D ESPITE early misgivings, the flashing direction indicator has proved to be far superior to the semaphore type, in town and on...

A LTHOUGH anti-theft devices can do much to protect vehicles and their loads, safe parking sites close to drivers' hostels in...

Robert Barr T HE chairman of Barr and Wallace Arnold Trust, Ltd., at the age of 70, is certainly a veteran of motorized road...

By The Hawk A Bye in the Election NAR. N. T. O'REILLY, whom I would have tipped as the next 'VI national chairman of the Road...

A PPEALS by State-owned bus cornti panics and the railways against the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner's grant of a...

CENTRALIZATION of control in Dundee by Allison's Transport (Contracts), Ltd., was approved by Mr. Alex Robertson, Scottish...

A DECISION of the West Midland In. Licensing Authority was described to the Transport Tribunal in London on Tuesday as "verging...

HE holders of contract-A licences for nine vehicles, G. S. John, Ltd., Pontypridd, were alleged before the Transport Tribunal...

MR. P. H. WYKE SMITH, chief engineer of the Trent Motor Traction Co., Ltd., has taken up a similar position with the North...

DROVINCIAL company bus workers will reopen wage negotiations next month. Mr. Arthur Townsend, of the Transport and General...

T HE Road Traffic Act, 1930, did not state that there should be no competition between operators, said Mr. A. T. Hanlon,...

Miller Car Transport, Ltd. Cap. £100. Subs.: J. Herbert and T. A. Herbert, 156 Strand, London, W.C.2. See.: T. A. Herbert....

D ESPITE the recommended boycott by the Passenger Vehicle Operators Association (The Commercial Motor, March 4), the Brighton...

W EIGHTS of low-loading trailers had been purposely omitted from an application, it was admitted when Siddle C. Cook, Ltd.,...

A LTHOUGH he had a vehicle on C I - 1 licence, an applicant at Carlisle, last week, said that he did not realize that to carry...

A N applicant who interpreted the conditions of his licence differently from anyone else, was described by Mr. F. Williamson,...

A NEW fluid for vehicle cooling systems has been put on the market in America by the Dow Chemical Co., Midland, Michigan,...

Irish Agency: Small and Parkes (Ireland), Ltd., Dublin, have been made sole selling agents in Eire for Hardy Spicer, Ltd....

TUST as exports in the first month of 1959 set the trend for a good year, so may the shipment of 12,613 commercial...

into Account by Author ity ? IF it were against the public interest for hauliers who had been convicted I for carrying stolen...

• • Newport Hale of Wight) Health Committee recommend that an S.D. refuse collector be acquired, Liverpool Housing COMMittee...

A N unsuccessful application to run an express service between Glasgow and Eyemouth, during the period of the Glasgow Fair, was...

A N admission by Spa Haulage, Ltd., Northampton, that they had started "using 40 unlicensed vehicles for work on the new...

- - rw0 different ways by which the profits of Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd., could be computed were discussed in the Court of...

B ETTER roads for the West Country. That is the aim of Mr. F. M. Bennett, Conservative M.P. for Torquay. Speaking at a dinner...

T HE public should have the right to sue local authorities for failing to maintain roads in good condition. This is the...

P LANS for a £100,000 new bus station at Ilkeston, Derbyshire, are not to be held up by a woman, whose house is on the proposed...

I NCORPORATING conventional air-spring units, a system has been developed by the suspension department of the Dunlop Rubber...

A LARGE number of commercial vehicles carry flashing direction indicators, and the choice of different types available on the...

Political Commentary By JANUS H ISTORIANS have a favourite game of imagining what might have been the consequences if this or...

By S. Buckley, Assoc.Inst.T. With Rapidly Rising Production of Cars, Manufacturers Have Been Presented With a Problem of...

Oiling for Air Lines T HE Controlube unit, manufactured by B.E.N. Patents, Ltd., High Wycombe, Bucks, disperses oil mist in...

F LOW working, in which consignments are, so far as possible, brought to the staff instead of the men moving round the depot...

THE director of a Leicester haulage I concern told Leicester magistrates, last week, that they were completely in the hands of...

D ESPITE licensing and penal taxation, and although hampered by difficulties at railheads and docks, road transport had. in six...

with old anomalies T HE Road Traffic Bill, hurriedly passed last week, consolidates the law dealing with road transport and...

H AULIERS did not appear to appreciate that, according to the Road Haulage Wages Act, 1938, commission deducted from the rate...

A NOMINAL penalty of a month's ..t - t suspension was imposed on J. W. Capstaff, Ltd., Newcastle upon Tyne, in respect of a...

THE motorist would have to meet the I cost of off-street parking when new regulations came into force. This was made clear by...

F OR the first time, Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., have given their approval to two trailing-axle six-wheeler conversions for Bedford...

A N intimation that one of their 'special-A-licensed vehicles, authorized r - k in the Northern Area, would be suspended fortwo...

A CONDITION to allow the payment of refunds was attached to an express licence by the North Western Traffic Commissioners last...

THE future prosperity of the Devon • General Omnibus and Touring Co., Ltd., depended upon their ability to carry passengers...

Using WIDE Containers Replies to Readers' Inquiries Include the Legality of Overhang of Detachable Bodies, Assessment of a...

A DUTCH approach to the design of big aircraft refuellers is typified by an articulated outfit which the D.A.F. concern, of...

Mr. C. J. McDonald, Deputy Western Licensing Authority, heard an application by W. Dewey and Sons. Donhead, Shaftesbury, for...

A REAR canopy to• protect meat during loading and unloading is fitted to a Thames Trader van supplied to the Evesham and...

P ATENT No. 828,244 refers to vehicles which have the engine, gearbox and back axle in one rear-mounted unit. Vertical...