The Road Traffic Acts Cannot Interpret All Careless or Dangerous Driving T HE decision of the Court of Appeal in White v....

A LTHOUGH British Road Services may be junior PI partners in the British Transport Commission, their chairman, Maj.-Gen. G. N....

A Study of Road Congestion "Mr. Traffic" I N their interesting and informative booklet, "It's High Time . . . To Put an End to...

That many drivers fail to give right of way to vehicles at their right negotiating a roundabout. That to give way in such...

L ONDON'S " rebel " busmen, a militant thorn in the side of the Transport I - 4 and General Workers' Union, have again rebuffed...

A NOTHER acquisition by Geo. Ewer and Co., Ltd., was officially announced on Tuesday. They have taken over the coach business...

H AULIERS applying for renewal of. 1 1 their A licences and showing a change of user will in future find strong opposition from...

refused renewal of three A licences as a penalty for alleged irregularities, Mr. Hubert Hull, president of the Transport...

to Kirkbright and Clark, Ltd.. Burnley, was out of all proportion to the previous user, the North Western Traffic Commissioners...

to Replace Lorry A N application by Silver Roadways, Ltd., Liverpool, to surrender a special A licence for one vehicle in...

irregular points. the operators must be held responsible. This was stated by Mr. G. Leopold Bush, for the Ministry of...

MR. J. P. HALPIN has been appointed a director of Renold Chains, Ltd. MR. J. A. Tasrt.oa, sales director for Carrimore Six...

A FTER surrendering some C-hiring allowances. Messrs. G. Hill and Son. Crewe, were granted an A licence to meet the needs of a...

A LLEGATIONS that Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., were deliberately trying to wear down and ruin the Llandudno and Colwyn Bay...

B y seeking a picking-up and settingdown point at Carnforth on a series of Scottish tours originating at Wigan, James Smith...

r ONFUCTiNG opinions about the impact, of restrictions on loading and unloading upon small shops, as distinct from large...

rrHREE judges were unable to decide, last week, whether a person under the age of 21 was entitled to drive an articulated...

E STIMATES of passenger resistance, put forward by the Bath Omnibus Co., Ltd., when they were granted fare increases in August,...

C OMMENTS by Maj.-Gen. G. N. Russell, chairman of British Road Services, in the Henry Spurrier Memorial Lecture to the...

service between Rhosdu and Pwllheli was sent a bill for £67 by Pwllheli Borough Council because they claimed he had used their...

THERE are now over lm. C-licence I vehicles, whereas 10 years ago there were fewer than 500,000. The annual percentage increase...

D URING their tour of Britain, members of the Canadian trade mission last week visited three of the five Lancashire factories...

A BOUT 2m. passengers a year are PA being lost by the West Riding bus concern of S. Ledgard, Ltd., the Yorkshire Traffic...

in revenue, but even then they would only break even. The present application would not relieve the companies to any great...

QUBSTANTIAL changes in the Wadham group will take place on January 1. The parent company, Wadham Bros., Ltd., Waterlooville,...

PROPOSALS by Hebble Motor I Services, Ltd., for ending two bus services in the Halifax aretv, were considered by the Yorkshire...

M ANY more villages, and even some towns, will be deprived of bus services to and from shopping centres because of rising...

M OVEMENT of grain and animal feeding stuffs in bulk has been considered by a special sub-committee of the National Association...

F OUR headlights, arranged in pairs. are distinctive features of the 1958 range of American Ford commercial vehicles. These,...

‘"HIEF assets of the latest 10-tonner, the KL 10-6, to be added to the range of cranes produced by K. and L. Steelfounders and...

A NEW economy 5-ton model has been added to the normal control range of trucks produced by Dodge Brothers (Britain), Ltd.....

THE first sales and service depot deal ing with Leyland, Albion and Scammell vehicles was opened last week in the Midlands, on...

Rate-cutting by Clearing Houses and B.R.S. Worries Operators in the Gloucester-Bristol-Bridgwater Area : Standard of Vehicles...

Efficient Fleet Maintains Daily Delivery to 146 Butchers' and Provision Shops in City, Town and Country N EITHER traffic...

VOUR political commentary of November 29 on the 1 Derek Wiscombe ,case makes pne or `two significant points which I appreciate...

Railways Should Concentrate on Traffics to he Carried in Large Quantities Over Long Distances i lthe railways began a...

C URRENCY has receratly been given on two or three occasions to an interesting set of figures. They purport to be the result of...

By John F. Moon, A.M.I.R.T.E. A LTHOUGH nominally a 3-tonner, the standard Bedford oil-engined drop-sided truck can carry a...

Bird's Eye View By The Hawk " P futyl to make butyl." Americans used_ to say. But Dr. W. J. Sparks, the American scientific...

Personal Control of Maintenance May Give Benefits, but it Demands Administrative as Well as Capital Resources O NE of the...

A PRACTICAL approach to the prob lem of providing adequate body space for light, bulky loads and mounting the floor as close...

in which semi-rotary valves are used, and these can be arranged so as to give a longer expansion stroke than the inlet and...