R OAD transport in Britain has never had an easy path. From its commencement it has been impeded and restricted by successive...

INCLUDED in this issue is an abbreviated version 1 of an interesting paper dealing with problems in the design of braking...

Docking at Tilbury Docks—a Full Morn ing Wasted . . S OME of our port authorities awst wake up if they are not to discredit...

RAILWAY DELAYSr FURTHER INQUIRY D ELAYS and losses in railway transL./port were alleged by a witness for Messrs. R. C. Green...

N Ewprices for Bedford vehicles came into force on November 11 and are published below. Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., had hoped to...

S HOULD a company, described by counsel for nine objectors as a clearing house, be granted licences to operate vehicles? This...

annual luncheon of the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses, Captain W. F. Strickland said that we were...

indus Itry should be on the basis of a public corporation responsible only to the Minister of Transport and to Parliament, on...

Parcels Service 'TWO speakers at a luncheon held last week to mark the formal winding up of the National Conference of...

the Ministry of Food was given recently by Mr. E. G. Whitaker. Minst.T., before the Midland section of the Institute of...

" T HE removal and warehousing contractor is a specialist doing a specialized jab. His vans are not general road-haulage...

A VIRTUAL monopoly of the transI - 1 port business of the bigger companies, such as Guinness, Ltd., Cement, Ltd., and the Irish...

WAS not the acquisition of so many YY smaller concerns by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., since 1919, equivalent to...

industry is concentrating collection and delivery to such an extent that more vehicles are now required to carry the same...

• MR. E. H. &Arm has just retired after nearly 46 years' service as accountant with the . Lancashire United Transport and Power...

173 EA DERS who have had occasion n . to be connected with the calibra tion and testing of oil-engine fuel pumps will, no...

Below is Published the Text of a Statement Issued This Week by the Road Haulage Association in Reply to the Assertion by Mr. G....

EIRE REDUCES FARES BY £750,000 W/HEREAS in Great Britain the YY tendency is for fares to be increased, C.I.E., Eire's...

a DOOMED? S IGNS are not wanting that the mechanical system of transmission, as employed since the inception ot the motor...

IDEAL BRAKING SYSTEM? A N interesting but necessarily incomplete paper. Some Problems in the Design of Braking Systems," was...

ensures a transparent chromate film on parts coated with zinc or cadmium, which, it is claimed, does not tarnish. Parts are...

PRIVATE HIRE For the Newcomer, Contract Hire of Coaches Involves Greater Legal Complications than Contract Haulage This...

L AST month the Road Haulage Association's film, A Matter of Opinion, was shown at 28 places in the Northern Area on 20 days....

A CASTING process for the rapid production of small parts is shown in patent No. 579,097, by the Ford Motor Co. Ltd., 88,...