W HEN . the Transport Act, 1947, was fash ioned, its authors acknowledged t he personal nature of the services rendered to the...

M ANY people, whatever their politics, must, in their innermost consciousness, deplore the general tendency to refuse...

"Impossible" Which Li NG 1NEERS responsible Did Not Take Long " for recovering public ser to Achieve . vice vehicles involved...

That hauliers must fight shoulder-to-shoulder or be shouldered out. That America produced over '7m. commercialvehicle tyres in...

Private Member Seeks to Amend Transport Act : Second Reading in House of Lords T HE Transport (Amendment) Bill has been...

E FFORTS are being made jointly by the Road Haulage Assoceation ard the National Farmers' Union to prevent the abuse of C...

S TTTING in London to-day, an Arbitration Court -is • hearing thc application presented by the Transport and General Workers'...

R.H.A. Solicitor Gives the Latest News on Procedure of Acquisition THE British Transport Commission has issued instructions to...

T HE interruption in production caused by the holiday period had an influence on output figures for September, as it did for...

ESOLUTIONS pledging hauliers whose permits are to • be revoked, not to disclose their intention to retain or offer their...

Manager Complains of Staff THE likelihood of a "rate war" between the Road Haulage Executive and free-enterprise hauliers was...

LODGMENT for £1,000 damages and J costs in favour of Mr. George Leonard Jopp and Mr. James Blacklock, trading as George Black...

O BJECTIONS by British Railways to 42 applications by independent operators to run football excursions to additional...

O F 17.000 applications for permits, 12,000 were granted, but only 4,000 were in the terms sought. The number of permits,...

" n NE of the most astonishing state ments ever to emanate from a Government spokesman" is the description applied by the...

IT is learned that the Ministry of Transport was responsible for arranging a series of hand-brake tests on double-deck buses,...

WHILST the Road Haulage AssociaW tion was sympathetic to the state of mind which prompted a defiant unconstitutional resolution...

S TRONG remarks were made by Sheriff Miller in Stornoway Sheriff Court, last week, about the wording of a public service...

'IN an increasingly complicated econom;e order, it is essential for public transport to be more and more regulated by...

F OR an experimental period of about six months from November 27, members of the public served by the Claremorris and...

A REDUCTION in• the frequency of riDundee's transport services, with consequent staff redundancy, may have to be considered if...

Vi r the British Transport Commission was supposed to be a body which would provide a responsible organization to consider all...

supercharging of the V , spark-ignition engine was not worth while, except in aircraft and racing cars, it paid hands down in...

but at the end of the trial of the Electruk I was footsore and weary. The reason is that the vehicle is a pedestriancontrolled...

A NEW edition of "The 1 - 1, Commerciat Motor" Tables of Operating Costs, corrected to take into account the recent increases...

Political Commentary By JAN US The Choices Before an Operator Faced With the Loss of an Original Permit Raise Problems Which...

passengers these days seem to want to take two suitcases, a dog and one of those so-called folding push-chairs with them on our...

If Your Permit is to be Revoked or its Terms are to be Reduced, Take Professional Advice and— Says A. E. Sherlock-Mesher,...

in Parl iament R. Reader Harris, M.P. I N the course of a session, the House of Commons deals with a huge variety of...

I HAVE read with considerable interest the editorial article " Maintaining Skill in Maintenance" in the issue of "The...

With Many Spares Likely to Remain Scarce, Broken, Cracked, and Worn Parts Can Usually be Effectively Renovated by One or Other...

In the Assessment of Rates, it is Impracticable to Include Any Expenditure Arising from Hire-purchase, Contends Our Costs...

LIEUT.-COL. S. J. L. HARDIE, D.S.0.. LL.D., has resigned his appointment as part-time member of the British Transport...

IF when the oil-engined tractor was first I introduced, there had been stops and screws on the fuel-injection equipment which...