W ILL the denationalization of long-distance road haulage prove to be a disaster? This question is beginning to press on the...

The Spirit of the Thing 'THE representative of this journal who travelled I from London to Montreux in the A.E.C.Windover...

• That a three-seat cab is now almost an essential • on medium and heavy vehicles. That it is not a case of two's . company....

_TARE increases by three municipal undertakings and one company operator are foreshadowed by infornation received by The...

" 1 INLESS there is a marked increase 1 .-- 1 in revenue, we may well be faced with the necessity of again making application...

T HE Minister of Transport has set up a new Scottish Transport Users' Consultative Committee which will serve until January 31,...

MR. K. C. M. SYMONS has been elected a director of C. Lindley and Co., Ltd MR. J. T. LEECH has been promoted traffic manager of...

nNLY a few major honours were bestowed on men well known in the transport world in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. Mr....

O RDERS valued at nearly £425,000 have been received by Leyland Motors, Ltd., from India and Iraq. The Indian contracts total...

ri A PROPOSAL to seek an alteration in the purchase tax regulations concerning vans will be put forward by the Leeds branch at...

"is it the policy of your company not I to accept the decision of the Traffic Commissioners, or that of the Minister of...

APART from demanding an 11 increase in wages and subsistence . allowance, the workers' side of the Road Haulage Wages Council...

' THERE was no doubt that the Government's decision to authorize a token amount of money for the provision of modern highways...

rWENTY-ONE vehicles with a payI. load capacity of over 200 tons have, he Commercial Motor was informed Wednesday, been...

THERE was no duty upon carriers to decide whether it would be risky to convey frozen food in ordinary instead a insulated vans....

OLLOWING the success of this year's international coach rally at Nice (reported in The Commercial Motor on June 4), the...

T HE possibility of Sheffield becoming a terminal for long-distance coach services was suggested by Mr. Ben Goodfellow, general...

T HE stumbling block to more money for roads is the Treasury, who refuse to be moved, and will not allow more than a...

T HE Maidstone factory of TillingStevens, Ltd., has been completely re-equipped by the Rootes Group since taking over control...

test along the same route, the two vehicles being almost identical except for slight gear ratio variations. When carrying...

Road Fund licences for the period from July 1 may be taken out now at local taxation offices. Two leaflets on the...

LISTIN and Morris-Commercial tractor units with Scammell automatic coupling gear are now being produced. This announcement by...

MOUR new engine and chassis auxiliaries are announced. One is in oil filter, another a petrol filter, the hird a vibration...

A N interesting feature of a new 1,400-gallon tank built for the transport of milk lies in the means adopted for attaching it...

Type 600 cab marked a notable improvement in the appearance of the vehicles and in the cab appointments. It also created a...

I N his presidental address at the annual conference of the Institute of Public Cleansing at Southend-ontea, on Tuesday, Mr. C....

S EVERAL last-minute surprises were sprung by exhibitors at the Mechanical Handling Exhibition, . Olympia, on the opening day....

A N eventful journey has been made by the mobile exhibition unit of Trico-Folberth, Ltd., Brentford. Since 1948, the company...

A STIR was recently caused at Carlisle Auction Market when a cattle truck with a capacity equal to six railway wagon loads of...

and then wonder why the bodies disintegrate after a few months' service. The manufacturers are often blamed for bad design or...

Minst.T. o-o rdinati on Emproves Efficiency F HE establishment of a nationwide ambulance service as a result of the National...

NEW company in the north-west, O.B. Transport, Ltd., Whitby, lesmere Port, Cheshire, has added other 23 vehicles and 18...

H EAVY rain disorganized the programme of competitive events which had been arranged for the National Traction Engine rally at...

k_ NYBODY who thinks the second report of the Disposal Board, any more than the first, may help him in deciding how much to bid...

for Hauliers Solving the Problems of the Carrier I N an article which appeared in The Commercial Motor on June 4, I gave some...

rt A SCHEME for utilizing the backpressure caused by throttling the engine exhaust is shown in patent No 707,438...

but in such a way that at the closed throttle position the lower end is obstructed by the butterfly valve, as shown at 5; the...