissed by Mr. Justice...

W HEN Harold Barlow, retired haulage contractor, 52 Station Road, Pilsley, near Chesterfield, was fined £45 at Leeds City...

A RTCO is to be revived. The annual general meeting of Associated Road Transport Contractors, Ltd., held in London last...

A N unopposed application by Geo. Rutherford and Co., Ltd., coal merchants and hauliers, Newcastle upon Tyne, was heard by the...

T HE claim for higher fares made by City of Oxford Motor Services, Ltd., has been cut by more than half by the East Midland...

C LAIMING that they wished substantially to reduce their annual hiring figure of £27,550 and that their traffic was...

rA A REVISION in fares designed to yield another £16,000 a year is recommended to West Hartlepool Corporation by Mr. D. E....

A CENSUS taken in London last 1- I• year by the Metropolitan and City Police showed that, in two years, traffic had increased...

A S the Government have rejected the I -1 recommendation of Singapore City Council to form a transport board to take over the...

B EDFORD chassis to the value of over £2.8m. will be supplied to the Army during the next 12 months as a result of contracts...

D URING a two-day hearing in London last week, Mr. Hubert Hull, president of the Transport Tribunal, criticized the West...

A NEW scheme costing /668,000 to provide a clear route through the centre of Lincoln has been approved by the Minister of...

D IGESTS of the two papers given at the Public Transport Association conference, 'Some Traffic Problems Affecting Fares" by Mr....

B USINESS is booming in the Bristol area and generally in the counties of Gloucester, Somerset and Wiltshire. but comparatively...

A PORTABLE electric grinder that will cut through a 2-in, by i-in. mild-steel bar in 15 sec., forms another addition to the...

A DEVICE to assist in bkcding r. hydraulic brakes, and a tappet adjuster for use with overhead-valve engines, have been added...

May, 1949, there were 108 separate gasworks in the territory that was to form the area of the North Western - Gas Board....

M AY I, through the columns of your excellent journal, comment on the remarks made by J. Spencer, in his letter published on...

T HE possibilities of the more extended use of semi-trailer outfits as mobile shops are exemplified in a Guy Otter articulated...

H UCKLEBERRY FINN and Tom Sawyer would have had no difficulty in helping their friend Jim to escape by breaking open the door...

43 Light Vans and Heavy Lorries Co to a Tittensor Operator : Many More ex-B.R.S. Lorries Sold A lOTHER 43 vehicles ranging...

Leyland Albion (Africa), Ltd., have „ established a depot at Ndola. An advisory board for the co-ordination of all forms of...

WATER is one of the best antiVV knock agents and it would doubtless be used more if only it were miscible with petrol. A scheme...