F OREIGNERS must be amazed at the la ckadaisical manner in which the planning, building and reconstruction of our roads are so...

T HE police are becoming very active in their trapping, not only of drivers who exceed the limit of 30 m.p.h. in built-up...

THERE is little doubt that there are large i numbers of people outside the road-transport industry who, nevertheless, are...

I N his annual report the city engineer of Christ church, New Zealand, mentions that six batteryelectric vehicles are still in...

Of a 75-in.p.h. goods vehicle. That Mr. F. G. Bristow is travelling to Southport by road. That in Italy most broken springs...

A BIG MEETING OF LONDON ANCILLARY USERS. An important meeting of ancillary users in the Metropolitan area is being held by the...

T HE Associated Road Operators held its first public meeting in Liverpool, on Monday, When the speaker was Mr. Wyndham Gibbs,...

Rothamsted experimental station disproves the objection to rotary power agrimotors that rotary cultivation gives too fine a...

Down County Council is to buy six 3-ton lorries. Hastings Corporation is buying a Carrimore Kidderminster Corporation is...

The 20th examination of the Institute of the Motor Trade will be held in Loudon and provincial centres on November 29. The...

WITHIN the next four weeks, 26 W 2,000-gallon Leyland tankers will be operating in Iran for the AngloIranian Oil Co., Ltd., and...

'THERE is every indication that the National Road Transport Conference organized by the Commercial Motor Users Association,...

of America's Road Transport ly/HILsT America may be able to W show us something in the way of sky-scrapers, Great Britain has...

WE are able, this week, to supplc• VY ment the brier forecast, published last week, of the exhibits to be seen in the...

N OW that the Mersey Tunnel has proved itself an immense success and a vital link in the road communications between Liverpool...

A LTHOUGH the Engineering and / - 1 Shipbuilding Exhibition at Olympia was devoted mainly to exhibits concerning other branches...

The Position of the Jack and the Side Thrust May Increase the Load by as Much as zoo per cent. By FRANK R. CARR (Accessories...

Road Test No. 225 G REAT interest was aroused, during the Scottish Show, in November last, when it was , announced that an oil...

THAT once a B-licence holder has I obtained certain conditions on his licence, they may not be varied, except in the case of...

By Capt. E. H. B. Palmer, 0.B.E. I F one desires a Utopian view of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, it may well be considered...

S COME interesting pointers on the trend of commercial-vehicle design in America were given us by Mr. W. Wallace, director and...

R EPRESENTATIVES of the employers in the Northern, NorthWestern and Yorkshire Traffic Areas were in consultation at Newcastle,...

rOMPLATNT of alleged illicit opera tion by C-licence holders, who were stated to have regularly used C-licence vehicles for...

A N important meeting of the NorthWestern Area Joint Conciliation Board was held on September 12, following dicaffection in...

HEAVY LOADS ON LIGHT VEHICLES. [4636] I have never been able to understand why • it. is considered in certain quarters...

New Power-harvesting Equipment A NEW type of machinery for power harvesting has been introduced by Ransomes, Sims and...

USING THE D.H.86s AT HOME AND 'OVERSEAS. F OLLOWING the -experience of the past nine months in the use of D.H.86 Express Air...

PASSENGEk TRANSPORT NEW I.F.S. SAFETY REGULATIONS r XTENSIVE safety regulations for ._...:buses • and coaches were issued on...

for small oilers S INCE Simms Motor Units, Ltd., Gresse Street, Rathbone Place, London, W.1, commenced production of its...

I T is now generally well known that London Transport is carrying out a big conversion scheme in the metropolitan area which...

I MAKE no apologies for returning once more to the subject of depreciation. It is a most controversial one, concerning which...

wheeled, light goods vehicle forms the subject of patent No. 432,829, by S. T. Brightman, 29, St. John's Street, Bedford. The...