T HE Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Heathcoat Amory, has given the nation in general, and the road transport industry in...

A CCORDING to Mr. M. J. Miles, honorary secretary of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition, the accessory and component...

Honoured in His Time M R. I. H. MALE received the loudest applause of the evening at the Road Haulage Association's West...

That plastics and politics seem to have a finger in every pie nowadays. That some politicians are more 61astic than others—...

THE total issued capital of Peter Slater, Ltd., and associated companies, has been acquired by Cawood Wharton and Co., Ltd.,...

A PLAN by British Road Services and independent hauliers to create rmk with the trade unions a new Joint Industrial Council is...

LTHOUGH he did not believe a I - 1 Labour Government would restrict C-licensees, the Association should be prepared to prove...

A FTER hard bargaining at a meeting lasting from 11 a.m. until 8.30 p.m., the Road Haulage Wages Council last week agreed to...

S TERN criticism was levelled at Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., by the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, last week, when they asked...

A S large operators, Midland Road Tank Services, Ltd., should have known better than to stray outside their normal user, Mr. W....

MR. T. N. HEWITT is the new manager for the Cardiff branch of Advance Motor Supplies, Ltd. . MR. H. H. CHAPMAN has resigned...

T HE partial reduction in vehicre licence duties only scratches at the surface of the bus industry's problem and this year it...

A BAN on smoking in the lower 1- 1 saloons of double-deckers operated by the Northern General Omnibus Co.. Ltd., and the...

Commission of Inquiry Wanted • T HE need for taking road transport out of politics and for equalizing the basis of competition...

A HAULIER who was fined last year for carrying seaweed outside the conditions of his B licence successfully appealed against...

T HE need for special facilities to enable holidaymakers with Christian principles to travel together from Manchester to the...

retuned to 1 power at the next general election, nationalization of the transport industry, or of any other industry, will...

IF extended coach tours were to survive, in the face of competition from • '• Continental coach tours, they must be allowed a...

Monro's Transport (Aberdeen), Ltd., against the Scottish Licensing Authority's refusal to grant them a collection and delivery...

Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, . at Bristol, on Monday, admitted he had been carrying under a Contract-A licence cut...

QUMMING. up his paper, Performance b-iof Vehicles Under Trans - Antarctic Conditions" read before the Automobile Division of...

' A PPLYING for a new six-vehicle B licence at Birmingham, on Monday, Wm. Legge Transport and Contracting Service, Ltd.,...

nESCRIBING the reduction in Excise LI duty on public service vehicles as' " insignificant" in the Budget debate in the House...

cutlass, guarded London's first commercial docks. Today the tidal reaches of the Thames, 69 miles from the Estuary to...

T HERE has been a mixed reaction from the bus industry to the Budget. Some operators are lodging fare applications which have...

E LECTION results in the Road Haulage Association's Metropolitan and South Eastern Area have now been announced. The area...

IUTANY hard-hitting criticisms of al nationalized industries were made by the four speakers at a mass meeting in' Dudley, last...

'THE training of more and better qualified junior executives has for many years been a primary aim of the 'Institute of the...

N inspector appointed by the Ministry of Transport heard a British Railways appeal at Leeds last week, against the Yorkshire...

T HE idea of special traffic wardens to relieve the police force received further support from the Chief Constable of...

ence of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers at Eastbourne from May 12-13 will include a discourse...

A BUILDING company's attempt to .1 - 1. enter haulage with a 7-ton articulated outfit on B licence was frustrated at Liverpool,...

THE delivery of cars by special trans" porter is becoming more and more popular, it was stated at Preston last week. Lathom...

Inhibiting Corrosion B ECAUSE water is corrosive, an inhibitor should be used all the year round in an engine cooling system....

R ENATIONALIZATION of long-distance road haulage will be given a high priority by the next Labour Government, says Mr. Ernest...

Passenger Transport Policy Relies on Accurate Financial Forecasting HAT the management accountant is concerned with the...

A LEADING article headed "Tyres a Delicate Problem" " in your issue dated February 20, was inclined to make me think that the...

Leighton Buzzard's Population is Expected to Increase Rapidly, and Business Should Grow With It By D. R. MacGregor, B.Sc....

A N addition has been made to the heavy-duty range of sixand eightwheelers introduced last year by Seddon Diesel Vehicles,...

XHIB1TS on the A,E.C. stand at the Engineering, Marine. Welding and Nuclear Energy Exhibition, to be held at Olympia, London,....

O NE of the most interesting developments observable at the Commercial Motor Show last year was the provision on a number of...

A SEMI-TRAILER which can be let down to the ground at the front for loading has been designed by Taskers of Andover (1932),...

T YRES may account for more than 10 per cent. of the - total cost . of operating a Commercial vehicle. To run a 5-ton...

F ACILITIES offered by British Railways for the delivery of new cars and tractors from the works to Aberdeen were criticized by...

N OVELTY in the design of clutches is shown in patent No. 809,593 which discloses one using a single, central, helical spring....