R OAD transport, in its many phases, suffers considerably from lack of publicity as to its advantages and economic value. There...

T HE original complaint of the railways which brought about the, alleged, co-ordinative Acts of Parliament by which road...

stand the railway, was brought for ward at a recent Traffic Commissioners' hearing. After evidence had been given of special...

That road transport will stick to the last. That the motorization of country fire brigades has killed the old joke about the...

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

Ma. J. H. GOLOSTRAW has been appointed secretary to Dalley's Motor Services, Coquet Street, Newcaktle-onTyne. MR. H. POOL,...

When a Stirling lorry driver appeared at Alloa Sheriff Court on a charge of failing to keep a record of a certain journey, the...

A N ambulance, according to a decision of the Staffordshire Magistrates, last week, is a passenger vehicle and no general speed...

was too slow for certain traffic involved was put forward in support of two applications before the Yorkshire Licensing...

Roadless Traction, Ltd., Hounslow, Middlesex, is now producing two new models of Roadless tractor. Both are of the standard or...

Hythe Transport Committee is to purchase an arnim:ance, at a cost not exceeding £500. Leeds Corporation has sanctioned an...

A lorry driver pleaded at Aberdare Police Court, when convicted of exceeding the speed limit with a heavy vehicle, for an...

have decided this case in the way we have because of the very exceptional circumstances connected with it," stated the Appeal...

T HE hearing was continued, at Liver pool. on Monday, before the NorthWestern Deputy Licensing Authority, Sir William Hart, of...

WITH commendable enterprise CapVV tam n J. Walton, chief engineer of the mechanical transport employed by the Unilever...

Plans have now been fixed for the lectures which, as announced last week, S.T.R., The Commercial Motor costs expert, is to give...

T HE time has come for C-licensees to make a firm stand for liberty, said Aid, Solomon Stephens, at a wellattended A.R.O....

T HE annual dinner of A.R.O. South Eastern Area, at Brighton, last Friday, was a most successful function, with an attendance...

Added to the International Range T HE.tendency, to-day, to use a large engine, which durin . g the major portion of its life is...

and QUERIES THE COSTING SYSTEM OF A BIG MANUFACTURER. L4805] Following recent correspondence on the subject of " Uniform...

WillEN, over three years ago, Major W J. A. Macdonald, D.S.O., MC., was experimenting with his producer-gas plant for road...

A S the papers prepared for the Institute of Transport Congress, held last week in Birmingham, had been circularized, they were...

A S the result of the success attained by previous light-weight models of large-load capacity, Albion Motors, Ltd., Scotstoun,...

In Parliament By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent TAXATION OF MOTORISTS TOO HIGH. T HE Parliamentary Road Group in...

—Their Composition, Application and Use S UITABLE for use with ferrous and non-ferrous metals, silver solders have a field of...

Résumé of a Paper on Fire Hazards Read By A. M. Cameron, B.Sc., before the Annual Conference of the Professional Fire Brigades...

Fire Brigade Officials at Edinburgh, Grimsby, Perth and Darlington Point to the Value of Motor Appliances for Combating...

T HE accompanying illustration, shows an interesting conversion that has recently been carried out by R. H. Collier and Co.,...

THE London Salvage Corps was i established in 1866 by the insurance companies, by which it is maintained, for the purposes of...

F IRE-EXTINGUISHING, by other means than water, has developed, during the past few years, to a marked extent. Whereas the...

D URING the hearing or evidence on Huddersfield Corporation's trolleybus Bill, Mr. Robert Hanson, of Hanson's Buses, Ltd., who...

T HE following are the latest results of municipal transport operation during the past year:— Rotherham. The motorbuses...

A. GARAGE for 200 buses, occupying some 74,000 sq. ft., is to be built at Swansea for the South . Wales Transport Co., Ltd. It...

I T is stated that a sum of 220,000 has .been paid by W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., Falkirk, for the business of the Elgin and...

A NEW phase of Ailway opposition to road excursions and tours was notified at a sitting of the NorthWestern Traffic...

THE principle of protection for rail' way fares was upheld by the North Western Traffic Commissioners, on Tuesday. They...

I N a statement to The Commercial Motor, Mr, Joseph Keeling, of Leeds, has replied to criticisms by S.T.R., our costs expert,...

Congestion the Root Cause of Traffic Problems THAT the constant delays to which vehicles are sub jected on the roads to-day...

VV/E do not necessarily agree with some of the opinions VV voiced by Bailie Victor D. Warren in his paper entitled "Scottish...

D URING the discussion on Mr. Hutchinson's paper, Mr. Norman _Hardie (A.E.C.) said that broad trunk roads should be provided...

I N patent No. 446,544, the Steel Wheel Corporation, of Chicago, U.S.A., describes an unusual form of powerunit mounting, the...