The flour industry provides a firstclass opportunity for you to expand your business. All the leading biscuit manufacturers and...

Waste and Inefficiency in the Control of Municipal Passenger Transport MITE well-preened feathers of local authorities were...

CONOMY in transport demands that the maximum tonnage of goods shall be moved by the minimum number of vehicles. This condition...

Red—Green—Red INTROSPECTION has become a habit with I passenger transport operators. Mr. L. C. Hawkins, of the London...

N EXT . Wednesday has been .fixed as the date for the National Joint Industrial Council to hear the wages committee's...

value of Dm. has been placed with Henry Meadows, Ltd., Wolverhampton, by Automobile Products, Ltd., of Bombay, India. It is for...

A CALL, by - implication, for a " freer ing" of wages in the passengertransport industry was made by Mr. T. Robert Williams,...

MR. W. L. WILSON has resigned as director of the Skefko Ball Bearing Co., Ltd„ on account of ill-health. MR. E. H. ROBINSON...

(-ENSURE was passed by the York shire Licensing Authority last week on Swain's Trangport, Ltd., Sale, near Manchester, when...

A LORRY driver , who parked his vehicle outside .a fruiterer's shop in High Street, Huntingdon, for 18 Minutes and was later...

riRIVERS employed by A. and 11 licensees must now be Paid timeand-a-half for all overtime wOrked on Saturdays. This change came...

interests of the British 1 Transport Commission to see that Ideal operators obtained their fair share of local traffic, If they...

IT was no part of a Licensing 1 Authority's duty to change a contract-A licence when the parties to it were working amicably,...

D RY-CHARGED batteries are now being introduced by the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., for Thames vehicles. At the time of manufacture,...

two vehicles totalling 6 tons to their A licence, the Yorkshire Licensing Authority said that they had built up traffic which...

T HE Government should spend on the roads the money that the transport industry pays in taxation. I do not mean all the...

Scissors System Ends: The scissors traffic crossing in Bristol city centre has been replaced by a onc-way traffic arrangement....

PEYLON'S Minister of Transport has stated that bus nationalization must be completed within three years. He has rejected a...

and night with relief drivers, Mr. H. J. Harris, managing director of Harris and May, Ltd., and Bradley's (Plymouth), Ltd.,...

A DENNIS Teal chassis with pan technicon body will be shown for the first time in this country at Earls Court, on Stand 81. A...

T HE Metropolitan Licensing Authority was this week considering a date for the re-hearing of applications by George Ewer and...

7PHE construction of urban motor ' ways may be highly desirable for the efficient operation of essential traffic, but American...

w HEN T. H. Freeman and Son, Ltd., Brough, applied to the Yorkshire Licensing Authority last week for an A licence for two...

By W. Isard President, National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers W HEN we consider such a question as is...

• • Duties Precise Cost Records Essential in Operating a Public cleansing 'Fleet T HE petrol versus oil controversy is bound...

By P. A. C. Broekington, A.M.T.Mech.E. I F a trader provides terminal facilities that substantially reduce turnround times,...

held up for several hours in loading or unloading material, what purpose is served by improving the flow of traffic either...

• If the average dispatch organization were as good as the best," said this operator, "my costs would be cut 25 per cent. It's...

Says a Student of Transport W ITH all the talk there has been of late about the effect on bus traffic of television and...

I Exclusive Test Report ' T HE new Rootes fourcylindered 2.26-litre indirectinjection oil engine which is announced today is...

New Tractors, Modifications to the Passenger Chassis and Braking and Steering Improvements C OINCIDING with the announcement...

A NEW series of light-alloy sections from which platform and drop-sided bodies can be built quickly, economically and without...

MAY 1 congratulate you on the article about pensions "I for road transport workers (The Commercial -Motor, August 31). Your...

1VI.P.T.A. President Calls for Autonomous Boards to Run Municipal Passenger Transport M UNICIPAL passenger transport should be...

nels solid-riveted to fin. Jabroc board which, as well as acting as the web of the channel, also provides the thermal break....

D URING 1954-55, 98 operators of public service vehicles in Great Britain (excluding Northern Ireland) went out of business. In...

O XFORD UNIVERSITY has a Faculty of Social Studies, and for some time past the Institute of Transport has looked towards Oxford...

T HE 1956 Commercial Motor Show, which opens, at Earls Court next Friday, promises to be the most interesting 'yet held. A...

T RAILER manufacturers' exhibits at Earls Court will reflect not only the progress in design that they have made but also...

T HE suitability of plastics for widely different purposes will be strongly evident on the 66 bodybuilders' stands at the...

Stand 70. These will include a drop sided body on a Commer 7-ton chassis and a platform body on a MorrisCommercial 7-tanner, A...

Outstanding Exhibits by component Makers : New Developments in Transmission and Suspension Systems One of the many new...

Must be Generous This Atkinson L. 1586 eight-wheeler, fitted with a body by Lovell's Motor Co., is used for the transport of...

A LARM at the situation in' the excursion and tour field arising out of the redistribution of Sheffield's overspill population...

T HE first two eliminating rounds of the Scottish Commercial Vehicle Driver of the Year Competition were held last Saturday,...