State Ownership of Transport Is Proving Unfruitful and Many Employees are Increasingly Discontented W HAT is really the trouble...

T HE so-called road hog is not necessarily only the driver who proceeds at a speed which is over-rapid in the particular...

Nuffield Agent's Sur - D URING visits paid to prise for Prominent A — F Detroit by the various Visitor Nuffield executives,...

Much of p.s.v. growing pains. That iron curtains do not always imply safety. That in any case it is safer to be in front of...

T.G.W.U. Rejects Bus Companies' Offer : R.H.E. Raises Pay by 7s. a Week IT is estimated that the road transport industry is...

A T the request of the three railway unions, Mr. Harold Wilson, former President of the Board of Trade, is to undertake an...

To avoid shipping difficulties, two prominent motor manufacturers are . chartering ships for the export of their products. By...

B ECAUSE of a lack of response by members of the Road Haulage Association, the scheme for a national direct-mail drive to...

WHAT one commercial-vehicle manuVV facturer termed "another turn in the spiral of inflation" occurred this week in the increase...

MR, N. I. HENDERSON has joined 'lie Northern Ireland section of the tyre salts organization of the North British Rubber Co,...

A CARDIFF municipal bus driver, Edwin J. Hale, won his appeal at Cardiff Quarter Sessions, last week, against a sentence of two...

F OUR earlier regulations dealing with registration and licensing have been consolidated in two new regulations which came into...

VV ITH the announcements by the general managers of the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., and the Birmingham and Midland...

Messrs. N. Craft, Boston hauliers, have taken over the busines . of Messrs. F. Smalley. The new Esso refinery at Fawley will...

D ECISIGN was reserved for three months by the West Midland Deputy Licensing Authority, last week, in the ease of the Red House...

DY employing a 30 m.p.h. C-licence vehicle for the transport of bus seats, instead of hiring a 5-tenner, Accles and Pollock,...

R ECOMMENDATIONS f or the revision of the scale of fair charges and the schedule of rates for small lots have been approved by....

P R OVIS ON AL plans to construct a permanent coach station in the centre of Montreux, Switzerland, have been agreed by the...

Says L. J. Cotton, M.I.R,T.E. I N 14 days I have travelled over 14,000 miles, mostly by air, from England across Canada and...

the Usual ingredients, the Mixture Failed to Rise: Socialists Outbid Tories with Suggestions to Deal with the Transport...

By L. M. Marshall " HOW the Transport Arrangements of Farmers and Contractors Dovetail in the Three Main Groups of Agricultural...

P AYLOAD capacity is increased in a new type of bagwash laundry body built by Thomas Harrington, Ltd., Hove, on a Bedford 5-ton...

W HO, studying Greece, could possibly make a beginning anywhere but in the age-old, storied capital, Athens? The classicist,...

are frequently given prominence in your journal, of which I have been a reader for many years. Many of the criticisms are...

I N the Castle Museum here, we have a rival to John Boyd Dunlop's first pneumatic tyre,. which I see has gone to the Festival...

By Ashley Taylor A.M.I.R.T.E. H EAVY haulage, it might be thought, was the same all the world over, but one has to go only as...

A MOBILE kitchen in which 400 full meals a day can be prepared, has recently been put into service by L.E.C. Catering Service,...

Long Run By L. J. COTTON, M.I.R.T.E. I N first cost, the N.C.B. 30-cwt, battery-electric is among the highest priced of its...

“The Commercial Motor" Costs Expert Discusses a Question in •which Practice and Theory Conflict: He Describes the...

Efficient lubrication under all engine conditions depends on STABLE VISCOSITY. Stable viscosity is the quality that enables a...

QIX new vehicles whic h have recently been added to the fleet of the East Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., undoubtedly qualify for the...

INFINITELY variable gears of the I friction type have not proved very , 4uccessfu1 for large engines, but for • powers up to...