T HE Government's new determination not to rely solely on huge public loans and ill-disguised subsidies to revive the railways...

=lett Sinclair T HE ubiquitousness of Scottish engineers is a standard English joke which illustrates how narrow the English...

Transport's Comedian T HE other evening, Mr. Eric Russell, acting chief executive officer of the Road Haulage Association, was...

L ONDON busmen, whose claim for a £1-a-week rise was rejected in January, were offered wage increases of up to 10s. a week on...

A REWARD will be paid by the Road Haulage Association for information leading to a conviction for theft or attempted theft of a...

IT was announced on Wednesday that United Carriers, Ltd. ' would cease operations after April 30. The company's demise follows...

fares on the Coventry-London route via M1 should be the same as by rail because road express operators could now compete...

A N application by C. G. Littlewood, Spital Hill, Sheffield. to operate day coach excursions to London via the M1 was refused...

MR. B. J. SHARP has been appointed secretary of Quicktbo (1928), Ltd. MR. MILES B. REID has resigned from the board of the...

R OAD transport is the future: railways are the oast. And, to emphasize this contention, Mr. R. N. Ingram, national chairman of...

FROM G. DUNCAN JEWELL HYDE, Tuesday THERE was a conflict between the StaIybridge, Hyde, Mossley and Dukinfield Transport Board...

I N the Chancery Division on Tuesday, Mr. Justice Cross granted an interim injunction until today to Mr. John Augustus Hill,...

BY OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT THE licensing of goods vehicles May be overhauled in the Road Traffic Bill which Mr. Ernest...

Shock for London 4C E hope to introduce our new Road WTraffic Bill before Easter," said Mr. John Hay, Joint Parliamentary...

R AILWAY financial problems could not be solved by artificial restrictions on other forms of transport, Mr. R. A. McNeile, the...

C ERTA1N decisions of the Transport ‘-- , Tribunal appeared to open the hack door into road haulage. This was the view...

WHAT were described as the first VV 64-seat buses to be built on 27-ft.long chassis in this country went into service with...

rONDMONS proposed by the North Western Traffic Commissioners to prohibit the linking of destinations and catchtnent areas were...

TUDGMENT was reserved in the High J Court, last week, on an Official Referee's decision that a company director should pay...

A N active re-entry into road haulage was made last week by Thomas Tilling, Ltd., who sold out their previous bus and haulage...

A LTHOUGH Mr. A. R. Hill, manag( - V ing director of Hillwood Finance, Ltd., said on Sunday that finance companies had found...

Q UESTIONED by Mr. W. P. James, West Midland Licensing Authority, an applicant at Shrewsbury last week said that he bought...

THE evidence of one customer who I would supply outward loads was not enough to justify more vehicles on an A licence. This was...

INCREASING congestion in Manchester is making the collection of goods more difficult and additional vehicles are essential to...

THERE could be no renewal of an A licence for a vehicle which had changed its normal user, without evidence of need, an...

at Manchester on Monday, to oppose a B-licence application by A. Foster Transport Co., Ltd., Ancoats, for 20 vehicles totalling...

T " practice of increasing the weights of special-A-licensed trailers and semi-trailers without telling the Authorities was...

T " need to ensure that specifications of vehicle weight were kept up to date was stressed by Mr. W, F. Quin, Scottish...

r0'.VIMER and Karrier vehicles from ‘..." 15 cwt.-10 tons will be assembled at a new Rootes plant opened at Salisbury, Southern...

M R. ERNEST MARPLES, Minister of Transport, has announced that work will start shortly on the final stage of the...

S IX Government officials from Finland arrived in London last week-end for a two-day visit as guests of A.E.C., Ltd., and Simms...

our on Demountable Bodies Direct Savings Derived From a New Loading System Will Offset Capital Cost In Two Years By P. A. C....

kT GENEVA By ohn F. Moon, A.M.I.R.T.E. T . ,HE Soviet Union provided some welcome relief this year at what might otherwise...

M EANS by which the proposed Channel Tunnel could bc operated were described to the Institute of Transport in London on Monday...

H AVING supplied British Railways with six plastics containers for experimental purposes (The Commercial Motor, are being the...

R OMANTIC fancies have a hard time of it nowadays, what with Freud, television and the Chancellor of the Exchequer. If there...

anion. Behind it, bells clanging, roars a econd engine—a pump escape for wn fires or blazing chimneys. A water nder for country...

How Ministry Officials Keep Watch on Drivers' Records and Hours of Work by Road and Other Inspections By a Special...

Batteries Revived A COMPOUND which, when added to . the electrolyte in battery cells, is said to disperse lead sulphate...

W HAT Mr. C. J. McDonald, Western Deputy Licensing Authority,. described as an ambitious application by British Road Services,...

THE need for a fair and lasting solution of the traffic problem is stressed in the annual report of the Traders' Road Transport...

M ANY vehieles of different kinds were brought into action to combat locust swarms in Tripolitania, and their work was...

SERVICE NEEDS SELLING The Sales Side of Conducting a Haulage Business is Frequently Ignored by Potential Entrants to the...

DATENT N o. 827,067 describes a scheme by which exhaust gas is used to operate a brake servo as well as providing...