TRANSPORT has enough problems on its hands needing solution 1 without the confused issues being the more confounded by...

From a Special Correspondent A SSUMPTIONS in some quarters that the liner trains dispute was virtually over when, a week or...

T HE Royal Assent has been given to the Carriage of Goods by Road Bill, designed to give statutory effect to the MR Convention....

H IGHLY controversial resolutions are to be discussed at the first session of this year's Road Haulage Association Conference...

T HE Minister of Transport has announced that about half the motorway and trunk road schemes due to start shortly will be...

PA A NEW distribution depot of Rowntree and Co. Ltd. at Bounds Green, New Southgate, London, Nil, was officially opened by Mr....

during the past two years, the Belfast Steamship Co. Ltd. is to end its weekly livestock shipping service from Londonderry to...

From a Special Correspondent ONSIDERABLE resentment by white collar staffs of BRS may he anticied following the blunt rejection...

PORK is to start shortly on the second stage of the Durham motor/ —the 5-1-mile section running from :We, at the northern end...

O N Monday, the first parking meters intended exclusively for the use of goods vehicles came into use in the City of London....

I N a bid to boost exports of heavy-duty commercial vehicles to South Africa, Rhodesia and Portugal, Mr. Peter M. Yates will...

THE Road Haulage Association inter national group has been invited by Thoresen Car Ferries Ltd. to inspect the company's...

BY E. JAMES MILLEN ik FUNNY thing happened to me on the way to the office on Monday. when I broke my journey to look in at...

ROUGH the medium of its guarded nTy parks the risk of theft has been sized as far as is reasonably possible the economics of...

T HE tenth repeat order for BTC Four' in-Line semi-trailers to be placed by the AC-Delco division of General Motors Ltd. shows...

By GUS CONSTANTINE Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—One day last March a Nebraska trucker informed he Interstate...

L a Special Correspondent NG-DISTANCE lorry drivers are iot required to conform to the high lards of physical health demanded...

and Sons Ltd., seed specialists kimsby, with effect from Septerni. Mr. Baxendale is at present with lie and Co. Ltd., Ellesmere...

L ORD LINDGREN, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, will be the guest of honour at the annual dinner of the...

nETAILS of a new range of 30 ft. bus and coach chassis based on the 36 ft. Leopard chassis have been announced by Leyland...

coach chassis listed is via a single dry-plate clutch and four-speed constantmesh gearbox with synchronizing cones for third...

in• A NEW version of the AEC Regal underfloor-engined p.s.v. chassis designed for export markets is to be featured on the...

T HE Ceylon Transport Board has acted on the first stage of a 10-year development plan providing for more buses, extension of...

PROVISIONAL order for 150 Atlantean chassis at £3,184 14s. each been authorized by Glasgow Cor'don transport committee. Linked...

tDERS announced by Scottish Omnibuses Ltd. (Eastern Scottish) include 45 ol RE 36-ft. chassis to be lifted with h bodies by...

1E Minister of Transport has dismissed an appeal by Graham's Bus ice Ltd. against a decision of the tish Traffic Commissioners...

R OAF) services across the Forth Road Bridge have taken one-third of the former rail traffic off the Edinburgh-Fife routes and...

A N appeal by the London Transport Board against a grant by the Metropolitan deputy Traffic Commissioner to Mannsway Coaches...

A FAMILY business which has rls operated bus services in West Cumberland for 35 years appeared before the Northern Traffic...

QTARTING on September 5, Crosville Motor ServiceS Ltd. will run limitedstop services between Chester and Caernarvon, 70 miles...

TOTAL of £130 in fines and five guineas costs were imposed on Melvyn M. Mattock, of Mattock Haulage. Stoke Newington. when he...

A N A licence for eight artics based in Liverpool to cover carriage of goods for Huntley and Palmer Ltd. in accordance with the...

EYLAND MOTORS announced on Wednesday that orders for truck and bus La chassis worth over £1.250.000 had been received from...

VING evidence in support of three applications for additional tonnage licences before the North Western ty Licensing...

MMONSES resulting from the carting away of rubble from the Odeon, ble Arch. building site were heard Monday by Mr. Walter...

B ECAUSE of the special needs when licensing low-loaders, more cogent evidence was needed in support, said Mr. .1, A. T....

fares for old-age pensioners has been rejected. The scheme was approved at the Council's July meeting by an overwhelming...

zas been announced by Clayton ewandre Co. Ltd. that the company leveloped a valve for commercialle air-braking systems which...

IE of the exhibits by the York frailer Co. Ltd. at the forthcoming kfurt Show will he a Freightmaster semi-trailer converted...

CHNIC1ANS of the Avon Rubber I.td. have completed development new compound which will be used be manufacture of the Express...

r OINCIDENT with the publication of a new training handbook, the Institution of Mechanical Engineers last week held a Press...

I T IS claimed by Mr. D. G. Woodings, the driver of the articulated two-deck 32-ft. cattle truck shown in the accompanying...

T "Eproposed merger of the Pressed Steel Co. with the British Motor Corporation has been referred to the Monopolies Commission...

Record Year for Oldham and Son: Group turnover of Oldham and Son Ltd. in the year ended March 31 last was a record £6,613,858...

F ROM August 31 next all books carrying the Temple Press imprint will he distributed by George Newnes Ltd. Readers requiring...

The Garage Lathe: Taper Turning A FURTHER application of the garage lathe (discussed here a few months ago) is worth...

T 1 - US week's prizewinner is Mr. N. Yates, of Accrington, Lancs. He says a lot of valuable time can be spent tracing the...

and Publications ange of Battery Chargers k RAMIE of six new battery chargers has been introduced ▪ by Vane Electrical...

New Secretary I recently visited the new offices of the Scottish division of the TRTA, at 139 Bath Street, Glasgow, where the...

BY R. D. CATER, A m Inst B E A T the last Commercial Motor Show there was considerable evidence that driver comfort had been...

H ONEST doubt need cause no shame. In their report on transport policy the Trades Union Congress are certainly not ashamed to...

82% of traffic goes by road PART VII OF A SERIES 3N JAPAN 3Y ALAN HAVARD, m hist T JO less than 81.9 per cent of all goods...

with ?ihi Bros. of Alston n NE of the most popular seasonal outings for people living on Tyneside and Wearside is the journey...

iriver training —a ringside seat R IGHT from the early days of semi-trailer operation the articulated vehicle has been prone...

HOW AN EXISTING TRAINING BOARD GOT OFF THE GROUND N anticipation of the early announcement of an industrial training board for...

'nark to the Road Traffic Acts of 1930 and 1933 in the Prettying courts and ebewhere and asks for clarification as to the...

Lep Results Good and Bad P URELY from the point of view of profitability the results of LEP GROUP for 1964 are indeed...

Defence of AEC TER the past three weeks I have read with interest, but also with growing concern, the comprehensive !spondence...

By George Wilmot Lecturer in Transport Studies. tiniversity of London The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Road Transport-2,...