When Mobile Publicity May Involve Some Danger THE publicity afforded by I commercial vehicles is often of considerable value....

Of soft-glass solders for glass: Nobody suggesting that radio in the cab is causing "flick Barton" to demoralize drivers. That...

Commission intends to make full Use of the Road Haulage Association, and aims at establishing a system of , - practical liaison...

H AULIERS in the Yorkshire town of Hall will long remember the month of December, 1948. During that month the British Transport...

n g the 1 N raising of the speed limit of heavy goods vehicles to 30 m.p.h: appear to have reached deadlock. Talks have been...

TRANSPORT circles in the northI east were concerned about a rumour, last weekend, that the Road Transport Executive was...

A STATEMENT by Mr. Raymond Birch, chairman of the Public Transport Association (reported in The Commercial Motor" dated...

THE new regulations, made by the Minister of Fuel and Power, amending the definition of private motor vehicles, came into force...

R OADS and bridges that cause particular difficulty to carriers of heavy loads are being listed by the Road Haulage...

D URING proceedings before the West Midland Licensing Authority, official discouragement and currency restrictions were stated...

rOMMERCIAL vehicles, including k-0 motorbuses, trolleybuses, battery electrics and trailers, are among the many types of...

DECAUSE two heavy lorries, each with a trailer carrying a steel bedplate weighing 42 tons, deviated from their authorized...

INSUITABLE bus services have been causing loss of productive time by Inland Revenue employees and steel workers, and have...

'....saving money and precious beef by using road trains to carry cattle over drought-stricken country. In Queensland, the...

TWELVE Leyland 8-ft.-wide buses, i part of an order for 49 vehicles, have just been delivered to Stockton Corporation, which is...

' INC SYSTEM? By A. J. HIRST, B.Sc., A.M.I.Mech.E. T HE examples tci which reference was made in the first part of -this...

faced in c . onnectiOn„ with . products intended for export is that of providing effective protection against rapid...

Says a Correspondent... I F its popularity were to be judged by the actions and policies of the . London Transport Executive,...

in the news M. F. C. Dowtrs, general manager at the St. John's Wood premises of Carmo (1929), Ltd., has become a director. MR....

I T will not be generally known that the first public railway in the world ran from Croydon (Surrey) to Wandsworth. Horse-drawn...

S INCE the .;mblication of my articles on costing for furniture remOvers, which appeared in The Commercial Motor" on November...

Transport Organizers NAANY public-cleansing departments 01 operated a central transport pool, covering the general transport...

Developments in Hampshire A NEW service which should have a great appeal to holiday-makers is to be introdUced at Easter by...

A FUEL that operates at 100-octane rates when high performance is demanded, and at a lower octane value when peak performance...

I HAVE not always agreed with the views about rail'way transport expressed, in your journal, and even allowed myself to think,...

T HE first mobile film unit to be sent overseas by the British. Council is shortly tct be shipped to Turkey . , where it will...

Bus has Radiator Under Stairs Elaborate Air-conditioning System in 46-seater for Green Line ONDON TRANSPORT'S long-awaited...

• A CCORDING to patent No. 608,043, Pia road-roller can be made much more effective if it be able to impart. a vibratory...