W AYS of gaining new traffic have been prominent in the minds of hauliers attending the annual conference of the Road Haulage...

)bertson " . HERE'S something about a soldier," Miss Ciceley Courtneidge used to sing. There is, indeed—and about sailors and...

Mr. Hanlon Told That Makers Never Saw Lightweight Eight-wheelers T HERE had been no correspondence between Guy Motors, Ltd.,...

B ETWEEN 1957-58, the percentage of total commercial-vehicle output represented by 3-6-ton vehicles fell from 17.8 to 12,...

MR. J. G. FRANCIS has been appointed Yorkshire and Lincolnshire , technical representative for Sheepbridge Equipment, Ltd. MR....

nIFFERING normal users on A licences covering a fleet which was said to be engaged 60 per cent, on trunking between Liverpool...

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT THE Ministry of Transport, leading bus manufacturers and some big I operators have, during the past...

PROPOSALS by the Southport Transport Department to add a surcharge I to bus fares at weekends and on public holidays were...

A WITNESS who had appeared before Mr. W. P. James, West Midland Licensing Authority, last May in support of an application by...

T HERE should be a Greater London Council, to take over the administration of certain services in the capital and its suburbs,...

N application by United Automobile Services, Ltd., to operate a new 1 stage service from the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne to...

T HE Minister of Transport has upheld a decision of the Northern Traffic Commissioners, who granted Mr. Edward Howe (O.K. Motor...

jF it were imagined that because the IL General Election was over the C-licence world was now free of anxiety, such an attitude...

A DJOURNING an application before the Northern Traffic Commissioners at Newcastle upon Tyne last week, Mr. I. A. T. Hanlon,...

A N analogue computer, known as the Emiac II, has been developed by E.M.I. Electronics, Ltd., Hayes, Middx. so that suspension...

i.OTOTYPE 9-ton normal-control assis and cab manufactured by Trucks, Ltd., Barking, Essex, left 1 docks last Saturday en route...

INSTALLATIONS of the Standard I 23 CV oil engine in Land-Rover chassis are being carried out by R. H. Kilner (M.E.), Ltd.,...

nESPITE a complete change of " normal user and types of vehicle, the Larkfield Motor Co., Ltd., Liverpool, were granted a...

T HE 1960 model Super Vega 41-seat body displayed at an exhibition held by Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd., The Hyde, London, N.W.9,...

-DELIVERY vehicles exhibited at the Dairy Show, :h. opened at Olympia, London, last Tuesday and closes tre all battery-electric...

R ASED on a Morris oil-engined chassis, a laundry van built " for the Brook Green Laundry, Ltd., Ravenscourt Park, London,...

S ET astride the busy A6 highway, Stockport contains a good deal of old property. Off the main road are many steep "brows,"...

Hauliers Lose Licence Gains 'TWO of three hauliers involved in appeals before the Transport Tribunal I in Edinburgh last week...

By Tom Walkerley VER since the London-Yorkshire 1 motorway began to unwind itself across the countryside, the chief tstables...

Asks P. A. C. Brockington, A.M.L.Mech.E.

design progress by the motorways will be of greater benefit to operators who continue to run vehicles on normal routes than to...

T HERE was a common factor in both .1 an efficiently illuminated roadway and a non-skid surface. Dr. W. H. Glanville, director...

effective means for tracing the ource of extraneous noises in vehicle s and bodywork is provided by the I Locator manufactured...

[eh Housekeeping W ITH the security of the industry guaranteed for at least • five years the Road Haulage Association's...

JBLIC apathy towards crime was the biggest bugbear of the police: said Supt. E. Daws, of Scotland Yard. [vidence he quoted 'a...

rHETHER or not there was a political motive somewhere in the background, the recent survey carried out by the Traders Road...

A USER is about to take delivery of a lorry-mounted crane and asks for guidance whether a second driving mirror is necessary....

PATENT No. 820,103 shows a tandem" axle arrangement in which both axles are driven at low road speeds, but as the speed rises...