T HERE are a surprising number of ways in which to lose money. At one end of the " scale " it can be lost simply by tipping it...

T HE Motor Industry Research Association was treated to some complimentary—and highly deserved—remarks by the Minister of...

J UST after the conclusion of the 1914-18 war, tiA young men returned to their native Salford and starte to think about ways of...

.11 EXAGON is a pronoun that is almost invariably intro duced into the conversation of Mr. J. Mackie, general manager of...

powers, through a Northern Ireland Bill, to transfer manage ment of Belfast's Bellevue, Hazlewood and Belfast Castle tc the...

T HE announcement made on Monday evening that Leyland Motors, Ltd., had made a bid worth nearly £18m. for the ordinary...

H AULAGE contractors serving Glasgow docks can look forward to a major speedup in turn-round as a result of an important...

C LA1MS on behalf of 100,000 employees of provincial bus companies for more pay and improved working conditions were rejected...

HORTLY before the Commercial Motor Show in September, improvelilts to the brakes of Thames Trader licks were announced by the...

A DEPUTATION comprising Mr. fl T. H, Campbell Wardlaw, the Newcastle solicitor, and the heads of three of the Northern area's...

MR. F. D. PALMER has joined Fropax, Ltd.. as their transport manager. MR. A. W. MAHONEY has been re-elected chairman of the...

A T the opening of the new Oswald Tillotson Depot for servicing A.E.C. vehicles, at Kingsway West, Dundee, on Wednesday, Sir...

W E record with regret the deaths MR. V. E. WINBOLT, MR. ROBERT .1 MURPHY. MR. JOHN ROBERT HARNO1 MR. LEONARD GREEN and MR. SAM...

PPLICAT1ONS before the Western I-1 Licensin g Authority at Bristol on Tuesday indicated i he advanta g es to applicants of...

Tanker Hauliers? THE YORKSHIRE Licensing Authority's grant of an A licence for 12 tankers to Smith and Robinson (Leeds),...

F ROM Lagos. Barclays Bank D.C.O. reports that a vehicle-assembly plant, constructed and equipped by the United Africa Company...

A N order worth over £26,000 has been received by Leyland Motors, Ltd.. from Technoimport, Bucharest, who are the...

THE new Ravenscraig steel works o Colvilles, Ltd., at Motherwell, ha created a major flow of transport work I Lanarkshire, it...

k HAULIER who was convicted of. -1 among 'other things, .altering records ith intent to deceive, has had one of is B vehicles...

A NEW type of semi-trailer is announced today by the York Trailer Co., Ltd., Corby, Northants. It is known as the Trombone,...

'HE manager of a transport firm was sent to prison for nine months when pleaded guilty at Stafford Assizes last ek to charges...

W IGAN Trades Council have appealed to trade union members not to accept lifts to work by private transport. Not only had lack...

A N extensive new Leeds-Bradford depot for Hanson Haulage (Leeds), Ltd„ is to be opened by Maj. F. S. Eastwood, the York shire...

• 1-1 A NEW eight-wheeled chassis with a set-back engine and a wheelbase of only 13 ft. 7 in., 1 ft. shorter than that of the...

A FULLY EQUIPPED servicing f: 1 - "I tory for Leyland group vehicles vi opened on Tuesday in Silkeborg, Di mark. The factory...

oughly• one-seventh of Ireland is bogland. Black barren wastes, 90% water, that would drown the man who walked on them. For...

k SPECIAL meeting of the Ministers of Transport of the six-country ammon Market area was held in *insets this week. At this...

By Ashley Taylor, A.M.I.R.T.E., Assoc.Inst.T. WHAT has been described as the most expen " sive water barrier in the world...

many objections, mainly by British Railways, to special A conversions to L public A licence by independents, seem likely to...

O N the fourth and final day of the appeal by Merchandise Transport, Ltd., of Ferry Lane, Tottenham, a subsidiary of Harris...

T HE Common Market was the greatest problem to the British vehicle manufacturing industry, said Sir Bertram Waring, president...

I -1 A FARMER who had been carr neighbours' cattle for hire or rev for 20 years, with a C-licensed veh was opposed by five...

CCOR DING to news from America, a number of models in the range of trucks produced by International Harvester Company, Ise...

IN his description of the Commer i-ton, 12-seater I personnel carrier (The Comtnercial Motor, November 25) Mr. T. Walkerley...

:ebuilding Scheme ilever Spend £126,000 on Swansea Premises ITH the opening on Tuesday in Swansea of the 33rd S.P.D., Ltd.,...

EJUVENATION EASES LEMS T HE G.P.O., like other Government Departments, is not entirely free to determine how much it will...

A PIER a year's marketing of their r - 1 industrial three-cell B.M. torch, Bardic, Ltd., Southampton, is now producing for...

L ESS is heard nowadays of the idea that the railwaymen and the road transport men will one day be superseded by a new type...

A BELL (STOCKTON), .LTD., are 1-1 seeking two heavy articulated units to be based in the Norwich area, for collection and...

f HE necessity to design factories and warehouses to facilitate materials andling was emphasized by a number f speakers at the...

R ENEWAL of motor vehicle excise licences is a routine task for many operators at this time of the year, but it is nevertheless...

A ' a" Brains Trust" organized by the Institute of Traffic Administration in London last week an underlying theme running...

M UCH of the discussion that followe Mr. Alex Samuels' Paper, " Sorr Traffic Problems of London," given la: week to the Royal...

T HE possibility of banning certain classes of light commercial vehicles from the 1961 Lorry Driver of the Year competition was...

Encouragement was to be given tc drivers to fit additional safe-driving aids such as extra mirrors, to their vehicles ti assist...