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10th January 1969
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New option for operators

Within a few years operators of heavy trucks will have not only a choice of makes and configurations of vehicle but a new...

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'I'll shut down rather than give in', says East Anglian haulier

• A Cambridgeshire haulier under pressure from the Transport and General Workers' Union for a large pay increase has issued...

'Super-service' haulage terminals planned to serve container-port areas

• An £18m. chain of nine transport terminals offering extensive facilities for repair, maintenance, servicing and secure...

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RHA and DEP to talk on productivity

• Although the trade union side of the National Negotiating Committee for road haulage has refused to meet the employers to...

Grant for costs exercise

• Time spent by hauliers' staffs in compiling the information required for the Road Haulage Association's new cost and...

Part-time staff for Hull?

• The use of garage staff as drivers and conductors, the employment of part-timers, and recruitment, for the first time, of...

Token trouble

• Sunderland's bus tokens-3m of them —will have to be scrapped. This is because the new decimal penny, which is already...

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Death of Mr David Webster

Mr. David Webster, one of the Conservative front bench spokesmen on transport, died suddenly on Wednesday. He was 45 and MP for...

Glasgow-Paris freight express starts on Monday

• Scottish shipping agents and exporting firms have shown a keen interest in the new cargo service to be put in operation from...

East Anglian haulage dispute

continued from page 19 In addition, the Peterborough agreement presented to Knowles Transport had since become more onerous. A...

Traffic rule details must be given

• Local authorities should be required to give precise details of the extent of traffic regulation orders when they are...

FTA's first annual lunch

Sir Henry C. Johnson, chairman of the British Railways Board, is to be the guest speaker at the first annual luncheon of the...

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SPD uses computer for building delivery van loads

• Members of the Institute of Transport. (Metropolitan section) were able to further their computer knowledge this week when...

A first for Fred

• A number of exhibits at the Inventions and New Products Exhibition—LINPEX—held in London this week are directed at commercial...

Larger loads for Lisbon

• Normandy Ferries can now accommodate self-drive vehicles land vehicles which can be driven, such as excavators and mobile...

Record sales for Bedford light vans

• Total sales of Bedford commercial vehicles in 1968 were 6.2 per cent higher than in 1967 at 97,484 units, with light vans...

Traffic Regulation changes in spring

• When the Transport Act 1968 became law an announcement was made that tne Road Traffic Regulation Act 1967 would be reprinted...

Busy Danish ferry

• Mols-Line, the subsidiary of the United Steamship Company of Copenhagen (DFDS), is carrying an increasing volume of...

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The growing challenge of the Freightliner service

• The growing challenge to road haulage of the rail Freightliner service is highlighted in Transport for industry, the summary...

Laird-mounted lightweight fridge body

• A payload of 7 tons 9cwt of temperaturecontrolled meats can be carried by a BMC Laird 1160R 13-ton g.v.w. machine recently...

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Fork trucks at Avonmouth ,

II Fork truck specialist L. Lipton Ltd. has apened a new depot at Unit No. 3, St. Andrews Trading Estate, Avonmouth, Bristol....

Three orders for Taskers

IP Taskers Trailers have received three orders to a total value of over £500,000. They comprise 1,100 trailer chassis of 5 ton...

TM L courses?

• The education and training committee of the Freight Transport Association is con sidering the possibility of running courses...

£2m ferry plan

• Plans to build a new passenger-vehicle ferry for the Stranraer-Larne service at a cost of more than £2m have been submitted...

New plant depot in Wrexham

• As a further step in its plant expansion programme, Kaye Goodfellow and Co. Ltd. is opening a new depot in Wrexham, Denbighs....

by Roger Howell Duramin 40ft side and end loading freight containers

A NEW 40ft long general-purpose freight container, designed to allow maximum unrestricted side access as well as normal end...

£2.5m development at Greenock container terminal ..

CLYDE Port Authority is opening its new £2.5m Greenock container terminal in midJanuary, bringing a new transportation pattern...

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'Super-service' terminals

continued from page 19 includes the use of a very large skid-pan. Fitters will receive classroom training, practical workshop...

National Bus Company appointments

R. St. C. Sandal!, 44, has been appointed secretary of the National Bus Company: D. W. Glassborow, 48, chief planning and...

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Rising resentment over MB 'No` to garagemen's rises

from our industrial correspondent • Fresh unrest in Britain's companyowned bus services is feared following last week's Prices...

Sunderland starts zonal fares

• New zonal fares, approved by Sunderland transport committee to replace the existing flat-rate fare, were brought into...

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LTB 'satellites' on collision course

by Derek Moses • With the news that the Transport (London) Bill is expected to receive the Royal Assent in July. the row...

Birmingham fares plan postponed

*The simplified ''four fares" plan for Birmingham City Transport buses (CM last week) was postponed by the city's transport...

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MetropolitanSuperior in production

• Production of the Metropolitan-Superior export bus body (CM September 8 1967) has now begun—in Cammell Laird's factory at...

Border transport Mr. Marsh replies

• The suggestion by transport consultant Mr. John Hibbs that the Edinburgh-London summer coach service might be diverted ....

Busmen demand big o-m-o bonuses

• A demand for high productivity bonuses for one-man bus operations was placed before employers at yesterday's meeting of the...

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LTB garages as repair depots?

• London's bus garages could be turned into "super repair depots" for all sorts of vehicles, says an article in the current...

Business-minded Leicester changes bus services

• "Any manufacturing firm or service which hopes to maintain its position in a competitive market must closely watch its field...

North East strike narrowly averted

• A strike which would have crippled weekend bus services in five areas of the North East was narrowly averted after peace...

• Rises in SBG • • • • fares delayed •

• The Scottish Traffic Commissioners • • have refused to approve all of the fares • • increases applied for by the Scottish Bus...

Late crews sent home

• Complaints have been made to Newcastle upon Tyne Corporation transport department that drivers and conductors who turned up...

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Larrow applications in Northern area refused

• When Mr. T. H. Campbell Wardlaw, appearing on behalf of Larrow Transport (Northern) Ltd. at a public inquiry in Newcastle...

Conversion for tippers granted

• Rodger (Builders) Ltd., of Earlston, was granted a B licence for six tippers formerly on C licence by the Scottish LA, Mr. A....

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Contaminated vehicles lost business

• Having operated three vehicles under short-term licence granted on the first day's hearing in November, Gilbraith Tankers...

Tribunal upholds LA's direction

• In a written decision, the Transport Tribunal has refused the appeal of John Hill and Sons (Walsall) Ltd. against the action...

Nine taken off licence

• At Carlisle on Monday the Northern LA removed seven vehicles from the B licence and two from the A licence of J. Johnston and...

Hanson applies for all-A fleet

• Introducing his successor, Major-General Sir John Potter, the Yorkshire Licensing Authority, Mr. H. E. Robson, commenced...

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Mercedes-Henschel

Hanomag link? from a special correspondent • West Germany's problem of too many lorry makers chasing a limited market has...

Fire fighting health hazards

• A warning that types of fire extinguish ers carried by large numbers of van drivers and motorists can be a serious health...

York's new 'knock-about' van

• First production models of the Dockwalloper, York Trailer's new container-bodied city delivery van, are now being completed...

Short course for senior engineers

• An advanced three-day course on the electrical equipment of commercial and public service vehicles is to be held on February...

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272 bhp VS in Brussels AECs

• Two of the AEC goods vehicles and the AEC Sabre and Guy Conquest (Daimler Roadliner as marketed on the Continent) to be seen...

UK oil consumption still increasing

• Figures published by Petroleum Information Bureau show that oil consumption in the United Kingdom continues to rise. Demand...

BEN' amalgamation

• After negotiations lasting over two years an amalgamation has finally been arranged between the Motor and Cycle Trades...

I oTA conference

• The annual conference of the Institute of Traffic Administration will be held this year in London, on May 9-10. The...

Progress with plywood

• During a lecture given by Mr. I. D. G. Lee, managing director, and Mr. A. B. Hall, technical manager, of the Finnish Plywood...

Dutch haulier buys Merriworth trailers

• A batch of Merriworth 12-metre TIR tandem-axle semi-trailers is being supplied to the Dutch haulage concern of N. de Groot,...

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Road and workshop

by Handyman Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (26) • Much unscheduled time in workshops caused by damage to vehicle or...

Fares and tickets

HE LAST part of the 1936 Public Service rehicle (Conduct of Drivers. Conductors and assengers) Regulations, still concerned...

Business Briefs

GAE DOR A new workshop has been added to the facilities offered by Gaedor Ltd. at Newport. Mon. The workshop is separate from...

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The turbine challenge

TECHNICIANS OF LEYLAND GAS TURBINES LTD. OUTLINE THE ESTABLISHED AND POTENTIAL MERITS OF THE GAS TURBINE IN COMPETITION WITH...

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Multi-purpose set-up aids Barrow-in-Furness

Corporation department covers passenger services, general municipal transport and MoT test facilities by Ashley Taylor,...

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* The young idea

foday will undoubtedly be a pleasurable )ccasion for Ronald Pochin, managing Erector of Ferodo Ltd., Chapel-en-le-Frith, 'or he...

* Paying a divi

The Young Enterprise organization aims to give young people an insight into business problems by allowing them to form and...

*Doctor's orders

One of the most blood-chilling facts to come out of the AA's survey of drugs and driving (published in the latest issue of...

* Whose responsibility?

Doctors seem clearly at fault in not making it a practice to warn patients of the likely side-effects of prescribed...

* Swell people

Now we know where all those extra forms are coming from. Since 1958, when the Civil Service was cut to 377,600 from the...

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Length of haul

Even if the new report is only a summary, as it is described, it ought to indicate sufficiently clearly whether the...

Janus comments

Museum piece? field consignment weight is the most significant factor although it explains only 7 per cent of the distribution...

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P.s.v. licence applications become more onerous

No. 4 by lain Sherriff II Despite the diligence of the Traffic Commissioners when examining applications For public service...

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Women drivers

Your November 15 issue mentioned the possible training of women to drive London buses. I marked the article "20th Century"! The...

Caetano coach

As the suppliers of the Ford D500 Caetano 23-seater coach .to Hicks Coaches of Accrington, Lanes, and as sole concessionaires...

Morris Commercial history

am compiling a history of Morris Commercial Cars Ltd., and would like to make an appeal, through your journal, for any...

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Pay and productivity: more dynamite

from the PIB THE Prices and Incomes Board report "Productivity Agreements in the Road Haulage Industry" is full of dynamite...

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a I am an owner-driver and have recently

replaced my old 20-ton-gross sixwheeler. My new vehicle is a three-axle artic plated for 24 ton gross and its weekly mileage...

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RHA forges ahead with management courses

THE IMPACT of the grant/levy system of the Road Transport Industry Training Board has been slow in being felt in road transport...

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Safety Code A revised edition of the British Safety Council's

Safety Code for Handling industrial Solvents, originally compiled in 1964, has now been published. The Safety Code follows the...

Tungsten-halogen lamp

A 60/65W twin-filament tungsten-halogen bulb for car headlamps, giving a wide concentrated beam of high power, has been...

Warning lamps

From Hefla come two warning lamps. The SWBL2 is a combination amber-flasher warninglamp and torch, the amber flashing section...

Alignment lift

Of particular interest to light vehicle operators is a front-end alignment lift introduced by Castro!. The lift will accept...

Pre-cap ball joint

A reduction in wheel shimmy and an elimination of knocking or hammering of the bearing surface are among the advantages claimed...

Amplifier

Aiphone Communication Systems Ltd. has announced a telephone amplifier, the GA.50, a successor to the GA.30. The GA 60, fully...

Pneumatic tacker

Staples are fired in twothousands of a second by the new Industrie 350 pneumatic tacker from Industrial Stapling and Packaging...

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Tour labels

Of especial interest to express coach operators is a range of luggage labels introduced by Norprint Ltd. The 10i-in long label...

Spray systems

Complete wall-mounted, hot, airless-spray systems can now be supplied by Berk Ltd. from modular pump units, heaters and gun...

Interrupter unit

P.M.G. Thorpe Ltd., part of the Britax-Excelsior Group, has developed a fully transistorized electronic interrupter unit for...

Radio telephone

Brown-Boveri has introduced new VHF/UHF FM mobile radio telephone set into its high frequency field. One of the outstanding...

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KEEPING THEM RUNNING

\tirith Ron Cater/ Although much discussion has taken place about the brake efficiencies required under the Plating and...

Universal grinder

An hydraulically operated universal grinding machine, designed to manufacture shafts and similar work pieces to a high degree...

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)il hose standard

he British Standards Institution as published a revised form of ;S 1435 covering "rubber hose, /ire-reinforced, for oil suction...

Pulley blocks standard

A second standard introduced is one for pulley blocks for use with synthetic fibre ropes (metric units) and is covered in BS...

Anti-theft device

From a special nut designed to beat the battery thief has stemmed a whole range of anti-theft devices. They are introduced by...