T HE generally accepted methods of achieving economies in a transport undertaking have all been so widely explored that fresh...

I T is not the normal practice of The Commercial Motor to invite, estrictions on road transport, but there is a good case for...

The Hon. Willian ieoffrey Rootes I N this year of the 20th Commercial Motor Show and 45th Motor Show, the Society of Motor...

Teamwork G OOD teamwork between Sir Graham Cunningham, some girls in the office, Edward Lear and William Shakespeare has...

FROM ASHLEY TAYLOR MANCHESTER, Wednesday. I NCREASINGLY sluggish traffic conditions on the 18-mile stretch of road over the...

A GOVERNMENT pledge to aid the I -1 railways to meet competition from road transport was given on Monday by Mr. Ernest Marples,...

T HREE • one-man-operated single-deck buses with separate entrance and exit have been delivered to London Transport and will...

E MPLOYEES of the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., are to receive wage increases of 3-31 per cent. For a 411-hour week skilled workers...

A N increase in haulage rates is likely to be recommended shortly by the Road Haulage Association. . This will take care of...

MR. S. J. BARNES, director and general manager of the Clayton Dewandre Co., Ltd., has been appointed managing director. ALD....

A NYONE can have a vehicle tested at a Government testing station, for the present. Speaking last week at a Press conference...

l‘AANCHESTER Transport Department LVI has ordered 40 Leyland Titan PD2.37 double-deck buses with synchromesh gearboxes and air...

T HE Minister of Transport has told the South Wales Traffic Commissioners that they must reconsider fares increases granted to...

No Dogs?: Preston Transport Committee is to consider banning the carriage of dogs on its buses. Israel Factory?:,Leylancl...

EMOVAL business in Scotland is expanding, the Scottish Licensing Authority, was told in Glasgow last week. Crawford and...

THE Scottish Licensing Authority, Mr. W. F. Quin, in Edinburgh last week adjourned an application—by William Dunn and Sons, of...

I T was extremely hard to find hirers who would move livestock, a haulier told The Scottish Licensing Authority in Glasgow last...

M R. A. . M. BAIN, . of Duns, Berwickshire, was granted an extra vehicle of 3 tons unladen weight on his B licence by the...

A TOKEN strike was staged last week by about 50 British Road Service., employees at Birmingham's Water Street parcels depot....

C OMPET1T1ON between coastwise • -- , shipping and road transport was discussed by Mr. Douglas Tennant, of the Merchant Navy...

F IGURES of increased earnings, plus general oral evidence of increased production in the plastics and biscuit trade without...

very successful in moving rubbish and waste material. a Glasgow firm was last week granted a rigid • vehicle in place of an...

T HE transport situation in North Wales was so acute that urgent consignments had .to be sent by passenger train, Mr. R. D....

T HE Scottish Licensing Authority, Mr. W. F. Quin, refused to accept a contract proposal between an applicant and his proposed...

P RODUCTION Of plastics tiles was I increasing raoidly and transport difficulties were being incurred, Mr. C. Moorehouse, works...

E QUIPPED with a Charrold coal dispenser unit, a Dodge lorry, operated by F. A. Shelley. Ltd., of Rugby, can unload eight tons...

'THE manager . of Blackpool Transport 1 . Department, Mr. J. C. Franklin, was criticized by Blackpool Accident Prevention...

?THE first cafeteria for users of MI was I opened in the Newport Pagnell service area on Monday. It is situated about 35 miles...

S.L.K. Tramport, Ltd. Cap. £5,000. Din.: K. J. E.. Rogers. 111 Duffield Road, Derby, S. Hobbis, Station Road, 7V1ickleover,...

A SPECIALmeeting of Wallasey Town Council was yesterday due to discuss a proposal by the transport committee to increase the...

LL EICESTER City Council was told last week of the "desperate straggle" to keep buses running to schedule because of increased...

WHEN Rochester and Marshall, Ltd., VI' of Great Whittington, Co. Durham, applied for removal of a protective fare last week,...

difficulty in recruiting platform staff, the transport committee were told on Monday. They heard that the undertaking was 67...

A N ergonomics conference is to be organized by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research in London on September 27....

H ALIFAX Joint Omnibus Committee is discussing with the local branch of the Transport and General Workers Union the operation...

roof of its Piccadilly bus station is to be considered by Manchester Transport Committee later this month, It is understood...

A N overall mileage reduction of 343,293 was effected by Nottingham Transport Department during the year ended March 31 last....

T HE Ceylon Transport Board will buy only about 150 of the 480 vehicles it intended originally to purchase this year, it has...

T HROUGHOUT the history of transport no major innovation can ever have got away to such a good start as has the air-cushion...

D iSC brakes for vehicles having a gross weight of up to 12 tons will be shown at the Commercial Motor . Show by the Lockheed...

PA A ROAD test of the first MercedesBenz LP 327 13-ton-gross fourwheeler to be brought into Great Britain was carried out by...

By the Technical Editor U NRIVALLED forward visibility, an easy-access cab with uncluttered floor line, a high degree of...

A FTER five customer witnesses had given evidence supporting his application. Mr. Norman Jowett, Burnley Road, Todmorden, was...

after the laden fuel-consumption run. G REATER engine power and a new bogie suspension design which gives improved wheel...

A CHASSIS dynamometer is a feature of the new service bay opened today by Solcx, Ltd., at 223 N/farylebone Road, London,'N.W.1....

A FTER many years of producing relatively conventional passenger chassis, Transport Vehicles (Daimler), Ltd., sprung a Show...

A LIQUID coating system for rust proofing iron and steel offered by Metalife Liquid Metals, Ltd., Harrogate, Yorks, permits 2.1...

C ONSIDERED in isolation, each of the various proposals put forward by the Ministry of Transport for amending the Construction...

A COMPLETELY new heavy-duty tipper chassis and two new power units will be featured by Transport Vehicles (Thornycroft), Ltd.,...

PIA BUSINESS sold for £35 was the subject of an application before the Scottish Licensing Authority, Mr. W. F. Quin, last...

Improvements in Vehicles Enable Hauliers to Carry On at Rates' that Do Not Match the General Upward Trend of Prices By R. B....

- 13 ARE and brilliant sunshine bathed the rarer and, in -I-Nwsome cases, even more brilliant entries in the annual rally of...

T . HERE will not be a spate of new models, as in 1958, at the Commercial Motor Show, which opens at Earls Court next Friday,...

T HE cult of the rear engine for passenger chassis, initiated in this country by Leyland with the successful Atlantean...

A POPULAR topic—how to save moneywas the theme of both papers presented to the Munieitial . Passenger Transport Association's...

Warrington Manager Tells How He Started Afresh and Drew Up New System: £20,000 and 300,000 Miles Saved F A RES increases,...

R oughly one-seventh of Ireland is bogland. Black barren wastes, 90% water, that would drown the man who walked on them. For...

Many Ways in Which Existing Servicing Methods Can Be Improved : More Attention Needed to Certain Aspects m - R. DYSON...

T HE principles which govern the coachbuilder's craft can scarcely be said to have changed in the past 200 years. Apart from...

E XHIBITS by trailer manufacturers at the Commercial Motor Show, which opens at Earls Court next Friday, will show a welcome...

M A.NUFACTURERS of accessories are often faced with the vexed problem of producing standard components in quantity at a keen...

B ECAUSE passengers on the top deck of buses waiting at the terminus in Tredegar are able to see into consulting rooms of a...

NEW THINKING on Costs T HE increase in the range of 'vehicles to be displayed at the Commercial Motor Show, which opens next...

A N injection pump operated by cylinder compression is described in patent No. 841,202. Injection timing is controlled...