Meeting the Critics les T HE organizers of the Lorry Driver of the Year competition deserve the warmest congratulations for...

M R , GEORGE JOHNSON, a North Kelsey, Lincolnshire, haulier, who has driven the coach conveying the Scunthorpe United football...

leolm Barr T HE past decade has seen the Wallace Arnold organ ton rise to a position of eminence in the inclu: holiday world,...

Examiner Prevented by Threat of Force A MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT traffic examiner told the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr. J....

MHEN the appeal of the B.T.C. against W a grant of seven vehicles on A licence to Maynor Transport, Ltd., to •carry musical...

1SPITE the fact that two of the main independent objectors had withdrawn from the ease, the strong L1-LA.-backed opposition Was...

TOHN RUSSELL (GRANGE.) MOUTH), LTD„ were successful in their application to the Scottish Licensing Authority on Monday when...

Henry Spurrier, chairman of Leyland Motors, Ltd., revealed that the company is to introduce a completely re-designed range of...

Mr. R. W. Starling, formerly manager of the Midland Division of Shell-Ivies and B.P., Ltd., has been promoted to assistant...

T HE following have been appointed members of the committee to review traffic si g ns on roads in the U.K. other than...

From a Special Correspondent meeting of the Ministers of ,nsport for the six Common countries to consider a cornransport...

e North West during the past few . tributes have been paid to the of Mr. F. Williamson, who is ly to retire from his position...

A T its fi rst meeting on Tuesday, the Licensing Study Group of the Road Haulage Association elected Mr. F. Wheeler as its...

INTERVIEWS started this week with the first of something like 180,000 people in 50,000 households selected at random...

Price, Ltd., are using special new road-rail containers for the transport of their products. Further details of these...

MORE BR1DGEMASTER TANKERS FOR LEICESTER: Leicester City Transport have ordered three more A.E.C. Bridgemaster lowheight...

T HE Queen's Bench Divisional last week allowed with costs a eution appeal against the dismis! Leicester City justices on...

PROPOSAL to move the base for , vehicle shifting sewage and sludge, Shrewsbury to Wrexham, was heard le Transport Tribunal in...

CAUSE of a number of requests hey have received for demonstrations Unimog vehicles, Mercedes-Benz at Britain), Ltd., have had a...

'THE absence of other fui removal road objectors, an failure of Pickfords to provide d evidence of availability, enabled c...

4MING from an investigation by hn Walker and Co., 'Greenock (a ary of Tate and Lyle, Ltd.), an company has manufactured...

A PLEA for a reduction in taxation on . commercial vehicles was made last Friday by Mr. D. 0. Good, a national vice-chairman of...

operator who had abandoned one ! the original grounds for the grant B licence was criticized by Mr. C. J. inald, the...

T.R.T.A. Assistant Secretary Summarizes Problems Facing C-licensees Pt into Europe p RACTICAL advice on problems likely to...

T RII3UTE was paid to Birmingham Chamber of Commerce by Mr. G. K. Newman, secretary general of the R.H.A., at the annual...

Brighton Corporation Parks Committee has recommended the purchase of one Nimbus 15 cwt. gravity tip track at an estimated cost...

ADERS' Road Transport Association is expanding its international ces for member firms. Moves are ; made to obtain full...

Committee are to reprint the " Drivers' Guide " and would be glad to receive addresses of, suitable accommodation for inclusion...

by JANUS T HERE are too few facts and figures about road transport for any of them not to be welcome and to make themselves...

Leyland-engined Vans Preferred W ITH the continuing decline of railway facilities in the United States more and more road...

ly JOHN F. MOON, A.M.1.R.T.E. Bedford Four-wheel-drive 5-cu.-yd. Tipper Proves Capable of Negotiating Terrain That Could not...

'QUIPMENT to warn of possible brake failure through loss of draulic fluid is now available as a kit fitting to any hydraulic...

By A. A. TOWNSIN, A.M.I.Mech.E. T HE past few years have been difficult ones for many coach operators, with a tendency for...

FIAVE observed in your journal time and again that khen a driver or drivers are caught working illegal hours the firm concerned...

In Contrast to Bonus Schemes Based Largely on Traffic Carried or Related Sales, the Reduction in One or More Items of Operating...