T HE figures for road accidents in 1936 were pub lished last week, and they show, compared with 1935, a small reduction in the...

A N astonishing instance of the autocratic methods employed by the railways is referred to in a letter published in this issue....

Christmas IT was a pity that, having I wished their passengers a Happy Christmas, the railways should have spoiled the illusion...

have not, been made :— By Status Quo : To continue to dip his vitriolic pen in the blood of the railway dragon. By the...

THE YEAR'S TOLL OF THE ROAD. In the 52 weeks from December 29, 1935, to December 26, 1936, 6,489 persons were killed and...

The ruling of the Appeal Tribunal, that there was no goodwill where a haulier sold out to a customer who gave him all his work,...

Bouts-Tillotson Transport, Ltd., have suffered a severe blow by the sudden withdrawal of traffic in the distribution of The...

MR. L, P. LORD, who was, until last August, managing director of Morris Motors, Ltd., has been appointed by the trustees as...

A scheme to divide a haulage business between two parties was mentioned at Hull, last Friday, when Mr. William L. Dees, Great...

F IGURES illustrative of the enormous traffic in milk from Wiltshire to the industrial areas were given at Bristol, last week,...

A SUMMONS against a firm, in the person of their van driver, for obstructing the thoroughfare outside their own premises, was...

on Monday, decided to approve a recommendation that a new fire-engine be purchased, estimated to cost £1,500, the chief...

A RAILWAY appeal which was dismissed by the Appeal Tribunal on the ground that the railway company had failed to prove the...

Dudley Corporation is to buy a petrol roller. Manchester Corporation is buying a Leers road GWETper. • Aberdeen County Council...

More powerful 30-cwt. and 2-ton vehicles and a new line of de luxe goods vehicles are features of the 1937 models announced by...

I N our specification tables, published last week - , reference was made to two Thornycroft Sturdy tipping chassis. These are...

THERE is no such thing as a re newal of your licence. Upon the expiry of an A or B licence, you must make application for a...

Off the Road If you have had vehicles off the road, whether you are asked for your drivers' log sheets or any other inquiry is...

Vr are able, this week, to maxe an xclusive announcement of an entirely new battery-electric vehicle which is produced at the...

employing novel loading method D ROPPED-FRAME trailers operating in this country enjoy the advantage of normally travelling on...

A.R.O. EAST MIDLAND MEMBERS WALK OUT. • A.R.O. East Midland Area hauliers' sectional board has resi g ned en bloc. Ne g...

Areas in Most Cases Behind' Management Committee, Says Statement Issued on Wednesday O N Wednesday evenin g , an important...

A.R.O. Western Area was able to co-operate with the Post Office during the Christmas season by submitting a list of members who...

C.M.U.A. at Croydon, last week, Mr. W. A. Vie'inson, chairman; said that now the merger had broken down, the Association was...

It was announced on Wednesday evening that certain members of the national sectional passenger board of A.R.O. have resigned...

the holding of regular monthly meetings for both goods and passenger operators in the Yorkshire Area of A.R.O. The object of...

farming opened at Rhodes House, Oxford, on Tuesday, under the joint auspices of the School of Rural Economy, the Agricultural...

F URTHER evidence was heard, in London, on Monday and Tuesday, by the committee appointed by the Ministers of Labour and...

Mr. R. V. Teare, Mr. D. A. Elwes and Mr. B. G. Arthur—expressed the view that there appeared to be no adequate grounds for...

the Ford .1...Motor Co., Ltd., Allan Taylor and Co., High Street, Wandsworth, London, S.W.18, has recently had the novel...

and solid bars, is now offered by the Glacier Metal Co., Ltd., Alperton, Middlesex. These are intended for the manufacture of...

AVIIITE slavery of the motor world IN was the description applied to certain clearing-house operations at a recent gathering of...

)N DESIGN T HE pantechnicon nowadays has a Luton-type body of about 1,000-cubic-ft. capacity and the complete vehicle weighs...

QUERIES [4956] Two items of recent news are of particular interest to those affected by wage awards—the evidence given before...

FFICIENCY of oil-engined buses 1 - -Aand the high cost of operating eight-wheeled bogie tramcars • are stressed in a report by...

RTRIKING tribute to the popularity of the bus; compared with the train,. is contained in a report by Mr, R. Stuart Pilcher, -...

QPEAK1NG at the half-yearly conIsJference, at Cardiff, on Monday, of the South Wals passenger branch of -the Transport and...

A BOUT lour months ago Crossley .1 - 111otors, Ltd., Gorton, Manchester, added to its range of passenger vehicles a new...

HERE must be few who will dissent from the opinion that the problem of rates stabilization is a most difficult one. A full...

Go BY ROAD A LTHOUGH the effect of the operation of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, has been to reduce the number of...

New Leyland Six-wheeler T HE manufacturing schedule of Leyland Motors, Ltd., Leyland, 'Lincs.,. for the present year includes...

NEW COMPANIES. W. U. Thomas and Sans, Ltd.—Private company. Reg. Jan. 1. Can. £4,000 in Al shares. To acquire business of W. U....

T HE subject of patent No. 457.4E4 is a new oil-engine combustion head by that well-known specialist, H. R. Ricardo, 21,...

'THREE leading members of the North Western Area of A.R.Q.—Mr. H. Allan, of McNamara and Co. (1921), Ltd. (the first chairman...