Lords Take Ac lion to Remove Hardships Cause d to Hauliers by the T ran sport Act R ELIEF from immediate anxiety is offered to...

S UGAR beet, the staple winter traffic of hauliers, is likely to provide them with plenty of work during the current campaign....

From Commission to THE initials of the British Corpse in Five A Transport Commission are Years . capable of a number of inter...

That the Army is to overhaul 65,000 vehicles. That spares for them will cost many millions of pounds. That Australia has made...

Government Censure Motion Lost by 10 Votes: Battle Over Permits Begins THERE was consternation among Government supporters in...

R EPORTS front many areas indicate the concern with which the Road Haulage Executive's announcement on permits has been...

E. r 1Thornycroft, governing director and chairman of John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., purchase tax on goods chassis and the...

IT is learned that the Rolls-Royce I four-, sixand eight-cylindered petrol engines are to be standardized for military wheeled...

B ELIEVED to be the first integral-type transit bus to be made in South Africa, Leyland-M.C.W. buses are to be built in Port...

A FTER six months' consideration. Edinburgh Corporation has decided to abandon a quarter of its trams during the next three...

INCREASES in haulage rates have I been discussed at a meeting of representatives of the Road Haulage Executive and certain...

Dispensation to Operators Who Are Forced to Find Different Work A DECISION which should be of great value to hauliers who are...

A ' agreement covering rates of pay and conditions of services of the operating and other wages, grades employed by the Road...

iT is reported that Mr. E. W. Davies, manager of the British Road Services depot at Sheepcote Street, Birmingham, which is 'to...

Services, Ltd., Darlington, and the Express Omnibus Co., Ltd.. Durham, has been completed 'by the British Transport Commission....

H AVING met with much opposition, the British Transport Commission has now suggested a revision of the eastern area passenger...

H EARING was concluded in Leeds recently in the case in which four drivers were summoned for damaging gates at the premises of...

T HE Metropolitan and South-eastern Area of the Road Haulage Association recommends the following hourly rates for hire by the...

'establishing a staff college at Watford, planned to open early in 1951. Staff appointed to or promoted within the managerial...

25-mile arnit on 61 occasions without a permit was fined E5 recently for these offences and for contravention of the drivers'...

IT is understood that the British Transport Commission is to order 200 Bristol eight-wheelers. It is likely that the complete...

and I. Sons, Ltd., Ammanford, which runs bus services in Carmarthen, Glamorgan and Cardigan, has been acquired by the British...

A CONTENTION that a bus service ratified under a private Act of Parliament in 1913 had been running without authority for 20...

manufacturers will be exhibiting chassis at the Brussels Show from January 13-24. Britain leads the list with 19 entries and is...

districts of the Road Haulage Executive have been brought into closer conformity with those of the Railway Executive. The...

ENCOURAGE ROAD TRANSPORT, SAYS I.R.F. A RECOMMENDATION that every I - Icountry should devote a proportion of its capital...

T HE Road Haulage Association is to meet the National Farmers' Union, next week, to discuss the activities of farmer...

IT is hoped that next year a road 'transport ferry service will be operated between Tilbury and Rotterdam by Frank Bustard and...

E NVISAGING a progressive expenditure of 5.000m. dollars on European roads by the governments concerned, agreements on...

R EASONS for the £884,000 drop in Loudon Transport's traffic receipts are put forward by Lord Latham, chairman of the London...

4-) Transport Corporation will be taken over and operated by the Bombay Government, said Mr. Morarji Desai, Minister of Home...

T HE Road Haulage Association has asked the Ministry of Transport to investigate the anomaly whereby trailer tax has to be paid...

IT is announced that Sir Reginald Rootes has become chairman and Mr. W. G. Rootes deputy chairman of Tilling Stevens, Ltd....

G IV1NG judgment in a police appeal against a decision of Mr. N. L. Macaskie, K.C., the Sheffield Recorder, the Lord Chief...

HE British Transport Commission has announced that all road services and vehicles operated by the Docks and Inland Waterways...

D ECISION has been given on the claim of the Transport and General Workers' Union for increased shift and night rates, which...

HI OLIDAYS during August reduced production, but exports continued at a high level, says the Society of Motor Manufacturers and...

A LTHOUGH, in the House of Comin mons, the Minister of Transport blamed road transport competition partly for last year's...

D ETAILS have been released of the bodywork with which 120 Leyland Royal Tigers will be fitted for Ribble Motor Services, Ltd....

T IMED to coincide with the Public 1 Works Exhibition at Olympia, an exhibition of Bedford municipal vehicles will be held from...

H AVING recently sold its coach'building works in Claremont Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northern Coachbuilders, Ltd., is to begin...

A V1ONG the surprising developments noticed at the Earls Court fashion parade" of British passenger vehicles is the return of...

(NAMED to be the first workshops to be specifically designed for combined road and rail engineering; the Ulster Transport...

Home Design PART TWO By THE TECHNICAL EDITORS A PREVIOUS issue of " The Commercial Motor" contained a detailed review of...

UTILITY A MONG the goods bodies at Earls Court, thoselor the transport of perishable or easily damaged goods demonstrated...

N.A.F.W.R. to Raise the Matter Again in the Spring A RATES structure based on an ':..average removal" and on average vehicle...

S INCE the previous Issue of "The Commercial Motor" appeared on September 29, changes in fares structures of companies...

TWO new vehicles exhibited at the 1 Dairy Show were equipped with a common flat-twin air-tooled petrol engine which, in the...

THE Hobbs semi-automatic transmis sion system, now a standard unit in the Dennis Dominant passenger chassis, has been fitted...

" WE owe the present quality of our VY transport. very largely to individualism," said Mr. J. S. Wills, in his recent...

B.T.C. in Lengthy Battle Before the Appeal Tribunal THE question whether Annis and Co., Ltd., Pump Lane, Hayes. was a carrier...

A HAULIER who had been running under Defence Permits until a year ago, and had twice been refused a carrier's licence, put his...

Hit T. Bern' and MR. S. LINDSAY lease joined the hoard of Northern Commercial VehiclesLtd. MR. B. P. WOOD hat been Appointed...

. . . and is Disappointed That More Was Not Done to Tell the Industry's Story R IP VAN WINKLE, if his 20-year sleep had ended...