T HIS week we are publishing a road-test report of a popular German heavy goods vehicle which, although not available in Great...

Georg enning I “ WENT down to the office at half past eight as usual, and there waiting for me was Mr. George! " Mr. George...

THINGS move slowly but surely in engine-manufacturing .Icircles; gradually the engines themselves get bigger and more powerful,...

From our Industrial Correspondent THE long-drawn-out dispute in the I provincial bus industry oVer pay and conditions is over...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT rl• A MOVE to free from duty heavy oils used as fuel for buses will be made by Labour M.P.s...

A LL models in the Thames 15-cwt. range are now obtainable with a Perkins Four 99 diesel engine as a factory option in place of...

A SHORT-TERM application for a B licence, authorizing three vehicles, was adjourned by the Northern Licensing Authority, Mr....

A T Newcastle on Tuesday, R. G. Tait and Sons. of Haydon Bridge. appeared on the fourth adjournment of their original...

Mr. F. M. Fieldhouse has been appointed group traffic manager by British Ropes, Ltd., of Doncaster and branches. He was...

KTEW re g ulations designed to cut down fumes from diesel en g ines will be introduced soon. The Minister of Transport said...

T HE retrial took place at Westmorland Intermediate Sessions at Kendal last Friday of the Silloth, Cumberland, haula g e...

M turned R. R. A. BUTLER, the Home Secretary, last week down the su gg estion that a limit should be placed on the amount of...

A N increase in membership of 211, bringing the total at the end of 1960 to 16,870, is announced in the Annual Report of the...

A NDREW SCOTT AND SONS. haul age contractors. No. 15 - Holding, Barns of Claverhouse, were lined a total of £405 at Dundee...

Fined for Illegal Running " VOU are either a knave or a fool, I d I Ramsay Edwards, 32 Castle Street, last week. He was fined...

T HE application by Pointer's Transport Services, Ltd., Norwich, to have most of their 8, fleet switched to A licence was...

A BODY specially designed to overcome the loss of time in sheeting and unsheeting loads on open trucks when part deliveries are...

MORE A.E.C.s: The Williams-Hudson group of companies hare placed a repeat order for 19 A.E.C. Mammoth Major eight-wheelers and...

A HAULAGE company was warned in. by Mr. S. W. Nelson, Western Licensing Authority, at Bristol last week that if they offended...

S 1NCE Smith's Luxury Coaches (Reading), Ltd., were granted a licence under a War Department contract to carry civilian...

Mr. J. Cummings, a representative of British Railways, who objected to the Folkestone part of the application, pointed out that...

QHEFFIELD officials of the Transport and General Workers Union lost no time last week in replying to an attack on certain...

Removers Try Scotland OR the first time the annual conference of the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and...

W ITHIN the next few weeks, Harold A. Russett, Ltd. (Premier Transport), of Bristol, hope to start site clearance for a large...

T HE occasions when trade plates could or could not be used on a lorry caused a good deal of legal argument at Chepstow...

r INE of the first acts of the Conserva. tive group on Nottingham City council, after regaining power in the municipal...

T HE Western S.M.T. Co., Ltd., admitted at Carlisle last week that they were losing £1,250 a year by running workers from...

by C. Duncan Jew ell A N expanding north-eastern haulage company, Cawthorn and Sinclair, Ltd., Binley, Co. Durham, the...

Lively Discussion on Papers at Eastbourne Delegates Worried about Recruitment : Desire to Retain Double-deckers Apparent By...

Ma.schinenfahrik Augsburg-nrnherg, A.G., Rank as Germany's Second Largest Heavy-vehicle Manufacturers, but Full Production...

by John F. Moon, A .M.I.R.T.E. I T does not necessarily follow that the pioneer in a particular field is going to be able to...

B EFORE the Labour Party, in their anxiety to have at least one point on which they are in agreement, commit themselves...

Fares: A Simpler System I WAS interested in Mr. D. L. Munby's article on licensing matters (May 12), and I think that many of...

New High-Pressure Lubricating Equipment 'THREE new units have been added to i the Lubrequipment range of transport service...

Cilossex transport finishing system has been developed by Blundell, Spence and Co.. Ltd.. as an alternative to the existing...

in France, are now distributed in the U.K. by Marchal Distributors. Ltd., Brook Lane North, Brentford, Middx. The horns are...

15 standard colours for reinforced polyester laminates is being introduced by the Plastics Colour Division of Ferro Enamels,...

been made to the range of " Thermowell " washbasin and tank units manufactured by Smith's Delivery Vehicles, Ltd.,...

Assessing Loss of Use A Recurring Inquiry From Readers is for a Fair Basis for the Calculation of an Insurance Claim Following...

. P ATENT No. 863,246 discloses a design I for a four-cylinder horizontally opposed engine in which the cylinder block is...