Greater Funds Needed to Allow Research into Traffic and Safety Problems to be Expanded O PERATORS and manufacturers of...

ECHANICALLY driven superchargers have the great disadvantage that the power absorbed in driving the pumping element forms a...

Road Accidents in Europe STATISTICS of road -traffic aecidents during 1956 have just been published by the Economic Commission...

That whilst independence may be wonderful, interdependence often has its value. • That the American national "truck driver...

THE days when A licence operators could carry throughout Britain at I will have gone since the Divisional Court's decision on...

A N A-licence vehicle operated by James Gowan and Sons, Bridge Street, Carmarthen, was struck off last week by the South Wales...

T HE offer of an extra 5s. a week for 80,000 municipal busmen has neither been accepted nor rejected by the two Unions...

A RANGE of multi-wheelers is to be exhibited at the Commerdial Motor Show by Seddon Diesel Vehicles, Ltd., Oldham. The first...

A SHARP reduction in the demand for buses in the home market in the year ended July 31 was reported last week by Mr. A. L....

ALTHOALTHO UGH Licensing Authorities had no jurisdiction over the weight UGH special A-licence trailers, they should keep...

A N application for an increase in the pay of vehicle builders will be discussed in London between workers' and employers'...

Engineering. Unions will be asked by the Amalgamated Engineering Union and the Electrical Trades Union, at the Confederation's...

f - IELEGATES of London busmen L./ decided unanimously last Friday not to co-operate with London Transport in reducing road...

axle lubricant by the London Transport Executive. As a preliminary test, 1,358 double-deckers, representing a fifth Of the...

THE fleet of buses operated. by New castle upon Tyne Corporation is to be renewed by .1970 at a cost of £1,800,000. The first...

LTIGHLIGHT of the exhibits to be I I shown by Henry Meadows, Ltd., Wolverhampton, at the Commercial Motor Show will be a...

A S part of the general improvement of the Stafford—Stoke section of the A34 road, work is expected to start shortly on a...

MR. W. WHITTAKER, technical manager of Claude Rye Bearings, Ltd., has joined the board. MR. C. S. LANE has been appointed...

A LTHOUGH Glasgow Corporation motorbuses made a profit of £259,346 in the year ended May 31 and the trolleybuses £40,785, the...

M OST of the motorists who drive• into London every day and park their cars on the streets in the West End and the City come...

VV ATTING has been banned between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m. (except on Sunday) in additional streets in Slough. Twenty-three streets...

H AULIERS operating under special A licences arc risking almost certain revocation if their vehicles are heavier than the...

Commissioners to hear plans for varying bus services covering the Borrowdale Valley, in the Lake District, was cancelled last...

tunnel had been driven and the remaining works were proceeding satisfactorily, Mr. G. R. H. Nugent, Parliamentary Secretary to...

I -1 A NEW road-air freight service between London and Lille was inaugurated last week by Silver City Airways. As most loads...

A N independent oil company, which stepped into the breach when London coach operators' supplies were threatened during the bus...

" A N astonishing decision" is how the British Road Federation have' described the Minister of Transport's announcement that...

" T.T. CATTLE, SO LONGER HAULS REQUIRED" EtECAUSE Wiltshire had now turned completely to attested cattle, livestock haulage for...

H OLDERS of commercial-vehicle triptyques must now obtain road transport licences from the Department of Industry and Commerce,...

F IRE brigades will be among the first to feel the effects of new roads and road improvements, according to Md. H. Lumby,...

G ERMAN manufacturers of caramecial vehicles last year improved their relative position in world markets because output in the...

W HEN Western Transport, Ltd., Bristol, applied for two A-licence articulated outfits last week, Mr. S. W. Nelson. Western...

S OME vehicles described in an application by W. Metcalfe and Sons (Transport), Ltd., Darlington, did not agree with those in...

W ITH a laden weight of 1991 tons and a capacity of 80 cu. yd., a converted Euclid LLD, operated by the Western Contracting...

A BILL to enable local authorities to PA help bus undertakings to provide bus shelters and queue barriers on remote routes in...

P LANS for an underpass to relieve . traffic congestion at Six Ways, Aston. Birmingham, arc being prepared by Birmingham Public...

THE difficulty experienced by Westmor land County Council in securing haulage for road materials was men honed again at...

A TRAMWAY linking Grimsby with Immingham will probably close down by December 31, giving place to a joint service by the...

A LTHOUGH the type and construction 11. of vehicles used for carrying bread and confectionery in retail and wholesale trades...

' [ 'HE front wheel brakes of a double" deck bus operated by Hebble Motor Services, Ltd., were not functioning when the vehicle...

station at Scarborough have been shelved for four months. After a stormy meeting of the town council, during which several...

T HE central vehicle maintenance unit of Lancashire County Council is operating profitably, and it has been decided to retain...

T HE Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners have agreed to proposals by Halifax Corporation and Halifax Joint Omnibus Committee for...

S TERN warnings about further cuts in rural bus services were given last week by the chairmen of two companies controlled by...

'THE trader who flew a pirate flag over 1 his premises as a symbol of his opposition to price restrictions by motor accessory...

S OIVIE companies were, he understood, considering the use of I2-seat buses, Mr. Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport, said...

A N application by C. W. Sayers' Trans port Services, Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland. to substitute an A-licence vehicle for one...

its type in the country, a Danish Schou 330 grinder has been installed in the industrial engine division of F. Mitchell...

A NEW tandem-axle suspension unit to be shown in working model form by the Rubery Owen Co., Ltd., at the Commercial Motor...

UTORECAMBES Euston Road RailIVI. way Station . is to close from September 15 until next June, it was announced last week. The...

' 4 --• • carried by road through Lancashire, a transformer weighing 188 tons arrived at Newfield Power Station, Carlisle,...

S EVERAL new models, including a dump truck with a payload capacity of 28 tons, and a 150 b.h.p. engine, were foreshadowed last...

A N offer of 100 "good as new" double-deck London Transport buses is being considered by the Ceylon Transport Board. Mr. Vere...

EE XCLUDJNG cars and motorcycles, 22,020 new vehicles were registered in May, compared with 19,425 in April. hi the first five...

D ECISION was reserved by the North Western Traffic Commissioners, last week, on applications by Mills and Seddon, Ltd., who...

T HE operation of Ipswich Corporation buses is being considered by a special sub-committee, Mr. F. J. Bradshaw, borough...

" IF the traffic problems associated with Covent Garden are ever to be satisfactorily solved, the market should be moved...

B Y ingenuity and hard work, Wallace Arnold Tours, Ltd., were trying to attract traffic from their competitors through offering...

roads in England and, Wales during the year ended March 31, 1957. This was an increase of . €10m. over the previous year....

W INTER bus and tram services operated by Blackpool Corporation are to be cut by about 200,000 miles, if the North Western...

By Arthur R. Wilson, A PART from improvements in vehicle design and reductions in taxation the most promising chances of...

Oil-engined 7 tonner has Simple Specification and First-class Overall Performance : Acceleration and Hill-climbing Rapid, and...

A SERVICING bench for fuel injectors supplied to the Rover Co., Ltd., by Leslie Hartridge, Ltd., Buckingham, demonstrates a...

C AREFUL consideration of the immediate needs of parcels-van operators has led to the evolution of the Paravan 3-ton delivery...

A LEYLAND 11.1-litre engine is PA installed in a Seammell Mountaineer 17-ft. wheelbase tractor which has been supplied to Esso...

NI R. E. H. ROBINSON'S letter (July 25) gives the impression that regular maintenance of fuel-injection equipment would...

No Easy Solu tion W HAT would happen if the present system of C-licensing were drastically altered to allow traders and...

A LARGE order for Bedford buses may N 1 hear, be placed by a Scottish municipality. The annual analysis of municipal bus fleets...

By G. Duncan Jewell T HE smooth working of Britain's road haulage and passenger transport industries owes a great deal to the...

T HE first forward-control Willys Overland Jeep to be imported into this country will be exhibited by Steele Griffith; Ltd., at...

T O hear some people talk, one would imagine that the transport industry was permanently in a state of civil war. The fact that...

• A Comparison of Costs Between a Mediumweight 7-8-ton Oiler and a Heavy 8 - 9tanner Suitable for Trailer Working S OME of...

P ATENT No. 795,260 shows a transmission system having two clutches and two separate power paths through the gearbox. This...