I F the undertaking of B.R.S. (Parcels), Ltd.: is not sold, its future will be an embarrassment to the Government. If it is...

TRANSPORT, whether it be by road, rail, air 1 or sea, constitutes a service of increasingly greater importance, for almost...

An Electronic Speed Cop D RIVERS are not at all enamoured with the new form of radar speed trap which is being tried out by...

That an "In a Line or Two" paragraph beginning "Bury old-age pensioners . "momentarily startled some of our readers. That they...

oil-engine fumes are in any way connected with the disease. Indeed, their investigations suggest that cigarette smoking is far...

• Charge Refuted A N allegation by a special committee of inquiry that the standards of efficiency of Nottingham Transport...

L -1 . A BIG . meeting of hauliers and users was held in London last week to prepare a case against the Minister of Tramport's...

LASGOW should be served mostly %.-- 1 by single-deck motorbuses, said Cfir. a Reid, of Glasgow'Corporation, last week. He added...

C LA1MS for an increase of £35.a. year in the ,pay of .adult clerical,' iupervisory, administrative and technical staff_ and,...

B ' S-STOP signs should not, the Public Transport Association believe, be standardized throughout the country. They have pin...

MR. JOHN M. BIRCH has been elected a director of Lancashire United Transport, Ltd. MR. SYDNEY SWARBRICK has joined Syd Abrams,...

THE importance of bus Services being maintained in rural areas was one of the main points of a report published last week by...

F IFTEEN more . bus companies in South Wales, Yorkshire, the eastern counties, the south and north-West have applied to the...

GG REAT progress in the fabrication of plastics parts for . buses ha's ben made by Edinburgh Transport 'Department. The...

A BIGGER and better" programme of extended tours is planned for next year by the South Wales Transport Co., Ltd. The 15...

Small and Parkes, Ltd., are to open a lepot at 241 Kirkgate, Wakefield, on Oldham and Son, Ltd., have introduced I recruitment...

OMMERCIAL-VEHICLE exports 1 --• in October were the highest ever recorded for one month. During the month, 28,979 units were...

A NEW map of Great Britain on rA the scale, of 18 miles to the inch has been produced by Foldex, Ltd., 45 Mitchell Street,...

prize awarded once every three years by the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., must be submitted to the Institute of...

A COURSE on the design of welded structures will be held at British' Oxygen Gases, Ltd., Birchgrove Works, Cardiff, starting...

QUBSTANTIAL progress by the German Volkswagen concern was announced last week. Their net profit rose from DM.3.5m, in 1953 to...

T "" popular " tours to Switzerland and a seven-day tour of the Grampians and Western Scotland are among the new features of...

A HIGH-LIFT version of their Model 2-WL oil-engined hydraulic loader has been introduced by E. Boydell and Co., Ltd., Old...

B EFORE the House of Commons rose for the Christmas recess, the Agricultural (Improvement of Roads) Act, 1955, received the...

ILTRA-V1OLET lighting equipment suitable for 12v. and 24v. operation is being produced by Easco Electrical (Holdings), Ltd.,...

RTATING that he could not under stand why a haulier based 30 miles away from an applicant should object. Mr. S. W. Nelson,...

American 1— S• Ford Motor. Co. exceed $4,000m., it was revealed last week. In the first nine months of this year net sales, at...

" IT is a sheer waste of time coming I here." This remark was made, sotto voce, by a witness in the Western Licensing...

By R. Morton Mitchell, Chief Executive Officer, Road Haulage Association A FTER an autumn budget primarily intended to curtail...

By N. it. Dean, General Manager, Yorkshire Traction Co., Ltd. T VVENTY years ago it would have been comparatively easy to give...

says D. G. Stokes, General Sales and Service Manager, Leyland Motors, Ltd. M ORE than a crystal ball is required to forecast...

E MPLOY1NG two semkrailers i specially constructed by Cranes . (Dereham), Ltd., an oil-well drilling and servicing outfit,-for...

THERE is no justification for Mr. Gerald Naharro's suggestion during the committee stage of the Road Traffic Bill (The...

Green's Motors, Ltd., Operate 21 Routes from Haverfordwest and Milford Haven : Remote Location Necessitates Self Sufficiency...

A N addition to the range of Lightning time-savers is a double-action tool for replacing and removing circlips. In a second it...

T HE new Minister of Transport, Mr. Harold Watkinson, is a quiet man. He gives the impression of being one who will keep his...

A TRAILER capable of carrying either cable drums or transformers, and requiring only a few minutes for conversion for either...

A SSIGNMENTS of , ex-British Road Services' vehicles are revealed in eight of the nine areas from which purchases of lorries on...

Grady 1Durham). Ltd. Cap. £50011. John MeGrady, Silva-Ville. Holmesule Lane, BurnhoPe, Co. Durham. and Randolph McCrady. 15...

A special A licence for two lorries (12: tons) issued to Messrs. J. Jones and 'Sons, Cross Garage, Ystradgynlais, Swansea...

F . , VERY Minister of Transport since the war has had a Transport Bill to himself, like the phoenix that lays but one egg and...

F OUNDED at the beginning of the last century, George Bristow, Ltd.. Manorgate Road, Kingston-on-Thames, is a 'flourishing...

I N connection with the laying of 340 miles of 10-in, pipeline from Ahwas to Azna—a project of the National Iranian Oil Co,--a...

I THINK I have come across the most astounding case of rate-cutting that I have ever encountered. It came to me in the course...

T 0 enable the compression of a twostroke engine to be used for • braking the vehicle is the aim of a • scheme shown in patent...