T HERE is a fairly widespread feeling among the citizens of this hardy island race that many of the conferences that occur from...

Deep Freeze on Motorways THERE is general acceptance of the view that with the I coming of the motorways the traffic flow will...

That the real art of selling is the ability to turn a " No " into a " Yes." Of some who have method in their madness and...

U NLESS overwhelming pressure is brought to bear upon the Minister of Transport, vehicles carrying abnormal indivisible loads...

British Road Services, Ltd., to add 18 vehicles (91 tons 3 cwt.) and six trailers to their A licence for their Exeter base was...

Cause Alarm in Yorkshire A PPLICATIONS proposing the introduction of concessionary fares for .4-1old-age pensioners on certain...

A N application by Silver Roadways. Ltd., to Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, at Liverpool; on...

MR. CHARLES A. HERBERT, claims superintendent of Leicester City Transport, has retired after 46 years' service. MR. J. A....

cOME 80 applications, to operate services between camps on Salisbury Plain and various parts of the country, were before the...

" YOU have been singled out for this attack through no fault of your own. No one can accuse you of being a monopoly. On the...

DUBUC travelling facilities to Ponta saph Monastery, St. Asapli, for the tombola games there needed . imProvement, the North...

A N American company with whom Perkins Gas Turbines, Ltd., have agreed to ,make industrial gas turbines, are developing such...

'f 'THE Northern Licensing Authority, HE J. A. T. Hanlon, at Newcastle, reminded hauliers that application to renew licences...

A NEW 13-seat bus built to full p.s.v. specifications has been introduced by Trojan, Ltd., Purley Way, Croydon. It is based on...

TEE possibility of the interchange of loading pallets between Britain and the Continent on an extensive scale is envisaged as a...

A FTER a Birmingham . haulier had been given a "warning light" by another operator, he continued to use his four vehicles in...

A TRAFFIC clerk employed by a Midlands parcels carrier told the West Midland Licensing Authority, Mr. W. P. James, at...

A SUGGESTION by Mr. Ernest 1-1, Davies, M.P., Labour's front-bench spokesman on transport matters, that it would be necessary...

A SAVING of two days on their PAregular 3,000 miles shuttle-service between the eastern and western sides of Australia has been...

IT must soon be accepted that no_ one I would have the right, at anytime; to use the highway for parking, except in authorized...

P RODUCTION of commercial vehicles I in April was the highest for that month in any year. Output was at the rate of 7,223 a...

A FTER a drop in February from the January figure, exports of commercial vehicles in March at 10,304 almost reached the total...

UNDER an agreement between F. Perkins, Ltd., and Murray Simonsen S.A.; of Brazil, announced on Wednesday, a new company,...

and I V specialized vehicles, and Britain had a good chance of supplying them. This was stated by Sir David Eccles, president...

A N application by Avonmouth Trans1- 1 , port Contractors, Ltd., St. Andrews Road, Avonmouth, for a new A licence for nine...

B RITAIN had "too much transport," 11 -; said Mr. R. J. Gunter in his presidential address to the conference of the Transport...

"THREE electric drills have been produced by Wolf Electric 1 Tools, Ltd., .Hanger Lane, • London, W.5, who describe them as the...

E QUIPPED . with the most up-to-dale I— , refrigeration plant and meathandling aids, the new market operatedL by the Luton Meat...

says P. A. C. Brockington, A.M.I.Mech.E. Protection of Vehicle Components from Fly Ash on Tipping Sites, a Difficult Problem...

K NOWN as the Far-Air Rotonamic, an IN. air filter for oil engines being produced under licence to the American Farr company of...

IN a review of new materials available Ito transport undertakings, Mr. K. Blenkle, a director .of the Berlin undertaking and...

' A DAPTATION DAPTATTON of passenger vehicles to other road traffic, the suppression of noise and the .need to cater for...

I NCREASING the capacity of public service vehicles on urban routes, notably by using the articulated type, reduced operating...

E CONOMIC advantages to the trans1 .--4 port operator of a " continuous day" with staggered working hours, were the subject of...

DRACTICAL applications of electronic calculating machines to virtually every type of high volume office work were illustrated...

Company, Mr. Mross said that an electronic machine had produced a time-table in 20 min. which would normally have occupied an...

T HE reigning Lorry Driver of the Year, W. T. Haywood (Geo. Prince, Ltd., Austin) gained only second place in his class at the...

A CCORDING to tradition, the civil servant has an impassive and completely neutral attitude towards the work that his...

By a Special Correspondent N OT many haulage undertakings can boast of the antiquity of their premises, but it seems road...

T the annual conference of the British Association of Overseas Furniture Removers this month I had the A. opportunity of...

DATENT No. 810,895 shows a device for activating the clutch of a vehicle and controlling the engine speed during gear changing...