T HE manner in which successive Governments have shirked their responsibilities in connection with thern roads of this country...

I IsT every copy of this issue are included, as a free supplement, The Commercial Motor Tables of Operating Costs. These...

The Battery. electric THERE is no doubt that the Vehicle Increasing in I battery-electric vehicle is Popularity . . . . making...

OVER 500,000 COMMERCIAL MOTORS LICENSED. At the end of November, 1936, 445.825 licences were current for goods vehicles and...

Glasgow Transport Department has decided to recommend the corporation to place contracts for 100 double-deck oil-engined...

I.ORD HIRST continues, - this year, in the position of President of the Federation of British Industries, his nomination by...

On appeal, the Minister of Health has upheld York City Council's refusal to grant permission for the erection of a garage for...

That traders must have complete freedom of choice in obtaining the exact class of transport to suit their needs, was the...

Rates Stabilization T WO new moves are being made on the question of the organization of rates stabilization in the Yorkshire...

That the .Bedford Drivers' Club has a membership approaching 30,000, was announced by Mr. F. C. Davis, president of the Newport...

T HE importance of electric vehicles as a practically untapped field for the electricity-supply undertakings. which at present...

I NSTEAD of becoming clearer, the position with regard to Associated Road Operators and the merger seems to grow more...

T HE battery-electric vehicle is a type of machine welt suited to the requirements of house-to-house collection or delivery...

IN our issue for last week we gave I•figures indicating the advance in new vehicles registered in November, 1936, compared •...

A NOTHER year of disquiet and uncertainty has closed for the road-transport industry. In many quarters it was hoped that the...

C.M.U.A. Silent on Merger Issue LANCS HAULIERS SUPPORT A.R.O. It is understood that haulier members of A.R.O. East...

A LETTER has been sent from A.R.O. Yorkshire Area headquarters to the Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority (Mr. E. Russell...

It is understood that the Birmingham Sub-area, the Western Area Regional Committee and Frome Sub-area of A.R.O have passed...

"Tells the World" " D GAD-TRANSPORT progress must not be stopped in the interests of the shareholders of the railway...

E. D AR Mr. Haulier, Passenger-vehicle Operator and Friends,— You will find, enclosed with this issue of The Commercial Motor,...

Retail Trades Call for Wages Control R EFERENCES to antagonism to trade unionism on the part of certain concerns in the...

A N employer must see that a driver has the statutory period "for rest," but need not ensure that he uses his rest time for...

F EARS that, as a quid pro quo for the provision by the L.N.E. Railway Co. of improved facilities for timber importers at Hull...

T AKING into account 30 vehicles operated by several subsidiary companies, Pilkington Brothers, Ltd., the noted glass-making...

and QUERIES HARSH TREATMENT WHICH DESERVES AN IMPARTIAL INQUIRY. [4965] I have perused with great interest the letter from...

er0 combine the advantages and to eliniinate the faults of the two-stroke and fourLstroke types of internalcombustion engine...

Passenger Transport PRICE OF FORMING STAFFS BOARD A FIGURE of 24,400 per bus, in1 - 1.. eluding stocks, buses, garages and...

T HE fact that an American White "pancake "-engined bus has been imported into this country by Leyland Motors, Ltd., for...

S EVEN coach undertakings, coordinated for certain services as Associated Motorways, applied before the North-Western Traffic...

H ENDON garage of London Trans/port is to be allocated 100 new Leyland buses of the latest type, which will provide new fleets...

er HE North-Western Traffic Commis1 sioners have refused to sanction a scheme of return fares submitted to them in November by...

south-east Lancashire are to be examined by a special committee, which was appointed at a conference held in Manchester, on...

L AST week the 1 - ugh Court dismissed a contract-carriage case. Mr. J. R. G. Dell, of Lye Green, Chesham (Bucks), trading as...

PERFORMANCE DF FORDSCYN 25-CWT. LORRY A POWER-TO-WEIGHT ratio of over 1 b.h.p. per cwt. is high for any vehicle of more than...

A NOVEL deice of Continental origin is shown in patent No. 457,908, by E. Grote, 5, Carmerstrasse, Berlin-Charlotteiaburg,...

0 LD readers of The Commercial Motor as well as new, those who are familiar with these Tables as well as those to whom they...