S TRONGER headboards for lorries are likely to be -an overdue outcome of the proposed new Construction and Use Regulation...

T HERE is a tendency, even among those who should know better, towards confused thought on the difference between wages and...

By The Hawk A LTHOUGH he deprecatingly describes himself as "another one of these retired generals," there is nothing Blimpish...

I N September, 1900, when Mr. Joseph Chamberlain was Secretary for the Colonies, a Stranraer youth, fired with tales of London...

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE employers panel of the Road Haulage Wages Council, who met on Tuesday afternoon in preparation...

T HE non-publication of an application by Associated Motorways, for the extension of a Cheltenham-Coventry express journey to...

SOMEONE should tell the Road Haulage Association that it was necessary for them to ensure that figures produced on behalf of...

Tw CI men, Horace Clifford Davies, owner of a small bus, and Robert Marsh, organizer of Sunday journeys from Leicester, were...

vice-principal of the Chelsea College of Aeronautical and Automobile Engineering. He will take up the appointment in October....

nURING his public examination in bankruptcy, at Stonehaven Sheriff Court, last week, a Kincardine haulier was asked to explain...

A LTHOUGH no further penalty for previous misdemeanours would be inflicted on Crompton Garage Co., Ltd., High Street, West...

A T the Earls Court Show, R. A. Dyson and Co., Ltd., are to introduce a new van-bodied semi-trailer of unit construction with...

G IANT tyres of all types, including remoulds, may be used on commercial vehicles up to a maximum sustained speed of 45 m.p.h.,...

W HEN Blarnire's Transport Services, Ltd., Chapel Lane, Longton, were fined £1 in each of 14 cases of permitting men to drive...

Ex i st i ng Operator rut on Trial" A FTER complaints from workpeople a short-term application made by De Luxe Buses, Ltd.,...

A N inter-depot rates schedule for the private use of members of Associated Road Transport Contractors, Ltd., has been...

T HE shortage of bus crews in London, now estimated at between 5,000-6,000, would not be solved until London Transport offered...

ILLICIT caravan towing took place in 1 the north-west, alleged Mr. M. Stanley, a representative of Hoyland and Stanley Caravan...

QEVERAL 6 x 4 crane-carrier chassis are currently being manufactured by Atkinson Vehicles, Ltd., Walton-le-Dale, Lanes, to the...

A T least 500 accidents, six people killed and more than 100 injured is the toll taken by the fleet of lorries which has...

XPRESS fares charged by some of the 1 —imain operating companies in the West Country are to go up by one penny in the shilling...

New Branch: A new branch office has been opened by the Mercantile Credit Co., Ltd., at 5a King Street, Hereford. More Finance...

Commissioners at Manchester Outlined D ISSATISFACTION over the behaviour of Lancashire United Transport, Ltd., after they...

Pl. A COUNTY court judge was set the task in Nottingham, last week, of deciding what should be done with a coach whose...

'THE 1.960 edition of " The Commercial I. Motor Tables of Operating Costs" was published on Wednesday, and is available from...

A NEW distribution centre opened last week by Mac Fisheries, Ltd., at Finsbury Park, London, N.4, can handle 90 tons of fresh...

F OUR Merryweather 100-ft. hydraulicturntable ladder appliances have been ordered by Lancashire County Fire Brigade. The first...

T HE revised A.E.C. heavy-vehicle range is completed today by the announcement of a new highcapacity passenger chassis, the...

A PUBLICATION just issued by the Ministry of Transport, entitled " Vehicle Testing" (Stationery Office, 2s.), explains the...

D ETAILS of the vehicles to be exhibited by Renault, Ltd., Western Avenue, London. W.3, at the Commercial Motor Show at Earls...

O N the eve of his retirement, Mr. A. Robertson, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, heard an application for 17 additional...

A s announced in last week's issue, the Primrose Third Axle Co., Ltd., Clitheroe, Lancs, have developed a new form of...

I T is not easy for a specialist manufacturer to compete with the mass producers in the lightweight market unless he can offer...

W ILL WE EVER HAVE another summer like that of 1959? Odds are zoo to i against it in years. But what a summer it was ! And what...

V OLUNTEERS must be few and far between for seats on the employers' panel of the Road Haulage Wages Council. Their task seems ....

S HORT of employing a gas-turbine power unit—with dubious advantages, in any case—there seems to be little in the way of...

E QUIPMENT produced by Ferranti, Ltd., Hollinwood, Lanes, provides 1 -4 quick and accurate assessment of the efficiency of...

There's only one way to prove the I worth of a trailer axle and that's by watching it work with big payloads over millions of...

By Providing a Differential Action Between the Piston and Connecting Rod, a Higher Performance Could W THEN the piston of a...

A COMPANY under Spanish control, rTh. Jolover Transport, Ltd., Covent Garden, London, who want to build up a national road...

F OLLOWING frequent' references in these articles to statutory minimum rates of pay as laid down in the current Order R.H.(68),...

With fuel purchased in bulk at 3s. 10d. per gallon, and a consumption rate of 16 m.p.g., fuel costs per mile would amount to...

A SPECIAL vehicle covered by patent the carriage of long loads. The rear separate steerable bogie. (G. Hougharn Church Road,...