NTICIPATING the convict - I tion in the 1970s of 41,000 miles of national road network in America, research engineers of Ford...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT III HEN the Council of Ministers of the VV E.E.C. met last week to debate transport they agreed,...

From our Industrial Correspondent THERE are still no signs that Dr. Beeching's much-vaunted schemes of winning back to the...

From a Special Correspondent D EMAND is building up for a higher standard of efficiency in emergency braking systems than has...

rOR the first time for several years no new models are featured among the electric. delivery vehicles at the Royal Dairy Show...

S ET times for lorries to arrive at London Docks, carrying cargo for a particular ship for off-loading may be introduced as a...

T HE Traders Road Transport Association is very strongly in favour of any scheme for heavy goods vehicle driving licences which...

S PEAKING at Manchester on Friday, Mr. K. C. Turner, president of the Traders Road Transport Association, congratulated the new...

Ltd., has been appointed to the boards of two of the group's subsidiary companies, Transport Equipment (Thornycroft) Ltd. and...

Scottish Bus Group's orders for 1965, under which 240 new vehicles will be purchased at a total cost of £1,510,805. Three types...

A JOINT venture is to be made by Transport Vehicles (Daimler) Ltd., Coventry, and Duple Grotto Sales Ltd., Hendon, to produce a...

N EW 65-scat, 30-ft.-long Routemaster coaches are to be introduced by London Transport next year, and will go into service on...

From a Special Correspondent B 1RMINGHAM CITY COUNCIL has protested to the Monopolies Commission that eight tyre manufacturers...

T HE Lincolnshire Road Car Co. Ltd . has now completed seven weeks' operation of its subsidized bus experiment in the Louth...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT A THREE-POINT claim for higher pay and better conditions for 100.000 provincial company...

T HE Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, reserved his decision on applications by Econofreight Transport Ltd....

MHEN Robert Wynn and Sons, of VI' Newport, successfully applied last week at Cardiff to the South Wales Licensing Authority,...

Stuart (Plant) Ltd., of Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, to the Transport Tribunal in Edinburgh last week was dismissed; the appeal was...

in Edinburgh last week, heard an appeal by Bell and Co. (Transport) Ltd., of Edinburgh, against the refusal of the Scottish...

I N a written decision, the IVIetropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, made a part grant to Anglo Scottish Car...

By R. D. Cater Q N Monday I had the opportunity of driving the new Chrysler International Farmobil at a demonstration of this...

the big freeze-up which severely affected transport in 1962-63, the effect of low temperatures on the operation of petrol and...

MINISTRY ENGINEER TELLS OF PROGRESS AND METER PROSPECTS THE Ministry -of Transport is collating evidence about specific...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT WHEN Mr. Baumann. president of the VY German Institute of Public Cleansing, opened the Institute's...

THREE new constant-mesh gearboxes are now being offered by The David Brown Corporation (Sales) Ltd. Following a revised policy...

Bricks and Twins F INDING oneself travelling behind a tipping vehicle at a reasonable pace, few things are more disturbing...

and Publications 3eneral Utility Trailer A NEW, trailer, the FF13 general utility, is being added to the – 1 range of...

T HE road transport goods division of the Ministry of Transport is consulting Licensing Authorities to see whether any further...

R.H.A. CONCENTRATES ON THIS SUBJECT AT ITS EASTBOURNE CONFERENCE By Alan Havard and Norman H. Tilsley cc ORE than once at...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT UNDERSTAND that a Bill will be I brought forward almost immediately Parliament starts business...

Whither Progress? In calling for a reappraisal of the removal trade's associations at the N.A.F.W.R. conference this month, a...

F ROM time to time fuel additives are put on the market, various claims being made for them by their manufacturers. Sometimes...

OIVIE time ago when there was local pressure for the improvement of a certain stretch Of road, the official reply was that no...

T HE news that the Hampstead Borough Council has effected a complete renewal of a fleet of 16 refuse collection vehicles...

T HE results obtained from recording the cost of operating commercial vehicles can be used for several purposes. An immediate...

Design of Bus Bodies I HAVE just completed perusing the papers read at your Fleet Management Conference, as reported in your...