" unity in the industry is A.THOUGH the need for as great to-day as ever before, the gulf between the Associated Road Operators...

as to the importance to employers of the goodwill of their employees, and this matter is largely bound up with the provision of...

• Mr. Pick's Paper on VUE had thought that Mr. London's Transport "Frank Pick's paper on the Organization . . . organization of...

Of a tourist who thought that lachrymatory was a Swiss lake. That Henry Ford expects a greater union between farm and factory...

" The wheels of wealth will be slowed by all difficulties of transport, at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the...

T HE right of Licensing Authorities to limit to B-licence conditions carriers who have ceased to carry their own goods, is...

The Commercial Motor is assured by the Ministry of Transport that the report published in a national daily newspaper, on...

B OARD OF TRADE returns for November show that the value of imports of commercial vehicles, cars, chassis and accessories was...

In the year ended August 31 lastthe Maudslay Motor Ch., Ltd., made a loss of £9,793, which compares with one of £2,619 in the...

The Minister of Transport has made an Order which permits the hours of drivers of goods vehicles to be increased during...

Organized jointly by the north-west area committee of the Electric Vehicle Committee of Great Britain, Ltd., and Mr. E. Moxon,...

Industrial Transport Publications, Ltd., Dudley House, Southampton Street. Strand, London, W.C.2, has recently published the...

Kidderminster Corporation recommends the purchase of a Morns - Commercial 2 - ton lorry. Searborough Corporation is to obtain...

L AST Tuesday mr..11. Scott Hall (." S.T.R." of The Commercial *tor) read . a paper before the Industrial Transport Association...

Newcomer Defined : No Preference T HERE are only two classes of Operator, namely, those who functioned in the basic year and...

S YMPATHY for the applicant by the South-Eastern Licensing Authority was evident in the appeal of the Southern Railway Co....

of Mr. A. H. Barlow, Manchester, against the refusal of a variation of an A licence by the North-Western Authority. The...

A SEVERE stricture on the appeltAlant's representative was passed by the Tribunal in dismissing, with £9 12s. costs, the appeal...

HE suitability of rail transport for I wet hides was questioned in the appeals of the London, Midland and Scottish, and London...

I NTRODUCED nearly five years ago, the Bedford 2-tonner has won for its maker an enviable reputation, and, until the debut of...

Transport News SOUTHAMPTON AIRPORT EQUIPPED FOR NIGHT FLYING. A DEMONSTRATION of the newly CA completed lighting equipment...

Big Drive for Association Merger I N furtherance of the movement for securing a merger of associations, both in Yorkshire and...

An appeal for united action by the industry to resist further restrictions was made by Mr. R. W. Sewill, national director of...

S OONER or later public opinion would force amalgamation between the A.R.O. and C.M.U.A., said Mr. R. W. Sewill, replying to...

R APLD progress of the C.M.U.A. throughout the country was reviewed by Mr. J. L. Kinder, national organizer, speaking to over...

On Monday, two A.R.O. meetings were held in London. One was at New Cross and the other at Hendon. At, the former meeting, Mr....

LL over the country I find that the principal grumble of hauliers is that there appears to be no way of putting an end to...

By H. F. Hobbs A UTOMATIC or semi-automatic gears, as such, may or may not possess the balance of advantage over the...

Some Random Notes on a Variety of Topics of General Interest to All Sections of the Roadtransport Industry 1\10 observer of...

A S we approach the beginning of another year and the end of the first complete year of goods-vehicle licensing, it is...

YEAR ON GENERAL HAULAGE T HERE can be but few concerns that have celebrated their Diamond Jubilee as established hauliers, and...

PSYCHOLOGICAL TRAINING TO LESSEN ROAD ACCIDENTS. [4701] The psychological element in the cause. of many street accidents is...

T O replace its handy normal-control 20-seater, John I. Thornycroft and Co:, Ltd., Smith Square, London, S.W.1, has introduced...

In Parliament By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent RATE-CUTTING CALLED" COMPETITIVE ANARCHY. A FTER a long discussion,...

F OLLOWING lengthy negotiations, a national agreement for municipal motorbus workers, of whom there are over 30,000 in this...

THE abandonment of the Road 1 Traffic Act, 1930, so far as it concerns public-service vehicles, and a return to the monopoly...

Q N Tuesday, I King's Bench' Divisional Court, consisting of Lord Ifewart and Justices Goddard and Singleton, heard arguments...

VUHAT is believed to be the biggest 'IV bus deal brought off in Wales since the Great Western Railway Co. arranged partly to...

A T the resumed hearing, on Wednesday, in the Metropolitan Area, of the application by United Automobile Services, Ltd., to be...

'THE London and North Eastern Rail' way Co. has failed in its appeal against the decisions of the Northern and Southern...

C ONTR ACTS for a further 270 trolleybuses have been placed by Lcinclou Transport, the vehicles being for service on north and...

rOMPARED with filling up with petrol or oil fuel, the work of topping up the engines with lubricating oil is a laborious...

A WELD in practically any kind of steel made by the electric-arc process has great strength, may be readily machined and can be...

IT is three years since James Neill and Co. (Sheffield), Ltd., Composite Steel Works ; Sheffield, the maker of the well-known...

ACCORDING to P. L'Ora.nge, of 1 -- Canzistatterstrasse 130, . StuttgartF,euerbach, Germany, the cost of an injection pump for a...