E VERYONE engaged in. theagricultural'industry —and there ate, about a million and a quarter of .them --knows the meaning of...

A REMARKABLE order in that hardest of hard currencies, the mighty dollar, has just been secured by a famous British...

Be Sure Your FIRE extinguishers of the Sin Will Find I C.T.C. type often consti You Out. . tute a temptation to workers, for...

Of many who hesitate to coal-up with coal up. That winners in a body competition are not necessarily bathing belles That more...

T HE clause in the Finance Kill imposing the 336 -per cent, purchase tax on goods vehicle chassis passed through its second...

If. for example, a buyer has placed a contract with a chassis manufacturer for the purchase of a complete vehicle, or even...

A Measure to simplify the taxation of tractors was also passed. This imposes on all farm tractors a tax of £2 per annum whether...

Strike Action Crisis Stage Being Reached : "Discontent and Frustration" By a Correspondent M IDLAND trade-union leaders said...

• • • • TRANSPORT undertakings all over the country, in the face of serious deficits, increasing costs and falling revenue,...

been developed by the Standard Motor Co., Ltd., for use in the Ferguson tractor and possibly as an interchangeable unit for the...

I N a reserved judgment on June 23, the House of I.ords held that the patent granted to the Cleveland • Graphite Bronze Co.,...

A s from June 22, the prices of new tyres and tubes were increased by 12i per cent. For some weeks there has been a talk of...

T HE constitution of the advisory panels representing sections of the engineer* ind u st r y has been announced by the...

DROBABLY the first experiment in • B r ita i n with the Continental method of carrying more stand:ng than seated passengers on...

MR. A. W. G. WOODWARD, chief engineer of the Tees-side Railless Traction Board, has retired after 30 years with the...

Swansea Corporation is to equip six ambulances with Pye radio-telephone equipment. A branch of the Omnibus Pas: sengers'...

rONCERN was expressed by the National Road Transport Safety Council last week about the " renewed pressure" being brought upon...

As, MANUFACTURING licence has been granted to Kemper en Van Twist, Dordrecht, for the assembly of Seddon vehicles in Holland....

T HE 21st session of the Exide service agents' convention, held at Torquay last week, was marked by a record attendance in...

VI . is understood that Kirkstall Forge, Ltd., Leeds, manufacturer of heavy axle assemblies, is to be equal partner with...

Cyril Hurcomb, chairman of ihe British Transport Commission, was made fast week by Mr. R. Reader Harris, M.Pe representing the...

A REMINDER to hauliers that applications for short-term licences for the carriage of sugar-beet during the coming season should...

A SKILLED engineer who has held important executive positions with transport and civil-engineering concerns and is experienced...

O NE of the first, if not the first, operator in the country to take advantage of the permission for general operation of...

A USEFUL list of nearly 400 transport cafes and rest houses has been issued by the Bedford Drivers' Club, Vauxhall Motors,...

PI A LARGE party of members of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers visited the extensive works, at Maidstone, of...

A RECORD order for 620 underIA floor oil-engined buses with special Saunders bodies has been secured be Leyland Motors, Ltd....

A S soon as the increase in fuel tax and the addition of purchase tax to the price of vehicles were announced, the Road...

f f HIS year, the Royal Show is being bell! at Oxford, from July 4-7. With a total of 700 stands, this year's Show will be an...

Tottoa, Southampton (Stand 472 C), will have six tractors for inspection. fhese will all be the Model B type, to which will be...

ri A SHANCO ventilators, suitable for use on caravans, horseboxes, and similar types of vehicle, will be a feature of the...

By E. 3. Leaver, Transport Officer, National Federation of Fruit and Potato Trades E ACH year, the British public eats about...

By C. S. DUNBAR, M.Inst.T. T HE East Riding of Yorkshire is .essentially agricultural, and although Hull and York have always...

A PART from publicizing the concern's Agricastrol tractor lubricants, a new unit, acquired by C. C. Wakefield and Co., Ltd.,...

1 IN 7 By L. J. COTTON, M.I.R.T.E. A THOUGH powered by a small single cylinde red engine, the Opperman Motocart threewheeler...

says L. M. M arshall G ROWERS will probably have to rely more on their own vehicles than they have in the past for the rapid...

C OMMER chassis now being assembled in large numbers at the Rootes plant at Fisherman's Bend, Melbourne, have been favourably...

Political Commentary By JAN US Away from the Higher Planes of Transport Politics, a Report on Fish Poaching in Scotland Throws...

Features in Trailer Design Which Make . For the Greatest Efficiency on Farm Work. Respective Appli cat 1 ioiis of Two;and...

Licensing Authorities Report, 1948-49, says that Decisions Have Been Expedited by Withdrawal of Objections. High Proportion of...

(-NNE of the most recent visitors to Inc Is/United States was Mr. F. G. Parnell, of the Lockheed Hydraulic Brake Co., Ltd., and...

To reduce detonation is the aim of a 1 cylinder-head -design shown in _patent No. - 636,580, by the Austin Motor Co., Ltd.. and...