I N the past the Licensing Authorities and the Transport Tribunal have fought shy of the subject of rates in dealing with...

I N view of the growing popularity of articulated vehicles for all classes of haulage work, it is strange that so few of them...

Finishing Holes With Steel Balls A MODERN method of sizing and finishing holes is known as ballizing. It is effected by...

From a reader, that the editor's " derision " is final. Of Christmas being described as a period of riotous giving. Of...

TWO Northern hauliers, Mr. C. Hewitt, Annan, and Mr. J. Scott, Arlecdon, whose special A licences were revoked for weight...

A SAVING of nearly 250,000 miles on PA stage services operated by East Midland Motor Services, Ltd., was effected in 1957-58,...

was made by the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Maj. F. S. Eastwoo-d, when they put in a take-over application at Leeds. The...

ri 0 additional eight-wheeled tippers m A licence were granted last week to William Dobson (Edinburgh): Ltd., when the Scottish...

T HE Scottish Commercial Vehicle Driver of the Year Competition is to be resumed this year. This decision was reached at a...

last month, large quantities of coal formerly carried by road have been transferred to the railways and some coal hauliers are...

that by allowing five of his drivers to work excessive hours he had risked fines of £1,740. He was Robert Lyle Davie, West...

lines of Leyland Motors, Ltd., will in future have their road-wheel bearings lubricated with a lithium-based grease. An...

A N Aberdeen owner-driver whose A licence normal user covered general goods within 25 miles of base admitted last week that...

T WO 30-ft. two-axled buses are now being operated in Belfast, following the removal of the 26-ft. limit for twoaxled vehicles...

I NCREASED demand for Skyways coach-air services to the Continent has led to the formation of a subsidiary company, Skyways...

M ORE coach tours from Britain to Eire are expected this year. Already the Eireann Government have granted eight applications...

TWO coach businesses, one in Somerset and the other in Wiltshire, have changed hands, In Wiltshire, C. H. Thomas, Ltd., Caine,...

WE regret to record the deaths of vv MR. JOHN STORER NICHOLL, C.B.E., MR. FREDERIC STANLEY BENNETT, MR. CHARLES MURRAY and MR....

Mn. ALBERT C. CONNOR, director of public cleansing for Derby Corporation since 1930; will retire in March. He began his career...

I T was clear that Coventry Precision, Ltd., were in difficulties with their transport. The clarity of their evidence threw...

A N experiment began in Leicester on Monday with the omission of the red-amber traffic-light signal before the green. It is...

ECAUSE economic circumstances had 1 :--/ compelled services to be reduced, many drivers and conductors had been dismissed, Mr....

A SUBSTANTIAL claim for damages is to be made by a motorcyclist who received severe injuries when he hit planks jutting out...

IVI appointed chief public relations officer to the British Transport Commission, it was announced on Wednesday. He was...

R OAD tankers will he used to distribute petrol, oil fuel and gas oil in Dorset and Hampshire from a new sea-fed bulk terminal...

IN the New Year's Honours, published I yesterday, Sir William Rootes, head of the Rootes Group and chairman of the Dollar...

T HE appointments of Mr. Wilfrid Newland and Mr. Harold G. Dunn to the board of Simms Motor Units, Ltd., were announced...

M R. H. FORREST, foundry and personnel director of Hepworth and Grandage, Ltd., Bradford, has been appointed director and works...

A FTER the article on the closure of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Line (The Commercial Motor, December 19) was...

EICESTER bus crews, who started 1.-4 working to rule the day before Christmas Eve, staged a lightning unofficial strike last...

- 1 -4 AST year's production by DaimlerBenz A.G. is estimated at about 155,000 units—an increase of 25 per cent on the figure...

Transport Federation, led by Mr. J. M. Birch, was received by Mr. F. J. Erroll, Economic Secretary to the Treasury, on...

A SCOTTISH fish merchant operating his own vehicles was fined a total of £225, or 180 days' gaol: at Wick, last week, for...

n NE of the most acute problems facing road passenger transport is the man who buys a car and then realizes the full extent of...

A SCHEME for providing a dual carriageway for the Mersey Tunnel entrance, linking the East Lancashire Road at Queen's Drive,...

P LACES are still available on two courses on welding to be held by the Institute of Welding. The first is concerned with the...

the lower decks of double-deckers operated by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., is to be discussed by the North Western Traffic...

1-1 . A FOURTH bulk milk collection scheme has been instituted in Ayr, and another one is being prepared by Fife members of...

A SPECIAL " launching " ceremony rls for a Brighton Corporation coach was performed on Wednesday by the Mayor, Aid. A. J....

B RITA1N has offered to allow the import of commercial vehicles to the value of £6.2m. a year from the 11 Member countries of...

and Home Counties "Kerb Space is Precious" campaign, the Cooperative Union have asked co-operative societies throughout the...

A N idea for improving the entrance lighting on buses with rear doors has been submitted to the Ministry of Transport Road...

A RE trolleybuses cheaper to operate than oil-engined buses ? Mr. G. H. Pulfrey, Hull Corporation's general -manager, produced...

T HE question of whether bus inspectors at Middlesbrough should have a salary increase is to have further consideration from...

A WAGE increase of 7s. 6d. a week, dating from October 6, has been granted to transport workers ,M the corn trade, the...

A N application by H. and I Quick, Ltd., to issue £100,000 7 per cent. cumulative redeemable preference shares to provide...

W ITH the removal of a low bridge at Lambank, the Western S.M.T. Co.. Ltd., have decided to operate doubledeckers on their...

a year by R. W. Edwards and Sons, Cam royd Street, Dewsbury, in hirin g vehicles to supplement their haula g e fleet, Maj. F....

LTHOUGH New Zealand assembled /A a record number of vehicles in 195758, her total of commercial vehicles showed a drop on the...

" A LL our lon g -distance road-haula g e vehicles have been fully employed throu g hout the year, but the same cannot be said...

T HE Minister of Transport has dismissed an appeal by Yeomans, Miller and Co. (Tours and Travel), Ltd., a g ainst the South...

passen g ers at an unauthorized point on four seaside excursions, Hazeldine Hire Services, Bilston, Staffs, blamed the Passen...

A N incentive-bonus scheme introduced ra by Stevena g e Cleansin g Department is showin g g ood results on the refusecollection...

/ TORE Thames L5-cwt. vans are sold in America than all its British , competitors put to g ether, accordin g to fi g ures...

at Harmondsworth, Middx, and Lan g ley, Bucks, is to be rehoused in a new buildin g at Crowthorne, Berks. An experimental road...

A NEW tractor unit, suitable for g ross train wei g ht of 271 tons, has been introduced by General Motors Corporation, Detroit,...

THERE will be new competition for I West Ridin g bus operators next Monday. when British Railways introduce more di e sel...

D ELIVERIES of new car transporters were so difficult that used vehicles were being bought outside the country, Mr. K. R....

In. A WAGE increase of 6s. per week to some 2,000 adult lorry drivers -and mates in Northern Ireland has been proposed by the...

R EDUCTIONS in services affecting about a third of London Transport's trolleybus routes on weekdays and half on Sundays are to...

r USTOMS documentation for coaches was studied by a group of experts of the Inland Transport Committee of the Economic...

rA A PROFIT of about £30.000 in the current financial year ending in March is expected by Portsmouth Passenger Transport...

A PRIVATE hire bus operator who in. wanted to start up a works service faced strong opposition when he appeared before the...

P RODUCTION of commercial vehicles last year is likely to have exceeded 309,000, compared with 288,253 in 1957. Figures...

Export Prospects Brighter : Markets Still Untapped : Purchase Tax Hinders Horne Sales : Significant Trends in Vehicle...

Says R. N. Ingram, National Chairman, Road Haulage Association Socialist Threat to Renationalize Long-distance Haulage and...

B AGGED fertilizer carried by road Li suffered much less damage than when transported by rail, Mr. W. P. James, West Midland...

Says J. M. Barr, Assistant Managing Director, Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd. Close Discussion Needed Between All Sections of...

"lam Firmly Convinced that Things are Going to Get Steadily Better . . . Makers and Operators . . . Will Find Themselves in the...

S TATED by the makers, the Croft - Granite Brick and Concrete Co., Ltd., Croft, near Leicester, to cost no more than standard...

By S. Buckle T HE continued growth of contract hiring indicates the transport user's need for this particular class of...

0 the student of licensing the prospects for 1959 are interesting. To the • operator they may, of course, not appear to be so...

A NEW range of heavy-duty normalcontrol six-wheeled chassis has been introduced by A. B. Scania-Vabis, Sodertalje, Sweden. The...

A WHEELED angledozer, based on the Fordson Power Major with four-wheel drive, has been produced by Roadless Traction, Ltd.,...

the Thames 15-cwt. van. the 6-XNES9L is a 12-volt flush-connector battery produced by Chloride Batteries, Ltd., Clifton...

a suitable level surface at 3-4 m.p.h., the Wrigley E.1000 is a battery-electric tractor produced by Wessex Industries (Poole),...

in metric-system countries ties in the conversion of tyre pressures into kilograms per square centimetre, and making his...

offices or workshops where the distance to be covered does not exceed 150 ft. has been devised by the Lamson Engineering Co.,...

LJAVING a screw adjustment at front whereby the vertical aim of the beam may be varied according to the fog density, the...

have issued a third edition of "Welding Aluminium," which has been revised to cover advances in technique which have taken...

Gourmand's Paradise F OR me, the highlight of last Sunday's issue of The Sunday Times was a three-column panel advertisement,...

THE first of seven Leyland Titan PD3,5 I. front-entrance double-deckers has joined Prcton Corporation's fleet. The new bus is a...

Googly N OT content with throwing the book at us, the Transport Tribunal seem bent upon throwing a whole library. In the...

The True Cost of Country Passenger Facilities May Not Be Apparent Because of Defective Analysis of Operating Expenses R ECENT...

THREE reasons for a further decline in I profit were given to the shareholders of Seddon Diesel Vehicles, Ltd., by Mr. R. H....