-T HE state of affairi described by our correspondent as obtaining at the Open-cast Coal Distributing Centre at British Oak,...

O NE of the most important factors which could help in the reduction of the regrettably large number of road accidents and in...

To Capetown in a THE overland route to 20-year-old Converted South Africa is rapidly Ambulance . . becoming a recognized long...

Hears— Of porcelain ball bearings in Germany. That some drivers pull up only in the length of their imagination. That too...

L AST week the passenger transport .1--tunions decided to accept the tribunal's award to company busmen, but considerable...

about half an hour to pass a given point was described at Blackburn Police Court last week when 16 prominent members of the...

the most highly efficient organizations, and in the gas industry they are apt to occur after the normal working day. When one...

S TRONG opposition to various duty changes was voiced at an unofficial ig test meeting held by certain Monster Corporation...

MR. N. F. STOCKBRIDGE has joined the board of Vauxhall Motors, Ltd. MR, J. HARRISON has resigned from the position of...

WE learn that the board of Lagonda, IN Ltd., has reached an agreement to sell the Staines factory to a group headed by Mr. Alan...

sively, described in The Commercial Motor" dated August 29, is designed for use under Regulation 63 of the S.R. and 0., 1947,...

1,000 MILES TO THE SEASIDE— BY LUXURY COACH ri A TRIP of 2,000 miles return by motor coach to the seaside may sound an ordeal...

ENGINEERING EXHIBITION A FTER an interval of 10 years, the Engineering and Marine Exhibition %%as opened at Olympia, London,...

By J. PICKLES, A. M.I. M ech. E. p REVENTION of roll is one of the most important considerations in vehicle design. Roll is...

ECENTLY introduced by Cromp ton Parkinson, Ltd., Astor House, Aldwych, W.C.2, and C. H. Johnson (Machinery), Ltd., the 10-cwt....

EXPERIENC the Quid to Chassis Selection I T has often occurred to me that to be a successful haulage contractor it 's...

daily carrying a commodity which is invisible and. as light as the air, and yet plays a vital part in all the most important...

M A s far back as history goes there appears to !save been a demand for fuller's earth, whilst the Romans are known to have...

FLAT RATES B Y coincidence it happened that not long after I wrote the articles showing how the size of vehicle was a...

By H. Scott Hall, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.R.T.E. F OR many years Mr. A. Waite, of A. Waite (Coal), Ltd., Dewsbury, has been engaged...

THIS • week's exhibition at the I premises of Silent Transport, Ltd., Woking, has been staged not only to show chassis and...

Brake-assisted Steering System A BRAKING system which automatically amplifies the steering action is shown in patent No....