upon the road transport operators of this country an adequate conception of what disunity, rate-cutting and the misuse of...

T HE phrase " restriction for restriction's sake" was recently applied to the limitation of duplication of long-distance...

O NE of the most autocratic moves on the part of the Ministry of Transport was to inaugurate a scheme by which local...

More than Twice the HE Twin Coach buses Mileage Per Gallon I with Hercules oil exigines with Oilers . . . . governed to 2,100...

Hears— That you can travel fartlier for the same taxi fare in London on a Sunday—especially a wet Sunday. That more northern...

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

A LLEGATIONS that cattle sent by rail over long distances were not properly looked after, .and that they had arrived in poor...

WHETHER a haulier can increase YV the unladen weight of an author-. ized vehicle without the cousent of the Licensing...

" UE has been -continitously. break'. ing the law," said :Mr. R. B. _Orange, solicitor to the London, Midland and Scottish...

Norwich Corporation recommends the appointment of ALDERMAN H. E. WITARD as a director of the Norwich Omnibus Co. for the year....

F OUR " hours " cases came before the Fahnouth magistrates, last week. Two were against drivers employed by the Falmouth...

A recommendation in favour of raising the speed limit for heavy commercial vehicles was put forward at a meeting of the council...

Next year, the annual show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England will take place at Bristol, from June 30-July 4....

O N Monday, he new neadquarters of the Birmingham Fire Brigade were declared open by the Duke of Kent, in the presence of the...

are Doing C.M.U.A. Activity Continues Crewe Operators' Dinner. At the November meeting of the C.M.U.A. Crewe branch, it was...

Yorkshire Activity. Two important meetings of the A.R.O. are to be held in Yorkshire and in each case the speakers will be Mr....

T HE dignity and inviolability of the law have never had a stauncher champion than the present Lord Chief justice. It was his...

]T has been obvious for some time that to leave the control of the fuel-injection equipment almost entirely to the driver of...

transport users I ventured tha assertion that it is impossible accurately to determine the cost of operation of a motor vehicle...

to announce a new Guy goods chassis, named the Otter. It is offered with a four cylindered petrol engine for £75, whilst with a...

kN OIL ENGINE T HE progress of the compression-ignition engine has depended to a great extent upon the manner in which the fuel...

WITH reference to our paragraph VV published on November 22, Mr. Lemass, Minister for Industry and Commerce in the Irish Free...

route is about 480 miles. Mr. F. Leo Crilly expects to have, by next August, new British multi-engined machines cruising at...

T HE Air Ministry announces that the Aerodromes Advisory Board, a voluntary body constituted in 1933 by the professional...

A DEVICE which, it is claimed, prevents any person knocked down by a vehicle being run over by the front wheels is to be...

A TWICE-WEEKLY air service, on Tuesday's and Thursdays, between Glasgow •and Skye, was scheduled to be started yesterday...

Gives Excellent Results O NE of the outstanding de-. velopments in the commercialvehicle field during recent months is...

A't the annual general meeting of Dennis Brothers, Ltd., Sir Raymond Dennis, K.B.E., joint managing director, made it known...

TN our issue dated November .8 last, we referred briefly 1 to the new Gillett automatic clutch control. The operation of this...

A HEAVY-OIL carburetter of rather unusual design, which has achieved lately a certain measure of success in France, is the...

fl YSTERY surrounds a report at Newcastle-on-Tyne that a bus concern—stated to be United Automobile Services, Ltd.—has secured...

I T was publicly announced for the fi rst time at the annual dinner of the Motor Omnibus Proprietors Association (South Wales...

A s forecast in last week's issue of The Commercial Motor, the Motor Omnibus Proprietors Association (South Wales and Mon.) has...

RING a speech concerning the L./joint transport undertaking of York Corporation and the West Yorkshire Road Car Co., Ltd., at a...

D ESPITE opposition by Birch Bros., Ltd., London, which is already running services from the .Metropolis, the United Counties...

.T HEquestion of restrictive booking arrangements, whereby one ticket organization seeks to prevent its agents from booking...

T WO cases in respect of summonses with regard to the operation of a private car to Blackpool during the Illuminations were...

I N the year ended September 30, 1935, the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., benefited by improved trade generally, and a profit of...

O UTPUTS approaching 25 b.h.p. from • % .-/engines of no more than half a litre in capacity are by no means exceptional in the...

QUERIES C.M.U.A. AND A.R.O. CO-ORDINATION CONSIDERED ESSENTIAL. [4691] The report of the meeting held at Hanley under the...

been supplied by Lookers, Ltd., Hardman Street, Manchester, to Manchester Corporation's electricity department. The outfit...

A Useful Fog Lamp for Commercial Vehicles. Known as the type C.F:T.-37, a new fog and pass lamp of interesting design is being...

TifIE Bagnulo combustion system for 1 oil engines is well known on the Continent, where its ability to operate on almost any...