A CHAIRMAN of magistrates suggested, in a recent case concerning goods-vehicle taxation, that manufacturers should not leave...

WE were surprised, and a little disappointed, see that the National " Safety First" Association—which we number among our...

O PERATORS -will not have been alarmed by the somewhat sensational headlines appearing in the daily Press announcing a great...

Tractors for Ploughing have already referred to During an Emerthe tractor reserve to be gency instituted by the Government....

Of Sir Arthur as the Report King. That the volumes produced must cost him many nights at the round table. That the B.R.F....

I T was with great personal regret that we learnt of the death, on May 20. in his 61st year, of Sir (Herbert) Raymond Dennis,...

Thursday of last week, S.T.R. $ a..a r ( The C ornmercial Motor costs expert), in addressing members of the Institute of the...

of the week (continued) DISCRIMINATION IN USE OF TXRE GAUGES. T HE ordinary Schrader tyre gauge is intended as a personal...

COUNCif.r.0E ALFRED JOHN LUCKETT has been elected to succeed Alderman A. Sturgess as chairman of the Derby Transport, Stores...

Welslipnot Town Council requires a 3-ton d u al-pn ruole lorry. Rothbury Rural District Council is to buY a lire-engine costing...

NEW FLAT-TOPPED-BEAM HEAD LAMP. C LAIMED to incorporate a new optical design, a head lamp, named the Flat Ray, has just been...

Oil Bus in Halifax Power Output of 8.8-litre Comettype Engine Increased by 33 per cent. by Means of Centric Supercharger. Much...

I N these days, when the public . has almost forgotten that there ever was such a vehicle as an open top-deck bus, it is of...

Labour Side Holds Back Wage Agreement THERE is always a likelihood, when I Mr_ D. Richardson speaks at any public meeting,...

The British Road Federation welcomes the report of the Transport Advisory Council on the railways' 'square deal' proposals, and...

Commenting on the report of the T.A.C., Mr. F. G. Bristow, general secretary of the C.M.U.A., has made the following...

r - I N Monday Lord Howe made a \a/vigorous speech at the annual general meeting of the 734i:fish Road Federation. The first...

HERE were no high spots in the 1 speeches at this year's annual dinner of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen...

T HE Minister was asked by Mr. B. Smith what steps had been taken to give effect to the recommendation of the .Baillie...

More Reasons Why Hauliers, When Thinking of Competing. Against Rail Rates, Should Dare to Charge More Than the Railways Charge...

'THE Fiat concern of Turin, the leading producer in Italy 1 of motor vehicles of all types, has, for some time, been turning...

A Precis of an Informative Paper by Mr. R. Stuart Pikher, F.R.S.E. T HE paper read by Mr. R. Stuart Pilcher, F.R.S.E.,...

Special Equipment on Van and Lorry Bodies Can Make Loading, Unloading and General Access Much Easier M ANY vans have more than...

Nearly All the Points Put Forward in the Mc Committee on Road Transport Rates Embodied Co-ordination of Transport Except That...

An informative Survey of Progress Made by the Diesel Engine Users' Association IN its general report on the develop ment of...

In Johannesburg C ERTAINLY one of the largest municipal fleets of steamers in the world, if not the largest, is that which...

QTATISTICS now available show L.) that, in the opening three months of 1939, new registrations of goods vehicles fen by 1,906,...

TWO, Three and Fivewheeled Trailing and Self -propelled Appliances Give Convincing Display Before Im portant Gathering AST week...

S UCCESSFULLY to operate a business in the marketing of new commercial vehicles is by no means as easy as it might appear to be...

A Leading Maker's Equipment for Subjecting its Brake-shoe Facing Material to Exact Testing for Constancy of Friction and...

connected with the use of commercial motors. Letters should be written on only one side of the paper. The right of abbreviation...

"A Service Manager" Endeavours to Dispel Prejudice Against Governors by Explaining Their True Purpose and How they May Be...

O WING to a shortage of steel, the buses which were to be used in the next stage of Bristol's change-over will not be completed...

READING SAYS GOODBYE TO ITS TRAMS O o Sunday last Reading's tram services were taken over by a fleet of 25 A.E.C.-English...

Multi-axle Vehicles P ATENT No. 503,441 comes from Automobiles lndustriels Latil, 8, Quai Gallieni, Suresnes, France, and...