S OME 18 months after the Suez crisis, the overthrow of the legitimate regime in an oil-producing country has created an...

H AVE the Socialists undergone a change of heart on the matter of C-licence transport? This question is prompted by a statement...

In Recessions Prepare for Booms A S the result of their annual survey of the plans made by business concerns for new plant and...

Of somebody saying that he is glad that he has no shares in nationalized undertakings. That he evidently forgets that, as...

THE Labour Party's annual conference at Scarborough in October will I be asked to ratify the party's decision to renationalize...

A HAULAGE company which delayed telliBg the West Midland Licensing Authority that the base and normal user of three A-licence...

made in the negotiations by the London Meat Carriers' Joint Industrial Council on the demand of the unions for a 15-per-cent....

THREE hauliers appeared before the Northern Licensin g Authority, Mr. 1 J. A. T. Hanlon, at Carlisle, on Tuesday, to show...

XPERIMENTAL rules coverin g the use of motorways will be tried out this year on Preston By-pass if the Minister of Transport's...

DR. J. D. ARMIT has become a director of Triplex holdings, Ltd. MR. T. H. C. RAIKES has been appointed to the export...

.A HAULIER who had 28 A-licence and one B , licence vehicles on nationalization said at Leeds, on Tuesday, that he now earned...

A LTHOUGH Traffic Commissioners were bound to avoid wasteful competition and co-ordinate transport, they were not required to...

T " hearing of an appeal by J. Stamper (Farms), Ltd., Woodside, Dearham. Cumberland, against a decision by the Northern...

N admission that the growth of private transport, including C-licence r - k fleets, could not be halted, was made from the...

THE replacement of trams by buses has I paid dividends for Edinburgh Corporation. In the first full year of operating buses...

A RESOLUTION statin g that future co-operation with the London Transport Executive would be "virtually impossible" was passed...

F OLLOWING the introduction by the North British Rubber Co., Ltd., of the U.S. Royal Fleetway with safety steel shield, the...

A FINE of £39, with £4 4s. advocate's rA fee, was imposed at Heanor, last week, on C. Clower and Sons, Ltd., Marshall Street,...

A N increase in traffic for tanneries was reported to Mr. W. F. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, last week, when he heard an...

Unic Output Up : Production of Unic vehicles rose from 5,177 in 1956 to 7,613 last year. P.T.A. Dinn.v: The annual dinner of...

A MAN who had paid £500 for a PAS-licensed vehicle and coal merchant's business was last week refused permission to take over...

NAANY C-licence operators would use VI hired transport, leaving their capital for business needs, if only they could be sure of...

T " granting of excursions and tours to coach operators who could not get full loads in the private party field would be a...

S HOULD excursion operators be allowed to go round country districts picking up their passengers, or should people have to make...

A STEADY decline in the demand for day trips was mentioned by Mr. J. Malcolm Barr, assistant managing "director of Wallace...

A NEW bus depot., costing £710,274, is to be built by Chesterfield Corporation for their vehicles. The site, in Sheffield Road,...

-‘ 1VORK.on widening the Great North Road between Boroughbridge and Scotch Corner has created a shortage of tippers over a wide...

Pl. A MOBILE X-ray and laboratory unit, designed for research work, has been supplied to Manchester University by Rootes, Ltd.,...

A HAULIER who had a number of convictions against him was last week refused a new contract-A licence by the East Midland...

conditions, together with such creature comforts as low engine noise, ample ventilation, and provision for fitting a heater and...

T OUR issue of June 27 contained an article on milk transport rates. My company do a large amount of this work under C licence...

U P to last week, attacks by the British Transport Commission C-licence holders had been purely yerbal. They have now become...

A NTWERP port authorities claim that Belgian hauliers can give British operators a better tractor service than can be provided...

Q RIGINALLY developed for raising and. conveying milk churns, a hoist produced by , Middleton. Motors, Ltd., Coopers Lane,...

S LOW-MOVING, large and unwilling to retaliate. This is a fair definition of the ideal target, and the creatures it describes...

Engine from Gardner A MAXIMUM power output of 150 b.h.p. at 1,700 r.p.m. is the rating of the new Gardner 6LX six-cylindered...

T HE British Straddle Carrier Co., recently taken over by Short Bros. and Harland, htd. (The Commercial Motor, June 20), last...

T HE ever-increasing range of vehicles constructed to permit their use for various purposes has created problems for...

S TAGED by the Road Haulage Assoelation's York Sub-area, a competition for lorry drivers last Sunday attracted 51 entrants, of...

A CCORDING to patent No. 794,866 it is a matter of some difficulty to incorporate a return spring in disc brakes of the " spot"...