0 N Many occasions we have advised hauliers to attach to their applications for Class A and B licences evidence from users or...

IMPORTANT suggestions in respect of the classiification of vehicles in the first Schedule of the Road Traffic Bill, 1934—axle...

A S evidence of the increasing popularity of radio equipment for coaches, Mr. R. E. Brown, a director of Duple Bodies and...

News of a synthetic-rubber tyre. The suggestion that pedestrian crossing-places should be floodlighted at night. The...

" The wheels of wealth will be slowed by all difficulties of transport, at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the...

Lord Wakefield Presents Ambulance to Liverpool. Lord Wakefield has made another gift to his native city, Liverpool, by...

Tring Urban District Council proposes raising funds to buy an ambulance. The finance committee of - Aberdeen Count/ Council is...

The opinion that amalgamations in municipal passenger transport did not always bring the expected economies, was expressed by...

Felix Pole, who recently held an inquiry, on behalf of the Government, into the conditions of transport in Northern Ireland,...

r- I NE of the first concerns to produce a ll-metal bus bodies some seven years ago, Short Bros. (Rochester and Bedford), Ltd.,...

BISCUIT TRANSPORT T HE modern method of packing biscuits in airtight packets and tins has done much to ensure that the goods...

NRUCH interest was aroused by the Wi interim report on cylinder wear issued last March by the Research and Standardization...

IN PARLIAMENT By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent THE QUESTION OF CHARGES FOR BUS STATIONS. W HEN the Committee Stage...

carburetter has reached a high degree of efficiency in its adjustment of the supply of petrol to the engine when under load. On...

I ' N a recent issue of The Commercial Motor comment was made upon the destruction by fire of a lorry and its load, as a...

Road Federation, representative of 32 national organizations interested in road transport, was received by the Minister of...

STRICT CONTROL OF CIVIL AIRCRAFT TO CONTINUE. Important recommendations are made in the report of the Committee on the Control...

THE BUILDER'S SPECIAL NEEDS T HE builder's lorry has hinged or fixed sides, the former type facilitating unloading,...

THE AMAZING DEVELOPMENT OF THE HIGH-SPEED OIL ENGINE. The Editor, THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [4352] Sir,--At the annual general...

A NUMBER of attractive features is I. embodied in a new replacement fitting for Ford 1-ton and 30-cwt. chassis, built after...

THE LATEST NEWS OF IMPORTANT EVENTS NEW MOVES IN FIGHT AGAINST RESTRICTIONS. T HE deputation representing the coaching...

DEMENTED to be the first large fleet 1-/of trolleybuses destined to be put into service in South Africa, 22 59seaters are now...

Ta'gaix prospects of trade generally are favourable this week. From the Clyde comes a most optimistic report as to the state...

HAULIER and CARRIER A TREMENDOUS amount of rate-cutting in the haulage industry is the outcome . of ignorance. If some...

T HE latest product of Feeny and Johnson, Ltd., 134-186, Ealing . Road, Wembley, Middlesex, is a Marelli vacuum brake servo...

S EVERAL matters of interest to commercial-motor owners arose in the proceedings of the annual conference of the Society of...

A NEW design of double-drive, twin rear axle is shown by R. Whitford, of Reo Motors, Ltd., Queen Street, Palmerston North, New...