A CURIOUS development following the recent report from America that lung cancer is largely caused by smoking, is a whole series...

Tl ERE are various views as to the advisability a i r otherwise of building stations for buses. Some operators are of the...

Reducing Tyre Costs nNE of the important items in running costs is tyres; this on, say, a 3-tonner almost equals that of...

N List 4, 64 per cent. of the units and 52 per cent. of the vehicles offereJ without premises were sold to the high est...

THE third to be appointed since the 1 formation of the Road Haulage Association in 1935, Mr. John Stran g has been made an...

'TELEVISION entertainment had cut I travel on services partly Of wholly outside Halifax, said Mr. R. Mackenzie, g eneral mana...

nN Wednesday the national coun cil of the Road Haulage Association elected Mr_ James Barrie as chairman in succession to Mr....

N O industry had done more than passenger transport towards raising productivity. Although costs of operation were 2f times...

W E regret to record the deaths of MR. Tom GREENSLADE, MR. E. V. RALPH, Ma. IRVING E. EVERINGHAM and MR. J. W. TREECE. Mr....

ts- 7 been given every reasonable chance." These words in the 1953 report of the Colonial Development Corporation (Stationery...

A SKED whether the decision to rik replace London trolleybuses by oilengined motorbuses had been influenced by considerations...

P ROPOSED restrictions on the use of 8-ft.-wide buses in the national park are to be discussed between Cumberland County...

A DVICE to an applicant to withdraw his case was given by the Northern Licensing Authority last week, when it transpired during...

A T the present rate of consumption, f554 per minute is being paid in tax to the Exchequer on motor and aviation fuels. During...

combined bus and helicopter station in Newcastle upon Tyne has been put forward. The idea has been approved in principle by the...

receive the second six-monthly report of the Road Haulage Disposal Board on May 28.

MR. S. S. RoasoN has been elected chairman of the Northern Division of the Traders Road Transport Association for the tenth...

\V HEN Westcliff-on-Sea Motor Ser vices, Ltd., applied to the Metropolitan Licensing Authority on Monday to increase their...

D RONFIELD magistrates last week listened to the bell-like signal of art ice-cream van to decide whether it were a "noisy...

By a Special Correspondent I T is now possible to show the sales of transport units in Lists I, 2 and 3 by divisions. The...

D URING the second day's hearing at Leeds, last week, of an application for permission to operate a new express service between...

A SOUTH WALES coach operator, • Mr. Glyn Rees, of Bedlinog, told the South Wales Licensing Authority, last week, that the...

A BOUT Im. fewer passen g ers were PA carried by the Devon General Omnibus and Tourin g Co., Ltd., last year because of a...

pECAUSEmore excursions and tours were run in 1953, and more privatehire work was done, the receipts of the Trent Motor Traction...

IN the lon g -distance bus pattern of the country, Nottin g ham was reachin g the same position as Crewe or Derby in that of...

THE total number of new registra tions of vehicles for February, excluding cars and motorcycles, was 10,996. This figure was...

unladen weight are claimed for the plastic cab and wing construction developed by A. C. Penman, Ltd., Queens bury Motor Works,...

A NOTHER interesting publication by the British Road Federation is a booklet, priced at Is., entitled "Science Looks at...

WHEN he heard an application by VI' Lowland Motorways, Ltd., Glasgow, for permission to operate a service between Shettleston...

sible injurious effects" of fumes from oil-engined vehicles in London, a spokesman for the health committee of London County...

T " policy of substituting motorbuses for trams in Leeds, which is being pursued by the Socialistcontrolled transport...

carriers over the past 14 years proved that there was something in the set-up which had been operated by the Meat Transport...

a pig from the back of this court to the front, might do it in five minutes, or it might take me half a day," stated a...

IN his first address as president of the / Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, Mr. A. B. Waring told the council of the...

'THE Messerschmitt three wheeled i motor scooter is now available in this country. A two-seater, it can be converted to carry...

TWENTY-THREE new vehicles have L been acquired by the Co-operative Wholesale Society in Birmingham for margarine deliveries....

D ESPITE " fanatical " competition, Ripaults, Ltd., had made favourable progress during the past 12 months, said the managing...

D URING the past year there was a large increase in the tonnage of road and building materials carried by Direct Motor...

up to date if £10m. were spent on improving facilities in each of the following 10 years, stated Dr. R. D. McIntyre, chairman...

P ROTESTS against the lack of adequate bus services in remote rural areas were made at a meeting of the Central Council of the...

fee were imposed on Town Tailors, Ltd., Mabgate, Leeds, by Leeds magistrates for permitting drivers to exceed the statutory...

F IFTY Leyland Royal Tiger luxury 30-seaters have been ordered by Coras Iompair Eireann for tourist traffic. They will have...

A CIRENCESTER bus proprietor, Mr. G. J. Miller, has lost his appeal against conditions imposed by Gloucestershire County...

nN May 27, H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother will perform the opening ceremony at the new Coryton refinery of the Vacuum...

A NEW fare scale came into force 1 - 1on Aberdeen buses this week. The increases include the addition of !d. to 24d., 3d. and...

rt A 3,000-MILE test with an Austin 15-seat coach has convinced Mr. F. L. Lees, proprietor of Lees Motorways, Gateford Road,...

I N the year ended June 30, 1953, the number of passengers carried by privately owned public service vehicles in the...

A N air-cooled two-cylindered horizontally opposed oil engine of 2.72 litres eapacity has been developed and built by Vernon...

Commer Cars, Ltd., will provide for greater capacity for bulk loads. Commer parts are retained wherever possible, and the...

by John F. Moon T HE performance of the MorrisCommercial 3-tonner with B.M.C. direct-injection oil engine was so exhilarating...

By JANUS L IKE most of its kind, the sample survey of road goods transport carried out by the Ministry of Transport clearly...

by Andrew Seacombe O Si ENS' BLY the head office of Premier Travel, Ltd., in Cambridge, is located in a building overlooking...

VOUR article headed "Spares Position Drastic," I published in your journal dated April 16, was read by me with great interest....

A FEW days ago I had the misfortune to make a journey of some 40 miles aboard an example of one of the latest lightweight...

S OME people will see trouble wherever they took, although none may, in fact, exist. I am wondering whether your correspondent...

S ° far as 1 am aware, a vehicle operating under a '—'C-hiring licence may be driven only by a person on the payroll of the...

Tell Fortunes! by William R. Buckland, B.Sc. (Econ.) Ph.D., F.I.S., F.S.S. I T is a simple fact that the force behind the...

Safety and Highway Lighting : Feather-bedding the Bus Passenger : Co-ownership as an Incentive : Where Traders' Vehicles Score...

A LTHOUGH the peak-load problem ri was ever more pronounced, bus operators still used vehicles offering little elasticity in...

n ISCUSSING the value of co-partnership, or co-ownership, Mrs. Christine Taylor, Finst.T.A., referred lo the optimum size of...

T HE industrial traffic administrator had learned by tiresome experience what transport delays could mean to a pro g ressive...

P e i-EITHER the present Government I I nor their predecessors appeared to have said much on the sub j ect of productivity in...

EVIEWING the history of roadrail traffic le g islation, Mr. J. Foley E gg inton, A.M.Inst.T., F.Inst.T.A., said "that for many...

S PEAKING at the conference dinner, Mr. C. H. Palim, Liverpool District mana g er, British Road Services, said that one of the...

How, by Adopting the Correct Procedure, Otherwise Elusive Electrical Troubles Can be Quickly Detected Without the Use of...

'THE attitude of the trade unions I seems to be the only impediment towards securing an increase in the speed limit for heavy...

A Nengine having three cylinders, each containing a pair of opposed pistons, is disclosed in patent No. 705,780, by B....