H OT weather, when it occurs, makes news in Britain, but it also carries a warning to conscientious operators to "watch those...

ir 0 the layman there seems no obvious connection between the Derby Carriage and Wagon Works and General Industrial...

Bird's Eye View S INCE at was first introduced, the Pressed Steel Co., Ltd., Roadrailer has remained an intriguing idea to...

Out of Step O BVIOUSLY, by imputation, Mr. Cottrell is satisfied that he has got to the root of the problem. Rather in the same...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT A NEW campaign against road haulage contractors and their drivers who work excessive hours...

TRANSPORT licensing history was I made last week when Crosville Motor Services became the first road operators to appear before...

"Tribunal Wrongly Exercised Its Discretion" T HE hearing of the appeal against the Transport Tribunal's decision in the...

From Our Political Correspondent N AMES are being steadily added to Mr. Rupert Speir's Commons motion asking for urgent action...

ffi will be some time before the need to keep dery records is scrapped. The I Hydrocarbon Oils (Marking of Gas Oil)...

After 33 years' service with Halifax Passenger Transport Department, Mr. Harold Bell, chief inspector since 1955. is to retire...

(Continued from page 789) M R. FAY referred to evidence given before the Licensing .Authority by 27 objectors, and said it...

O NE vehicle out of a total of three applied for was granted to Edwards Transport (Lydbrook), Ltd., of Lydbrook (Glos), by the...

"Hiring Was Not Phenomenal" A N appeal against a grant by the Western Licensing .Authority of an additional 9-ton artic. to J....

A N appeal by the British Transport Commission against the grant of an additional 3+-ton vehicle to B. H. King of Kcmpston....

A N appeal by Morton, Transport (Coventry), Ltd., against a decision of the West Midland Licensing Authority who had refused...

Transport and Warehousing (Manchester), Ltd., who appealed against a decision of the North Western Licensing Authority,...

U NPA1NTED aluminium-alloy exterior panels are the distinguishing features of RM 664—an L.T.E. Routemaster to be placed in...

From our Political Correspondent p LAIN, straightforward nationalization of road transport is dropped from the Labour Party's...

F IVE people have been short-listed for the post of deputy general manager. Nottingham transport department, in place of Mr. H....

B ARTON TRANSPORT, of Chilwell. near Nottingham, were granted a licence to run a weekly express service from Nottingham to...

A N application by Hugh Clelland and Sons, Chryston, to increase their cement tanker fleet by five vehicles was partially...

ECOMMENDATIONS for improvements in vehicle design to lessen the risk of injuries or to minimize their severity when road...

M EMBERS of the Institute of Road Transport Engineers who have been conducting independent investigations into the problem of...

A N agreement has been signed by F. Perkins, Ltd., for Perkins three-, fourand six-cylindered diesel engines to be manufactured...

T HE " social problem" posed if commercial vehicles make collections and deliveries at night is discussed by Mr. H. R....

T H E Western Traffic Commissioners / sitting at Bristol last week granted an application for the revision of fares by' the...

O NLY token opposition was offered by 14 Devon, Somerset and Dorset local authorities, to an application, heard befOre the...

From our Iniustrial Correspondent L ONDON busmen chan g ed their minds .1-4 last week on the q uestion of introducin g a...

A S already announced, Mr. Colin Buchanan has been appointed to the Ministry of Transport to undertake a study of the....

- Fconomical -say Birkenhead L ARGE-CAPACITY buses may be the answer to problems in the larger cities where traffic densities...

S INCE an article was published in the January 13, 1956, issue of The Comtnercial Motor on the transport operations of...

Control Streamlines Steel Works Tra ffic A RichardThomas and Baldwins Scheme at the Spencer Works at Lianwern. by P. A. C....

es Its Tippers lugh A LTHOUGH medium-capacity 4 x 4 chassis are rarely used by the average haulier, in Great Britain, this...

E VERY technical or operational improvement made by the railways is paraded •before the public in the Press and elsewhere and...

THERE are several large block applications for both A and B licences this week. The largest is one by Flynn Brothers...

The New Edition of" The Commercial Motor" Tables of Operating Costs Makes Allowance for Several Increases in Users'...

H ERE in Nigeria. the Big Five, and for that matter the leading Continental vehicle Manufacturers, are each served by one main...

A Special Correspondent Looks at the B.T.C. Report and Accounts IN 1960, British Road Services earned £3m. more than in I 1959,...

Tom Walton needed a new van. Needed it here and now. 4 But he couldn't afford here and now to pay the full price. So what was...