Small Unit with a Big Job WHAT is considered to be the most important Tv technical unit of its size in Malaya is called...

That Salford, Lancs, is to spend £10,000 on a safety training centre for child cyclists. That perhaps these " experts " will...

A NEW Beadle integral-construction coach, at present being "operated experimentally on a service to London by Maidstone and...

A SUBMISSION, supported by the officiating Ministry of Transport inspector, at a recent appeal hearing, that the consistent...

A NOTHER 1,800 applications for th first list of British Road Servicef. vehicles and other property for disposa had been...

T HE second list of transport units, be issued by the British Transpo Commission on December 28, will col tam n more detail...

IN consequence of a fresh programme of research discussed at a meeting of the Manchester Centre of the Institute of Traffic...

F HE Leyland 9.8-litre oil engine is now fitted in Albion HD73 and 1D75 maximum-load fourand six'heeled chassis. It replaces...

EPRESENTATIVES of P.S.V. I N. Operators, Ltd., who control the coach station in Judd 'Street, London, which is closing on...

to 'light parked vehicles at night, said Supt. S. Cresswell ,at Smethwick magistrate's court last week. A man was fined £1 for...

S UBJECT to certain conditions, four coach operators from the Kidderminster area have been granted licences to run tours and...

C OULD not employees of commercialvehicle manufacturers make drivers realize that their selfishness in opposing the increase in...

GEN. SIR BRIAN ROBERTSON has now assumed his position as chairman of the British Transport Commission. MR. J. R. M. WILLIAMS...

1RITAIN'S commercial-vehicle fleet increased by 24,200 in the year ded May 31 last. The total of goods hicks rose by .24,500....

A N appeal by Mr H. F N Cox, of Birmingham, against the West Midland Licensing Authority's refusal to grant him a licence for...

A N application by Messrs. Card and Son, Devizes, to run coaches from Devizes barracks to London and six large provincial...

O N Monday, Birmingham Corporation's Bill, under which they apply for power to manufacture bodies for their public service...

T HE first commercial-vehicle application of the Turner supercharged two-stroke oil engine, described in The Commercial Motor...

" P RESENT restricted expend' tun P RESENT for resurfacing of Class roads once in 20 years; Class IT road once in 118 years;...

T HE only people opposed to raisir the 20-m.p.h. limit on heavy gooi vehicles were drivers, said Mr. / Tattersall, chief...

- 1PERATORS' views on the Thesiger Report (which is reviewed on -" pages 498-501) are generally favourable. The Passenger...

AGREEAGREE MENT has been reached on MENT concerning staff redundancy in British Road Services. • The problem will be dealt...

A CCORDING to the Transport and General Workers' Union, employers represented on the National Council for the Omnibus Industry...

B IRMINGHAM'S biggest taxicab fleet, that of the Warwick Hire Co., Ltd., went out of operation on Wednesday because of rising...

A GRAVE consequence of enforce ment officers stopping coaches and taking statements from party organizers, who were often...

A N order for 50 'Regal Mark IV chassis has been placed with the A.C.V. expert sales division through A.E.C. (Australia) Pty.,...

S PEAKING on road expenditure, the president of the Federation of British Industries, Sir Harry Pilkington, said at Cardiff, on...

A MONG the main causes of accidents in Glasgow are the failure of drivers to keep their vehicles to the near side or to the...

O WNERS of goods vehicles a tractors are reminded by t Ministry of Transport that the tra; port levy becomes payable on and all...

I N anticipation of the ending March 31 next of an agreement ma in 1928 between the two operators, bc Rotherham Corporation and...

Buses are to replace trams on the circle route to Roker, Sunderland, on January 4, 1954. The Standard 12-cwt. van and pick-up...

AST week's meeting of Holderness Rural District Council rejected an riendrnent proposing that £10 should contributed towards...

INIFORMITY in the candlepower 1 and mounting of rear lights would table drivers to calculate more easily e distance of...

NRIMSBY and Cleethorpes transport I managers will probably be asked ion to prepare a joint report on their spective...

been dismissed with co ts by the Minister of Transport, it was nnounced on Wednesday. Mon l ys Grey Coaches, Ltd., and A....

T HE new general manager of Amal, Ltd., is Mr. C. L. Rinks. He succeeds Mr. T. W. Clibbery, who has been ajipointed a director...

Speed Up Transtt Q1DE-LOADING road trailers on kJ special rail cars designed to carry two 35-ft. units are part of a plan...

W E regret to announce the death of MR. T. KAY, MR. G. H. UPJOHN and MR. ARTHUR WINKLES. Mr. Kay was chairman and founder of...

Committee Recommend Licence for Contract Work at Separate Fares : Minister to Continue to Hear Appeals : No Backing for...

The committee, consisting of Mr. G. A. Thesiger, Q.C. (chairman), Mr. R. F. Lyne, Sir Ronald Matthews, Mr. W. D. Reid, Mr. F....

O NCE again, trailers will provide the main interest for commercialvehicle users at the Smithfield how, which is being held at...

Probably ways, H ry to Abandon Tramtinent is Still in the ye Undertaking ,!ombe T O the average non-Lancastrian Wigan is...

says Arthur R. Wilson, M.I.R.T.E. 7 NCR - EASING attention is being devoted to checking ;hours of work recorded in drivers'...

By Laurence J. Cotton, M.I.R.T.E. O NLY an optimist would expect a 4.73-litre oil engine to haul a 15-ton load satisfactorily...

says C. S. Dunbar, (Founder and Chairman, 1937-44, National Conference of Express Carriers) r HE.. announcement, that the...

Political Commentary By JANU O F all the committees that have clustered round the Ivory Tower like a protective coat of...

Possibility. of Increased Expenditure Foreshadowed in Commons Debate By Our Parliamentary Correspondent FIE Government are...

EATING for 13 passengers is provided in an all-metal bus body which Spurling Motor Hiles, Ltd., The Hyde, Hendon, London, .W.9,...

Experienced Operators seem to Wish to Help Possible Newcomers to the Haulage Industry: "The Commercial Motor" Costs Expert...

O NE, of the difficulties in designing a rotary distributor for an injection pump is that the spacing between adjacent outlets...