T HE time has arrived when serious thought must be given to the )ossibility of setting up haultge companies in which the...

R OAD tests of commercial vehicles were pioneered many years ago by The Commercial Motor and have since been adopted by many...

A Permanent Engineering Centre S AID to be Britain's only permanent engineering exhibition is the Birmingham Exchange and...

Of sharply divided American opinion on the ibject of toll roads. That Britain might be wise to study American actions to them...

Conservative and Labour Support for Joint Haulage Companies BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT N EW efforts are being made in an...

WHEN, last Friday, the Western YV Licensing Authority resumed hearing the application of Transport (Bristol), Ltd., for a...

TALK of stopping denationalization I was premature, said Mr. James Barrie, national chairman of the Road Haulage Association,...

CED with increased costs from the • ecent pay award of more than ,000 a year, Maidstone and District or Services, Ltd., and...

THE Northern and Western Licensing I Authorities have issued special A licences in respect of another 36 lorries taken over...

D RIVERS and conductors employed by West Bromwich Transport Department have threatened to stage a one-day token strike...

SIR JAMES REID YOUNG bas joined the board of Borg-Warner, Ltd. MR. G. H. SPEAR has joined Telehoist, Ltd., as export sales...

THE Government's extended road I programme is too general and the arrangements to implement it are too indefinite to give any...

FFORTS are being made by the British School of Motoring to have ' the heavy goods vehicle driving test reinstated as from...

E XTRA bus services may be provided if the Liverpool overhead railway ceases. The company operating the railway cannot afford...

pERMISSION. was given to Bristol . Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., last week, to increase return fares on country routes....

for Leyland Q RDERS worth over £500,000 were received by Leyland Motors. Ltd.. from the Indian sub-continent last week, during...

ECIAL safety regulations are to be ailed for by North Cotswold Safety 'mince to govern the carriage of implements on the roads....

A PPEALS by four operators have recently been rejected with costs by the Minister of Transport. One of' them, made by Jowett...

T HE Western Licensing Authority on Monday granted a B licence to a Bristol company of furniture makers, J. Whiting and Son,...

T HE South Wales Licensing Authority has refused to grant to Messrs. S. Protheroe and Son, I Victoria Avenue. Porthcawl, Glam.,...

WHEN John Findlay and Co. (ConIT tractors), Ltd., Dundee, applied to the Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority last week to add a...

DLEY magistrates have dismissed charge against the owner of a sty track-laying tractor that it was on the public road...

A N allegation that denationalization had caused drivers' earning less money with private-enterprise concerns than with British...

A s part of the plans to take over and maintain the Suez Canal base after the withdrawal of the British Forces, a new...

Users, Hauliers and Employees in Eastern Counties Welcome Dena tionalizat ion : Value of Efficient Drivers Emphasized By P. A....

C tons of coal can be .unloaded within 10 minutes by means of iaI equipment built on a Bedford 3e oil-engined chassis by...

tIKINGLY styled, a new exhibition van has )een put into commission by Trico-Folberth, Great West Road, Brentford. Since 1948....

with 2.2-litre Oil Economical and tam: 33 m.p,g.. ; 92-mile Test T . .HE highlight of my test of the Morrls-Commercial 14on van...

VAN body which can easily he 6. dismantled and packed into a crate been produced by Jones Bros. )achbuilders). Ltd., Old Oak...

In Praise of T.M.C. Panels I FEEL it an obligation to reply again to the vigorous I comments of C. A. Leigh, in your issue...

A Pair of Micawbers By JANUS T is in the interests of the country that more capital should be put into transport." This...

SPECIAL 2-cu.-yd. body for the :arriage of ready-mixed concrete )een mounted on a Bedford 5-ton -wheelbase chassis by Edbro-B,...

JR mobile workshops have been jilt by Wadham Bros., Ltd., Waterlie, Hants, for the Texaco Oil Co. are based on...

Road Services (Caledonian), Ltd., Buy Another Nine Vehicles : £80,000 Paid for Manchester Unit p MATE enterprise in Scottish...

"The Commercial Motor" Costs Expert Examines How Long the Loading and Unloading of Dyferent Types of Goods Occupies and flow to...

QOME front-wheel-drive arrange ments have a reduction gear fitted on the outside of the hub, but the extra space needed...