O NCE again it is time for the biennial Scottish Motor Show. No V./fewer than 53 of the 236 stands at Kelvin Hall, Glasgow,...

THE Road Haulage Association-spon sored appeal by Mr. K. P. Venables of Enfield, against a sentence imposed by . Lawford Gates...

G LASGOW may soon have its own vehicle observer corps. A meeting of the Glasgow and West sub-area of the Scottish area of the...

T AST week the Transport Development J-1 Group Ltd. acquired the issued share capital of McKelvie and Co. Ltd. of Barrhead,...

E XAM1NATION of the effects of 1-4 automation elsewhere brought one reluctantly to the conclusion that road transport had not...

Q NE of the most interesting vehicles at the Stewart and Ardern exhibition of Morris commercial vehicles at the T.A. Centre,...

T HE Transport Tribunal will start another session of appeals in London on Tuesday. Appeals listed for hearing are as follows:—...

T HEIR Association was well equipped 1 to deal with the problems that would confront them during the coming two years, and had...

THE United States Congress is now studying proposals for the creation of a powerful joint transport board to supervise the...

A N appeal by John Stamper (Farms) Ltd. and the company's driver, Mr. J. W. Thurlow, against a decision of Lancaster...

single-drive bogies has been developed by Scammell Lorries Ltd., and a Routeman Mk. II rigid eight-wheeler fitted with this...

morning and late-afternooit loading and unloading over nine miles of central streets is to come into effect on November 17 for...

Licensing .Authority and will share the work with the present deputy L.A., Mr. A. H. Jollitte.. Mr. Newman is a deputy County...

I - r would be wrong to suggest that it was only a few black sheep who were to blame for the failures of the road transport...

W E regret to record the deaths of Mr. John H. G. Barber, Mr. J. C. Nielson and Mr. George Warrington. \Ir. Barber, who was...

IN dismissin g an appeal by British Raniways against a three-vehicle A licence g rant by the North Western deputy Licensin g...

'THE Transport Tribunal, in a pre liminary jud g ment, has partially allowed an appeal by Carman's Transport Ltd., of Scholar...

T HE Transport Tribunal, in a reserved jud g ment this week, partially allowed an appeal by H. R. D. Maconochie Ltd. and W. L....

Dumpers and Low-loaders: In Glas g ow on Tuesday, Kings and Co. Ltd. asked for an existing B licence covering road and building...

Northern Stee at is this Confusion? BY NORMAN H. TILSLEY XACTLY what, one may ask, is going on in the Northern traffic area...

ENTON AND BRAY, coal merchants J--.■ and hauliers, of Longford, Coventry, were granted a B licence for 20 vehicles in place of...

N A licence for 10 articulated 1-1 vehicles of 98 tons was granted last week lo McKelvie and Co. (B.M.P.) Ltd., of Motherwell,...

Two Large E. Midland Requests 'TWO large applications appear in this week's East Midland Applications and Decisions, both of...

PA A GRANT of an A licence for eight vehicles in place of two Contract A licences for two vehicles each and a B licence for...

MIDLAND RED IN THE BULL RING WHEN officially opening the new VV Midland Red bus station, Bull Ring Centre, Birmingham, last...

From our Industrial Correspondent MEGOTIATIONS on the London bus1 men's pay claim got under way on Friday, even though the...

Board has agreed with the Minister of Transport that its financial target for the five-year period 1963-67 shall be to earn an...

'FIFTY years to the day when the Trent 1 Motor Traction Co. Ltd. was formed, 208 people assembled in the King's Hall, Derby,...

(NE of the next major steps forward kJ for bulk transport was indicated by Mr. B. G. Bonallack, a director of Bonallack and...

IN addition to the new 24-ton trac tive unit and 20-ton-gross double-drive six-wheeler, described on pages 101-103, Dodge...

Ind., and White Motor Co., Cleveland, Ohio—are planning to merge and form a new concern—White-Cummins Corporation. The...

THE multi-purpose semi-trailer pictured here, just supplied to A. S. Jones and Co. Ltd., Liverpool, by Rippon Bros. of Speke,...

A.E.C. ENGINES FOR FINLAND: Vanajan Autotehdas Oy, the Finnish commercial vehicle manufacturer, has ordered another 30 A.E.C....

Making Light Work of a Heavy Job A HEAVY AND THANKLESS TASK for all engaged in vehicle repair, is any work connected with the...

R EADER E. C. Mould, of Belvedere, Kent, wins three guineas for the following idea which he recently submitted. The clutch...

HITS ITALY By John F. Moon, A.M.I.R.T.E. I N my report of the 1962 Italian Motor Show I made reference to the appearance on...

View you any idea how many road users were killed on an average day in Britain last . year? And do you ImoW just how much...

S TR,1KING testimony to the volume of Scottish exports in total, and in particular to the amount passing overseas by way of the...

twee associations S ERVING Scotland's transport users calls for a different technique from that demanded by the corresponding...

T ODAY Dodge Brothers (Britain) Ltd., enters the maximunv•capacity multiwheeled goods-chassis market with low cost, low weight,...

fl A N example of a new range of 13-tongross Leyland Comet four-wheelers. which is to be introduced early next year, is being...

opening of the Scottish Motor Show today sees the announcement by the Rootes Group of a new range of Karrier Bantam 3-ton load...

WRITES . . . might do well to examine more closely one or two recent statements by Dr. Beeching.' S PEECHES by prominent...

ROAD TEST: Albion Viking 9-ton-gross pasSenger chassis F OR many years the " Trambus 7 type of passenger vehicle has been...

T HE seventh Scottish Motor Exhibition to have been held since the War is being opened at noon today in Kelvin Hall by the Earl...

SPECIAL TYPES BY SCOTTISH BODYBUILDER A A WHISKY transporter and a largecapacity tipper, both using aluminium sections and...

C OMING so close as it does after the Earls Court Motor Show, the Scottish Show must contain little in the way of accessories...

A LTHOUGH the framework of British Road .Services in Scotland follows the national pattern, the scope of operations North of...

p RINCES STREET, Edinburgh, is a great place for hearing talk in other people's tongues and when visitors to the International...

T HE city of Dundee, with its population of more than 182,000, presents a variety of problems for those who are charged with...

Coaches—an Inexcusable State of Affairs? I WAS very interested to read, in your issue of November 1, of H. Brian Cottee's...

T HE continued expansion of the motor industry, with increasing sales both at home and abroad, has been the major industrial...