T HE engineering unions in this country are requesting for their members a formidable increase in wages, amounting to 15 per...

Who is the Oldest Reader ? • wHo has been reading The Commercial Motor " longest? Mr. C. W. Hutfield, M.I.M.I., a director of...

That vehicle and other examiners may _sometimes need examining. That buyers in wide-open spaces need trucksthat don't play...

THE Minister of Transport I appointed Gen. Sir Brian Roberts to succeed Lord Hurcomb as chaim of the British Transport...

A FIER 75 years of using coloured tickets and bell-punches, London Transport are to switch to ticket-issuing machines. Within...

i k SIX-WHEELED tractor, equipped .M with an 11,3-litre direct-injection oil engine, and .built for hauling loads of up to 40...

MR. E. C. MCKINNON, for many years chief en g ineer of the Chloride Electrical Stora g e Co., Ltd., has retired after 60 years'...

W HEREAS facilities for financin g denationalization could have been offered directly by. United Dominions Trust, Ltd., the...

TVIANY small coach operators in the IVI• West Midlands are to make " illegal " trips to the seaside during the remainder of...

Easington Rural Council is seeking sanction to build a bus station at a cost of £2,500. The Cheshire Engineering Co., Ltd.,...

is to be held in Coventry on Sunday, September 20. Organized by the Coventry Road Accident Prevention Council, the competition...

Merit of the Institute of Transport has been granted to Sir Reginald Wilson, comptroller of the British Transport Commission,...

A LTHOUGH the purpose of vehicle equipment specially developed to facilitate weighbridge testing is highly specialized, the...

N EW rport coaches with seats for 41 passengers and 300 Cu. ft. of luggage space are to be placed in service by Manchester...

A SYSTEM of one-way streets cover. ing almost the entire city centre of Chicago, U.S.A., has helped to speed up traffic,...

By Alan Smith D uRING the pea harvest season from mid-June to the end of July, Birds Eye Foods, Ltd., processors and sellers,...

A NEW type of nickel-iron battery .CA using an alkaline electrolyte, has been produced by the Alkaline Battery Corporation,...

A • DIFFICULT decision which must be made by many parents is whether a university education for a boy keen to enter the...

A MOBILE showroom carrying Calor-gas, fresh-water and waste-water containers and fitted with radiotelephone link and...

A LOADING device with particular applications in confined spaces is being manufactured by the Montgomerie Reid Engineering Co.,...

By Laurence J. Cotton, M.I.R.T.E. T HE virtues of full-forward and normal control chassis are combined in the Sentinel...

A Spanish Government Scheme, the Object—and Achievement—of which is to Provide an Unequalled Touring Service By P. A. C....

INCE the war, the small passenger vehicle has staged a revival. As a ich it is a valuable adjunct to any vate-hire fleet or for...

A RE there not questions to be answered regarding the ''disposal of road haulage stock by the British Transport Commission?...

ACH of us likes to think of himself as an , individual with a character .all his own. At the same time, this does not prevent...

Continuing His Series of Articles Giving Guidance to Potential Entrants to the Industry, "The Commercial Motor" Costs Expert...

A CCORDING to patent No. 693,836, the normal type of sparking plug, with its flanged ceramic insulator, often fails due to...