S O long as the Road Traffic and Roads Improvement Bill, which had its second reading in the House of Commons on Monday, is...

A PUBLIC inquiry should hardly be necessary to tell the Government what everyone else knows—that only the elimination of the...

Y heart warms to the Diesel Engineers and Users' IVIAssociation, not because I can understand what they are talking about, but...

Df Tara T HERE can be few personages more difficult to write about than Lord Brabazon of Tara, Where does one begin, where end?...

granted a fellowship for his services to science in a diplomatic role in Australia. But he is no newcomer to the world of the...

C OSTS of £78 15s. were awarded against Flintshire county police, last week, when they failed to obtain convictions against...

IN the Queen's Bench Division on I Monday the former director of a number of coach tour companies was ordered to pay £45,000...

C LATMS for extra pay, shorter hours and longer holidays for 100,000 provincial company bus workers were discussed by the...

THERE could not be one law for the I small operator and another for the large concern, said Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, when he...

R ATES quoted by a concern of Hull forwarding agents were described as "not worth having" when nine objectors appeared at...

t Suffolk County Council are to buy a 30-cwt. lorry. Eccles Public Health Committee are to buy an S.D. tipper. Redditch...

MR. W. NEWLAND WILLIAMS has been appointed sales manager of Dunedin Engineering Co., Ltd. MR. P. A. WHITE has been appointed a...

A SENTENCE of three months' imprisonment upon a haulier, for making false statements in application forms, was reduced to a...

A RRANGEMENTS for this year's rALorry Driver of the Year Competition are now almost complete. The Southend round will be held...

field, Langley, starting promptly at 9 a.m. Entries close on June 25. The " season " will open on April 23 with the Weymouth...

N attempt by Longton and North Staffs Transport, Ltd. to obtain additional vehicles without customer evidence of need, by...

B ECAUSE farmers now require large quantities of bulk grain in place of bagged grain, and because of the need to carry sugar...

B ECAUSR their vehicles would be idle at certain times of the year if they Were operated under contract-A licence, Messrs. C....

H AULIERS in the Mendips fear that if an application by Senator Transport, Great Elm, Somerset, for four new vehicles totalling...

armed licensed coach . driver, Len IVIunden, of Hampstead Road, Brislington, Bristol, has spent some 14 years trying to...

at Newport TRAFFIC jams which slowed up buses I in Newport, Mon, caused the transport department to lose money. Mr. George...

A FTER being refused dispensation to .1 - 1. use a picking-up and setting-down point at Upper Jackson Street, Manchester, the...

E XCELLENT relations existed in Scotland between local authorities and the Traders' Road Transport Association, who were...

1 - 3. A HARD blow at lorry-robbing gangs was delivered by Scotland Yard's Flying Squad on Tuesday night. Detectives raided a...

A T the same time as they accepted the North Western Traffic Commissioners' proposals to prohibit linking on six of their...

T HE former . London Transport tram depot in Norwood Road, London, S.E.27, was opened on Monday as a distribution centre by...

TWENTY-NINE Manchester a n d I Salford operators of tours and excursions joined forces at Manchester, last week, to oppose...

F ARES in Glasgow may be put up in June to pay for the higher wages awarded to crews. A sub-committee is studying suggestions...

T HERE were 1,325,616 goods vehicles licensed during the quarter ended September 30, 1959; of these 1,272,712 were in the...

Dual-purpose Vehicle by Duramin Built to Overcome Special Difficulties Encountered in the Transport of Highly Absorbent...

Thornycroft Research on Multi-fuel Engines Described to Institution of Mechanical Engineers "HE ,multi-fuel engine of the...

A PROMINENT education official, discussing the problem of peakperiod transport, was heard to say: "Family life in •Britain...

Harold Champion pays a flying visit to Belgian territory in Africa and finds sophistication, savagery and a hard-worked...

Tool for Dry Jointing J O INS in metal or plastics pipes and electrical cables without soldering, welding or brazing can be...

to the Trend to Enter Haulage by the "Easy Way" are Discussed By G. W. Irwin L IKE most of the other provisions of the Road...

Ruling on Acquisitions J WO important decisions were made by the Transport Tribunal during their sitting in Edinburgh last...

I DISAGREE with the views expressed by Janus (April 1) I on the use of the London-Birmingham motorway by hauliers' vehicles. He...

As announced in "The Commercial Motor" dated March 25, Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., have approved two six-wheeler conversions for...

to Zurich with a cargo of frozen chickens., . just one of many Austins in use on continental routes today. Her owners are...

AILWAY rate-cutting is severely criticized by Mr. Philip S. Hun - flan, chairman of Transport Development Group; Ltd., in his...

W OULD many people choose the Transport Act, 1953, as the turning-point of transport history in the mid-20th century? This bold...

A LTHOUGH concerned with only one branch of short-distance work, a report, "Collection and Delivery," published this week by...

for Servicing Vans FOLLOWING complete review of the cleaning, lubricating and minor repair duties carried out by their...

A MONG the several factors which have a bearing on the need to adjust long-established maintenance policies are comprehensive...

THREE different interior plans are I offered for the Bedford Utilecon high-top ambulance introduced by Martin Walter, Ltd.,...

DATENT No. 829,650' shows a mech anical means of obtaining any desired degree of dimming for dash panel lights. (C.A.V., Ltd.,...