O PERATORS are naturally disappointedby the failure of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to reduce fuel tax, but the...

IT is not unlikely that within the next five years 'commercial vehicles driven by gas turbines will be competing on a...

Superfluous Skill A LABOUR problem threatens to retard the 1-k development of the use of plastics in bodybuilding....

That a general election is the occasion when all those who usually sit, temporarily at least, become "strap-hangers." - That...

E FFORTS are being made to form an association of bona fide contractors who let out vehicles under C-hiring margins. To be...

chairman's I ad hoc committee of the Road Haulage Association met the Minister of Transport on Monday to discuss...

TN the closing stages, last week, of the 'Yorkshire cattle-haulage struggle, which has been proceeding at intervals during the...

T HE State-owned Scottish bus group have been granted permission, in principle, to increase their fares. Other undertakings...

1_10PES of another Budget in the I autumn, "when the industry may reasonably expect a substantial reduction" in fuel tax, at...

BRIG. SIR HARRY TYE ACKESON has joined the board of Martin Walter, Ltd. MR. REGINALD Boswowrit has been re-elected chairman of...

A A CREDITON haulier was told by Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, last week, that he had thrown away £250 he had...

deputy chief officer (insurance and claims) of British Road Services, will shortly he leaving the service of B.R.S. His future...

on Tuesday night to Mr. E. Short's Public Service Vehicles (Travel Concessions) Bill. It now goes to the House of Lords, where...

D URING the first quarter of this year. 30 per cent, more commercial vehicles were - built and 234 'per cent. snore were -...

T HE North London magistrate, Mr. Seymour Collins, last week criticiled the delay of the Ministry of Transport in bringing a...

1-1 . A LORRY carrying 240 lamb carcasses from Temple Meads station to a local depot was not fit for the carriage of meat, it...

shire Road Car Co., Ltd., to take over part of Leeds Corporation's existing Leeds-Guiseley bus service has been granted by the...

ri A NEW Leyland-M.C.W. chassisless bus 8 ft. 2f in, wide is being designed in South Africa for production next October. it...

T HE Municipal Passenger Transport Association are not prepared to take any' action with regard to the recently increased...

increased by 13 per cent., as compared with 1952, and if the current rate of increase continues the number of vehicles on the...

A N apparent inconsistency in licensing concessions granted in respect of vehicles used by visiting forces has been pointed out...

A N appeal by the British Transport Commission against the decision of the Metropolitan Licensing Authority to allow J. Buckley...

N ° progress on the question of the speed limit for heavy goods vehicles was reached at last week's meeting of the National...

T HE East Midland Deputy Licensing Authority last week accepted the principle that road service licences should be granted to...

300,000 Miles Trouble-free IITHIN a few years, a gas turbine unit will be available for use in mmereial vehicles. This could...

ippr EPRESENTAT1VES of bus com panies in Colombo have agreed with the Ceylon Minister of Transport; to provide, within a year,...

East Midland Operators Specialize and Co-ordinate Their Services to Regain Customers: Interworking a Strong Feature: Confidence...

Tale of Three Ministers C HE general report on the Parliament now at its last gasp is that, after nearly four years of life,...

Dennis Centaur Tractor with Scammell Semitrailer and Thompson Tank Carrying Full Load has High Acceleration and Braking...

Who Should Head the R.H.A.? J MUST compliment your paper upon the action it has taken regarding the present position of the...

IN a campaign to speed up and expand Government road I plans, the Industrial Association of Wales and Monmouthshire have...

T HERE is only one non-Italian exhibitor in the commercial vehicle section of the 37th International Motor Show of Turin, which...

Mr. , J. Smillie, Glasgow, Successfully Tenders for 24-Vehicle Unit : List 9 Purchasers in Three Areas A NOTHER Scottish...

Mr. S. F. Kneller, of B.R.S., Devises Standard Form of Inquiry into Any Accident T O help depot superintendents to discover the...

T HE police did not contest an appeal brought before the Queen's Bench Divisional Court last week, by Mr. Thomas Victor Prior,...

No Profit on Bull-fights 'AGGING cattle at farms is not the duty of drivers of livestock vehicles, althou g h sonic men,...

DATENT No. 723,723, comes from Telehoist, Ltd., Swindon Lane, Cheltenham, and deals with a vehicleloading ramp that is carried...