A CONCRETE structure which may do much to help the Transport Advisory Council in preparing its Report was submitted to the...

Cheaper and Lighter A N example of the simple Packing for Irish rm•methods of packing required Eggs for goods carried in road...

Of some who hold that it is better for a road to be good than beautiful. Of others who see no reason why it should not be...

L AST Monday an important joint memorandum prepared by the Liaison Committee on Road Transport Rates and the four main-line...

W E learn that the road transport section of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce re-elected Mr. A. H. Butterwick as its chairman, at...

MR. C. J. BARTLETT, managing director of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., has been re-elected president of the Luton and District Chamber...

of the week (continued) Railway "Cant and Humbug," Mr. Bibbings YORKS WAGES BOARD PERSONNEL. T HE new Yorkshire Area Board,...

R OAD-TRANSPORT interests had no desire to see the unquestionable usefulness of the railways crippled by out-of-date...

THURSDAY of last week was set 1 apart by the North-Western Licensing Authority, Mr. W. Chamberlain, for the conclusion of the...

RAILWAYS OUT-SMART EUCLID. S PEAKING at the annual dinner of Cumberland and Westmorland motor traders, at Carlisle, last week,...

S ECRETS of the oil search in Scotland are to be revealed, at Glasgow, by Mr. A. R. Leper, of the Mines Department - when he...

'THE basis of the capaciousvan shOwn in the accompanying illustration is a Bedford passenger chassis, and despite the fact...

T HE honours of the principal witness, on Thursday of last week, were very nearly carried off by Mr. J, S. Nichol', when Major...

Must Be Soundly Organized I N connection with the activities now occupying the attention of local government centres, whereby...

WITH one or two exceptions, almost 11' the whole fleet operated by Mr. F. J. Masters, of Hemel Hempstead, is composed of...

R OAD-TRANSPORT rates are an absorbing topic in the United States, and some of the problems with which we, in Britain, are...

lyikiitsr it is the tread which is subject to direct wear, it ri is the casing structure which eventually determines the...

T HE re-entry by the Austin Motor Co„ Ltd., into the medium-weight goods-vehicle field is one of the matters of the moment....

STILL MORE EXAMPLES OF THE JOINTING TRICK. WITH regard to the " Jointing Trick Revived' article " in The Commercial Motor...

p ERHAPS it may seem, from my previous articles on tyres, that I have laid most of the blame for tyre failures upon the...

I N a contribution . to a symposium on the starting of oil engines, arranged iecently by the Diesel Engine Users Association,...

C HIEFLY through making a speciality of cable transport and other long-distance work, a steady growth of traffic has been...

B EFORE the retonditioning of tyres became recognized as a serious business, the rebuild, remould or retread—whichever...

ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP THE ROYAL ROAD TO UNITY. From the National Road Transport Employers Federation comes the information...

TRAFFIC OUTGROWS ARTERIAL ROUTE. IN the House of Commons, this week, the London-Southampton road came _under discussion. Mr....

TIIE , railways are apparently • • suspicious that something irregular is happening," said Mr. D. Skelding, at Birmingham, last...

says S.T.R. A GOOD example has been set, in some ways, by the Durham County Council's treatment of hauliers. Nevertheless, the...

PASSENGER TRANSPORT CARDIFF ORDERS PRODUCER-GAS BUSES Q UOTATIONS for the supply of two experimental producer-gas vehicles...

T FIE monthly Aatistics of bus service operation in Eire during December last complete the full returns for 1938 and reveal an...

T HE use of suction-operated brakes on oil-engined vehicles is complicated by the fact that a sufficient degree of suction can...