T N many ways Birmingham's new Bull Ring Centre, providing 1 basement loading facilities which give a 20-minute turn-round for...

'KISS AND CUDDLE' CONDEMNED BY RAY GUNTER AR. RAY GUNTER, Labour's IYL " Shadow" Minister of Labour, made a fierce attack on...

P RACTICAL steps towards co-operation among hauliers were reportec by the Road Haulage Association this week; they concern...

THE United Transport Company Ltd. of Chepstow has, throu g h its subsidiary 1 company, Bulwark United Transpoit Ltd., ac q...

By a Special Correspondent T HE main item in the International Road Transport Union's biennial cong resses is the discussion of...

at the base of complaints about g oods vehicles, Mr. K. C. Turner, If .R.T.A: president, told a g atherin g of journalists in...

i NEW car/commercial vehicle delivery service by rail from Luton to Widnes, near Liverpool, was introduced by Motor Vehicle...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT nR. RICHARD BEECHING, chairI- , man of the British Railways Board, took the fight over Liner...

QCRAP concentration centres, somewhat on the lines of the large centralized coal ■ -) depots now being established, were...

aarden-but no road transport expansion foreseen FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT r -HREE salient facts for the road haulage...

RESERVATIONS ABOUT BUS COMPANIES' FUTURE By The Editor THERE is always considerable interest in the first year's working of...

listrict Motor Services Ltd., has been ppointed assistant traffic manager of the lorthern General Transport Co. Ltd. le...

Manchester-Buxton Inquiry Opens D OUBTS about the ability of railreplacement bus services to run to the schedules proposed...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT DAY talks between the London Trans' port Board and its busmen became completely bogged down...

PLAN for a new £45,000 bus station at Ilkeston, Derbyshire, was described s "lavish and too costly" and conmicrit to only one...

r'HE Northern Ireland Minister of L Home Affairs revealed in the Ulster commons last week that Government ,sistanee for...

A VERY neat coach named the Successor is the latest model to be produced by W. L. Thurgood (Coachbuilders) Ltd., Ware....

WHILE there was a slight decrease in VY the number of candidates sitting for the Royal Society of Arts road transport...

A N appeal by a Silloth (Cumberland) haulier against a judgment of the Transport Tribunal which had confirmed a revocation...

A N objection "in principle" by Frame Tours Ltd. to applications by th Eastern National Omnibus Co. Ltd. t vary its Basildon...

- 'HE North Western deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. G. Newman, sitting at iverpool last Friday, was told that if an aplication...

ICENCES for three-day tours to Grantown from Dundee, Perth, Crieff and Pitlochry, mainly for the benefit of skiers, were sought...

A N application . by. Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd., of Leeds, to run express services from Castleford to Blackpool Was refused by...

Limited Tours Grant for Birmingham Go-op ‘V ITH the exception of six tours, the West Midland Traffic Commissioners, in a...

T HE East and West Midlands Traffic Commissioners, sitting jointly in Birmingham last week, granted an application by the...

A FTER a two-day bearing in February and May, the West Midland Traffic Commissioners have granted in a reserved decision two...

r the second European Automotive Symposium organized by Petrofina in Brussels, four of the papers will ly British delegates....

Le ATER this year, all Atkinson doubledrive goods chassis will have a new Kirkstall bogie as standard, this having hypoid-bevel...

P ROGRESS with half-cab designs of car transporter by Carter Engineering Co. (Tamworth) Ltd., originally referred to in our...

A NEW class of fast drying nonflammable paints was demonstrated by I.C.1. Ltd. at the Industrial Finishes Exhibition at Earls...

A PREVIEW of vehicles and eqi ment at the I.P.C. Conference, a r• test of a compaction refuse collector features dealing with...

A REPORT was published in the house journal of a large B.M.C. distributor last week to the effect that 12 and J4 light...

:w Fuel Independent : Distribution of fuel d oil products has been started by the obe Petroleum Co. Ltd., Scunthorpe, ncs, and...

months of the first Leyland vehicles being introduced into the Dominican Republic repeat orders from, operators in the...

Arc Welding Hints—Weaving 1URING welding it is necessary at / times to deposit a wider .bead than n be obtained from a...

T HIS week's prizewinner is Mr. A. Nichols, of Nazeing, nr. Waltham Abbey, Essex. He uses, he says, a good method to prevent...

and Publications Vehicle Recorder T HE latest addition to the range of recording instruments made by Speedograph Ltd. is the...

EYE B y The Hawk VIEW Every Friday evening, after vatching her favourite television programme, Mrs. Hugh 7 ellows settles...

but how will the challenge be met ley Taylor, Assoe.Inst.T. A N element of jubilation that became apparent in some road...

F ROM the basement service area of the new Bull Ring Centre in Birmingham, goods are unloaded from traders' and hauliers'...

. A NEW ZEALAND operator, Waikato Breweries Ltd., is now using a tractor-trailer combination in which the trailer is powered...

BY F. K. MOSES A 36-FT.-LONG double-decker bus, carrying nearly 50 people on the top deck, with a front entrance, rear exit...

I F people looked on the Road Traffic Act of 1930 as unalterable they were accepting an artificial state of affairs, said Mr....

F OR the first time since the inception of the Newcastle upon Tyne round of the Lorry Driver of the Year contest, last Sunday's...

A LMOST before the ink was dry on the Beeching plan for re-shaping the railways there were strong rumours of protests by the...

AST week a start was made in considering advantages of hiring commercial vehicles on contract in appro./ priate circumstances....

A West Country reader is involved in a maintenance contract on a mileage basis and asks for relevant costing information and...

Southd its Are Up A FTER a higher tax charge (U59,216 against £145,088 and a greater depreciation allowance (£343,22 ,...

The editor is always pleased to receive letters on all aspects of the road transport industry. Contributors must Include their...