N ATIONALIZATION of certain sections of road transport, and even the threat of it to others, has in some eases exercised a...

Shall We Have SpeedA CLOSE study of the trapping From the " movement of traffic in Air 7 London has been helped by aerial...

That it was pedestrian-crossing weak. That 42 per cent. of surtax comes from earned incomes. That video (television) is...

Road and Air Co-operation SOME operators acquired by the British Transport Commission are P * -1 complaining of the...

ft /IAN Y . of those transport concerns in althis country which are affected, or likely to be, by nationalization, are looking...

MR. G. E. BEHARRELL, ma naging director of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., has been re-elected president of the Tyre...

O NB of the ways in which the Road Haulage Association might be able to help the free haulier was in obtaining work for him...

It/TORE details are now available of IVA. the proposed new convention which will be considered by a World Road Conference to be...

A DDRESSING the Gear ManufacrAturers' Association last Tuesday, the president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and...

The Omnibus Passengers' Protection Association, which is fighting nationalization, now has 10,000 members. Liverpool Chief...

A FTER refusing an application by .1 - 1C. J. Smith and Sons, Ltd., Station Road, March, a small Cambridgeshire company, for a...

DATTERIES of nearly all standard LP passenger chassis were too small, ;aid Mr. N. G. 1 Brookes, chief engineer Aldershot and...

CEBRUARY'S output of commercial /. vehicles maintained the high weekly average set up in the previous month. The total for...

E XPORTS in February of 8,041 1-Adelivery vans and utilities, trolleybuses, motorbuses and coaches, industrial trucks, other...

IN its annual report for 1948-49, the 'national council of the Road Haulage Association expresses regret that it has not made...

By L. J. COTTON, m.I.R.T.E. N OTHING spectacular is revealed by a first glance through the results of the Leyland Comet...

T O relieve the heavy wear caused to brake facings and mechanical parts of a vehicle during long downhill runs —often of 20...

MAY I comment upon the recent meeting of road haulIv' age administrative, executive and clerical-staff men to discuss staff...

circles, towards pooling ideas and, if necessary, resources, for the common good, is not new to three road transport operators...

ZOM NOTHING By L. Graham Davies Continental Representative of The Commercial Motor" F USION of the Paris municipal bus...

Experiment A PROTOTYPE bus of .rather unusual interest, which • appears Lo have behaved well on test, but has never been put...

B. Beardsley, Irreparable. Harm May be Done to Good Business Relationships by Disagreement Over Claims Against Hauliers for...

The Owner driver Can Easily Give Below-cost Quotations Through the Omission of Certain Fixed Charges in Estimating Costs I 4...

B ENDING fatigue-strength of a castiron crankshaft is unaffected by surface-finish changes, but is greatly influenced by fillet...

rOACH and bus seats with cast aluminium-alloy frames that can be assembled in a few minutes by the use of a screwdriver and...

T O meet the heavy demands of oilfield operation, Universal Power Drives, Ltd., Perivale, is converting Commar 7 ton underfloor...

By-van and Tri-van, two models of an interesting type of lightweight delivery vehicle have been introduced by the Turner...

A N articulated refrigerator vehicle for the transport of 3,200 gallons of ice-cream in bulk and in small packages has recently...

B ECAUSE of pressure on the facilities available at the Chiswick works of London Transport, it was decided to turn the rail...

device in which the vehicle engine supplies the power. The patentee is H. Kjellberg, MalniOLimhanin, Sweden. The drawing...