W HILST we have confidence that an excellent future lies before the heavy-oil engine in connection with its use for commercial...

TT is to be regretted that much of the blame .1for the unfortunate state Of many small hauliers should be laid at the door of...

T HE manufacturer of commercial • vehicles who wishes to cater for the many classes of user is faced with the problem of how...

N iTRITING recently in a Sunday news-• paper, Sir Max Pemberton, in comparing taxicab fires in New York and London, mentioned...

'The wheels of wealth wili be slowed by all difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the...

Special Passenger Vehicle Number of COMMERCIAL MOTOR will be published on Tuesday, February 11th, at the usual price of 3d....

The directors of the Sentinel Waggon Works, Ltd., have decided to recommend the payment of a dividend of Ti per cent, per...

The report of Chapman and Sons (Eastbourne), Ltd. the well-known coaching concern Of Eastbourne, for the year 1929 reveals a...

A Ministry of Transport return which has recently been issued shows that the total number of mechanically propelled vehicles in...

A Sentinel Machine Tested Under Difficult Weather Conditions : Low Fuel Consumption Despite High Tractive Resistance I N...

Suggestions of the Corporation for Amendments to the Bill T BE sub-committee which Glasgow Corporation appointed to consider...

By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent T E report stage of the Road Traffic Bill was entered upon in the House of Lords...

for DIESEL ENGINES The Benes Device is of Marked Simplicity. It Has No Valves and Operates at a Pressure of 300 Atmospheres...

D UBING recent years the ShnmsJurid patent link couplings have made . consederable headway in the commercial-motor world. On...

Details of an Efficient Fire-fighting Appliance of the Foam Type and how it Proved its Value A S is well known, the great...

F OR the first time some figures have lately been issued by the Irish Free State -Department of Industry and Commerce which...

How the Task of Distributing Supplies to the Shops and Depots of Boots (the Well-known Concern of Chemists) is Accomplished...

The works committee of SHIPLEY' Urban District Council has decided to purchase a motor tractor. GLASGOW Corporation has...

FRENCH TRACTOR SHOW rpllE ninth annual plough and traetqr show .1. at the Porte de Versailles, Paris, seemed to indicate, so...

Some Useful Seating Plans Which May be Employed in Connection with Three Sizes of 32-seater Longdistance Passenger Vehicle...

HAULIER and CARRIER An Estimate of the Saving Effected in the Operating Cost of a Vehicle, when the Owner Himself Cares for It...

"I have been asked by a corn-miller to quote prices for the cletrvery of foodstuffs to his customers, who are mostly farmers....

CONVERTIBLE COACHWORK A MOTORCAR which can function, when required, as a goods-carrying vehicle appeals to a large number of...

A T the Olympia Show . of -last November appeared the first edition of the Chaser four-wheeler built by Karrier Motors, Ltd.,...

PASSENGER TRAVEL COACHING CONDITIONS IN MANCHESTER, The Activities of an Association Which Protects the Interests of...

The Corporation Decides to Inaugurate Fast Services to Points on the City Boundry. T HE general manager of the tramways and...

Details of a Hand and a Mechanically Operated Roof for Passenger Vehicles. T 'E problem of providin g motor coaches, both of...

A Bus Body Built by a Coventry Concern, Which Has Lately Commenced the Construction of Commercial Bodywork. A NIONE who is at...

A Valuable Site Purchased by an Influential Syndicate for the Purpose of Handling Coaching Traffic at Kings Cross, T HE...

Subjects Under Discussion: Organization of Hauliers. The Cost of Diesel OIL Running-cost Figures for a 3-ton Six -wheeled...

E VERY year tyre manufacturers expend a great deal of effort in endeavouring to persuade vehicle users to give to tyres that...

Items of News Intended to Stimulate the Interest of British Makers in Overseas Markets Egypt Calls for Tenders. MENDERS have...

THE INJECTION OF FUEL A Resume of Recently Published Patent Specifications MHE patent of Eugen Thomas and Robert Stuhr, both...