rr HANKS to the reliability of the modern commercial vehicle, it will run for considerable periods without the need for serious...

An Engine Link-up A RECENT agreement between the Standard 1-1 . Motor Co., Ltd., and Auto Diesels, Ltd., has resulted in the...

A curmudgeon saying that Christmas is a time when we waste our substance in riotous giving. That the Government's anxiety to...

THE Government had no power to compel bus operators to introduce services to replace the facilities previously afforded by...

A NEW type of engine in which there are only nine moving parts and claimed to be 50 per cent. lighter, 30 per cent, cheaper to...

for 15 additional vehicles and a trailer (384 tons) on A licences to replace vehicles withdrawn from service for repair or...

COMPENSATION for the theft of a ‘.--• load of copper could not be,paid by an insurance company to a haulier • because the goods...

R.H.A. Handling of Negotiations Attacked: Minister Hints at Government Action BY OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT A N attempt...

Ily a Special Correspondent Ily a Special Correspondent I UNDERSTAND that the Minister 1 of Transport is willing to consider...

A TO meeting last week , approved unanimously the promotion of a Bill by West Bromwich Town Council which would give the...

'A S long as they can use fre e . of charge the streets' of the town, heedless . of (1 - !12 inconvenience to anYone else, then...

A WARNING of higher prices on the home market was given last week by Mr. Ralph Gordon-Smith, chairman and managing director of...

THE Minister of Transport is con sidering a suggestion that county highway authorities should be empowered to provide three...

C AR parking in. the centre of Glasgow should be banned to avoid difficulties experienced by operators of, commercial vehicles....

T HEMetropolitan Deputy Licensing Authority last week refused I to allow George Ewer and Co., Ltd., to pick up passengers at...

AILEAGE and passenger records LVI were broken by East Midland Motor Services, Ltd., during the year ended September 30 last,...

. G. Beaton and Son, Ltd., have sold their interest in the Albion Twist Drill and Tool Co., Ltd. E. Boyden and Co., Ltd.,...

slackness n steering gear was "rough and ready," it was submitted to Cannock magistrates last week. Twenty charges relating to...

T HE Licensing Authorities may be called upon to perform additional duties soon in connection with heavy indivisible loads and...

TWELVE vehicles were added to the I fleet of Mr. Charles Alexander, head of Scotland's biggest haulage concern, by the Scottish...

S 46 0 Christmas, 1955, finds British Road Services still running," said Maggie's brother Cromwell. "Like Charley's Aunt. A...

Rotinoff Atlantic Tractor with Rolls-Royce 250 b.h.p. Supercharged Oil Engine Tested: Rapid Acceleration, High Cruising Speed...

How the Ministry of Transport and County Councils Have Built .Up a Force of Appliances to Keep the Roads Open Whatever the...

T HE case for the employment of out- side garages for the maintenance of a dispersed fleet of vehicles was supported by Mr. W....

By C. S. Dunbar, min S EVERAL of my recent articles have dealt with forme , heads of haulage companies who have returned as...

G REAT strides in mechanical handYling have been made by the French Rkilways, and by May next year it is expected that over...

B OTH the Louth and Wells depots of British Road Services offered in list R.6 have been bought by dealers. The Louth unit,...

THE Transport Tribunal have allowed Econofreight Transport, Ltd., Stockton-on-Tees, to add three vehicles to their A licence...

A N appeal by the British Transport Commission against the grant by the Northern Licensing Authority to Messrs. T. Bell and...

H AVING been approved by both Houses of Parliament, the Motor Vehicles (Variation of Speed Limit) Regulations. 1955, came into...

Let the Minister Know 'YOU are to be congratulated on the forthright manner in which you have dealt with the proposals for new...

A NEW London taxicab in which provision is made to carry luggage within the body to the rear of the bench scat forpassengers,...

Teddy Boors' Picnic By The Hawk A BOORISH, swashbuckling open letter has been I -1 addressed by the works committee of Park...

Customers Are Averse to Hiring a Vehicle at Full Rate for a 'Consignment Occupying Only a Portion of Capacity, Yet Hauliers Are...

A NOVEL type of brake is described 1-- /, in patent No. 739,590 (K. Mikkolainen, Hat Valtatie 12, Tampere. Finland). The brake...