N OW that the Commercial Motor Show is over, manufacturers' affairs are returning to normal. Many orders were placed at Earls...

L AST Friday's debate on transport at the Labour Party's conference at Scarborough should be sufficient to bring to an end the...

No Coaching Required L'AMED for over 100 years in connection with high-class coachbuilding, the name Bonallack has in recent...

Of an American tubular tyre of oval cross-section. That the Tower of Babe was nothing to some parts of Earls Court. That...

INCENTIVE bonuses have reduced Edinburgh Transport Department's bus-cleaning costs by £9,372, Mr. W. M. Little, general...

A NOVEL type of stabilizer, intended 1- 1 , to counteract the tendency for drawbar trailers to snake or even jack-knife under...

Bedford Pi 4 x 4 3-tonners has been placed by the Ministry of Supply on behalf of the War Office. The contract will be...

O NE of the _largest .applications ever to be heard in. the North Western Traffic Area—a request for a new B licence, to cover...

R EMOVAL of the 30 m.p.h. speed limit on vans of up to 1-ion carrying capacity was urged by .Mr. F. Goodehild, West Bridgford...

THREE vehicles and a tank trailer I. were added to the A licence held by G. Read (Transport), Ltd., Mitcheldean, last week,...

QHOULD a company operating a kJ specialized trunk service, whose policy is not normally to sub-contract, be compelled to absorb...

MR, W. T. CHARLES has become wholesale manager of European Cars, Ltd., South Kensington. LORD WILLIAMS has been reappointed a...

A FTER being told that a Coventry haulage company had contravened the terms of their coritract-A licence to save a colliery...

PPLICAT1ONS by Ribble Motor PI Services, Ltd., and W. C. Standerwick, Ltd., to link certain picking-up points on their...

PPLYING for a - new B licence at 1 — k Perth, last week, Mr. Morris Young, Hillyland Farm, Perth, told Mr. A. Robertson,...

E VERY A-licence holder should make sure that the normal user is an accurate description of the work being done, Mr. J. R....

W HAT was described as an ambitious plan to extend a small local frozen food Service into a countrywide network was adjourned...

BETWEEN July, 1956, and June, 1957, 1 -) Clark Dutch, Ltd., Perth, carried 5,000 tons of fertilizer forJos, Gartshore and Sons,...

D ESIGNED to carry payloads of 16i tons, 18 Eagle semi-trailers with Andre air suspension are to be supplied to Reed Transport,...

B US revenue for the quarter ended June 30 showed a £2,816 decrease on the corresponding quarter of last year, said Mr. B. W....

T HE regulations which ensure that drivers have 10 hours' rest in 24 are "absolutely essential" for safety on the roads,...

D URING the Motor Show at Earls Court, London, from October 22November 1, there will be parking accommodation for 50-60 coaches...

N o evidence has been produced by Nottingham police to show that goods vehicles are responsible for congestion in peak periods....

A N agreement has been concluded between Best and Co., Madras, and Simms Motor Units, Ltd., under which Simms electrical...

. D AMAGES of £1,160 were awarded last week to the Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd., in their action against Greenock Corporation. The...

A STATEMENT on the liquidation of Associated Road Transport Contractors, Ltd., was issued last week after invited Press...

r -1 of the Institute of Transport last week, Mr. J. W. Rolfe, secretary and chief accountant of the Birmingham and Midland...

use to build motorways if they began and ended in bottlenecks, and special committees should be set up in large provincial...

D ESPITE objections by W. Robinson and Sons (Great Harwood), Ltd., and Rib blesdale Coachways, Ltd., a licence for football...

A LTHOUGH sales and earnings for the first half of this year showed a great improvement on figures for 1957, the Ford Motor...

A N application by W. Keith and Sons, Grange-over-Sands, Lanes, to substitute an A-licence 7-tonner for a 5-tonner on special A...

A N appeal by the Milford ,Plant Hire in. and Engineering Co,, Ltd., against a decision of the South Wales Licensing Authority...

A SURVEY of traffic conditions on Tyneside, carried out by King's College, Newcastle upon Tyne, is now being considered by the...

IN a reserved decision, Mr. J. A. T. I Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, has deleted one vehicle from the A licence held by...

T HE shape of an Austin A40 van was blamed at Reading, on Monday, for an accident involving a cyclist. The van driver, Frank...

T HE Primrose third-axle conversion produced by T.G.B. Motors, Ltd., Clitheroe, Lanes, has been applied to a Bedford 7 - ton...

O CCAS1ONAL journeys up to 10 per cent, outside his normal user would be quite in order, a Welsh haulier was told by the North...

" TR AN SPO RT has operated success ' fully on . a wealth of experience, intuition and inspired hunches, but the future ma Y...

QTATING that it was probably the first )--- 7 case of its kind to be heard in the country, Mr. R. Read, Longhope, Glos, applied...

A NEW road safety competition for Post Office drivers was announced last week. Drivers of postal and engineering vehicles have...

By G. Duncan Jewell Shipping Company Have Successfully Extended Their Road Transport Interests to Take In Several Specialized...

By Our Legal Adviser T HERE have recently been two rather disturbing examples of a serious divergence in two separate .corners...

By John F. Moon, A.M.I.R.T.E. C ROSS-COUNTRY vehicles provide the greatest interest at this year's Paris Salon de...

H AVING rapidly established themselves as semi-trailer manufacturers in this country, the York Trailer Co., Ltd., St. Marks...

nESIGNED, developed and manufac tured by Rubery Owen and Co., Ltd., Darlaston, Staffs, in collaboration with the Burtonwood...

Return Visit By The Hawk -Two leaders of the Dutch road haulage industry had a busy I few days in England hit Week. They Were...

F RAMELESS construction of commercial-vehicle bodywork has been brought a step nearer by the plastics development work of...

C ONSTRUCTION of the Kariba hydro electric project on the Zambesi River, in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, has...

C1NGLE-DECK buses capable of carry1, 0 1 ing 100 passengers are to be introduced shortly in Ceylon. The oilengined Skoda...

E XCEPT those on contract work, which promises an assured minimum revenue, most road transport operators live on hope. It seems...

Large Welded Sheets in Aluminium I T is now possible for the Northern Aluminium Co., Ltd.. to produce at their works near...

Relative Economy of Latest Type of Goods 'Vehicle Compared with Timehonoured Models O NE of the trends to be discerned at the...

A COMPREHENSIVE patent, No. 799,111, deals with an injection pump having one pumping unit and a rotary distributor for...