0 NE of the most vicious attacks yet made on t he roadhaulage industry has just been launched by the railways. During an appeal...

A PARTICULARLY interesting ruling concern/A ing the insurance of commercial vehicles was given last Monday by Mr. Justice...

Smart Premises DeTHE publicity value of the note Efficiency in I good appearance of a works Workmanship . . . or depot is often...

Of Fodens flattering the "Queen Mary." That hospital patients are lulled by. the hum of buses, but the noise of trams and...

National Board Will Not Argue T HE National Joint Conciliation Board has, in effect, declined to argue with Yorkshire A and...

T HE main alterations embodied in the Goods Vehicles (Licences and Prohibitions). Regulations, 1936, to come into force on May...

A LETTER sent by Capt. Austin Hudson, M.P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, to Sir Eugene Ramsden, M.P....

The complete returns now available for 1935 show that there was a slight revival, last year, in the overseas demand for...

An agreement under whicn C licence vehicle was to be sold to an Alicensee ' was mentioned in the appeal of the * L.N.E. and...

T HAT the Appeal Tribunal proposes, in future, to pay less regard to statements made in letters submitted in support of licence...

Fines and costs totalling £113 5s. were imposed at Scunthorpe police court last week, as a result of secret checks on lorries...

I i a King's Bench Divisional Court composed of Lord Hewart and Justices du Parcq and Goddard, last week, the question was...

T HE Fisher Renwick concern does not abstract :traffic. from the railways. The growth of its road traffic is accounted for by...

toast, " Trade and Transport," at the annual dinner of the Devonport Mercantile Association last Monday, the Minister of...

Al the annual luncheon of the Lou, don branch of the Industrial Transport Association, held on Wednesday, Sir Cyril Hurcomb,...

• Margate Eire Brigade is buying a Leyland fire-engine and a fire tender. Tottenham Corporation is buying two Dennis...

WE illustrate on this page a new VY and attractive van that has recently been commissioned for service by Postans, Morley...

Two-stroke Engine A DESIGN of engine, from which there seems good reason to expect a remarkable performance, has been evolved...

B.R.F. Action on Objection Issue VESTERDAY (Thursday) the 1 operators'. committee of the British Road Federation met to...

A MOVEMENT for establishing a rates stabilization committee was announced by Mr. Anthony Todd, senior vice-chairman of A.R.O.,...

O WNERSIIIP of ports by private transport systems should be abolished, said Mr. Ian Macaulay, M.A., at the annual dinner of...

Rates and Wages Position D EFERENCE to the Part played by 1 " - The Commercial Motor in forming the organization from which...

MITE, sixth annual meeting of the 1 Ballast, Sand and Allied Trades Association was held on March 25. The chairman, Mr. A, J,...

Comparing types of • vehicle for urban traffic, Mr. Horace Woolley, manager of Birmingham Co-operative Society's traffic...

L AST Saturday, Mr. Henderson, Southern Scotland Licensing Authority, 'was the chief speaker and guest of .honour at the annual...

A GREEMENT on wages has been reached, says a statement issued by those concerned, between the C.NI.U.A., Manchester Area,...

Will thev Last ? • are, no doubt, feeling :pleased with themselves, but naturally their satisfaction is being carefully con...

L AUNDRY proprietors should realize, in the beginning, that the costs of operating motor vehicles are likely to be above the...

I T is a striking commentary on the advanced design of the delivery vans operated by Collars, Ltd., that in the film, "The...

• DS up LAUNDRY DELIVERIES ELL, Banks," said one laundry proprietor to an other, " I shall have to see about some new vans...

W ITH the modern facilities that mechanical transport now brings within the reach of practically every household, it must be...

Richmond Park Laundry Co., of Glasgow, Places Entire Satisfaction of the Customer Before Cost in Operating a Fleet of 50...

Laundry Chassis VERY trade has its particular transport requirements, and the laundry business is no exception to the rule....

WHILST equipped for the haulage of long indivisible VV loads_ the tractor-trailer outfit illustrated on this page can also be...

T HEproblem of finding sufficient room for luggage in coaches and long-distance service buses has become acute, and, generally...

Lytham St. Annes Corporations is unlikely to be finally approved for at least a year. It is stated that Blackpool Corporation...

T HE advice given by Sir John Maxwell, 'chairman of the Northern Traffic Commissioners, to Newcastle Corporation to abandon the...

A N important decision affecting the insurance of commercial vehicles was delivered, on Monday, by Mr. Justice MacKinnon in the...

By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent NO SPEED LIMIT INCREASE. R ECEIVING no encouragement from the Minister of...

T HE scheme for building roads over the railways put forward by The Commercial Motor seven years ago— and recently brought a...

I NVESTIGATIONS have established that the means most likely to be successful for rescuing the occupants from a burning...

(4779]. I was much obliged to you for the space you gave to me in your issue of February 14, but from A.D.J.'s reply on page 84...

TH licensing system has had the E effect of increasing the use of trailers behind private cars, commercial travellers being...

must be a huge number of workers employed in the motor-manufacturing industry, but perhaps they fail to appreciate that many...

A FUEL-SUPPLY system haVing A R ésumé of Patent Specificaseveral novel features is disclosed by Continental Motors Corporation....