M UCH of the work carried out by the Road Research Board is necessarily of a theoretical or a statistical nature and therefore...

well T HE appointment of Edward Powell as assistant sal manager of Chloride Batteries, Ltd., 17 years ago rm have come as a...

QAYING that he regretted the severing L- ) of the road-rail partnership under the new Transport Bill, Mr. H. C. Drayton, in his...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT ,N CALL for the renationalization of the . 1-1 privately owned road haulage industry is to...

FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT QPEED limits of goods vehicles are to be raised—but not until the end of the ki year. Mr....

U.S. interstate Commerce Com

P LANS to pool the transport facilities I of gravel companies in South Staffordshire were put before the West Midland Licensing...

A REVERSION to cylinder head main tenance at fixed mileage intervals is mentioned in the annual report of Mr. W. M. Hall,...

Mr. A. I. Tarby has been appointed a local director of University Motors, Ltd., at their Hanwell depot. Mr. Norman Trafford...

We regret to record the death of N A. B. Davy. Mr. Davy. of Davy and C (Grange), Ltd., Milnthorpe, Westmorlan was chairman of...

W ITH the opening of the northei section of the Birmingham-Bristi motorway recently the service area Strensham was put into...

N E.E.C. survey, in 1960, into the operating costs of 18-20-ton vehicles perating 100,000 kilometres a year lowed a difference...

VI have approved the use of oneian buses and the matter is to be taken p with the trade unions.

Loads from November 1 O N Tuesday the Minister of Transport announced the introduction of additional controls on the movement...

rHE Metropolitan Traffic Commissioner, Mr. D. I. R. Muir, on Tuesday 'anted in principle joint applications George Ewer and...

T'llE list of Rootes Group exhibits for the Commercial Motor Show next month reveals that no yehicles will be displayed which...

" N O additional vehicles will be put on the road, and no haulier will be deprived of his traffic if these applications are...

A N oil-film-drive transmission employ ing hardened steel rollers running between toroidal-surfaced discs and giving...

From our Parliamentary Correspondem r ONCERN about the possible effect on drivers of the records concession proposed in the...

A N objection by Jones Transport Services (Liverpool), Ltd., was described as vindictive" by Mr. G. H. P. Beames when he...

M R. MARPLES is now examining thi recent official report on noise fron motor vehicles. He said in the Common! this week that...

ORRY parks with full security .1 arrangements, plus drivers' accom°dation, shower baths and catering eilities, were visualized...

TAT1STICS published in the Ministry of Labour Gazette show. how average ;ekly earnings, hours worked and hourly rnings of men...

as their rector-general for transport; he replaces . Renzetti, who is leaving office. Sig. inoletti is professor for transport...

T HE long-awaited reasons for allowing the appeal by Securicor, Ltd., were given by the Transport Tribunal last week....

A CARLISLE haulage firm's reputation as egg transporters was known on the South Coast, it was revealed during an application...

rA A SIX-WHEELER with a double-drive rear bogie is now made by Dodge Brothers (Britain), Ltd. The new model is produced in two...

P ROVISION of the necessary transport for the 1.500 delegates and guests attending the British Medical Association Conference...

G LASGOW Corporation Transport's last remaining tram services, the last city trams to run in the British Isles, are to be...

A N increased surplus of £32,750 is reported by Southport Corporation Transport Department for the year 1961-62—an increase of...

r - k A RIPLEY, Derbyshire, man, told th; he " deliberately cooked the records of a goods vehicle he was driving, fined a...

I N a report on an application by Sutto and Son (St. Helens), Ltd., for 12 nen vehicles (The Commercial Motor, Jul 13) it was...

windirq 1-1 up of S. Leonard (Transport), Ltd of Streatham Hill, London, SV., wa made by Mr. Justice Plowman in th High Court...

VENTY A.E.C. Reliance 590 coaches with 46-seat bodywork by Park Royal now being placed in service by the it Kent Road Car Co_...

From Our Industrial Correspondent HE London Transport Executive are running into difficulties over their eme for replacing...

CONSOLIDATED net profit, before tax, of £1,610,652—a record figure; achieved by the United Transport , Ltd., group in 1961. The...

I THINK there is room for competition I in an expanding market and the right course is to licence all four operators," was how...

SPACE:VANS FOR B.R.S.: The Scottish division of British Road Services have ordered eight 10-ton 1,400-cu.-ft. Spucevans from...

I N a five-minute speech Mr. Ernest Marples last week sped the Road Traffic Bill on its way to the Statute Book. He moved,...

h i rR. MARPLES last week refused IYL be drawn into prophesying w action he might take as a result of spot checks on diesel...

A MIDprotests from Labour M.P.s, Pipe-lines Bill was passed by Commons last week. Opposit Members complained that the meas did...

Lom Traffic Survey, Mr. Marples said the Commons last week that at the i of June about half the field work I been carried out....

44 °TABLE changes in railway organization and management will follow the passing of the new Transport Act, whereas the Road...

S INCE the report on the Bristol RE rear-engined p.s.v. design was written (page 901 of last week's issue), additional...

0 that their Optiline wheel alignment I equipment can be shown on cusmers' premises, Laycock Engineering, d., have put into use...

paign Council, two members of the Council have subsequently circularized a protest at the contents of the Press release, issued...

I READ with interest the letter sent in by G. Greenwood, of Sydney. N.S.W., and would like to say how much I agree with his...

T HE contract licence " switch " is still the trend, it seems. In the West Midlands, H. Appleby, of Wednesfield, ask to...

24-HOUR delivery service was being offered as a bait to hauliers, said Mr. booth as he concluded his objection an application...

The Summer Meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers took place in Atlantic City, New Jersey, in June. Certain of the...

W . HEN the B.M.C. 10/12-cwt. van, popularly know as the J4, was tested by John Moon some tw months 4. after its introduction...

BY PETER BENENSON MOT. only the Dutch Government (The IN Commercial Motor, July 17) complained to the European Court against...

The essence of successful hiring arrangements for commercial vehicles lies in the retention of adequate control whilst...

k NY engine cooling system can be con verted to a sealed system by the enlowe Herrnometic equipment ;veloped by Kenlowe...

Rotary Engine T HE arrival of the gas turbine has re-awakened interest in the positivepressure type of engine and patent No....