T WO well-trained minds thought alike on the subject of double-deck buses at this week's conference of the Public Transport...

F "people can seriously believe that British Road Services regard themselves as entitled to move vehicles from their authorized...

A Double Achievement TWO transport personalities are closely concerned with I the changeover from trolleybuses to motorbuses...

T HERE is nothing to prevent an A or B licensed vehicle drawing a trailer licensed under contract A, provided the normal user...

A N application by M.T.S. (Yorkshire), Ltd., Leeds, for a new B licence for 100 31-ton tippers to be acquired, which is to be...

TIII E Queen's Bench Divisional Court .ast week decided that driving mirrors were part of the equipment of a motor van and not...

Penalized : Lorry Withdrawn T HE inter-change of drivers between one associated company and another amounts to a disregard for...

A HAULIER offering facilities to one 1-1 customer only was not a public carrier and should ndt . be granted an A licence. The...

A T a public inquiry last week, Mr. D. I. Muir, Metropolitan Licensing • Authority, heard from Mr. P. J. W. Wells, for Oakleys...

COMMODITIES were of little account when considering a change of normal user; it was the districts served which mattered....

THE North Western Traffic Commis'. sioners were told at Blackpool, on Tuesday, that they were going beyond their powers in...

joined the board of Cranes (Dereham), • Ma. P. G. GIBBENS, London Transport . central road services general manager, retires...

THERE is to be an inquiry into rural transport and uneconomic routes, said the Minister of Transport last week. " In the light...

A NATIONAL inquiry into the rising number of child deaths caused by delivery vans and mobile shops and methods of preventing...

A FTER listening to evidence for a day and a half the Transport Tribunal, in London, last week adjourned, until a date to be...

A BUS feeder service between Finningley R.A.F. Camp and Doncaster railway station, recommended by the Yorkshire Traffic...

2• 0 More Operators B RITAIN'S C-licence fleet increased by 3 per cent. between March, 1958. and March, 1959. The number r..1...

T HE number of goods vehicles registered on March 31, 1958, was 1,280,699, compared with 1,245,621 a year earlier and 1,162,416...

r i ECISION on the application for fare increases, to the North Western Traffic Commissioners, by the North Western Road Ca r ....

A CASE in which a haulier was said to have sold his lorry to another man who, in turn, claimed that he was actin g only as a...

A NOTHER case concernin g an increase in unladen , was adjourned by Mr. J. A.T. Hanlon, Northern Licensin g Authority,....

A ONE-VEHICLE B licence with son1 - 1ditions allowing the carriage of-goods for five companies. in Liverpool and district could...

York in Sheffield: Phillips Motor Services (Sheffield). Ltd.. 443 HandsWorth Road, Sheffield, 9, have been appointed Sheffield...

cutlass, guarded London's first commercial docks. Today the tidal reaches of• the Thames, 69 miles from the Estuary to...

A N A.E.C. Reliance coach with Plaxton body of' the Panorama class, operated by Sheffield United Tours, Ltd., received the...

N EW legislation giving local authorities power to charge for police escorts required to conduct abnormally wide or long loads...

I. Muir, Metropolitan Licensing Authority, last week, held under Section 10 (3) of the Road and Rail Traffic Act, 1933, Mr. A....

A MONG the exhibits on the Leyland Motors stand at the Poznan International Fair (June 7-21) will be a Super Comet chassis with...

A PROPOSAL to increase the tonna g e of a B-licensed vehicle by conversion from a fourto a six-wheeler came before the Scottish...

substantia l . number of former re g ular passen g ers was reported last week to the • shareholders of the .Yorkshire Traction...

1: Bridge Project 1_,TAVING contracted to suPply all the cement 1 're q uired, on the South Queensferry side, for buildin g...

O NLY 2+. marks separated the champion of the day from the runner-up in the, deciding heat at the York round of the Lorry...

WITH the object of enabling tractors using the Scammell system to tow four-wheeled trailers, North Cheshire Motors, Ltd.,...

with VELVET.. GLoyEs:- . ltkinson Six-wheeled Dumper with Cummins il Engine has Ample 'Power for . Rough vork and Good Fuel...

By Alan Smith, F.R.S.A. I N the first part of this description of the work of the Pointer group of companies, centred on...

Are Modern Tyres Much Better? ' T OUR correspondent, J. E. G. Brewster, writing in your issue dated April 17, doubts whether...

I DISAGREE that double white lines will contribute to I safety, as averred in The Commercial Motor last week. They will...

I MAGINATIVE ideas to promote efficiency in passenger transport were put forward in two papers presented this week to the...

ESPITE the diminution of profits on remunerative town and inter urban services caused by a progressive reduction in miles per...

A DESIGN for a 35-ft. 95-seater with a horizontal rear engine was outlined by Mr. Clayton as the double-decker of the future....

F OLLOWING the article on tyre costs which appeared in The Commercial Motor on April 17, I have received an inquiry for...

Political Commentary By JANUS • T RUE to form, the Transport Tribunal had something unexpected up their sleeve for the written...