p RESENT economic and political conditions are discouraging to municipal passenger transport operators. If they continue, some...

THE action of the Northern Licensing Authority 1 (reported in The Commercial Motor, July 16) in refusing to allow the...

Tail Eats Dog H AULIERS are angrily asking why the B.R.S. tail should be allowed to wag the road haulage dog. Faced with the...

Of a claim that 10 Tiger Cubs have saved nearly £150 a month. That the Zoological Society should be informed of this at once...

V ALUABLE guidance on the principles to be followed in dealing with applications for increased fares has been given by the...

A FTER heated argument at a meet1 - 1 ing which began at 10 a.m, and ended at 8 p.m., the Road Haulage Wages Council last week...

L OAD1NG and unloading during a I— , period of seven hours each day are to be banned over stretches of road much longer than 45...

MR. A. HEALEY, a former Dunlop director, who retired this year after 38 years service, has been appointed a member of the...

A HAULIER with 26 years' experience was treated as a newcomer by the Northern Licensing Authority last week. Mr. R. Kelso,...

P ERKINS engines are now being offered as original equipment by the International Harvester Co., one of the largest American...

D ECENT wage increases had added £120,000 to the annual pay bill of United Automobile Services, Ltd., and £47,000 had to be...

A PPLICAT1ON is to be made by 1.1 . Leicester Corporation to run buses beyond the city boundary to Nether Hall estate—an area...

T HE average weekly output of commercial vehicles during May was 5,161 units, the month's total being 20,644. In the first five...

T HERE are very few oil-engined, medium-range four-wheel-drive vehicles in use at the present, mainly because most operators of...

NABLING its operator to provide shop facilities for members of outlying communities formerly dependent upon visits to the...

By P. G. Tucker I N the first six days of starting in the parcels carry ing business, N. Francis and Co., Ltd., Parkholme...

A COACHBUILT six-seat crew cab is PA a notable feature of refusecollector bodies of varying capacities recently completed by...

A N unusual feature of a light-alloy I,150-cu.-ft pantechnicon body milt on a Kafrier Gamecock chassis by Wm, Collett and...

QPECIALLY designed by Pilgrim ■ --) Mobile Units, Ltd., Ringwood, Ilants, a mobile radiographic and weldtesting laboratory is...

Vehicle Not to be Transferred from Hull to King's Lynn T HE Eastern Licensing Authority has refused to grant a special A...

A T Birmingham Assizes last week, Mr. Justice Lynskey awarded damages to a bus driver and the widow of a lorry driver in...

The London office of Vokes, Ltd., is now at 123 Victoria Street London, S.W,I, * Judella Castings, Ltd. makers of lighting...

" You won't make yourse0 a bit realer by crying," Theedkdee remarked: "there's nothing to cry about." "ii I wasn't real,"...

A T nearly all holiday resorts coach operators are, 1 J — k venture to suggest, being held to ransom by the imposition of...

Many Hauliers Offer Financial Inducement to Their Drivers to Increase Revenue or Reduce Operating Costs : Two Incentive Schemes...

A SELF-LOADING device for a lorry forms the subject of patent No. 710,217 (C. Frisk, 15 Malmbergsvligen, Giillivare, Sweden)....