, T HE Government, as represented by the -Minister of Transport, must have had a someWhat unpleasant shock at the cold...

A TENDENCY is developing, , at' least where operation is not entirely successful, for municipal authorities to . merge their...

W ITH the approach of winter, following a season in which rigid six-wheelers of the lighter type (with two-wheel drive) have...

The query "Who spoilt that speech? " Of keen interest in Olympia's Garage-equipment Section this year. That the tide really...

"The wheels of wealth will be sloweat by all difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the...

More Police Motors for Glasgow. The police committee of Glasgow Corporation has obtained sanction from the Scottish Home...

Our Costs for Steamers Answered By "S.T.R." I T is inevitable that a certain amount of criticism should follow the...

S OME interesting details and illustrarions of the side-engine motorbus put into service recently by the London General Omnibus...

A LTIIOUGH some operators are still a little shy of compression-ignition engines, others who have had experience with this type...

I N our issue for last week, when reporting on the Ford Motor Show, at the White City, London, we referred to a Fordson...

B ROADCASTING and cinema vans are being employed for various advertising purposes and the use of such vehb.]es has now been...

The Editor, THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [3886] Sir,—I have followed with close attention the position since the publication of the...

W HAT is claimed to he the largest goods motor constructed in the United States wasrecently completed by the Marmon-Herrington...

By Capt. E. H. B. Palmer T HERE has been a considerable amount of heated discussion over the question of Government control as...

on the farm and estate O RDINARY transport work on the estate or farm can be carried out by the general-purpose lorry and, in...

OF COMMERCIAL-MOTOR AND PRI VAT :-CAR DESIGN I T is a moot point whether private cars or commercial vehicles are more...

O UR announcements concerning the British Road Federation have aroused such a lot of interest amongst our readers that we...

T "Eproceedings at the annual dinner of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders were just too late for inclusion in our...

W E always look upon the annual Motor Show luncheon of the Chloride Electrical Storage Co., Ltd., as one of the most enjoyable...

in America I N view of experiments in this country with passenger vehicles having power units mounted at the side of the frame...

T HE rigid six-wheeler conversion for Fords, Bedfords and certain other well-known makes of chassis, natutufactured by Masons...

on the Surrey Hills T HE model in the range of Dennis goods-carrying chassis which corresponds to the wellknown Lancet (built...

THE 4 finish of the Leather and Shoe Trades Fair last week marked the beginning of improved conditions in the associated...

IMPORTANT CASE OF M.H.C.S.A. VERSUS GREEN LINE Commissioner's Comment on Adjourned Application Suggests Far-reaching Results...

FURTHER PRONOUNCEMENT ON MYSTERY TOURS. ANOTHER reference to mystery tours has been made by Mr. A. F. Nicholson, chairman of...

THE draft agreement between Brighton Corporation and Thomas Tilling, Ltd., referred to in last week's issue, has been approved...

URBAN District Councils in the Monmouthshire Western Valley have decided to set up a permanent joiht bus committee, on the...

THE Northern Scotland Traffic Com missioners have refused to allow W. Alexander and Sons, Ltd., Falkirk, to take over the...

LAST Monday, Mr. A. T. V. Robinson heard, at the Ministry of Transport, London, an appeal by Green Line Coaches, Ltd., against...

IT was announced at a recent sitting of the Eastern Traffic Commissioners that ft satisfactory agreement had been reached...

CERTAIN operators having head -quarters in Blackpool are maintaining that some of the drivers of coaches entering the town from...

LUTON Corporation proposes to pure chase 12 services worked by 14 vehicles and run by three local private operators. The...

ON October 25., No, 6 (East) Regional Sub-committee on Fares Will meet at Caxton Hall, London, S.W.1, to discuss the question...

A sTvGALL coach station has been opened at Chimes's Garage, 253, Streatham High Road, London, S.W.16, to cater for coaches...

ON November 17, at 7.15 p.m., the Motor Hirers and Coach Services Association, Ltd., will hold its second annual general...

A BUS operator has been summoned at Amble, Northumberland, for failing to run his service along the whole of the scheduled...

OPERATORS of public service vehicles are reminded that the Public Service Vehicles (Conditions of Fitness) Provisional...

T ILE followingare the times and / places announced by Area Traffic Commissioners for their forthcoming public sittings. In...

Southern Scotland, MOST of the business at the forth coming sittings of the Southern Scotland Traffic Commissioners will be...

O N Tuesday evening of this week n. lecture by Mr. Frederic Strauss on "Transportation in Austria" was delivered before members...

A N interesting light-duty vehicle is being produced in Paris by Automobiles Derby, the maker of the successful Derby...

MHE use of Elektron in the con struction of commercial vehicles is no novelty, but the urgent demand in recent years for the...

A NNOTJNCEMENT is made by E. Boydell and Co., Ltd., successors to Muir-Hill (Engineers), Ltd., Elsinore Road, Old Trafford,...

I N opportune synchrony with the Ford Motor Show at the White City, London, the Chaseside Engineering Co., Ltd., Arterial Road,...

T En gineering of the Alvis Car and Co., Ltd. and G. T. Smith-Clarke, numbered 3'79,973, relates to an interesting adaptation...