B ECAUSE transport is a public service in the widest sense it is inevitable that it should be subject to a continuing series of...

THE Northern Ireland Government's decision to charge road freight cornpanics a licence fee of £10 per vehicle has had a mixed...

T HE eventual termination of the TIR system within the Common Market is envisaged in EEC plans for greater simplification of...

DUILT by the Glasgow company of Thermotank Ltd. for Esso Petroleum Co. Ltd, the very first road-going tanker with a 6,000-gal....

From our Industrial Correspondent A DRAMATIC drop in freight receipts was reported by British Railways Board last week....

F HE striking Fineline van, designed and built by B. Walker and Son Ltd., iammons Lane. Watford, and first seen t The...

examiners carried out spot checks n 12,484 heavy goods vehicles during lane at roadside sites and at the remises of firms...

F 1GL/RES released by Scotland Yard to the Vehicles Security Committee (set up by the Road Haulage Association) show...

C'ARRIMORE LTD.. of North Finchley. London, has recently delivered two vehicles equipped with clamping roofs for the purpose...

A N experimental traffic scheme. making Blackmail Tunnel one-way southbound and Rotherhithe Tunnel one-way northbound for...

Parcels Ltd. Formerly .vin g with Carter Paterso n , Mr, Moffat s held appointments of audit officer and visional ticcountant...

1inthe Commons last week why he had a g ree to the proposal transferrin g the interests of British Road Services (Meat Haula g...

T RA FFIC Commissioners who g ranted a licence for a bus service could not order the operator to continue if the service was...

DEREK MOSES PEAKING in Leeds last Friday, the Minister of Transport is reported as ing that " we need to take priority for...

D E1AILS of the full range of Duple Group bodies available for mounting on Bedford p.s.v. chassis in the coming year have been...

A T a special meeting last week f. Glasgow Corporation transport committee decided that proposals suggested by a firm of...

L" DI N BURGH Corporation transport . 1 -4 department has indicated the need for bus clearways in the city if passenger...

tISTOLS FOR WESTERN SMT N order for 20 Daimler Fleetlines has been placed by W. Alexander and Midland) Ltd.. whilst Western...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT 7 ..SS than two months after getting their last pay rise London busmen the first step last...

THE Minister of 'Transport has refused the appeal . of Eastern National Omnibus Co. Ltd., Ribble Motor Services Ltd.. and...

Gateshead's. Suggestion on Appeals: Gateshead . Corporation . has suggested to the Ministry of Transport that where an appeal...

S HORTAGE of vehicles was seriously undermining the quality of the smalls" service offered by J. Brevitt Ltd., of Willenhall....

IF London hauliers had known that I Heinz and Libby's traffic ex-London was involved in the application. it would have...

CCONOMIC difficulties faced by rural bus operators were highlighted at Llandrindod Wells on Wednesday. when Cross Gates Motors...

INQUIRYR EV EA LS F LAW I N GV9 PROCEDURE E irpuTh VE ci mAts OTRIAI calling upon Davis Brothers (Haulage) Lid. under Section...

—a simple remedy w iry it took Maj.-Gen. A. F. J. Elmslie, • the South Eastern Licensing Authority, almost a month to decide...

£181m. Budfords Sold Abroad: No less than 65 per cent of the total output from the Bedford factory at Dunstable during the...

F OB a number of years problems have arisen for operators of diesel-eneined vehicles when water has unavoidably entered the...

ONSTRUCTED to handle dangerous loads of greased. bright-steel bars which extremely difficult to prevent from nig when the...

Taper Fits—Steering Ball Pins DECENTLY I was shown a steering lever removed from a tractive unit where the ball pin had been...

M. Wood. of Shipton-by Benningbro'. nr. York. His idea concerns engine removal from I.eyland Octopus and Beaver models, types...

and Publications stler Fork-lift Trucks '0 models of a new make of fork-lift truck are flow. ■ ailable in this country. ....

C RITICISMS which hauliers have had to endure recently are as nothing to the drubbing meted out to almost all the individuals...

IN the past few years the advent of large-scale construe' tion jobs, the like of which have not been common in the UK, has...

IT IS MORE THAN A POSSIBILITY IN THE MIND OF TOY() KOGYO OF HIROSHIMA Part V of a series on Japan by ALAN HAVARD, M inst T T...

deliver goods beyond the shores of our island, The Commercial Motor last month published a guide to vehicle ferries. Of the...

le to draw on a vast fund of indinavian ferry experience, where I-through vessels were introduced Fore the war, Thoresen Car...

Faced with the possibility of a further decline in stage carriage service revenue in the future, if the trend towards more...

Visit to Kranj Recently returned from a goodwill trip to Kranj, Jugoslavia (Oldham's twin town), is Oldham Corporation...

OPERATORS' EXPENDITURE CONTINUES TO INCREASE HE recent publication of the new 49th edition of "The Commercial Motor" Tables—of...

Long-term Prospects Good Says Stringer Chairman -4 CIING-TERM prospects are good." This cheery message is handed to...

Not Have Agreement Printed ? 'ERRING to the letter from A. Robert Hobbs ruly 23) regarding the agreement with the tipper tors,...

By George Wilmot Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London The Content of Courses in Transport Management-2 IN any...