B RITAIN is in a more prosperous • state today than ever previously in its historY. For this reason many people fail to...

I\4 ANUFACTURERS and designers in the car field are much concerned with the possibilities of various forms of automatic...

Much Ado About a Penny THERE may sometimes be excuses for conductors to become slightly irritable. There is no doubt that...

From a doctor, that £400m, spent on the roads for one year instead Of on hospitals, would materially decrease the stress on the...

T HE answer of the municipal bus undertakings to the higher pay claim recently submitted by the Transport and General Workers'...

N EW provisions about parking without lights, which come into force in the Metropolitan Police District and the City of London...

I -1 A NEW £100,000 company has been formed to run the former British Road Services' depots in Inverness and Dingwall....

MR. T. SAMSON has been appointed chief draughtsman of the track work department of Edgar Allen and Co., Ltd. MR. J. L....

Easington Rursl District Council have plans for a £6.000 bus station. The Ford Motor Co., Ltd., are to build a large new...

week advised an ancillary user to employ a haulier. Mr. William Brown, sole partner of Messrs. Will iam Brown and Sons, Crieff,...

M EMBERS are again urged to keep a close watch for any announcements of proposed new traffic restric-• lions in their locality,...

Partial Union Victory in First of a Series of Disputes with Bus Companies F OR the first time in the history of arbitration,...

" IT is my duty as Licensing Authority to allocate sufficient vehicles to meet the expansion of industry," stated the Western...

T 1.1E Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon,. sitting at s Newcastle upon Tyne, adjourned the hearing of...

A SYNTHETIC rubber that is claimed to be equivalent to natural rubber has been produced by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Co....

N EW regulations take a little time to seep through in a large organization," stated Mr. L. A. Walne, defending the British...

A LORRY driver appearing at Brierley Hill magistrates' court last. week on his fifth speeding charge in four years, said that...

A N outstanding feature of two Ruston Bucyrus exc. a v a ti rig ma chi nes supplied to the Shell Petroleum Co., Ltd., is their...

I N last week's article I gave a brief summary of the three main types of braking system in use on commercial vehicles in this...

A NEW version of the Purolator Micronic filter has been introduced by Automotive Products Co., Ltd., Leamington Spa. The...

the Theft Wave By a Special Correspondent F 11, , ERY week, thousands of pounds worth of goods sent by road are pilfered. The...

s Doing for Road Transport By Andrew Seaeombe T O gain an up-to-date impression of the transport activities of the Economic...

T HE first impression received by a visitor to the transport department of Bakers, Ltd., at Congella, Durban, South Africa, is...

Australian Interest in Costing WITH reference to the article by S. I .R., Don't " Forget Interest," in your issue dated...

A Tpresent, F. Perkins. Ltd., Peterborough, are reconditioning engines under their perpetuity scheme at the rate of...

I F a jet aircraft hits a large pool of water when landing, disaster might result. To avoid this risk, the CimexFraser-Tuson...

C OMPLICATION follows complication in the legal battle to escape balancing charges, waged by those hauliers whose busineSses...

T HE well-known Tottenham furniture manufacturers, Harris Lebus, Ltd., have formed a subsidiary company; to run vehicles on...

/ N My article in last week's issue of The Commercial Motor, I showed a one-man one-vehicle operator that his establishment...

E XHAUST throttling is a method of I— , braking that seems to have received more attention on the Continent than in this...