T HERE are numerous indications that trade and industry and the public in general, are awakening to the vital importance of...

when Parliament authorized the Road and Rail Traffic Act, it did not foresee that the licensing system incorporated in that...

Novel Honour for the A LORRY has achieved the Road Transport . In.rx distinction of being chosen dustry as the subject for the...

That a very low load-line may prove a disadvantage in flooded areas. That the Road Group in the House of Commons has now risen...

The Commercial Motor understands that the report of the Government committee of inquiry into wages and conditions of...

THE whole of a third day (last I Friday) was devoted by Mr. W. Chamberlain, North-Western Licensing Authority, to hearing an...

MR. J. ATHERTON, Leigh. Corporation's transport manager, has withdrawn his application for appointment as manager at...

11D ULE of thumb " methods of cost ' log created difficulties at an inquiry into the. proposed addition of three tipping...

flUNDEE CORPORATION'S appliLi t cation for the renewal of s.the licence for its parcels-delivery service was again before Mr,...

canvassing for business led to sharp passages during the hearingof an application before Mr. E. Russell Gurney, Yorkshire...

Safety Example T HE wish that other operators throughout the country would follow the company's example was expressed by Mr....

Informative Deductions to be Made from Official Statistics Showing the Incidence and Causes of Road Acci. dents Over a Period...

A Range of Black and Decker Tools Designed to Facilitate all Valve re conditioning Operations T "condition of the valves and...

Easy Bodywork Maintenance How Care in Body Design Facilitates Repairs and Reduces the Time During which the Vehicle is Out of...

Some Causes Explained and the Methods of Prevention Suggested T HE burning-out of lighting bulbs on motor vehicles is an...

and QUERIES MR. ASHTON DAVIES EXPLAINS HIS REMARKS ON MONOPOLY. [5016] In your issue dated March 26, Mr. W. Gammons refers...

We Draw Comparisons, In Respect of Torque and Tractive Effort as Related to Engine and Road Speeds, Between a Well-known Steam...

of hydraulic pump as a part of the automobile transmission system is almost as old as the industry, but an application of this...

Pickfords, Ltd., Uses Over 200 Units for the Transport of Abnormal Loads. Fleet Includes World's Largest Lorry and Trailer A...

costs to carry them Economic Rates for -the Haulage of Sand and Gravel, and a Consideration of Factors Influencing the Cost of...

NEW ASSOCIATION FOR EAST LONDON HAULIERS. East London Hauliers Association, limited by guarantee, was formed this week. Mr. T....

one of the outstanding e vents of the year, and the 33rd function was on Wednesday, The attendance was 500, representing...

The policy of opposition to newcomers to the industry should be rigidly enforced, declared Mr. F. G. Curtis, at the annual...

leave Bristol Docks every week, said a speaker at the A.R.O. Western Area dinner, at Bristol, last Saturday. It was attended by...

D ELIVERIES of liquid fuel from tanker to storage tank are normally measured by means of dip sticks or meters. The former...

NO LOCAL CHANGE IN SEASON RATES? I F there were to be an alteration in season-ticket rates as between road and rail, it should...

to grant to central bus operatives a shorter working day. At first, the Transport and General Workers Union, which has...

S EVERAL thousand bus workers in the employ of the Scottish Motor . Traction Co., Ltd., are to receive concessions under an...

R ESULTS of appeals by Great Yarmouth Corporation, Eastern Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., and George Ewer and Co., Ltd., against ....

Fallacious F ALLACY of the railways' airgument that their receipts had been reduced by road competition was exploded by Mr. D....

T HE need for an organization to champion the interests of C-licence holders was emphasized by Alderman Solomon Stephens, J.F„...

C OMBUSTION-CHAMBER improvementsments form the subject of patent No. 961,724 by S. A. Adolphe Saurer, Arbon, Switzerland. This...