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12th June 1964
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We Are 'Europe'

IN THE past 15 years the volume of international goods transport in 'Europe has doubled • every live years! This staggering...

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APPROVAL FOR TRANSPORTERS FUNCTIONAL GROUP

A T a well-attended meeting of car transporter operators in London on Monday. virtually unanimous approval was given to the...

Scottish and Northern Tipper Groups Discuss interworking

"C LOSING the gate before the horse has a chance to bolt" was one of the phrases used in describing the purpose of the...

T.R.T.A. Opposition

A N official objection to proposals for peak-hour bans on goods vehicles in streets around the centre of Reading has been...

Improve Links Between Docks and Carriers T HERE was considerable room

for improvement in the consultative arrangements between the docks authorities and the providers of transport, especially at...

Brake Standards Must be Flexible

W HILST accepting the need for specific braking efficiencies (as proposed in conjunction with the new weights and dimensions...

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BALANCED PENALTIES AT C.D.O.Y. FINAL

A T a Lor,7 Driver of the Year national executive committee meeting in Coventry on Tuesday, it was decided that penalties in...

T.D.G. Buys Edinburgh Haulier

rIN Tuesday the Transport Develop ment Group Ltd. acquired the issued share capital of Thomas Smith Jun. (Newhaven) Ltd., of...

North Lincs and Lowe .Take-overs

WpTH the acquisition, 'announced this VV week, of Lincolnshire and Durham haulage concerns, London and Northern Securities Ltd....

LIGHT DAF COMMERCIALS FOR U.K.?

T HE present British importers of DAF Daffodil private cars. DM' Concessionaires Ltd., 10 Albemarle Street. London, W.I, are...

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No Agreement Yet on Liner Depots

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT RITISH RAILWAYS chairman, Dr. Beeching, and Mr. Sidney Greene, general secretary of the...

EVAN COOK MERGER

LWAN COOK (HOLDINGS) LTD., 1 - 4 Peckham, and the Joseph Constantine Steamship Line Ltd. have announced that negotiations have...

Horticultural Transport Problem QOUTH LINCOLNSHIRE flower growers are faced by

a major transport problem with the notification by British Railways that they plan to stop accepting boxes of flowers for...

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NEW SEMITRAILER FOR ROYAL SHOW

A NEW develop ment announced by Weeks and Co. (En g ineers) Ltd.. Oxford Street, Wincolmlee, Hull, is a 12-ton-capacity sin g...

Remove Bus Fuel Tax'

THE removal of the tax on fuel oil used by buses would be a major contribution towards the improvement of urban and rural...

Urban Vehicle Design—and Pay-as-you-go?

A NEW, two-pron g ed attack on the problem of traffic in towns was disclosed by Mr. Marples in the Commons on Wednesday. He...

'Concessionary' Study

"THE Prime Minister fast week promised I to make a "very limited" examination of any cases in which old people are sufferin g...

No Lorry Ban, No N ew Smoke Controls

NAR. MARPLES this week refused to in take steps to discoura g e lorry traffic on main roads out of _lar g e towns durin g the...

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EXPERIMENTS WITH BUS PLATOONS

A SERIES of experiments involving platoons of buses has been carried out at the G.M.C. Proving Ground in America, and the...

UNITED TO TAKE OVER NORFOLK SERVICE

U NITED AUTOMOBILE SERVICES LTD., has applied for a licence to operate a bus service between Newcastle upon Tyne (Marlborough...

Progress in London Talks But Still a Pay Gap

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT R ELATIONS between the London Transport Board and its busmen took a step forward at their...

Passenger Tralispol~t

IN BRIEF No Right Turn: The Glasgow Corporation highways and safety committee has refused a request by Scottish Omnibuses Ltd....

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Oldham's First Forward-entrance Double-deckers

A NUMBER of innovations for Old ham Corporation passenger transport department are included in 10 recently delivered...

Wrap-round Screens for Gateshead Atlanteans

A FEATURE of 17 Alexander-bodied Leyland Atlanteans on order for the Gateshead and District Omnibus Co. Ltd. will be one-piece...

Luton Economizes on Buses

B ECAUSE of the continued fall ir passenger traffic, Luton Corporation transport committee has considered future policy with...

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'Stigma of Receivership'

A FTER an adjournment consultation between the parties, an application for 12 articulated vehicles on A licence was withdrawn...

No Licences Without Fair Rates for Colvilles Steel Mr. Quin

A T Glasgow on Wednesday the Scottish PI Licensing Authority, Mr. W. F. Quin, criticized the rates paid by Colvilles Ltd. for...

Higher Ribble Fares

A N application last week for fares increases by Ribble Motor Services has been granted by the Northern Traffic Commissioners...

Variation of Expres s Licences Granted

T HE service between Newark and Cambridge provided by Thomas Tours Ltd. would not suffer if a jointlyoperated express service...

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PART GRANT FOR PRIESTLEY

A N application by Joe Priestley I -1 (Warrington) Ltd. to vary their normal user by including steel and paper and adding four...

Main Road Application Adjourned

T HE. managing director of two haulage companies in Cornwall told the Western Licensing Authority, Mr. S. W. Nelson, at Exeter,...

Barrie Gets• 25 B-to-A Switch

JOHN flAkRLE 'LTD., of Glasgow, J operating 94 vehicles, was granted a switch of 25 of these---the only remaining B-licensed...

No Right of Appeal Says Tribunal

IN a written judgment giving its reasons for dismissing an appeal by Broadway Haulage and others against a grant of a...

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Big Applications in Scotland HAULAGE APPLICATIONS

and the Midlands T WO large contract switches and a big A-licence application are among the haulage bids listed this week. In...

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Mr. Hugh I. Arnold, deputy export nanager of A.E.C. (Sales)

Ltd., has been tppointed general sales manager of Transport Equipment (Thornycroft) Ltd. le still retains his position with...

Obituary

WE regret to record the deaths of Mr. A. E. Bonfield, Mr. A. E. Dew, Mr. Walter Epton and Mr. John' H. Wilcox. Mr. Bonfield,...

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Automotive Engineers Meet in Brussels

A T the second European Automotive Symposium, organized by Petrofina S.A. and held in Brussels between Monday and Thursday of...

ORDERS and DELIVERIES

MORE A.E.C. CHASSIS FOR AFRICA: A.E.C. Ltd. has received orders for a total of 53 goods chassis from its African distri butors....

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CAN YOU VVR1TE?

rr HERE is a vacancy for a technical man on the editorial staff of "The Commercial Motor ". The successfuj applicant must have...

C h rys ler—Roates IN a statement issued on Friday,

the I Rootes Group and the Chrysler Corporation announced agreement on the proposed acquisition by Chrysler of 30 per cent of...

Alleged Fraud on Exhaust Device TWO men who invented a

device 1 which was claimed to purify exhaust gases from • motor vehicles were committed in custody at Wells Street Court,...

Dipped Again in Birmingham

A FTER claiming that last winter's 1 – t second-year dipped-headlight campaign proved a success, in that casualties were down...

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NEWS IN BRIEF

Russian Prospects for Perkins: Following his visit to the British Exhibition in Moscow, Mr. Richard Perkins, director and...

ROAD AND WORKSHOP by Handyman

Arc Welding Hints—Overhead Welding WITH overhead welding, as with vertiVI' cal, the first and hardest task is to strike an...

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talve Guides Back to Size

▪ QUIPMENT which provides a means of bringing back to —• standard size the bores of worn valve guides without removTig them...

Cap and Cooling System Tester A N improved version of the

AC Pressure Cap and Cooling System Tester is now available from the AC-Delco Division of General Motors Ltd. The new tester,...

Four More from Boots FOUR new products with applications in

the motor industry are announced by Boots the Chemists. One of these is a " Wax and Clean" car shampoo, which consists • of a...

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BIRD'S

EYE By The Hawk VIEW Why the increase One of the changes arising from the formation of the London Transport Board in place...

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'A sad reversion to the dark ages before the War'

S TUDIES of this, that and the other are as characteristic of Dr. Beeching as they were of Leonardo da Vinci. His progress...

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The Lull Before th4 Itorrn?

O PPOSING views on advertising were ventilated at the morning session of the annual conference of the British Association of...

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GROWING CO!

rRY By G. A. PEARSON S EEDS are still sown by the million in Eastern England but the miles of green fields no longer conceal...

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'Cut Customs Documents' Call from 1.11.11.

From a Special Correspondent A T its ninth Congress, in Cannes last week, the International Road Transport Union (l.R.U.)...

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Parked Vehicles Off-set Sweeping Progress

O NE of the ironies of our highly mechanized civilisation was that modern road surfaces, fastmoving traffic and the high cost...

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3y Ashley Taylor, A.M.I.R.T.E. ASSOC. Inst. T.

nce, others were straightforward suction iachines. Mention had been made of the fact at some suction-assisted power sweepers...

Pre-planning En sures Clearance

majority of authorities with a Thigh reputation for snow clearance produced detailed plans which were revised each year, said...

Work Study a Factor That Cannot be Ignored

QUMMING up on his exhaustive review of work study as applied to public cleansing, Mr. Frank Flintoff (director of public...

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Many cleansing officers, certainly those from London authorities, would have a

good opportunity of considering . the different Methods to be adopted and the equipment that was being displayed in relation to...

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Local Winner at• Maidstone

THE Kent round of the Lorry Driver L of the Year competition yearly goes from strength to strength, the 1964 edition at...

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Last-minute Entrant Wins Scottish Contesi

Overall winner R. Hatley with his trophy. F LAGS and bunting out everywhere; shops festooned whir flowers; pipe bands; a...

RESULTS OF SCOTTISH COMPETITION

Overall Winner: 1, R. Halley (B.R.S.). Bristol. Runner-up: J. M. Gardner (John Russell Ltd.), A.E.C. Team Award: British Road...

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Drawing Up the Contract

F OLLOWINCi consideration, in previous articles, of circumstances in which the hiring of commercial vehicles on contract might...

FROM THE POSTBAG A Southern operator at present driving a

7-tanner on contract asks for advice on the possibility of acquiring an open licence and at the same time leasing a new...

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MONEY MATTERS

The Link-up Betwe MEWS that the CHRYSLER CORPORATION is offering to buy 30% of each holding of Ordinary Shares of ROOTES at a...

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IN YOUR OPINION

The editor is always pleased to receive letters on all aspects of the road transport Industry. Contributors must include their...