I F the Crazy Gang had been let loose in the Ministries of Fuel and Power and Transport, they could scarcely have produced a...

Encouraging Higher Education M ANY are the comments on the urgent need for well-trained personnel. The deficiency in this...

Of lorry drivers saying to the police: "Never say dye!" That they are apt to look upon the new road-dyeing trapping procedure...

A CCORDING to the Ministry of r -1 Transport, licensing will carry on as normal during fuel rationing,. although the Licensing...

A CONFERENCE of South Wales and Monmouthshire local authorities decided at Cardiff last week to co-ordinate opposition to any...

M. EDWARD BRIMELOW has been elected a director of the Standard Motor Co., Ltd. MR. S. W. KALLEND, A.C.A., has resigned his...

T WO Leyland-M.C.W. lightweight crush-load single-deck buses, with seats for 32 passengers and room for 29 more standing, are...

T HE inability of many hauliers to meet interest and capital-repayment charges as the result of the fuel cuts was envisaged by...

A T Liverpool on Tuesday, Mr. I. R. Lindsay, North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, refused to accept that special...

T HE Minister of , Transport has rejected ; with costs, an appeal by the British Transport Commission against decisions of the...

L OADING bans could solve nothing and would increase, and not decrease, congestion. Such bans would raise distribution costs...

A SPECIAL meeting of Nottingham City Council decided on Monday that recommendations made by a committee of inquiry and private...

( --1F nearly 200 members and guests of the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., who attended the company's diamond jubilee...

D ISSATISFACTION with the recent pay awards to workers in road passenger transport is implied by Mr. F. Coyle, national...

A N appeal to the Transport Tribunal in London on Tuesday by Jay-Pee (Transportation), Ltd., Kerfoot Street, Warrington,...

rACILITIES are proposed by the I Minister of Transport for the development and use of new and improved types of giant dumper....

A MONG large orders for A.C.V. in. Sales, Ltd., is one from British Road Services for 65 Mercury lorries and another from Leeds...

"THE order for the first of the 1,500 Routemaster buses has been given, but the first batch of them will not come into service...

rACED with an estimated deficit of between £140,000 and £150,000 next year, Sheffield Transport Committee have decided to...

TH E Passenger Vehicle Operators Association have refused to accept a statement by the Ministry of Transport that it was...

E XAMPLES of the new Paxit Major Mark II self-packing refuse collector are already in service abroad, and the assembly line for...

WHEN Messrs. Gordon Hill and Son, VI' Crewe, applied to the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority last week to add the...

urn Good Men into Madmen? Asks P. A. C. Brockington, Basic Requirement for Success in Any Incentive Payments Plan, Say...

Day-by-Day Record of Work Needed : Special Arrangements in Metropolitan Area O PERATORS of goods vehicles in some areas may...

Efforts to Extract Maximum Benefits from Co-ordination Without the Evils of Integration H OW to derive the maximum benefit...

T HE North-Western Deputy Licensing Authority censured the refusal of a customer-witness to disclose details of holding and...

T HE right to stop vehicles on the road should not be granted to Ministry of Transport examiners because it might sometimes be...

Whilst Oil Engine Conversions Give Promise of Good Results, Only Extreme Necessity Would Justify the Change-over in Petrol...

L'ILJEL rationing . will reverse the L upward trend in the transfer of coal :nom rail to road. Some 28m. tons of ;oat were...

FOUR employees of the Daimler Co„ I Ltd., Coventry, and a retired coach and garage owner, were jailed at Coventry Quarter...

T HE main items of interest in the commercial vehicle field at the Smithfield Show, which opens at Earls Court, London, on...

Buyers' Guide T HE more fiercely hauliers cut their rates, the more assiduously they work at producing a rates structure. They...

THIS case could establish an I important principle for the protection of small coach operators called upon to tender for War...

THE Yorkshire Traffic Commis' sioners reserved decision, at Leeds last Friday, after a two-day inquiry into applications by L....

H APHAZARD methods of costing were criticized by Mr. F. Williamson, chairman of the North Western Traffic Commissioners, at...

New Portable Fluorescent Light T HERE are many occasions when a source of fluorescent light is far more useful than the...

MONG several new trailers pro duced by Carrimore Six Wheelers, Ltd., Carrimore Works. North Finchley, London, N.I2, a...

—If Operators' Earnings Are to Be Maintained .• Because Mileages Will Be Drastically Reduced, the Element of Fixed Costs...

A FTER a six-day battle over who fk should provide stage services from Stockport to the corporation's new housing estate at...

T "question whether a . haulier was entitled to apply for an extra vehicle to enable the maintenance programme for an...

Auckland Trams Out: The last remaining tram services in Auckland. New Zealand, arc expected to be converted to trolleybus...