S PECIALIZATIONI s being developed to a . high degree by the makers of the " popular " types of commercial vehicle. It extends...

T HE continuance or many rural bus services is threatened by the practical impossibility - of running stage services with...

It's the Load That Counts TT is scarcely to be expected that road users held up I at a level crossing should look with...

Of too much willing horse power being driven to death. Demands for less " fiddling " with road maintenance and more money for...

Minister of Transport's state1 mcnt in the House of Commons (reported in last week's issue), indicating further delay in...

Back to the Commons Next Week : Lords Make Many Amendments By Our Parliamentary Correspondent VESTERDAY the Transport Bill...

" A NYBODY wishing to come back into long-distance haulage at the early doors will have to buy an undertaking with a special A...

T WO new mechanical-handling appliances are shown at the Factory Equipment Exhibition at the New Horticultural Hall, London,...

LORD TEYNHAM has been unanimously elected chairman of the Automobile Association, in succession to the WC CANON F. W....

T HE 193 trolleybuses of Manchester Transport Department cost £30,195 per year less to run than the equivalent number of...

A GREEING with his inspector that the case met all the criteria applying to camp express services. the Minister of Transport...

THERE has been no significant up ward or downward trend in London traffic since last summer, but December fogs caused losses...

• • THE question of the operation of crush-load single-deckers is being considered by the Minister of Transport, who proposes...

L'UNDS are to be collected by • Birmin g ham Ratepayer s ' Associa' Lion for the issue of a writ to rest rain the city...

last week, refused a licence to Messrs. M.-Thomas, of Dearham, West Cumberland, to carry employees of Cumberland Childwear,...

nURING January, shipments of coin s mercial vehicles totalled 8,972 units, valued at £5,607,748. Although these figures showed...

Halls Garage, Ltd.. P.O. Box 69, Plantyre, have been appointed Leyland agents in Nyasaland. The annual dinner-dance of the...

" THE Royal Agricultural Society of 1 England regrets the interruption of personal relationship—extending in one case over 50...

WJHEN Mr.E. Jefleock. a Sheffield W coach operator, applied to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, last Friday, for a renewal of...

1 INCOME and other taxes charged to the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd.. in the past financial year were £52,000 higher than in...

Licensing Authority acted in "a misguided and narrow-minded" fashion in granting Northern Roadways, Ltd., a licence for their...

of the road haulage industry Under denationalization was given by Mr. Bernard Winterhottorn, national chairman of the Road...

A S forecast in The Commercial Motor on February 27. rates have been agreed between the Road Haulage Association and the...

Investigation has Shown that Low-pressure Charging, Apart From Increasing Thermal Efficiency, Prolongs the Life of Exhaust...

Another £250,000 for Crosville Crosville Motor Services,Ltd., Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., Westcliff-onSea...

p YRENE fire-fighting appliances have in the past eight yearibecome a familiar sight on airfields at homeand abroad. The latest...

By Laurence J. Cotton, M.I.R.T.E. A LTHOUGH almost 1,000 buses, coaches, lorries and trailers are exhibited at Frankfurt,...

Says Geo. B. Lissenden, M.Inst.T. W ITH the passing of the Transport Act, 1953, an entirely new order of things will come into...

A N important accessory when erect!". ing an engine and gearbox is the sealing compound used for making the various joints....

FHE MODERN WAY By Ashley Taylor, A.M.I.R.T.E. How a Manchester Coal Merchant Attains Utmost Efficiency By Employing...

Lightning Conductor 0 • NCE proudly described as the " keystone " of the Government's transport policy, the levy has...

IN his letter published on March 6, C. S. Dunbar I suggests that my article of February 13, dealing with the possible loss in...

Rates for 2-ton and 5-ton Vehicles are Calculated in this Article, Which Continues a Series on Agricultural Operators'...

H AMBURG municipal transport undertaking is now running five double-deck 96-passenger trolleybuses, and thus becomes the second...

A SELF-ADJUSTING valve rocker PA. comes in patent No. 686,362, from Daimler-Benz A.G., Stuttgart-Unter ttirk.heim, Germany....