T HE development of welding is likely to play a significant part in the defence of aluminium as a bodybuilding material in...

Plastics to the End A QUICK reply has been made to a recent "One Hears—" concerning the query as to whether coffins were yet...

"Are some of our thoroughfares called 'trunk' roads because they are always paCked for holidays?" That some manceuvrers in...

F OLLOWING failure of the National Joint Industrial Council last week to reach agreement on an increase in pay for municipal...

More Attention to be Paid to Individual Risks in Calculating Premiums BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT T HIS week the tariff...

1 -1 , A REPORT in The Commercial Motor (June 7) of a licensing application at Liverpool has prompted an unusual appeal by a...

Mr. Coyle described this action as "an affront and a challenge." By insisting on paying a rejected offer, he said, the...

SIR HAROLD ROXBEE COX and DR. C. J. SMITHELLS have been appointed to the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. MR....

-THE Queen's Birthday Honours list 1 includes .the following awards:— K.Ba William Sinclair. director, Dunlop Rubber Co....

3 Egious complications may ensue if, in acquiring additional vehicles, the procedure of an application under Section 11(3)(b)...

T HE effect of abolishing the 20 m.p.h. limit had been to increase the availability of vehicles in Aberdeen by a third, Mr. A....

N EW efforts to amalgamate the three employers' associations in the bodybuilding industry were initiated at the annual...

IN a reserved decision, the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners have granted the application by East Yorkshire Motor Services,...

T WO appeals against fare increases granted to Ribble Motor Services, Ltd., have been rejected by the Minister of Transport. In...

pLANS have been completed by British Road Services for developing their direct road services to and from the Continent via the...

A NEW pressed-aluminium bus-door section of light design was among the developments displayed at an exhibition staged by Deans...

A A HAULIER who claimed that large companies would not send witnesses to back up his application for a new B licence because...

r IRE'S Government have decided to . 1 -4 formulate a 10-year policy for internal transport. It is believed that the final plan...

I IVERPOOL'S last tram will run on September 14, and after that the city will be served entirely by buses. Announcin g this...

A CARLISLE haulage company, who ra were stated to have come to the rescue of a local dairy concern with a tanker service at a...

Ti E transport of large industrial loads in Great Britain has become • a complex matter, especially for the manufacturers of...

New Depot Opened L'UNCTIONING of the Argyll I branch of British Road Services, which was described in detail in The Commercial...

T HE 3,501 mile road connecting Cape Town and Nairobi will cost about E10m. the . African Regional Road Congress has reported....

ly/HEN can a dumper be used on the IP( road without third-party insurance and when must it be covered? Reading magistrates were...

WAVING a platform length of 26 ft., I a Seddon-Carrimore articulated outfit was employed by Graham Adams, Ltd., New Malden,...

the new Ant dumper produced by the Chaseside Engineering Co., Ltd., Station Works, Hertford, are strength and simplicity. The...

M U C H interest has been aroused by the new Bedford 300-cu.-in. oil engine since its introduction last' February. This unit,...

Random Tipping Criticized No Excuse for Dirty Vehicles: Fire Hazards: Dutch Experience in Public Cleansing: Design of Refuse...

.Cement Deliver O NE of the chief advantages of ancillary operation to the Aberthaw and Bristol Channel Portland , Cement...

I NCREASED use of light-alloy platform bodies, aluminium platform bodies integrated with the chassis, light-alloy tankers and...

THE manner in which the Dyson Aeroride Haulmaster semi-trailer provides a self-trimming action was demonstrated at Liverpool...

By A. E. Sherloek-Me 4ier A N old Dennis cesspit-emptier purchased for E5 laid the foundations in 1934 of what is now one of...

Last Round-up By Janus T HE compulsion towards obscurity that seizes everybody concerned in the formulation of wages for road...

.A MAGNETIC clutch for motor vehicles is shown in patent No. , 772,457. (S. Smith and Sons (England), Ltd., Cricklewood Works,...