Government Committee Stress Need for Reconsidering Tax and improving London Streets I F the Chancellor of the Exchequer...

rr HE recent wave of defection among bus crews 1 must have made their employers wonder whether they were justified in conceding...

The Position of Crude Steel D URING 1954 European crude steel production broke all former records and totalled nearly 82m....

That deep, vertical kerbs to curb vehicles, can be dangerous. A claim that the gross output of the U.S.S.R. rose by 13 per...

Traffic, say B.R.S. S TRONG evidence has been given by British Road Services of their intention of retaining traffic after...

T HE drive by the West Midland Licensing Authority against the use of unfit vehicles continues. Last week Kidderminster...

T HE Transport Tribunal, sitting in Edinburgh on Tuesday, rejected an appeal by Mr. H. S. Smith, Duns, against the Scottish...

Council unanimously decided to give notice of their intention to submit to the Minister of Labour the proposals for increases...

"REF hauliers who applied to the 4orthern Licensing Authority on day to renew their B licences had vehicle strengths reduced...

clause in Mr. E. W. Short ' s Bill to permit local authorities to hire their buses was the first to come er fire when the Bill...

F IFTEEN witnesses were brought to support the town council ' s objec tions when W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., applied to the...

A • A S forecast by The Commercial Motor last week, representatives of the Association of British Chambers of Commerce met Mr....

Con gress, Bury Road Safety Committee are to submit that it should be an offence to board a public service vehicle at a place...

I NCREASED rates are to be intro duced by British Road Services on March 28. "Substantial recent increases in labour and other...

THE railways and W. Alexander and I. Sorts, Ltd., strongly opposed an application to the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority by...

motorbus services is foreshadowed in an application by Manchester Transport Department. It is proposed also to join two of the...

MR. EDWIN WF-ST has been reappointed chairman of Leeds Sub-area of the Road Haulage Association. The vice-chairman is MR....

T HE motor industry was on the threshold of the greatest period of expansion and development in its history, but however many...

A LL Green Line coach services of the London Transport Executive are now equipped with Setright ticketissuing machines in place...

consider that there is a strong VV case for reducing the Customs and Excise duties on fuel used by commercial road vehicles,"...

ET the unions say what they want. They admit the desirability of ig the speed limit for heavy goods :les to 30 m.p.h., but they...

bus fares could be cut by at least 10 per cent. if railways in Ulster were abandoned, Mr. W. M. May, M.P., said at Stormont...

'ANS by Leeds Corporation for a large-scale switching of bus routes city terminals to reduce traffic conon were mentioned...

F ARE increases designed to raise revenue by £40,920 a year were approved at a special meeting of Dundee Corporation, last...

"wiE take a serious view of this VV type of pirate offence whereby legitimate carriers are being undercut by the type of...

F 1FTEEN minutes after being convicted, in his absence, of exceeding the 30 m.p.h. limit in a built-up area at Bigrigg. a...

P RIVATE-PARTY organizers. and coach operators will find much useful information in the 4th edition of Good Outings. which has...

A STAFF shortage of some 400 has 1- k caused Sheffield Transport Department to recruit workers in Northern Ireland. Already...

F OUR Leyland vehicles were produced in January and February for every three made in the first two months of last year....

HOT-SPRAY method for applying semi-solid anti-corrosive compound been evolved by the Regent Oil Co., , and the Atlas Diesel...

RANGE of Tr u mp f portable , electric hand shearing and nibbling :hines is now being stocked by J. Edwards. Ltd., Edwards...

T HE individual sales departments of Park Royal Vehicles, Ltd., Charles H. Roe, Ltd., and Crossley Motors (Body Works), Ltd.,...

P RICED at 11 7s. bd., the seond edition of " Who's Who in the Motor Industry" is now available from Roland C. Bellamy...

THE new £250.000 bus station which Scottish Omnibuses, Ltd., intend to erect in Clyde Street, Edinburgh, will be capable of...

A START is to be made this month on the £70,000 bus terminal in St. George's . Lane' Canterbury. It is expected to be finished...

TRIPLE expansion of their transport 1 fleet since 1950 was announced last week by T. Wall and Sons, Ltd. In the peak season...

University Commercials and Coachwork. Ltd., 69 Lots Road. London, S.W.10. arc to hold a Perkins service week from March 14-18....

B US services over a wide area round the Medway towns had been at a standstill for nearly six days when The Commercial Motor...

need for improved plant in ships' olds to prevent deterioration of es being exported from Britain tressed by Mr. A. E. Shipley,...

Licensing Authority :onofreight Tr an s por t, Ltd., on-on-Tees, to operate two more it tankers. The railways opposed impany's...

een introduced by Broadway :ment. Ltd., 194-196 Finchley London. N.W.3. Designed to the tools to the job, it has a top for the...

vehicles in the western in 1953 than in 1948, according timates published in the United ns' 1954 Statistical Yearbook. .953...

should be an y into Darlington Transport rtment has been rejected by the al purposes committee. The sub&tee proposed that...

n FFICIALS of the Ministry of • Transport, the London Transport Executive and the London Transport Users' Consultative...

C OM MERCIAL vehicles are not included in the new Government Order restricting the hire purchase of certain goods, including...

Lane, Farncombe, near Goclalming, against the refusal of the South Eastern Licensing Authority to add a second vehicle lo their...

)rth - east Prosperity Free Enterprise Welcomed by Industry but "Bowler Hats" and "Plain Vans" Form a Potential Danger in...

Charges of Up to About 5s. Proposed for Parking in Street: Road Traffic Bill Committee Stage Ends BY OUR PARLIAMENTARY...

Advantages —Maj.-Gen. Russell rOMPETIT1ON between the national transport undertaking and independent operators might produce...

By Our Parliamentary Correspondent I E report on trade practices from the Monopolies Commission should in the Government's...

T HE latest product of Mack Trucks (Britain), Ltd., 62 North Street, Barking, Essex, is a Leyland-engined forward-control...

the way to ECONOMY Increase in Power of up to 10 per cent.: London Transport Show 6 per cent. Saving in Fuel and Thames...

Special Knowledge is Required of the Drivers of Ernest Batley, Ltd., Who Use 30 Vehicles to Deliver Over 10,000 Garages a Year...

B U1LDERS of mobile sales kiosks for a variety of trades. LawtonGoodman, Ltd., 135 Cricklewood Broadway, London, N.W.2, have...

S EVERAL months ago, there was an outbreak of complaints from certain Socialist spokesmen about the bad effect . of...

London Scottish Transport Buy Another 46 Lorries : 34 More for Turner's (Soham), Ltd. A SUBSTANTIAL fleet of special A licence...

Full and Generous Account of All Items of Expense Has to Be Taken When Reckoning a Charge for a Contract of Haulage, Otherwise...

AANY four-wheel-driven vehicles IVIhave means for disconnecting the front drive while on good roads, so as to avoid unnecessary...