W ILL fuel rationing leave an indelible imprint on road transport? Have the practices evolved to deal w ith the emergency any...

A STATEMENT made in the House of Commons last week by Mr. G. R. H. Nugent, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of ....

Where There's a Will R USSIANS are evidently not the only workmen who have built their own living accommodation in recent...

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT M ANY protests are likely to be made by hauliers when the new wage scale agreed by the Road Haulage...

NyIONDAY is the day set by a meeting In of shop stewards in London last week-end for an unofficial ban by lorry drivers on...

A PLAN for delivering spare vehicle parts to Africa by air is being expanded by Hunting-Clan Air Transport, Ltd., London...

THE Minister of Transport is con sidering a proposal that side guard rails should be fitted to goods vehicles, as well as to...

QPERATORS of four wheeled double-deck of registered before July 1, 1956, are to be allowed to modify them to increase the...

MR. R. A. WHEWAY has been appointed technical director of Job Wheway and Son, Ltd. MR. C. D. IDE has been .appointed joint...

T HE Leyland Group faces the future with confidence, after careful preparation and intensive development of export markets,...

IN a reserved decision, the North 1 Western Traffic Commissioners have refused to authorize W. Robinson and Sons (Great...

A FURTHER claim for higher wages for municipal bus workers is believed to be under consideration by the trade unions. The last...

r XPANSION of the activities of Global Tours, Ltd., is expected to result from• the taking by Great Universal Stores, Ltd., of...

T HE North Western Road Car Co., Ltd.. were seeking to compete With a service that British Railways had carefully nursed since...

A N application for higher fares opposed by 31 local councils was r - sonly partially granted to the Eastern Counties Omnibus...

L'OLLOWING an appeal by Swansea I Borough Council, the Minister . of Transport has made an Order on the South Wales Traffic...

IS an asphalt spreader, which can proI ceed under its own power only when layin g a road surface, a vehicle upon which li g hts...

O NE of the principal bus companies in Ceylon, the Hi g h Level Road Bus Co., has been directed to surrender its Colombo city...

B ASED on a specially reinforced Bedford SL chassis, a fire appliance incorporatin g a Ma g irus 81-ft. turntable ladder and...

T WENTY-FOUR sled trains, drawn by oil-engined tractors, are working around the clock in Manitoba. Canada, to move 30,000 tons...

T HE claim of the Western S.M.T. Co.. Ltd., to provide the major share of the bus service when trams are withdrawn in Paisley...

Petrol Price Cut: The price of petrol in Switzerland was last week reduced by about 2d. a gallon. Imports Freed: Restrictions...

R [COMMENDATIONS on the procedure to be followed by local authorities in making traffic regulation orders have been submitted...

VORKSH1RE horse-racing interests might be seriously affected by the jeopardizing of the railways' horsebox service because of...

T HE public register of agreements, being drawn up under the Registration of Restrictive Trading Agreements Order, 1956, will...

THE Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners. I at Leeds on Monday, granted an application by C. G. Littlewood, Ltd., Sheffield, for new...

rONFLICTING testimony as to the popularity of Great Yarmouth as a holiday resort for people in the Rothei - ham and Sheffield...

THE Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners decided at Leeds, last week, that a licence for a school bus service was not needed. Mr....

THE Minister of Transport has issued a circular to local authorities in England and Wales explaining the effect of forthcoming...

"14IGHLY successful " experiments have been made by GrimsbyCleethorpes municipal undertaking running buses on a mixture of 90...

A NUMBER of important recommendations on the system of registering and licensing vehicles and drivers through local taxation...

c1( er Fi rst Test By A j .m oh i n .R F .T .. E M . oon, Leyland Double-decker with Self-Changing Gears Fully Automatic...

A NEW type of semi-trailer that can travel by road or rail has been developed after four years' work by the Chesapeake and Ohio...

Inter-depot Trunk Services Now Operated from South Wales by Former Owner-driver By S. Buckley, Assoc.Inst.T. A LOAD of ship's...

O NE of the first applications of radio to the vehicles of a privateenterprise haulier, the Pye sets used by Reeves Transport,...

How the Law Differentiates Between "Driving" and " Work": Responsibilities of Employers By Our Legal Adviser T HE item, "Out...

How the Principles of a Payments Scheme are Related to a Variety of Fluctuating Operating Conditions to Mutual Advantage of'...

IN operation by the National Coal Board for over a year at Dillwyn Colliery, near Seven Sisters, Glamorgan, an A.E.C....

T HE recently introduced Spenborough UPT1400 10-toncapacity tipping gear has been demonstrated to The Commercial Motor by...

W HEN a European free-trade bloc becomes established, with Britain as a constituent member, goods, services and people are...

XAMPLES of the Clayton-Oetikei J-d exhaust brake have recently undergone a stringent test under service conditions in South...

TO assist in the clearance of flotsam. rubbish, oil, seaweed and so on from Blackpool's beaches, a 4/5-ton tipper based on a...

W HY should fuel used for operatin g unloading gear driven through a power take-off be taxed? This thought occurred to me when...

64 E have had an interesting debate, and I think it has followed the traditional pattern," Mr. George Nugent, Parliamentary...

T HE new wage proposals for drivers, now about to be issued as R.H. 61, have been made at a difficult time for operators. In...

' T HE principal reason that train and bus services are becoming uneconomic is because so many people have their own cars and...

"IT would be easier to walk," com l. mented Maj. F. S. Eastwood. chairman of the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners, when they...

E XCURSION and tour licences became farcical when operators had schedules of some 200 destinations and, for 90 per cent. of the...

A IR-OPERATED brakes should 1-1 always be fitted with means for direct manual operation if the power fails, and patent No....