F RENCH commercialvehicle manufacturers are digging in. Their output and exports are rising and at the Paris Show there is an...

M ANY members of the . public are feeling aggrieved at the cutting down of certain bus services in respect of both vehicles and...

Half-ball Wheels Not New R EFERENCE was made in the issue of The Commercial Motor for September 3 to a new Marmon-Herrington...

That all want brake efficiency but no brake on efficiency. That "One effect of the increased fares charged on the District...

0VER 20 municipal authorities await judgment today in a High Court case which has been brought against Birmingham Corporation...

made this autumn to sell the vehicles of British Road Services, Mr. J. A. BoydCarpenter, Minister of Transport, told the...

" P ILING back" muriate of potash is not subjecting it to a process. This was decided by the Queen's Bench Divisional Court on...

W HEN the Transport Arbitration Tribunal sat in London on Monday to determine the compensation payable to Gilbert Transport,...

MR. ALLAN AVISON and MR, DAVID BROWN, 3NR., have joined the board of the David Brown Corporation. MR. P. KELVIN JOHNSON has...

VELLOW head lamp bulbs will not I solve the dazzle problem. This is stated with confidence" by the Road Research Laboratory,...

A N application by the East Kent 4 - 1. Road Car Co., Ltd., for a general increase of fares from id. to Id. on single fares bp...

" T HERE is no logical reason for continning workpeople's fares. People who travel before 8 a.m. are no longer the least...

THE general public would not accept "control of a kind that is based centrally in London or in a number of large provincial...

A N allegation that it was sometimes necessary to pay bribes to secure business was made by a former haulier at Nottingham...

W HEN Thomas Lishman and John Humphreys, timber and haulage ' contractors, of Spa Farm. Witherslack, appeared before KeAdal...

1453 have been made to British Railways drivers in • the SeOttish Region. Rossteigh, Ltd., have taken over Dex Automobiles,...

I our transport industry is a long period of peace and stability, untroubled by any disturbance, be it political, economic;...

cUNDS should not be diverted to the nationalization of road transport. in which substantial private investments might otherwise...

Q NE-MAN bus 'operation, already carried out on two services, is to be extended by Halifax Passenger Transport Department....

T HE Lorry Driver of the year" is Peter D. Privett, of Messrs. W. G. Privett and Sons, Drayton, Portsmouth. This was decided at...

New London Depot for Blue Circle Cement Facilitates Bulk Handling W ITH the wider facilities available at the recently opened...

O NE of the surprises of the Paris Motor Show (reported on pages 384-388) was the introduction of the Hillman Husky...

By John F. Moon T HE air of expectancy which generally surrounds the annual Paris Salon was no more than a cloud of dust...

Motorways Might Not Increase Safety, Says Sir Gilmour Jenkins in his Presidential Address to Institute of Transport : Value of...

CQUARE-SECTIONED pillars of k-- 3 light alloy and timber cant and breast rails are features of a Luton 1,050-cu.-ft. body built...

B.R.S. Superintendent Buys Back Former Business at Rye: Two More List Si Units with Premises —One at Swavesey and One at...

A LIGHT-ALLOY cab which can be knocked down for export is an interesting feature of a platform body produced by Carmichael and...

C OUR J FESY and bland resignation are on the mask that British Road Services turn towards the public. The features behind may...

More Clearing House Trouble R ECENTLY I experienced procedure in t onneetton with a clearing house which has not been very...

• An Enormous Amount of. Clerical Labour is Required in Assessing Ton mile Figures with Accuracy, but Even Then Their Value to...

A 1VIONG the new vehicles to be shown at the Motor Show, which opens at Earls Court on October 20, will be a Standard Ten...

I T is well known that the efficiency of a petrol engine is proportional to its compression ratio, but this is at its optimum...