T HE Ministry of Transport's current campaign against diesel-engined vehicles which emit excessive black smoke is in danger of...

Sann hofield W HEN one night, a good many years ago, young Samuel Schofield had time to spare and stepped into a commercial...

THE feat of Mr. J, C. Martindale, of Pease Transport, Ltd., in winning for the fourth year in succession Class C of the Stoke...

T HE map published by the British Transport Commission last week bowing the density of passenger traffic m British Railways...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT A A T a meeting last week the joint transport committee of the Labour Party and the T.U.C....

F EARS that the implementation in October of the Benelux plan to standardize vehicle weights and dimensions regulations might...

Mr. Giles Newton, chairman of the Cape Asbestos Co., Ltd., retired on medical advice on July 20. He is 71_and had been managing...

vuE regret to record the deaths of PP Mr. Robert E. Alexander, Mr. C. G. Armstrong and Mr. Edward Boydell. Mr. Alexander, who...

ETWEEN noon and 2 p.m. is the period when the lorry driver who :ayes his loaded vehicle unattended in .,ondon is most likely...

— IN Tuesday the Tribunal partially -I allowed an appeal by H. B. Ashby ad Sons, Brookland. Kent, against a ecision of the...

WHEN Sir Hubert Hull completed his VV last appeal hearing as president -of the Transport. Tribunal on Wednes,day, tributes were...

A PILOT distribution scheme ha S been launched in Scotland by S.G.F. (Trading), Ltd., a co-operative group buying and...

I T was revealed this week that A. Packham and Co., Ltd., specialists in the handling of " smalls" in London, the Home Counties...

F OR the first time in this country 'I York Trailer . Co., Ltd., are offeri to British commercial vehicle operat a trailer...

R ESEMBLING certain current Continental types more than contemporary British designs, a highly inspired 36-ft. x 8-ft. 2.5-in,...

B 1RMINGHAM CORPORATION TRANSPORT are to purchase 300 Daimler Fleetline front-entrance, doubledeck, rear-engined buses over the...

I N a written decision the West Midland Traffic Commissioners have granted an application by the Potteries Motor Traction Co.,...

A N interesting experiment in coaching communications has been introduced by Edinburgh Corporation Transport Department, using...

THE Yorkshire Traffic Cornmissicners • in Leeds last week heard of complaints regarding the operation of a bus service between...

TRADING profit of 141aidsione an I District Motor Services. Ltd., for th year ended March 31 last was down o the previous year,...

T RE managing director of Spinks Transport Co., Darlington, Mr. itanley Spinks, was granted the renewal if his A licence by the...

O NE of the highlights of the stand of Mercedes-Benz (Great Britain), Ltd., at The Commercial Motor Show, will be an...

application by Ellis Air Services, Ltd., in Glasgow last week to run a twice-weekly service of chartered buses between the...

11‘' OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT WORK an the Transport Bill ended last VI' week when the Commons agreed to thc amendments...

A T ECHNICAL report from the British and French officials studying the proposals for a cross-Channel link not necessarily be...

t.1 modern standards" between th Scottish industrial belt and the Midland! London and the Channel ports in th next few years...

a - Winner (fETHODS for arriving at the overall 1. winner of the Leeds round of the Try Driver of the Year competition re...

I N the championship event of the Leicestershire and North Midlands area .eliminatirig centre at Melton Mow7 bray on Sunday,...

'HERE is no doubt that the second day of the Woolwich contest was a :at success. In response to urgent peals by the organizers,...

SCIENCE IN ROADSIDE SMOKE CHECKS A T what point does the emission of diesel smoke become sufficiently serious to be liable to...

O N August 1 the regulations permitting the maximum dimensions of public service vehicles to be 36 Et. long x 8 ft. 2+ in. wide...

S part of a wide,ranging study :of noise, the Government-sponsored mmittee . under the Chairmanship . of Alan Wilson have now...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT Q PERATORS 'who are apprehensive about the Wilson report .,On Vehicle Noise will have a...

A N important new range of lightweight four-, sixand eight-wheeled . goods chassis is officially announced today by Atkinson...

Prformance Retained By John F. Moon A.M.I.R.T.E. B ECAUSE of the current—and in many ways commendable—trend to increase...

W Midland Commissioners Grant "Unreasonable" Fares TH E fares application by I. T. Whittle and Son, of Kidderminster, recently...

The Sanderson Appeal in Retrospect THE . Transport -Tribunal, hearing I the • recent appeal by Arthur Sanderson (Great...

' B Y way of a change, operators may have breathed a sigh of relief at the news that an application has come from the trade...

Electric Trucks One of the new Wrigley batteryoperated trucks. Capacity is 25 cwt. .1 - 3. A NEW range of battery-operated...

THERE were objections from 10 haul "age contractors when R. G. Tait of 1-laydon Bridge, Co. Durham, applied to the *Northern...

The reason for the segregation of the expenditure incurred in the operation of a commercial vehicle is examined here, together...