A LONG debate in the Lords last week on commercial vehicle speeds and sizes produced many comments about braking capacity. This...

S UGGESTIONS that there should be detailed exploration of the areas of potentially fruitful co-operation between British Road...

S INCE 1954, when the Dutch licensing system was introduced, the carrying capacity of their haulage industry had increased by...

THE Customs and Excise Depart' ment last week gave the "thumbs up' to the marking system introduced early last year to...

accepted an invitation to be the guest of honour at this year's annual dinner of the Traders' Road Transport Association. Among...

Rees Jeffreys Studentship at The London School of Economics which will enable the suitable candidate to devote at least a year...

COLLOWINCi the new wage rates for haulage workers, the National Federation of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers, S.P.D. Ltd....

will commence on Sunday, May 5, at 9.15 a.m, from the Museum of British Transport. Triangle Place, Clapham. London, S.W.4,

A N exceptionally early start is to be made this year in the eliminating rounds for the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition....

D IRECT door-to-door delivery to Germany of an initial order of children's shoes worth nearly £3,000 has been made. by the...

La EYLAND MOTORS and Hotchkiss Brandt have been negotiating for the distribution of Leyland vehicles in France and what is...

Association Ltd. and East Surrey Farmers' Trading Association Ltd. has been approVed at tha special meetings held by the two...

week's issue was for the carriage of sugar in bulk. and not for the commodities originally stated; these (grains, animal feeds,...

issue of our associated journal The Aeroplane and Commercial Aviation News will cover the world's principal commercial...

B ECAUSE the objection of France to I-) this country joining the Common Market is political rather than economic, eventual...

THE theme of The Third International Conference of The Institute of Materials Handling is to be "Handling Ahead "—designed to...

Wednesday by Mr. P. Green. clerk to the West Midlands Licensing Authority, a new 45,000-rsq-ft. warehouse at Flaxley Road....

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT T HE Government last week successfully resisted attempts by Labour M.P.s to give weights and...

M R. MARPLES last week described the terms under which the Railways Board is being allowed to operate certain road goods...

Wednesday extending the requirement for annual tests to include five-year-old motor vehicles. The order, subject to the...

be told that a larger proportion of coal was to be railborne, in view of the • present difficulties in road haulage, suggested...

UR. RICHARD WOOD, the Minister IVI of Power, last week declined to give a general direction to the National Coal Board to...

over the Ministry of Transport will start collating reports on how the situation was met all over the country. The information...

batting of diesel exhaust fumes, Mr. Denzil Freeth said this week there was no evidence that these fumes produced cancer or...

I N a reserved decision in the appeal by H. J. Hadfield and Sons Ltd. against the decision of the North Western deputy...

rival claims of road and rail for deliveries of new ears from the factories in the Midlands into Cumberland were at issue last...

A licence switch was granted at Liverpool on Wednesday by the North Western deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe. P....

1-1 convert 15 vehicles from contract A to A licence to carry agricultural goods within Great Britain was adjourned after a...

granted permission by Mr. A. B. Birnie, the Scottish deputy Licensing Authority in Aberdeen on Tuesday, to add four new artics...

A FTER a hearing which lasted into the third day the Transport Tribunal in London last week reserved its decision in an appeal...

out of season had risen to such an extent that it was quite impossible for an operator such as Heaps Tours to cope with...

R EPRESENTATIVES from several large national companies supported an application at Macclesfield last week by Carmans Transport...

A FALSE STEP CAN LEAD TO DISASTER TUST a fortnight ago, in "Licensing Casebook ", I mentioned my amaze) ment and dismay at the...

CONGRATULATIONS to the South ‘..-• Wales Licensing Authority for starting the New Year right, so far as "Applications and...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT THE new London Transport Board has taken over where the London Transport Executive left off...

Tri E Ministry of Transport's requirenents for the operation of buses specially constructed or adapted to carry more than eight...

and District Motor Services' staff attained 40 years' service last year. Awards to these and other members of the staff were...

Western Road Car Co.'s new bus depot at Buxton, Derbys. By December, accommodation will be provided for 40 36-ft. vehicles.

order for 20 74-seater buses costing about £6,000 each, and will take delivery during 1964. A replacement programme of vehicles...

plans for a new bus depot, estimated to cost £360,000. There will be accommodation for 200 buses.

Red drivers and conductors, the third and fourth of the current series, were made on January 15 and 28 in Birmingham. B20

F OLLOWING the official opening of the new Cheadle bus station of The Potteries Motor Traction Co. Ltd., by Mr. J. Else, the...

Industrial Council has turned down a claim by Liverpool Corporation bus crews for extra payment for operating the larger...

IN his paper presented to the Bourne' mouth/Poole group of the Institute of Transport recently the group chairman, Mr. R. Cox,...

T WOpairs of coaches are being demonstrated throughout Great Britain during the course of the next six months by the Michelin...

A DUMPER with a payload rating of 35 tons has been developed by the Caterpillar Tractor Co., of America. Interesting features...

Sparking Plugs Ltd., including the ceramics departments of both companies, will be merged into a new division to be known as S....

of Izmir is planning to purchase 30 motorbuses and 20 trolleybuses. Tenders are expected to be called for in the near future....

Park Motors (Da tchet) Ltd. of Horton Road, Datchet, Bucks, which holds a Land-Rover and Rover distributorship. Wardle Group...

vans, 5,768 goods vehicles and 308 motorbuses were registered for the first time in Denmark, as compared with respective...

will be imposed on the import into Venezuela of wholly or partially assembled road goods vehicles and motor buses. Excluded...

Manufacturers' Association in Frankfurt-on-Main, some 247,000 road goods vehicles and goods vehicle-plus-trailer units were...

commercial vehicles for November, 1962, was 20,517. This total was only moderate when compared with the figure for the...

Ltd. for the year ended September 30, 1962, of £131,084 showed a drop on the profit for the equivalent period of 1961, which...

By P. A. C. BROCKINGTON, n.m.i.mech.E. 0 NE of the most significant aspects of the comments made by Mr. P. F. Foice,...

A LOW-PRICED dunking machine !at suitable for cleaning small items has been introduced by Dawson Bros. Ltd„ Gomersal, Yorks. It...

A S a result of a technical and com mercial link-up with Robinson Technical Products of America, Delaney Gallay Ltd., Vulcan...

THE Paints Division of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., has added Belco 501 Surfacer to its range of Belco and Dulux...

A SOLUTION to' the problem of mini mizing the loss of cold air from refrigerated compartments is offered by Polydrape Cold...

BY THE TECHNICAL EDITOR B RIEF details were given in last week's issue of the proposals for increased sizes and weights of...

T HE Ministry of Transport's proposal to require that new single-decker buses capable of carrying more than 45 seated...

VEHICLE BRAKES Proposals for heavier goods vehicles, the raising of the speed limit tomorrow to 40 m.p.h., and the knowledge...

N EW forward-control goods chassis to replace existing models in the Commer range and to augment the Karrier series are...

i4 1111-0AD operators get free tracks, whereas the railways IAhave to own, build and maintain their tracks ", says Lord Stonham...

to start a small collection of 'HIS cars and motorcycles which have been in use by the Army in the past. We are interested both...

issue) criticizes the " ignorance of two recent applicants for road service licences in the South Eastern Area, it is...

the best appreciations of what lies behind the campaign of the Railway Conversion League that has so far appeared in the Press....

R ECENTLY I commented on one aspect of a road safety report produced by the Snowy Mountains Authority in Australia. Other items...

L IKE any other industry, road transport will find that the abrupt rejection of Britain's application to join the Common Market...

I N this series two weeks ago it was emphasized that considerable economy in tyre costs could be obtained by comparatively...