MOKING exhausts have made news again 'thiS week at the conference at Harrogate held by the NationalSociety for Clean Air. Mr....

T HE channels of entry into the senior executive positions of road transport are, I suppose, as varied as in most industries....

Minus One T HE Road Haulage Association now have only three national vice-chairmen. The vacancy caused by Mr. J. H. Mitchell's...

T HE Minister of Transport is proposing .to. take steps to combat the . misuse of excess fuel devices on diesel engines, the...

A LTERNATIVE proposals for L — t improving the earnings of London busmen are to be made by the Transport and General Workers'...

CONCERN that a fault, which could be traced only by an expert, might develop in the braking system of new lorries, was...

A LATE arrival in the demonstration park at the Commercial Motor Show, which closed on Saturday, was a six-wheeled conversion...

MR. W. C. REID, Albion Motors, Ltd., has been appointed a member of the Scottish Board for Industry, as an employers'...

A N . addition to the mobile shop fleet of the Navy, Army and' Air . Force Institute has gone into service in the Salisbury...

WHEN applying for vehicles solely for Tv maintenance purposes, an operator must prove that' he hadtaken full advantage of the...

A DEMONSTRATION of the MagiritsDeutz Saturn IT City Line bus was given on Monday from London to Farcham, where the Gosport and...

• Gas Turbine A PAS turbine suitable for use in heavy duty commercial - . vehicles . has been developed by the Ford Motor Co.,...

D ISES of from 7s. to Ils. 9d, a week IX in the basic rates for A and B licensed general haulage workers were proposed this...

A STATEMENT was issued on Monday night by Maidstone and District Motor Services, Ltd., about Gillingham (Kent) Town Council's...

THE holder of a contract licence for I hauling caravans, Jack • Stubbs, of Rarnshead Heights, Leeds, who wished to put two...

ulEGULATIONS concerning short-terrn I licences were not designed to enable applicants to bridge the gap between applications...

QHOWN at Earls Court by The A.P.V. o.--) Co., Ltd., Crawley, Sussex, a 1,750gal. two-compartment milk tanker is equipped with...

A FIER making a wrong declaration of weight in respect of one vehicle, Mr. Alec Dale, Highfield, Stud Farm, Leek. had a...

THE day. before Maj. F. S. Eastwood, the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, was to visit Hull Docks to see for himself the...

A FTER reserving his decision on an application by Woodcocks Transport (Charley), Ltd., 150-158 Cross Lane, Salford, 5, Mr. F....

S ALES of A.E.C. vehicles showed an increase of well over 200 per cent., compared with the figures for the 1958 Show. Although...

F IFTEEN operators who had appealed against the provision of a central bus station in Spennymoor, Co. Durham, and against...

rt Companies 3. T. Willett and Sons, Ltd. Cap. 15,5011. Dirs.: J. T. Willett and H. A. Willett, 7a Old Bromley Road, Lewisham....

A LEYLAND coach from the test fleet of the Ferodo Research Division reached London last Saturday after a 21-week, 4,000-mile...

O PERATORS who .find that the removal of signwriting is a Problem when disposing of time expired vehicles will be interested...

Operators Everywhere Tell Same Story : Now Difficult to Get a Price that Gives a Proper Margin for Profit By G. Duncan Jewell...

F OR a: Continental vehicle manufacturer to set up a sales organization in Great Britain for his products, despite heavy import...

9:xperts Attack T HE 26th Conference of the National Society for Clean Air began at Harrogate on Wednesday and ends today. One...

T HERE are still too many hauliers who treat licensin g as of small. . importa n ce. and i g nore its obli g ations if it...

F OR the first, time, it is claimed, LC.I. Heavy Organic Chemicals Division have used a flexible Portolite tank to transport a...

AAR. FRANK COUSINS (The Commercial Motor, September 23) says the Transport and General Workers' Union seek shorter working...

O N occasions the leaders of the more powerful trade unions will voice opinions .or i a wide Variety of subjects that appeaf,to...

W HEN replying to a reader's inquiry last week, I emphasized that revision of " ' The Commercial Motor' Tables of Operating...

,4 BRAKE-COOLING system is the subject of patent No. 840,734. Its novelty is the means used to promote intimate contact between...