(Manufacturers of High Quality Diesel Engines) Excellent Results of Export Drive MR. F. A. PERKINS ON MEASURES TO COUNTERACT...

w HY has it been generally assumed that it is essential for the Traffic Corriniissioners to control the fares for public...

D ESPITE exhortations from official and other quarters, there has been but little response to the anti-litter crusade. From...

Well Worthy of the "Mayflower" n NE would hardly anticipate that there could be a connection between the sailing of the...

A CTION is to be taken by the Ministry of Transport to prevent operators' from using combinatiOns either as separate lorries...

TRIBUTE is paid by Mr. R. G. L Crowther, national chairman of the Road Haulage Association, in his 1956-57 rep o r t, to Mr....

IN the last three months of 1956, 17,018 additional C-licence vehicles were introduced and [0,171 more C-licence holders came...

appointed general manager of the Black and Decker Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Toronto. MR. ROBERT HUNT, sales fleet...

M EMBERS of the Road Haulage Association were recommended last week by the national rates committee to reduce by two-thirds the...

( N IL consumption in this country last kJ year was 8.5 per cent. higher than in 1955. Consumption of petrol at 6.3m. tons was...

TUESDAY'S meeting of the National 1 Council for the Omnibus Industry was adjourned after the employers had replied to the...

E UROPEAN inland goods transport requirements will rise by about 18 per cent. by 1960, stated the Organization for European...

A PPLICATION by Stockport Cur 11 to increase revenue by varying their fares structure originally put forward in March, 1956,...

A PLANNING appeal concerning his rk depot at Oldbury has been won by Mr. Sam Anderson, Motherwell. Oldbury Town Council had...

Rationing Debate: A debate on petrol rationing is to be initiated by Earl Howe in the House of Lords on May 1. Quicktho Merger...

T HE second group scheme initiated by producers in Scotland for the bulk collection of milk from farms will come into operation...

COLE representation and distribution rights for the British Commonwealth for the heavy-duty dumpers made by Fried. Krupp...

rEBRUARY'S output of commercial I vehicles was substantially lower than that of last year, but the Value of exports was higher....

CENTENCE of. three months' 4--/ imprisonment was imposed on Edward McCormick, Dalinally Street, Glasgow, at Glasgow Sheriff...

F IGURES for the applicant's carryings did not reflect the evidence submitted when the licence was granted In May, 1955, stated...

TO be used for transporting metal, a Commer oil-engined van has been supplied to Johnson Matthey and Co., Ltd., by Rootes,...

I N the first 20 weeks of its use, radio control of part of the Lancashire county ambulance service cut mileage by 28,861....

T HE range produced by R. A. Dyson and Ltd., Grafton Street, Liverpool; 8, has been augmented by the' addition of 'a 14-15,ton...

TWO large contracts from nnanufac1 turers have been gained by F.. Perkins, Ltd., which -will more than offset the loss of...

Traders' Road TranSport Association, to bring to the notice of local authorities the -importance to trade and • industry of...

Ideal Vehicle Sought by Brick Company to Use Quick-loading Gear to Fullest Advantage A N ingenious method of loading bricks,...

WHETHER automatic transmissions on the fluid principle W will supersede the old-fashioned clutch and gearbox on British buses...

"Free" Lifts that are Not So Free T OUR leading article of April 5 on private-car owners -carrying - passengers on a...

New 3,000-lb. Electric Fork Truck A MONG their exhibits at the British 171. Industries Fair, from May 6-17, .Ransomes, Sims...

B El - NG derived directly: from the Swiftsure 6-ton' . chassis, the Thornycroft Swift 4-tonner. gives a margin of strength...

A NOTHER municipal official has mentioned the likelihood of a further claim for increased wages for busmen, although, as The...

I MPOSITION and removal of the extra shilling on the fuel tax took place with surprisingly little comment. Operators were...

Asks Ralph Cropper, M.Se.(Econ.), B.A., A.M.Inst.T. W HAT is going to happen when the 'special A (5) licence , expires?' Is...

A TECHNIQUE for waterproofing van:'roots mdde of canvas or aluminium, by applying a glasspol skin has been developed;:lKits -...

A LTHOUGH the mileage run by the Northern General Transport Co., Ltd., and associated companies, in the last financial year...

A NEW and unusual method of load ing small products in loose bulk into long-distance semi-trailers and discharging them at...

A . FLEET of British vehicles is ri engaged upon a new project in South Africa, laying a 90-mile pipeline to augment the water...

I HAVE been asked to deal with costs and charges for the use of a coach on private-hire -work. As one inquirer puts it: " I...

P ATENT No. 769,350 shows a suspension system which uses air for the springing medium, and is controlled in such a manner that...