L OCAL authorities in South Wales are well known for their antagonism towards bus companies, but by now they should realize...

This Rings a Bell pSTABLISHED. to buy the patent rights of the American registering ticket punch, which had been adopted by...

That last year the three Triplex factories produced 23m. sq. ft. of toughened or laminated safety glass. That, according to...

A MOST important application that might have national repercussions. was how the chairman of the North Western Traffic...

pOUR specially designed articulated outfits on A licence were sought this week by McKelvie and Co., Ltd., Barrhead, to carry...

A WEEKLY meat haul between Manchester and Antwerp was inaugurated on Tuesday by Louis C. Edwards and Sons (Manchester), Ltd.,...

WALTER JAYAWARDENE, directors of the Ceylon Transport Board, have resigned. Mr. Jayawardene is coming to Britain. MR. G. N....

A T Leeds Assizes, last week, a pedestrian was ordered to pay £5,200 of £8,000 damages awarded to a car passenger who was...

mAKING short-distance bus travel pay was like "skinning a gnat for ' 1 its hide," declared Mr. S. Smith, traffic manager of...

for more than two years, Messrs. J. Williams, Manchester, applied to the North Western Traffic Commissioners, on Monday, for a...

A NEWCOMER seeking an A licence withdrew her part-heard application at Birmingham, last week, to seek legal advice. The West...

A N agricultural merchant who wanted to enter haulage was unsuccessful 'in his ,application for a new B licence at Bristol,...

WHEN Market Harborough CorporaVV tion claimed bus station standing charges from a former operator, last week, they admitted...

N EW arrangements for parking coaches in Great Yarmouth are notified by the Passenger Vehicle Operators' Association. The...

A 1-1A - ULlER'S system of sending out rk relief drivers in eau, to pick up lorries, enabling the original drivers to return...

A SUBMISSION that if a haulier lost a principal customer it was a mitigating circumstance for changing the normal user of. an...

rOMPET1TiON from road hauliers has resulted in British Railways losing £50,000-worth of ground rock salt traffic from I.C.I.,...

application to a joint sitting of the East Midland, Metropolitan and Eastern Traffic Commissioners by Buckmaster Garages, Ltd.,...

ofthe institute of Transport is to be formed. . . M.C. Kingston Branch : The Mercantile Credit Co.. Ltd. ' have opened_a new...

ALTHOALTHO UGH his drivers earn about UGH a week, Norman Frank Upton, haulier, Alfreton, Derbys, pays himself only £10-18 for...

IF a travelling grocer announces his I arrival by sounding the first four notes of the B.B.C.'s ." Take It From Here" programme...

H OW a special A licence was bought for about £210 at Liverpool fruit market was described to the magistrates at Milnthorpe,...

A N appeal by Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., against the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner's refusal of a new...

rOMPARING air-suspension systems, Mr.. P. H. Wyke Smith; chief engineer of the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., told the...

I NCREASED revenue of 10 per cent, is L the target of Coras lompair Eireann,. according to the chairman, Dr. C. S.' Andrews....

S ERIOUS traffic congestion in several parts of the city is pinpointed by the Bristol Omnibus Co., Ltd., as the root of...

N " procedure for submitting backing applications is to be introduced by the Ministry of Transport. Details of the change will...

CURTHER penalties were imposed at 1 Dewsbury, last week, on Harold Wood and Sons, bulk hauliers, Heckmondwike, for hours and...

H IGHLY viscous liquids, of which tar, malt, chocolate, phthalic anhydride, sulphur, heavy lubricants, molasses, fats and...

A NEW type of six-wheeler now being developed in Switzerland by r -1 E. Meili, Schaffhausen, is claimed to have almost...

Made in Britain American Powr-Lok Differential Suitable for Commercial Vehicles to be Produced by Salisbury Transmission ik...

D ESIGN of commercial vehicles in many Western European countries was dictated to a great extent by statutory regulations...

XTENSIVE use is being made by Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., of the new 18-acre material-testing field opened by General Motors...

By Tom Waikerley D URING the memorable bother with Hitler'S Germany, the lives of rnoSrof "us were enlivened "by . the...

A IR suspension has been given a new meaning by the American Ford company. At the Chicago Auto Show, which opened last...

F OUR representatives from K. and B. Motors, Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne, 1a company whose name has been associated with special...

A S a reader of your journal for some 17 years I noticed under "Opinions and Queries" in your issue dated January 9, a letter...

ATEST products from Rocol, Ltd., Swillington, near Leeds, makers of molybdenum disulphide lubricants, are an anti-scuffing...

N 0 industry comes under such constant criticism from the public as transport. All forms suffer alike, and neither nationalized...

Operators Should Carefully Survey Existing Local Facilities Before Deciding to Establish Their Own Repair Organizations D...

Tv" 0 Bedford 7-ton chassis, with 250gal. tanks, have been added to th,1 fleet operated by British European Airways at London...

DATENT No. 804,775 describes improvements for semi locking differential gears that permit slow relative movement between the...

—Greets an Authoritative Suggestion of One-wheel Braking at the Rear to Increase Stability O PERATORS are beginning to give...

T HE "kerb space is precious campaign, to be introduced nationally by the Traders' Road Transport Association on March 2, is...

A Worthwhile Association I T has for long been the impression amongst many tech nicians that the Diesel Engineers and Users...

From Sir John Elliot that management is an art, not a science: That some managers might be considered as artful, if not "...

cXPLORATORY discussions on some degree of integration are being held between Reading Transport Department arrd the Thames...

A HAULIER who wanted to surrender PA a special A-licence rigid vehicle in preference to an articulated outfit on A licence had...

T HE appeal by Mr. R. Goodfellow, Bishop's Waltham, Hants, against a decision by the South Eastern' Licensing Authority, has...

T HE report in The Commercial Motor last week that Massey-Ferguson Holdings, Ltd., were making a bid for the capital of F....

A DRAFT policy statement and reports PA from the areas on the question of the appointment of a president—paid or otherwise—were...

LORD MANCROFT has been appointed chairman of Global Tours, Ltd. MR. F. A. DADGE has replaced MR. T. R. HAWKES as a director of...

1-1 A STRONG group of objectors successfully opposed a coach excursion operator at Bristol, last week, when he asked the...

A N air-suspension system which has been developed by Leyland Motors, Ltd., for test by the Netherlands Railways is to be...

A NEW vehicle and container service r - k connecting Liverpool and Belfast was inaugurated last week by Link Line. Ltd. The...

1-1 A SUGGESTION that accepted haul age rates in the Northwich area might be undercut if an application by Mr. R. E. Nixon,...

A N application by Charles Alexander and Partners (Transport), Ltd.; Aberdeen, to extend the conditions of four B-licence...

T HE importance of strict adherence to the regulations about lorry-drivers' rest periods was emphasized by Mr. M. P. Pugh when...

lorry , heavier than the weight stipulated on his licence is not doing justice to other people in the industry who keep to the...

MEW regulations for the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition were approved by the executive committee in Coventry on Tuesday....

THE application by James Paterson and Co (Motor Hirers), Ltd., Aberdeen, for a change in the normal user of their 24-vehicle...

A N appeal to C-licensees to help to stamp out "the cancer of falsification of records" was made on Monday by Mr. R. A....

A FAULT in the application forms which are issued to hauliers seeking additional vehicles was shown up by an operator who...

1-." Birmingham and Liverpool have threatened to withdraw their labour unless employers pay compensation of 3s. 6d. per 25...

QTATEMENTS of normal user contain ing every possible commodity a haulier had carried or hoped to carry, and every conceivable...

A FARE of 5-1-cl, is to be introduced by ri Plymouth Joint Transport Committee —the first time since 1953 that an odd halfpenny...

A DECISION by the Northern LicensrTh• ing Authority to allow Sunter Bros., Northallerton, to operate an 18-ton tractor on A...

A DVICE to hauliers on keeping accounts was given last week by Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, Northern Licensing Authority, when he heard...

THE question of whether a person who seeks a licence for a motor vehicle in substitution for horse drawn transport can fairly...

ID URAL M.P.s are hoping that Govern' ment help for country bus services will be announced in the Budget. Mr. Heathcoat Amory,...

IF there were renationalization, the I British Transport Commission would be unlikely to allow C-licensees to continue to...

T HERE seems to be little likelihood that purchase tax will be removed from commercial-vehicle chassis before the Budget in...

T O give their South Wales customers a good haulage service, Jesse Smith and Sons, Blackheath, Staffs, kept one of their...

A LIME-SPREADING contractor and A r - k hay and straw merchant told the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, last...

P ROPOSALS for centralizing the administration of highways and the organization of refuse collection and disposal in London...

A PROPOSED seven-day tour from Leeds to Rams g ate, rA to be o perated by Tetley's Motor Services, Leeds, was stron g ly...

.A NEW fleet of Albion Claymore underfloor-en g ined parcels vans is bein g delivered to Cusick Transport (Southern), Ltd.,...

WJ1TH an estimated deficit of £13,117 VV for the year endin g March 31, Hull Corporation's transport undertakin g faced a black...

By G. Duncan Jewell D AY and night a continuous stream of heavy vehicles leaves the 75-acre plant of John Summers and Sons,...

Body Length of 21 ft. 6 in. Available on Wheelbase of 15 ft. 6 in. : Unladen Weights Well Under 3 Tons "TWO new chassis...

H IGI-IER wages have added £30,000 to the costs of the Devon General Omnibus and Touring Co., Ltd., but they intend to gain...

NAR. W. P. S. ORMOND, the somewhat astringent chairman I V I. of the Eastern Traffic Commissioners, raised a nice point with...

Three-wheel Braking of Light Vehicles Advocated to Prevent Sliding O NLY one speaker disagreed with the forecast made by Mr....

A LTHOUGH wheel balancing is not widely practised by operators of heavy vehicles in this country, it is commonly done in...

I N recent years there has been much discussion about the ideal administrative and managerial arrangements for passenger...

A NEW line of industrial and automotive two-stroke oil engines has been introduced by General Motors Corporation, of America....

By Tom Walkeriey The composition and tasks of the transport fleet of more than 2,000 vehicles operated by the Navy, Army 'and...

O NLY too often sales representatives make totally unrealistic promises to customers and then leave it to the transport manager...

R USSIAN diplomacy seems often to consist in making an extreme demand, thus forcing other countries to set down their own...

T HE contributions on haulage licensing problems from G. Duncan Jewell in The Commercial Motor dated January 9, fail, in my...

1-1 . A SUBMISSION by Mr. J. R. C. Samuel-Gibbon, for British Railways arid United Counties Omnibus Co., Ltd., that no...

Readers' Inquiries Include a Question about Vehicle Width and Side Lamps : When a 16-year-old May Drive a Reversible Three...

A STAINLESS STEEL tank, insulated and enclosed within an aluminium .skin, is being used for the bulk transport of refined sugar...

IT is well known that the wheels on I trailers do not follow the turning circle of the tractor vehicle and patent No. 805,317...