C ONSIDERABLE perturbation has been caused in road transport circles, particularly in connection with the heavier classes of...

Coat mining COAL-MINING machinery Machinery Taken to was carried by State road Wilds of Scotland . . transport into the wilds...

Hears— That the tailboard looks like wagging the vehicle. That if Andy Pandy loses grip, there is always Gandy. Of good...

T HIS week, a special meeting was called by the British Furniture Manufacturers' Federated Associations to decide the terms by...

IT is unlikely that the high rate of out1 put of commercial vehicles set up in the first half of this year will be maintained....

A NTICIPAT1NG the possibility of a tA General Election in the autumn, the national council of the Road Haulage Association is...

I N the four weeks to July 15 last, British Road Services . earned £6,157,000. Revenue for the 28 weeks to July 15 amounted to...

rok-ry tank wagons, "The Commer cial Motor" was informed this week, are now being used in ferrying milk from Lame to...

'THE , five-day week in other indus triesis blamed by the general manager, Mr. E. G. Thomas, for the high rate of change among...

WORK bays with two-way telephonic VY communication to a glass observation tower are features of a new £150,000 vehicle repair...

A NEW product of the B. B. Chemical Co., Ltd., Leicester, manufacturer of Bostik compounds. and of British Cellophane, Ltd.,...

from 20 lb. to 1 ton in weight is to be introduced by the Nottingham Parcels Group of British Road Services on September 9....

Trans port men consider that the Transport and General Workers' Union betrayed municipal employees in the recent pay...

T "Eyear ended March 31 last was the most difficult since Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd., and its predecessors were established in...

A NEW range of gear-type hydraulic pumps has been introduced by the Plessey Co., Ltd., Ilford, Essex. There are 98 different...

A Firestone depot at 131, Carlisle Street, Sheffield, 4, Opens to-morrow * The latest British Standard covers mobile cranes of...

S UBMITTING proposals to the transport committee for raising the minimum tram and t - 011eybus fare to 2d. and maintaining the...

MR, JOHN Bowstapt has been appointed assists a public relations officer of the Austin Motor Co., Ltd., MR. G. A. w. LAIRD,...

Ltd., manufaCturer of Hetics battery-electric vehicles is leaving on Septernber .6 for a four-day tour of Holland. He will • be...

of the •Leylaod .bodybuilding factory, has sailed for avisi, to thc U.S.A. under a _scheme sponsored by the Economic...

R ISING costs of raw materials, etc., have forced an increase in the prices of Cromard cylinder liners manufactured by the...

A WARRANT to extend its Victoria works at Dunfermline has been granted to the Dunlop Rubber Co:, Ltd.. A single-storey...

of engine will be manufactured by F. Perkins, Ltd., Peterborough, was given by the nianaging director, Mr. Frank Perkins,...

j AST year. there were 30,291 convic1- , tions in cases of goods vehicles exceeding the 30, m.p.h. or 20 m.p.h. speed limits. A...

CUTURE meetings of the Institute of Traffic Administration include the following:— September 10, lecture on British Road...

T O meet the special requirements of the Shell Petroleum Co., Ltd., John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., has recently completed a...

NORMOUS • financial losses are J — t sustained year after year because of delays, breakages and pilferage on the South African...

A T the Motor Industry Research Association's test track at Nuneaton, last week, Saunders-Roe (Anglesey) Ltd., demonstrated a...

THE recent opening of Europe's L largest steelworks at Margarn Underlines the urgent need to modernize the road system which...

A PPRECIATION for the way former tram drivers and conductors adapted themselves to motorbus operation is contained in a...

.C OMMERCIAL-VEHICLE designers and .operators who visit the Engineering. Marine and Welding Exhibition F which opened at...

QIX ice-cream vans have been fitted kJ with two-way radio equipment by T. Wall and Sons, Ltd., so that drivers can be directed...

A TTEMPTS to extend the Henbury bus service of the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., to the large housing estate at...

Canadian Operators Know Their Own Minds and are Exacting in Their Requirements: Britain is Beginning to Gain Their Confidence...

B ASED on an Austin 25-cwt. chassis with an 18-in. extension to the wheelbase, a mobile buffet, one of an order for two, has...

IDDLESEX, with an area of 232 sq, miles ertibracing many densely populated districts, claims to have the largest combined fire...

says Alfred Woolf, B.A. L IBERTY and equality, without even the benefit of fraternity, are what French ancillary users demand...

By H Scott Hall, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.R.T.E. F1S1- . 1 landed at Aberdeen, which has Scotland's largest quay, must, whatever...

By Ashley Taylor, A NNUAL general meetings of the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Co., in the 1930s could hardly have been...

I HAVE found the recent pre-selective versus layshaft 'gearbox controversy most interesting. Writing simply as a passenger, it...

L AST week, I pointed out that as the prospect of a General Election and a change of Government drew nearer, certain hauliers...

1 DEVOTED most of my previous .article to describing a method of making provision for establishment costs and profits for those...