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A CCOR DING to information received from various sources, there appears to be a dearth of loads for hauliers, at least in some...
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I N a few days the limit on standing passengers in buses during the peak hours of transport, and at other times when hardship...
Masking with Plastic, A NEW method of masking Saves Much Tape and chromium parts while Time vehicles aro being spray painted...
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"Hall change at Liverpool. Of sowing and harvesting at Chester. That America is to drill 36,000 oil wells this Of a...
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has risen at a startling rate from 306 gallons of petroleum products per head of population in 1938 to 506 gallons per head in...
's in the 1--ipossibilities of gas turbines for road vehicles. So far no example has reached a commercial state, but one of the...
to test the power of the Minister of Transport to make an Order partially closing a road, is being taken by the National Road...
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A N unusual farm-tractor demonstration was staged last week at Peterborough. A party of '17 agriculturists, including Lord de...
A mos . pleas.,nt function took place in London on April 28, when ihe council of the National Road Transport Federation gave a...
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MR. W. EWART GUY, director of Guy Motors, Ltd., who recently underwent an operation following a relapse, is now making...
C.V.0.. M.B.E., president of 1.112 Institute of Transport, formally opened the Institute's magnificent new head. quarters at...
Dollars for U.K. T HE retreading industry dealt with 1.200.000 tyres last year, or more than double the number treated 10...
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rRITICISM of the interim report of gs.-othe working party committee on delays to road vehicles at Liverpool and Birkenhead...
XVI: are informed by the Road TransV% port Executive that it is prepared to receive implications for tout IC appointments as...
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IMPROVEMENTS in bus transmis sion systems, oil engines and suspension systems are being sought by the London Transport...
1 ---/possession of utility type buses, as built during the war, may find themselves in trouble with examiners of the Ministry...
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ot Li employees of the Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd., Newport, were emphasized when Mr. Glyn Davies, of Messrs. Black and White...
A N application by Messrs. Ralphs Garages, of Abertillery. fi . permission to start their excursion season in the second week...
its reserve fund to the relief of rates in March. 1947, came wider lire front Mr. S. V. Nelson chairman of the Northern...
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By L. Graham Davies F OUR important Continental motor exhibitions have been held in just over six months and at each, British...
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F ROM Tuesday to Thursday of this week the third annual conference of the Public Transport Association was held at Eastbourne....
G OOD management, said Mr. R. 1. H. Longman, M.Inst.T., in reading his paper, "Musings on Management," must lead to "doing the...
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'Fuel Injection and Electrical Equipment for Transport Vehicles," Mr. A. T. Priddle said that from the design data of a new oil...
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T HE spirit of enterprise persists and indeed renews itself again and again. There _are, for example, young and energetic...
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for Exceptional Conditions A WIDE margin of strength has been built into the new B.U.T. ETB/I export trolleybus chassis to...
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F IVE new Thornyeroft coaches in the service of the Bristol Co-operative Society, Ltd , are equipped with Nynchromesh and pre...
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S OUTH DEVON, one of the loveliest parts of the country, offers a variety of interests to visitors. A climate comparable with...
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at the W.F. T HE engineering and hardware section of the British Industries Fair at Castle Bromwich, Birmingham, now in...
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Dynamos T HE present tendency in the design of electric generators for buses, is to provide for higher-speed operation. which...
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cROM Bendix Aviation Corporation, South Bend, Indiana, U.S.A., there comes, in patent No. 596,558, a servooperated steering...