T HE Monopolies Commission, as this journal forecast last week, has now issued its report on the supply of electrical equipment...

F OLLOWING complaints on the matter by tenants of an attractively planned housing estate, a provincial council is expected to...

with an aluminium alloy tank mounted on a Bedford TR 7-ton chassis, has recently been added to the Mobil Oil Co. fleet. It will...

A S indicated last week a new roll-on roll-off service linking the East Coas with the Continent has been announce, by the...

A T North London's Magistrate' Court recently it was disclose( that a lorry being used with the wronj fuel was seized by the...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT THE new cla:m for higher pay for 1 130,000 employees in the haulage industry is to be...

IT is announced today by Vauxhall I Motors Ltd. that their Bedford TK forward-control, 1 I-ft. 3-in.and 12-ft. 7-in.-wheelbase,...

on the Monopolies Commission report on vehicle electrical equipment (see page 21) was made this week by Simms Motor Units Ltd....

the Ministry of Transport on Friday . , representatives of the R.H.A., T.R.T.A., and S.M.M.T. exchanged frank views with the...

bought Collings and Stevenson (Contracts) Ltd., hauliers and contract hirers, of London, W.3. The company operates regular...

area chairman of the Road Haulage Association, told the York sub-area dinner at Harrogate on Friday that it was a waste of this...

P.O. v B.R. by Frank Burravoe D OG does not eat dog. But one national watchdog barked at another recently when Postmaster...

Leyland Motor Corporation, has also been app.linted chairman of Standard-Triumph International Ltd. in succession to Sir Henry...

I ORD CHESHAM, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, refused to rise to the bait when he was asked to...

" O NE of the most important official documents produced since the War" was how the Buchanan Report was described last week by...

"boldly conceived solutions" to Turban transport problems proposed by Prof. Buchanan have been welcomed also by Mr. R. J....

T HE Transport Tribunal, in London last week, dismissed the appeal by Newberry Transport Ltd., Cumberland, and Henry Fearon,...

N appeal by M.A.T. Transport Ltd., London, E.C.1, against a decision of the Metropolitan deputy . Licensing Authority, has been...

A FiTER hearing evidence about rates from several Road Haulage Association members, the Western Licensing Authority, Mr. S. W....

Contract A and C licence transfer requests listed this week are as follows:- Contract A to A lic.: Northern: W. G. Dixon,...

O VERALL efficiencies as high as 92 per cent have been recorded with the Perbury variable speed transmission, handling 200...

Q o Thursday of last week the Institute of Road Transport Engineers held a second open-forum meeting devoted to careers in road...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT )RICE FIXING in the supply of replacement electrical components for hicles should be...

N OW in the advanced prototype sta g e is a new type of en g ine coolin g system fan, which has been developed by Dowty...

The Art of Split-pinning THOUGH THE LOCK plate or tab has g ained some g round in the motor trade, the split pin is still the...

T HIS week's prize-winnin g idea comes from Mr. H. V. Griffiths, of Bollin g ton, nr. Macclesfield, Cheshire. Take two wheel...

and Publications k NEW paint-spray gun, the Ecco-Nomic, has recently been 71 introduced by Atlas Copco (G.B.) Ltd. Features of...

By The Hawk Should a driver help with maintenance and overhauls? After travelling a considerable distance in a converted Dodge...

LTHOUGH the legal gross weight of a 1961 Dodge forward-control 7-ton tipper, converted by Mr. T. H. Lineker, of Lineker's...

G OOD relationships between management and employees, and close co-ordination of the staff's activities, are two of the main...

A COMBINED self-powered heater 1- ' 1 and thermo-electric generator system that, in conjunction with other equipment, will...

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT I T was quite easy to foresee that as soon as periodic tests were instituted for light commercial...

k fv1FDIUM-CAPACITY school bus has been designed by the Supplies lepartment of the London County ouncil, and the fourth of...

By Ashley Taylor, A.M.1.R.T.E., Assoc.Inst.T. V ERY soon a great new demand will come into being for Scottish timber from the...

T URBOCHARGING of engines of over about 300 b.h. output dates back to the very beginning of this centu with work carried out by...

N O doubt one of the functions of the Christmas holiday is that it helps one to forget about everyday affairs. This is not...

A S described in the current issue of "The Commercial Vlotor Tables of Operating Costs", an individual vehicle cost sheet is...