I N callin g attention once a g ain to the unhappy q uestion of employers' liability to ensure the keepin g of current records...

Josepl pamuel Wright N O silver spoon was found in Sam Wright's mouth when he was born. A good many years were to pass,...

r"..00DS carried 'by a person engaged in a g riculture in any locality, for or in connection with the business of a g riculture...

From our Political Correspondent NAR. MACLEOD, the Minister responIVI sible for the progress of Government business, is keeping...

S INCE the beginning of this year the B.M.C. 5.7-litre diesel engine, which was originally developed for B.M.C. 18-ton-gross...

THE committee of the Geneva Motor Show has decided that, as from 1963, its commercial-vehicle show will be held biennially. The...

T HE Ministry of Transport this week published its proposals for a general increase in the speed limit of goods vehicles from...

F OR the second time in six months a leading American vehicle manufacturing firm has announced that it is to fit Perkins diesel...

B ROAD agreement was reached between British Road Services and the trade unions last week on the introduction of a productivity...

R EPRESENTATIVES of the P.T.A., the M.P.T.A., the P.V.O.A. and the S.R.P.T.A. met the Economic Secretary to the Treasury last...

I — % A NEW range of cross-country 4 x 4 vehicles is announced by Leyland Motors, Ltd. Based on current Leyland Comet...

-THE London (Woolwich) eliminating 1 round for the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition is to be held on July 22 at Woolwich...

THE Road Haulage Association is to seek support for a campaign to encourage the provision of communal dispatch points on...

Mr. F. 3. Kemp, transport engineer of the British Oxygen Co., Ltd., has resigned to accept the appointment of distribution...

A A N application by Thornbury Transport, Ltd., of Berkeley, Glos., dealt with by Mr. S. W. Nelson, the Western Licensing...

B ECAUSE of the extremely serious . 1 --/ losses of vehicle loads in and around London, operators . sending vehicles there are...

A T a meeting of the inland transport committee of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe at Geneva, an agreement...

Nip. S. MEREDITH, a founder I VI member of the West Midland Area of the Road Haulage Association and past chairman of the...

F RESH impetus was given this week to the claims for higher pay for more than 200,000 of Britain's busmen which have been...

T HE following dates were announced at a meeting last week of the National Organizing Committee of the Lorry Driver of the Year...

"I HAVE never heard such twaddle in I my life," commented Mr. John Hay, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport,...

D RAFTING of regulations governing the transport of radio-active materials by road is now at an advanced stage. Mr. John Hay,...

ri A PARTICULARLY interesting and original feature of the latest car conveyor in the range of Carveyor vehicles built by the...

B Licence Modified on Appeal A LIMITED B licence was modified rA by the Transport Tribunal in London last week after they had...

A N appeal by a Gateshead haulage contractor against the refusal of the Northern Licensing Authority to vary his A licence by...

Gowland, said he was an old-established contractor, and at the time of the original application to the Licensing Authority was...

Q NCE again the Transport Tribunal has rejected the suggestion that because the evidence in an A licence application is limited...

T HE Transport Tribunal has set aside a decision of the Northern Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. G. W. Duncan, which enabled...

L EARNER drivers who have held more than seven provisional licences without taking a recent driving test may be refused a...

TN November last year the average 1 weekly output of commercial vehicles was 8,741. Commercial vehicle exports during the month...

" T HE applicant has bitten off more than he can chew," said Mr. S. W. Nelson, the Western Licensing Authority at a public...

F OLLOWING the withdrawal of four vehicles which had been subcontracted to them, Bells Transport Services, Bradford, applied at...

A PPLICATIONS by Securicor 1-- 1 (Southern), Ltd., have been granted by the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, Mr. D. I. R....

H AULAGE firms may soon be compelled to transport perishable foodstuffs in insulated containers, the Deputy Scottish Licensing...

COMET CRANE CHASSIS: Lambert Engineering Co. (Glasgow), Ltd., have ordered 50 Leyland Comet short-wheelbase chassis for use as...

W HEN Reading Transport Department applied to extend one of their routes before the South Eastern Traffic Commissioners in...

B RITISH bus operators have recently ordered Leyland chassis to a total value of over £1 m. One of the two largest orders, that...

1 - 1. terminal which would operate at the British end of the proposed Channel Tunnel is on display at Charing Cross...

A L L you need is a driving licence and an ability to tie hitches, and the world is your oyster. A world, that is, of tarmac...

To Banbury came I. 0 profane one! Where I saw a Purim:re-one Hanging of his cat on Monday, For killing of a mouse-on Sunday....

T HE idea of some of his buses or lorries being unnecessarily wasteful of fuel would horrify most operators, yet wastage due to...

QHOWN here are typical fuel consumption loops for a diesel engine in the 10-litre class. The curves which look rather like...

IN straightforward applications for 1 new A or B licences, or requests to add vehicles by way of variation, the precept that...

Q NLY a few days previously, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, the Metropolitan Licensing Authority, dealing with a similar case (though this...

B ECAUSE of possible ambiguity in the wording of applications in "Notices and Proceedings" regarding season tickets for...

I ONG, abnormal and indivisible 1-4 loads are in the news again. Sunter Brothers, Ltd., of Northallerton, lost an appeal...

Special 15-ton dual-purpose vehicles are being used by Associated British Maltsters to expand the delivery of malt over a wide...

TWO items in the January 19 issue of The Commercial I Motor provoke comment which I hope you may find of interest. The first...

A CRANE suitable for mounting on commercial-vehicle chassis with load capacity of at least eight tons is now available from...

TWO substantial tipper applications appear in this week's North Western "As and Ds." The first is an application by J. Bacon...

summonses brought by the Ministry of Transport against the managing director of a Taunton firm of removal contractors and two...

A NEW inter-European agreement on r - k the transporting of easily perishable foodstuffs has been presented for ratification by...

A POLICE appeal against a decision of the Totnes (Devon) magistrates last August dismissing three summonses against Reed and...

The very ubiquity of the modern motorcar can belie the problems inherent in fleet operation T HE provision of cars for...

I N existing suspension systems, a wheel meeting with an obstruction is forced upwards by the impact and, due to its inertia,...

fuel feed to an engine, a filter unit farms the subject of patent No. 878,851. It is transparent and is fitted with a...

ON TRAILING ARMS P ATENT Na. 881,196 I shows a heavy-duty bogie in which the suspension comprises airbags guided by trailing...

A FOUR-STROKE injection type I — I engine is shown in patent No.. 879,081, the novelty residing in the layout of the combustion...