G OVERNMENT Departments have, at times, issued some very foolish instructions and, to our mind, one of the most ridiculous of...

I N its decision on the appeals of the Railway Executive and C. H. Brace and others, the Appeal Tribunal states clearly that...

W HY has the Minister of Transport not yet set up the Transport Consultative Committees laid down in the Transport Act? They...

Useful Suggestion for A MOST interesting idea Heavy-braking expounded by .Mr. R. B. Recording Device , Daniell, A.E.R.T.E., at...

Of more anti-dazzle regulations in the near future. That what is really required is more light on this controversial subject....

Extra Tonnage for Maintenance Not Justified: Group Operation THERE is no justification under 1. Section 6 (2) (d) of the Road...

to a Minimum T HE Road Transport Executive does not intend to withhold the granting of permits to hauliers to operate beyond a...

MR. M 3, MULVIHILL has been appointed manager of the Southampton branch of the British Wagon Co., Ltd. MR. N. A. Moo, general...

Not End Next Year THE chairman of the Road Trans ./ port Executive, Major-General G. N. Russell, was the guest of honour at...

U NIF1CATION of screw threads between Britain and the U.S.A. has been under discussion for the past 40 years, but, despite the...

service stations %-/devoted to a single make of vehicle —the Austin—is that of The Car Mart, Ltd. It is at the Welsh Harp,...

not operate double-deckers, Huddersfield Corporation's trolleybus operating costs per mile are lower than those of any other...

HE Transport Association held its first post-war dinner-dance on November 23, the chairman of the area, Mr. Noel G. Brookes,...

Asks L. J. COTTON, M.I.R.T.E. No extraordinary dinner, nor any other entertainment good, but afterwards to the trial of some...

T HE King's Bench Divisional Court, last week, granted leave to B. E. Barrett, Ltd., Luton, to apply for an order of mandamus...

N appeal against the decision of the Bridgend, Glamorgan, magistrates in failing to convict Alfred May, haulier and coal...

" T HIS is a hopeless appeal," said the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Goddard) in the King's Bench Divisional Court, last week, in...

A CASE in which a cyclist was hurt when a driver opened the door of his stationary vehicle came before the King's Bench...

th e Customer ? Asks G. B. Beardsley, Properly . Compiled Accounts Earn Good Will for the Haulier and Invite Prompt Settlement....

Hard at Work As we stood out in the spacious frontage, looking at the garage, a big Dodge drew up at the pumps. On its door, I...

Now in Production T HE Nuffield universal tractor, of which details were first published in "The Commercial Motor," more than...

E XAMINING the final figures in the analysis of vehicle operating costs, as set out in the accompanying schedule, which was...

A TANKER vehicle in which the container also does duty as the chassis frame, forms the subject of a recent patent taken out by...

T WO new farm trailers incorporating an automatic hydraulic hitch, which enables the driver to couple a trailer to a tractor...

OUR in your issue of November 5, 1948, should be answered by one more technical than I, but I would like to enlighten him on...

A Resume' of Recently Published Patent Specifications A N independent-suspension system is shown in patent No. 604,648, by R....