T HE Government's attitude in promoting the Transport Bill has been markedly different from that of the Socialists when, in...

B. R.S. Repair Costs COMPARISONS between the cost of repairs by '-'British Road Services and by outside agencies were recently...

• That, in a winding country road, good lighting can be wasted by bad siting. Of someone saying sadly that there is always...

i n Mr. Black Succeeds Sir R. Fryars Opposing Transport Bill BY OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT P ROTESTING vigorously in...

A S recommended by his inspector, the Minister of Transport. has set aside a decision of the North-Western Licensin g Authority...

possibly justify as conducive to the public interest the decision arbitrarily to tear out from the transport industry a sector...

MR. J. B. Y. Hui has succeeded the late MR. G. R. DEXI t.R as Brixton district manager of the Dunlop Rubber Co.. Ltd. MR. S....

THERE need not be any chaos or dis location of road haulage during the transitional period after denationalize- tion, as some...

WHEN Hastings Tramways Co. IT applied for permission to increase fares, Mr. P. H. Bartlett, deputy town clerk of Hastings,...

"A SERVICE which provides for the conveyance of parties to a port of embarkation and for their return after an interval at an...

S OME highly important investigations into the &Tale problem have recently been conducted by the Allgemeiner Deutscher...

T HE travelling public should not have rammed down their throat a railway service which is inconvenient and costs 19s. more."...

" A N extraordinary prosecution ". was how Mr. .1'. H. Campbell Ward law, defending, described sum• monses heard last week...

MOTES entitled "The Glazing of 1'4 Safety-glass Panels" have been issued to vehicle manufacturers by the research laboratories...

rR1T1CISM of a grant to Highland Omnibuses, Ltd., to run tours to Mey, where the Queen Mother has purchased Barrogill Castle,...

E VIDENCE on the tyre industry is to be submitted by the Municipal Passenger Transport Association to the Monopolies and...

A FTER the Transport Bill had passed its second reading in the House of Commsns last week, the Minister of Transport introduced...

L ICENCE variations were granted to two hauliers by the Northern Licensing Authority last week, to enable them to carry...

A N increase of 5 per cent. in railway freight, dock and canal charges and road-haulage rates is to be made by - the British...

C OM M ERC1AL-VEHICLE exports for the first nine months 'Of the year, states the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders,...

in P .S.V .s IN Sweden, fluorescent lighting for buses and coaches has been the accepted standard since 1939 and it is found...

A GREAT practical advance in the successful joining of light-alloy materials by means of soft solder is offered by the use of...

MOTORBUSES. double-deck: 9 Daimler, 8 Bristol, 6 Guy; 3 A.E.C. (all 0.)-total 26. Single-deck: 9 Bristol. 4 Guy. 3 A.E.C., 2...

URTHER drops in the numbers of petrol-engined vehicles, trolleybuses and single-deckers are revealed in this year's analysis by...

Purchasers Seeking to Rely on Warranty Must .Take Immediate Steps to Minimize Damage if a Vehicle Becomes Defective C ASES...

C ARRYING a 1-ton payload and making four stops to every mile, the Trojan oil-engined van operates at a lower fuel cost than...

'TORSI ON A L vibration in oil-engine crankshafts was primarily caused by the periodically varying cylinder torque acting on an...

D RAMA, in the sense of the unexpected development, was for the most part missing from the two-day debate on the second reading...

S ECTION 8 (3) (b) of the Transport Bill provides that the Licensing Authority shall have regard to rates when deciding an...

The Commercial Motor" Constiltant on Costs giving encouragement to charges which are uneconomic. I am aware that the...

F ROM the White Paper on Transport Policy to the second Transport Bill: the Government's proposals all have one special theme...

pp EGARDING the letter from E. J. Code on tractor" trailer and other buses, which appeared in your issue dated October 31, I...

THERE are certain points with which I do not agree A in your article "Keeping Blackpool's Traffic Moving," published in your...

A S haulage contractors, we are wondering if your 4-k legal department could advise us as to the validity or otherwise of the...

R UENTIN, I observed in a paper an illustration of a bus fitted for the carrying of perambulators which was being exported to...

Loading an Austin 5-tonner with the new Telehoist 4i-cubic-ft. lifting skip. 'The lifting arm and skip are readily detachable....

" The Commercial Motor >' Costs Expert Sets Figures Sent 'Him by a Correspondent Against Those of His Own Computation, and...

T HE case for the use of low-viscosity lubricating oils in compressionignition engines was put by Mr. F. Lawrence,...

be made without much difficulty, and would have a high strength-weight ratio, but its price would not be acceptable to the...

QOME of the outstanding advantages of synthetic glues, as compared with the natural varieties, are that they are highly...