HOSE who fear the nationalization of road passenger transport are perturbed by the constitution of the sub-committee set up by...

T HE case of the dispossessed haulier who is kept waiting for months for-compensation has been taken up in the House of Commons...

New Device for Inn UR old friend, the electric dicating Unsafe Tyre `..." indicator to show when tyres Pressures .. ... are...

Of already too much (and still increasing) legalized injustice. Of a new Cummins oil engine which develops 300 b.h.p. at 2,100...

A PPLAUSE greeted the call of Mr. nil, C. Drayton, chairman of the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., for an overwhelming...

DIANS announced last week by i Lord Latham, chairman of the London Transport Executive, included the replacement of the South...

THE British Transport Commission has been given two years' extension of the period for the preparation and submission to the...

A CCORDING irs a. report of the general pUrposes and watch com mittee of Cheltenham Town •Council. there is a possibility of...

A N express service to Butlin's camp rAat Filey, Yorkshire, was inaugurated last week-end when a 33-seater Allenways coach left...

week holiday period ending August 27, when three vehicles are to be run on the same tune-table. The coach leaves Moseley Road...

THE Minister of Fuel and Power has . decided that the time is not appropriate to discontinue the rationing of commercial petrol...

MR. L. A. BEARE has been appointed sales representative for Europe of Nuffield Exports, Ltd. MR. C. H. SUTHERLAND has resigned...

IN his annual report for the year ended March 31 last, Mr. H. W. Snowball. general manager of Sunderland transport department,...

WHY do some hauliers make a surYY charge of 5s. per ton on cargo from the Potteries to Liverpool and Birkenhead, for shipment...

A SUGGESTION by a Member of fl Parliament that ancillary users should prove need before being granted C licences was refuted in...

Within nine months, half MiddleSbrough's buses will be Ihe 8-ft.-wide type. Production of an uuderfloor.:enginecl...

T HE public service vehicle and battery-electric vehicle departments of Northern Coachbuilders, Ltd., will, in future, be...

damages amounting to Plover £546, against Dundee Corporation, has been taken in the Court of Session by W. Alexander and Sons,...

T HIRTY-F1VE tests are completed in - less than an hour in a. new " safety lane" set up by the S.M T. Saks and Service Co,,...

F AILURE to notify the registration authorities promptly of a change of ownership of a vehicle can have serious repercussions...

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IN the House of Commons, last week, the Minister of Transport said that the British TranspOrt Commission proposed to set up a...

Anglo-Italian. Joint Economic Committee, recently held in London, the Italian Government has agreed to 'grant *owes for goods...

Goodyear was formerly managing director of W. Goodyear and Sons, Ltd., and of the Dunlop Rim and Wheel Co., Ltd. MR. SYDNEY G....

F IFTY Guy Arab single-decker bus chassis have been ordered by the Western Australia Government Tramways, -Perth. An order for...

Spa, Yorkshire, from August 15-19, 1,643 motor vehicles and trailers of all types will he auctioned. Catalogues can he obtained...

a scientific investigation of the validity of time and motion study. The objects of this technique will be defined more...

the Treasury to defeat those who circumvent purchase tax by fitting panels in the window spaces on utility vehicles. ,...

VET another important bus operator, Southdown Motor Services, Ltd., announces a reduced profit despite a substantial increase...

AN extraordinary meeting of Transport Services, Ltd., to he held on September 8. will consider the voluntary winding-up of the...

R EVIS1ONS have been Made by the IN-British Standards -Institution in the 50-amp. Plug and s'ocket, which was introdueed to...

in the ripublic interest, be removed from an area or route, under the provisions of the Motor Carrier Tra n spOrtation...

S26,000,000 I N the year ended March, 1948, payments from the Road Fund in connection with the maintenance and improvement of...

a miners' bus service between Stainforth and Thorne Colliery. near Doncaster, was unsuccessfully opposed before the Yorkshire...

T HE recently published service manual dealing with the David Brown tractor reaches a high standard in literature of this kind....

C OMPLETE buses with bodies built in "the recently -constructed bodybuilding depadment of Gtly Motors. Ltd., Wolverhampton,...

T RANSPORT costs for laundry Work were discussed by Mr. N. Thackeray, secretary , of United Co-operative Laundries Association,...

R EFERRING to "hordes of IN. cyclists as a factor in the trans port situation, the Lord Mayor (Ald, J. Henson), who is...

UDGIED by the behaviour of the Do(Ie 6-ton chassis on test, it is a vastly superior machine to its predecessors in...

The first consumption trial was , started between Westerham and Brasted. My small tank was used for this test, and 1 had...

W FIAT has happened to the proposal to increase to 30 m.p.h. the speed limit for heavy Vehicles? Another meeting of the Road...

PAINTING A VEHICLE A s an example of a typical painting job we will take a drop-sided lorry on a chassis equipped with a...

Q in the Canadian Middle West UI \--ithe combination road-rail bus passes .without notice. It looks like a conventional...

W ITHIN, a .few years many of the names which have been _household words in the carrying trade will be only memories and the...

A BREAKDOWN ambulance, designed and built by Goddard and Dellar, Lid., North 'Road - Garage, Royston ; liens, utilizes . a...

I N a mobile greengrocery shop, recently built by the Gateshead Industrial Co-operative Society, Ltd., an outstanding feature...

W HILST I have written on the subject of accident claims before, in view of the interest now prevailing in this subject, it...

(- I NCE upon a time some Greek workmen dug a deep hole in the pavement of one of the main thoroughfares of their ancient...

P ATENT No. (121,695 comes from Schneider et Cie., Paris, and deals With improvements in the scavenging of supercharged...