the concerns affected were operating under private enterprise, they and their executives were paying large sums to the...

made recently - to Parliament by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps,, is an unintentional but damning...

Doyen of American A N active link with the early Press and Motoring r - 1 days of the American Retires motor industry and its...

unfortunate impression that cost and waste are not of such great importance because the coffers of the State are available to...

great and appreciated extent, but only because this is considered to be essential to her defence and to -the settlement of...

Many Hauliers Still Wait for Payment After .Several Months 'WHEN Sir Cyril Hurcomb, chairman of the British Transport...

( - IAN a tractor legally be used under a limited trade licence to deliver trailers to the docks for shipment? This was the...

T WO important new insurance arrangements have been concluded by the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association. One covers...

VSTABLISHMENT of trunk road J__+haulage services ffiroughout South Africa, and construction of a £5,000,030 oil refinery at...

MR. J. A. Farr:01%1ER has been appointed a director of Thomas Tilling, Ltd: MR. S. A. WEBB, B.A., has been appointed claims...

C ONTROL of two Yorkshire coach %--/companies, James A. Hudson, Lteb. Leeds, and Mosby Tours, Ltd., Kippax, has been acquired...

1 T was necessary in the public interest to avoid wasteful movement of vehicles, said Mr. J. Foley Eggington, West Midland...

COMMERCIAL-VEHICLE exports in May set a new high level. They greatly exceeded themonthly target and the previous record,...

INCREASED gross" receipts but dis1 proportionately, rising costs were reported by Mr. R. P. Beddow, M.Inst.t, chairman of....

" A N extraordinary number of busi nessness men think that allroad transport undertakings will be nationalized and it is our...

CHANGES brought by the.war years to the "one-tithe small market town' of Bridgend, in . Glamorgan,. were reflected in an...

S INCE British United Traction, Ltd., was formed three years ago, 40 per cent. of the : total _orders received have come from...

K ENT FIRE BRIGADE has just complete4 the construction of a double-deck mobile fire station on a reconditioned bus chassis....

Maxima Lubricants, Ltd., made a net pro fi t of £25.871 in the year ended March 31 -last. A dividend of 40 per cunt. is to be...

over by the British Transport Commission in the first 16 days. of this month, or more than five a day. Thirty-two were acquired...

By S. DUNBAR, I N south-west England there now exists a largely nationalized bus system coMplementary to and competitive with...

A N all-metal pantc.tchnicon body recently built by Arlington Bodybuilders, Ltd., High Road, Ponders End, Enfield, Middlesex,...

ef exempt vehicles is shown in the latest returns issued by the Ministry of Transport. In contrast, registrations for all other...

By Ashley Taylor B ETWEEN my journey to France in the first week of the Normandy . invasion and my visit last month to Northern...

New Ministry of Health Laboratou Provides for 20 Examinations an H our. Pictures Processed on Vehicle B Yw" of extending its...

IIEND in the Mc Lance Shop By P. G. TUCKER E VERY operator who has tried to expand his garage or maintenance depot or acquire...

Smaller Vehicles to be Preferred I N last week's issue of "The Commercial Motor " I dealt with the cost of hauling. -...

Vehicles Built A LARGE number of members of the Institute' of Road Transport Engineers paid a visit on July 14 to the A.E.C....

THE arduous work involved in the removal or replacement of tractor and other heavy types of tyre is avoided by the use of...

S TILL 'another use for the ubiquitous tractor is described in patent No. 614,605, which shows an attachment for boring deep...