O PERATORS throughout the country are up in arms against the excessively heavy burdens with which • road transport. on both the...

11HE time has arrived for the various asso ciations representing road transport in its different phases to be brought closer...

rr HE Manchester Joint Committee on Transport, to the formation of which we drew attention some time ago, is carrying out...

The call of the c—oach. Of " wing " on motor vehicles becoming a norner. • Of further motor mechanization in the postal...

During the year ended March 31 last the British Electric Traction Co., Ltd., made a net profit of £245,123, a slight decrease...

Newcastle Station Deadlock: Move Expected SOM. Although no settlement has yet been reached between Newcastle Corporation and...

P HE Ochsner system of dealing with street refuse is one for which deimite advantages are claimed, and records of its operation...

IN PARLIAMENT By Our Special Parliamentary Correspondent Road and Rail Traffic Bill in Committee Sixth Sitting Opens. , A T...

The New Budget Duties. A S on the previous occasion upon which considerable changes were made in the scales of vehicle duties,...

A N illustration of the latest all.M.steel S-ton timber carriage, made by Taskers, of Andover (1932), Ltd., Andover, Hants,...

FURNITURE BODIES HE transport of furniture may be divided into three cate gories :—(1) The removal of the contents of a...

central-entrance Trolley -bus W E are able this week to give details of a newcomer in the trolleybus market, this resulting...

The transport committee of Plymouth Corporation reports a surplus of £872 for the past year. The accounts of Dewsbury...

Busy Whitsun at Heston. On June 2 • the Whitsun rush commenced in earnest at Heston, 32 machines being given Customs...

IN THE TRIED OUT HIGHLANDS A T the beginning of this year Albion Motors, Ltd. i Scotstoun, Glasgow, introduced an improved...

OST owners of commercial vehicles IV_Lregard the oil periodically drained from their engines as practically valueless; indeed,...

ext Week's CLEANSING :ONFERENCE E DINBURGH is the centre chosen for this year's annual conference—the 35th—of the Institute...

A S this year's Congress of the Tramways Light Railways and Transport Association is being held at Leeds., it is appropriate...

MEEE, author points out that considerable confusion exists in the public mind as to the qualifications of the various modes of...

T EE subject of regeneration on electric vehicles has, during the past few years, excited increasing attention, and at every...

A ' present, bus operators are faced not only with high petrol prices, due to sizes in the cost of fuel itself (this paper was...

of practical work entered for the annual competitions held by the Institute of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers,...

WHITSUN . DEMAND FOR COACHES FAR EXCEEDS SUPPLY T EE successful working of coach operators during the Easter holidays was...

P.S.V. OFFENCES ANALYSED. IN a return showing the number of offences telating to motor vehicles in England and Wales, and the...

FIN the first examination, it might be thought that the cyclist is one of the last persons to whom coach travel would prove...

A N interesting vehicle has recently been put into service by Dwyer and Co. (Iraq), Ltd., Baghdad, and it is being used for...

The Editor, TIIE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. [4088] Sir,—Assuming, as one supposes that we muat do, that with possibly some minor...

A T the Royal Agricultural Show, to be held next month at Derby, a machine that has not been seen before will be exhibited by...

W HOLESALERS and retailers in the drapery business are still busy. Orders are being refused on account of the difficulty of...

A READER of The Commercial Motor, Mr. R. Heggadon, Kigbeare, Okehampton, Devon, has invented and provisionally patented a wheel...

HAULIER and CARRIER I TERMINATED the previous article at a point in a conversation with a haulier, a newcomer to the industry,...

pATENT N. 391,218, by C. H. Vidal and Joseph Lucas, Ltd., relates to a device for testing the gas-tight fit of valves in their...