T HE Lorry Driver of the Year Competition is bulging at the seams. Some of the honorary officials who hold together the fabric...

I T is so often difficult to agree with the Socialists on transport policy that an article in Transport and General Workers...

A T the age of 48, the chairman-designate of the Tilling Group Management Board brings to his office the qualifications, rarely...

No More Dazzle D RIVING in blinding rain down Ml the other night, I was impressed by the effectiveness of the experimental...

" IT would seem that in the main the improvements in the Pink Zone I were secured in those places where there was strict...

NM double-decker with a capacity of I N 72 or more seats should be allowed to carry standing passen g ers. A 64-seater should...

A NEWfOrtriula has been devised by the North Western Li c ensin g AuthoritY to prevent eicessive increases in the Unl a den(...

The fun of the fair is on the move. Loaded convoys are bringing blaring life to surprised meadows. For a day, two days,...

-f HE British Transport Commission, " under a little mild pressure" from the Transport Tribunal, had agreed to a suggestion...

MR. R. BARTRAM has been appointed manager of "off-the-road services" of Tyresoles, Ltd. MR. A. C. E. MUSK has joined the board...

Buses For Iraq: Twenty-four Hungarian lkarus buses have been delivered to Baghdad, Iran. Last Tram: Sheffield's last train...

A DIRECTOR of Quorn Transport, PI Ltd., Barrow-on-Soar, Leics, was sent for trial by a special Loughborough court, last week....

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT WHILE the threatened railway 'strike blankets everything else in the 7vbroad national...

T HE"ticket" system of fines is to be included in a Bill to be promoted by Mr. R. A. Butler, Home Secretary, in the House of...

E ITHER the British Transport Commission had been operating a vehicle of 3 tons 16 cwt., when the registration book and...

A CUMBERLAND haulier, who 18 . 1-1 months ago had his special-A licence revoked by Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing...

vV HEN the Liverpool branch of McVeigh Transport, Ltd., successfully applied to Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, North Western Deputy...

ofR. A. L. BLOWER, the former chairal man, and Mr. A. G. Jones, previously managing director, were re-elected directors of Guy...

O aTECTIONS by the British Transport O and private hauliers to an application by Robert Wynn and Sons, Ltd., to increase their...

vuoRK is to start at once on reconVV structin g the Heads of the Valleys road, part of the link between South Wales and the...

A HAULIER was congratulated by 1 - "V Mr. W. F. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, at Glasgow last week, for applying for a...

IF Fred Chappell, Ltd., Batley, were allowed to continue to operate under A licence, simply because they had spent a lot of...

B ECAUSE two B-licensed vehicles of M.S. Haulage, Ltd., Liverpool, had been mainly employed to carry food to the U.S. Air Force...

1 HE linking of Manchester Nottingham and Nottingham Great Yarmouth express services by Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., the North...

I T was a bad thing that representatives of local authorities should be elected to serve on the panels of Traffic Commissioners...

A DECISION of the West Midland Traffic Commissioners to grant a licence to Greatrex Motor Coaches, Ltd., Stafford, to run an...

Running at 20 Tons Gross Weight, Thornycroft Mastiff 6 > 2 Achieves Average of 37.4 m.p.h. Over 107 Miles By John F. Moon,...

T° aid the track-testing of prototype vehicles and components. Sir W. G. Armstrong Whitworth Aircraft, Ltd.. have developed an...

First Bus System Owned by Urban District Still Growing After 46 Years By a Special Correspondent T HE small passenger...

Boy to Coach Magnate W HEN he was still in his 'teens, Robert Barr, the son of a Scot who farmed near Wakefield, cOnceived...

MUMEROUS examples of applications for Courtaulds synthetic fibres and I 11 materials were seen at the recent " Courtaulds in...

• Three-wheeler Proves Agile in Congested Traffic : 88.6 m.p.g. with 21-cwt. Load: Rubber-Cone Front Suspension By Anthony...

EE XTREMELY good retardation figures were obtained when a B,M.M.O. C.M.5 coach was put through braking tests by The Cornmercial...

" A RE we a purely commercial con• cern? " Sir John Benstead, deputy chairman of the British Transport Commission, asked in a...

IN the light of present-day conditions, I recommend in the strongest terms that the railway authorities look into the question...

"THE national executive committee of the Road Haulage Association last week approved the appointment of a national traffic...

T HE final of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition will be held at Fort Dunlop, Birmingham, on September 18. This was...

ff VERYONE is agreed, said Mr. R. A. Butler, Home Secretary, the other day, that'something ought to be done about traffic jams,...

Recording of Information Needed for Statistical Analysis Must Be Simplified and Reduced to a Minimum I S form-filling...

A STUB axle pivot assembly in which wear is automatically taken up as it occurs is shown in patent No. 826,245. (Regie...