T HE threatened strike by 355,000 members of the National Union of Railwaymen, averted at the eleventh hour by Government...

T HERE seems to be a tendency for advocates appearing on behalf of the British Transport Commission to accuse haulier...

T HE managing director of Dodge Brothers (Britain), Ltd., is one of those rare and delightful Americans who genuinely think...

By The Hawk O NE of Britain's foremost road transport engineers who, to my knowledge, has never been defeated by any ,problem....

The company at that time had recently entered the international field and Mr. Clough was busy making a study of product and...

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT BRISTOL, Tuesday. F OR the next two months the operations of Messrs. R. and W. A. Febry, Chipping...

THERE were hopes in Brighton this I week that the council would approve a new agreement between the three undertakings at...

BY OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT W E shall see the Government's new plan for the railways by the end of the month, probably at...

VIDENCE of how British Railways were losing traffic to private-enterprise road hauliers was given to Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western...

A FINAL order, by consent, was made in the. Restrictive Practices Court in London on Monday in connection with an agreement...

MR. J. M. GIEFoao has been appointed European sales manager of the AvelingBarford Group. MR. R. S. ODD is resigning his...

Italian Production: Last year Italian vehicle manufacturers produced 30,110 commercial vehicles. Price Reduction: The retail...

A PPOINTMENTS made within the Ministry of Transport involve Mr. C. E. Hollinghurst relinquishing his position as Metropolitan...

CONSERVATIVE M.P.s on Tuesday heavily supported a . motion tabled in the House of Commons urging a fullscale inquiry into the...

T HE assumption by the West Midland Traffic Commissioners that a circle with a four-mile radius of Oakengates was within the...

TYRE mileages of well over 100,000 were being obtained on heavy vehicles operating at continuous high speeds in the U.S.A. This...

A MORE powerful power take-off for certain Leyland and Albion vehicles has been introduced by the Leyland group. It is...

carry wool from I I farms may find it necessary to take joint action in view of developments that have been reported to the...

A SUGGESTION that a• linked " A • through-service from Huddersfield to Llandudno was not entitled to protection because there...

QI-IOULD a company moving to a new L) bus station give up their existing starting points or be allowed to retain them for...

VOLLOWING a •private meeting I between Mr. F.Williamson, North Western Licensing Authority, Messrs. Lytham Bros., Woolton, and...

EVE RE frost and heavy, if brief, snowfalls last Saturday provided the stiffest test so far for the organization • set up . by...

FE Minister of Transport has dis missed appeals by J. Laurie and Co. against the Scottish Traffic Commissioners' refusal to...

1:kt REACHES of conditions on an express licence operative between the R.A.F. Station, Valley, Anglesey, and Manchester and...

. WISBECH man, convicted of a series of offences in connection with his business, had five C licence vehicles suspended for six...

TRAFFIC congestion in Manchester's I Smithfield fruit and vegetable market, which was described as chaotic." brought constant...

O WNER of a Leicestershire haulage business, Mrs. Dorothy Irene Jackson, pleaded guilty at Leicester County Magistrates' Court...

week. McVeigh Transport, Ltd., who have 100 vehicles, with bases at Grimsby, Hull, Manchester, Glasgow, Liverpool, London,...

A CHARGE of ignorance of the meat trade was levied against Mr. Alex Robertson, Scottish Deputy Licensing Authority, by Mr....

Board of the British Transport Commission-to re-organize road and rail transport services north of Inverness (The Corn inercial...

A A REGENERATIVE gas turbine engine is to be installed in a vehicle to be used for hauling ore from an open pit Mine of the...

QTRONG opposition by members of Withnell Urban District Council was voiced at Manchester last week when Ribble Motor Services,...

A N appeal by East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., against a local Valuation Court decision that their central workshop at Hull...

A LLEGATIONS by an operator of ..t – t colliery services against his cooperator, with whom he ran a joint service, were made...

H EATWAVE conditions last July led Mr. Oliver Cromwell Bishop, a Coalville, Leicestershire, bus proprietor, to Coalville...

\YTH EN Barton Transport, Ltd., Nottingham, successfully applied to the East Midland Traffic Commissioners last week to...

the Guy Warrio _Tight-wheeler B ECAUSE of its remarkably low unladen weight, the Guy Warrior Light 8 eight-wheeler can carry...

A N order for 11 six-wheeled tippers has been received from Poland by Guy Motors, Ltd., Wolverhampton, and the first of these...

I NDEPENDENT four-wheel steering endows the newly introduced Simmons Mark 1I/1 four-wheel-drive transporter with a turning...

C ITIES could never escape the forces of technological change. Failure to adapt meant decline, and a great and challenging...

C OMPLETE standardization on A.E.C. buses has been made by the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd., who operate stage services in...

I SHOULD like to answer the statement by Mr. Alec Mosley, of the Mobil Oil Co., Ltd. (The Commercial Motor, January 22), that...

D V usin g transistors Dawe Instruments, LP Ltd., 99 Uxbrid g e Road, London, W.), have produced a self-contained sound level...

ypo EMOVAL of purchase tax on goods. 1 .‘ vehicle chassis last April was probably the main reason for the l6per-cent. increase...

T HE Potteries Motor Traction Co., Ltd., have introduced fluorescent interior lighting into one of their Leyland Atlanteans to...

F AIRY tales make their impact by means of a contrast between fancy and commonsense. Shipwrecked on the coast of Lilliput,...

the news lately and the success of the Ml augurs well for future developments. It should never be overlooked, however, that the...

MOTOR TRANSPORT MOBIL FUELS AND LUBRICANTS are widely used by fleet-operators, 601 engineering contractors, and transport...

A N Atkinson eight-wheeler has been specially built for motorway service with John Buckley and Co. (Warrington), Ltd. Its first...

A SPRUNG pedal which allows a clutch with a heavy action to be released with about half the normal effort is shown in patent...