W E have on several occasions referred to the urgent need for organizing thoroughly efficient hauliers' associations in all...

W E b e c t t l o n i n t o a t c i n e g v e for t h r a tt the u a c s h t o s u u n px i o r ng t s w u i g l gestion made...

TT is well known that the motor lorry has .practically revolutionized livestock transport. Apart from the saving of time and...

of the Gilford Motor Co., Ltd., at High Wycombe, the other day, we were interested to learn that the company is installing an...

That it is the 1931 Budget that will give the shocks. . That there are more Diesels and more in them than meet the eye. That...

slowed by all difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the roughness of the roads over which...

The watch committee of So= SHIELDS Corporation recommends tho purchase of a British patrol wagon. The watch committee of...

Stockton Corporation has adopted a Bill seeking powers to replace the tramway system by motorbus services. York Corporation...

of the TILLING.. STEVENSEXPRESS ITOR several years one of the most ..12 popular passenger-carrying chassis has been the...

MHE accompanying illustrations depict one of a number of special vehicles which has recently been put into service by the...

TOR one hundred years R. Distur_12 nal and Co., of Bridge Works, Wednesbuky, Staffs, has been established, and in the past few...

A S the entrance of a singlelidecker may be at the front or at the rear, it follows that, when the bus has two doorways, either...

O NE of the best-known makers of private cars in Germany is the Bumpier Vorntrieb Gesellschaft m.b.II., 53, Kochstr., Berlin,...

T HE first important subject to be discussed during the two-day conference of local authorities and interested bodies...

PROGRESS IN VI ECU SUSPENSION O NE of the most interesting and important subjects in connection with the design and...

MWO S.M.C. chassis have been pro duced and marketed by a special department of the famous private-carmanufacturing concern,...

A CHARITY which is in existence wholly and solely for the purpose of entertaining the numerous soldiers in London who are still...

with Unusual Features F OR the past 10 years Willesden Urban District Council has employed 14 Ransomes Orwell...

for the British Market W ITHIN the course of the next few weeks Morgan Hastings, Ltd., 42, Sussex Place, London, S.W.7, which...

Notes on a Variety of Aspects of Coach and Bus Travel W HEN recently we visited the offices and works of Birch Brothers, Ltd.,...

TN these days when many important 'British. commercial-vehicle manufacturers are paying increasing attention to the cultivation...

Dual-purpose Body T BERE exists a large number of persons engaged in business which, during six days of the week, demands a...

F ROM a lengthy review of the work of the past year drawn up by the goods department of the Great Western Railway Co. we learn...

Radiators and Cylinder Jackets "VAST winter was a memorable one _Lifer Very many users of motor vehicles. The heavy snow,...

The Editor, TEE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [2988] Sir,—We were very much inter . ested in your recent article on the subject of...

M AN Y automatic signalling devices have from time to time been placed upon the market, and the latest to be brought to our...

T HE hydraulic principle is simple enough and is particularly suited for application to the tipping gear of motor lorries, but...

HAULIER and CARRIER I T is easy to receive wrong impressions and it is unfortunate, too, that if the conception be allowed to...

Leylands in the South Sea Islands. A CORRESPONDENT of ours was recently in the South Sea Islands and, on his way through the...