B.T.C. Chairman's Gesture to Independent Hauliers Forms Basis for Negotiation T HE conciliatory offer to the Road Haulage...

Direct Heating for WHEN the air temperature the Engint! Water " is particularly low and Jackets . . . • . vehicles are not...

on 1947 Figures pRODUCTION of commercial vehicles in 1948 exceeded that I of 1947 by nearly 20,000. Last year 177,169 goods...

AST year exports of British commercial vehicles, including industrial trucks, road haulage tractors and trailers, rose by more...

Working Party's Proposals I N the operation of the proposed area scheme for passenger transport in the north-east, "The...

A BILL to nationalize transport in Eire is shortly to be submitted to the Eireann Government. It will contain proposals -for...

MR. ALICE Dick, assistant managing director of the Standard Motor Co., Ltd., is on a tour of South Africa and expects to be...

Holborn Borough Council is recommended to buy a Scammel! refuse collector. Dagenham Borough Council is recommended to purchase...

I T is understood that the long-distance traffic formerly carried by road by Carter, Paterson and Co., Ltd., is gradually to be...

MHAT happened to the London VI' Transport bus which was damaged last week when the tank of the airpressure reservoir blew up?...

Power has a ppointed the chairman and 32 members of the Oil Consumers' Council, which was to be set up after the dissolution of...

P ROTOTYPE of a new bus, which is said to represent a far more radical departure from standard practice than London Transport's...

It is understood that Perkins oil engines will shortly be available in Austin chassis. The Midlands Electricity Authority has...

lodged a petition against a clause in Bradford Corporation's Bill covering the operation of a municipal parcels-carrying...

ex pressed over the agreements for the sale of the Tilling and S.M.T. passenger-transport undertakings to the British Transport...

B ECAUSE the former L.M.S. Railway Co. and its successor, the Railway Executive, had never tried to co-ordinate road and rail...

A Practical Gesture from the State Transport Undertaking to the 40,000 Independent Hauliers Would Improve the Chances of Good...

and Volumetric Efficiency Mr. C. B. Dicksee, of A.E.C., Ltd., on an Important Aspect of OilEngine Operation T HAT the velocity...

By Arthur R. Wilson, M.I.R.T.E. S INCE on September (3. 1946.. " Thc Commercial Motor" published the story of "Operation...

A LTHOUGH a Daimler sixwheeled bus was produced before the war and successfully completed a full operational life in public...

T HE metallurgist's fight with leaded petrol was mentioned by Dr. E. Simister. of Kirkstall Forge, Ltd., in a paper on...

L a new type of battery-cable connector, the lead lug, which is normally removable, is burned on to the taper peg of the...

T HE 15 points for the manufacturer put forward by Mr. H. M. Lawrence in your issue dated January 7 have my full approval. I...

TO S4 SEWICE LAND T , 0 different people the initials " SALT." stand foi different things. To the Londoner they mean an...

Continues the Case of the Two Brothers, Who Ask : POINT which emerged from my previous article was the com paratively high...

I NTEREST in the possibilities of magnetic clutches seems to be re-awakening, and a new design for such a device is shown in...