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13th December 1957
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• Give the Code Some Teeth

The Road Traffic Acts Cannot Interpret All Careless or Dangerous Driving T HE decision of the Court of Appeal in White v....

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Inside Influence

A LTHOUGH British Road Services may be junior PI partners in the British Transport Commission, their chairman, Maj.-Gen. G. N....

Passing Comments

A Study of Road Congestion "Mr. Traffic" I N their interesting and informative booklet, "It's High Time . . . To Put an End to...

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One Hears—

That many drivers fail to give right of way to vehicles at their right negotiating a roundabout. That to give way in such...

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Mr. Cousins Again Scorned by London Busmen

L ONDON'S " rebel " busmen, a militant thorn in the side of the Transport I - 4 and General Workers' Union, have again rebuffed...

Geo. Ewer Buy Another Coach Business

A NOTHER acquisition by Geo. Ewer and Co., Ltd., was officially announced on Tuesday. They have taken over the coach business...

13.R. to Attack Changes in Normal User

H AULIERS applying for renewal of. 1 1 their A licences and showing a change of user will in future find strong opposition from...

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A FTER hearing on Tuesday that a haulage company had been

refused renewal of three A licences as a penalty for alleged irregularities, Mr. Hubert Hull, president of the Transport...

A VARIATION of a Continental tour granted in March, without' objection,

to Kirkbright and Clark, Ltd.. Burnley, was out of all proportion to the previous user, the North Western Traffic Commissioners...

One Trailer

to Replace Lorry A N application by Silver Roadways, Ltd., Liverpool, to surrender a special A licence for one vehicle in...

IF works-service bus crews allow pas1' sengcrs to alight at

irregular points. the operators must be held responsible. This was stated by Mr. G. Leopold Bush, for the Ministry of...

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Men in the News

MR. J. P. HALPIN has been appointed a director of Renold Chains, Ltd. MR. J. A. Tasrt.oa, sales director for Carrimore Six...

User Changed After Grant, say Objectors

A FTER surrendering some C-hiring allowances. Messrs. G. Hill and Son. Crewe, were granted an A licence to meet the needs of a...

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"Crosville Trying to Ruin Us," Says Competitor

A LLEGATIONS that Crosville Motor Services, Ltd., were deliberately trying to wear down and ruin the Llandudno and Colwyn Bay...

Tour Operators Entering by Back Door?

B y seeking a picking-up and settingdown point at Carnforth on a series of Scottish tours originating at Wigan, James Smith...

Operators Disagree on Waiting Bans

r ONFUCTiNG opinions about the impact, of restrictions on loading and unloading upon small shops, as distinct from large...

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Under - 21s and Articulated Outfits : No Firm Ruling

rrHREE judges were unable to decide, last week, whether a person under the age of 21 was entitled to drive an articulated...

Company Stand by Resistance Sum

E STIMATES of passenger resistance, put forward by the Bath Omnibus Co., Ltd., when they were granted fare increases in August,...

Sir Brian and Gen. Russell Agree

C OMMENTS by Maj.-Gen. G. N. Russell, chairman of British Road Services, in the Henry Spurrier Memorial Lecture to the...

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Station Charge Would Kill Service T HE operator of a stage

service between Rhosdu and Pwllheli was sent a bill for £67 by Pwllheli Borough Council because they claimed he had used their...

Over lm. C-licence • Vehicles

THERE are now over lm. C-licence I vehicles, whereas 10 years ago there were fewer than 500,000. The annual percentage increase...

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Canadians Visit Leyland and A.E.C. Factories

D URING their tour of Britain, members of the Canadian trade mission last week visited three of the five Lancashire factories...

2m. Passengers a

A BOUT 2m. passengers a year are PA being lost by the West Riding bus concern of S. Ledgard, Ltd., the Yorkshire Traffic...

Year Being Lost

in revenue, but even then they would only break even. The present application would not relieve the companies to any great...

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Wadham's Reorganize : Five Subsidiaries

QUBSTANTIAL changes in the Wadham group will take place on January 1. The parent company, Wadham Bros., Ltd., Waterlooville,...

T.U.C.C. Discuss Bus Withdrawal Plan

PROPOSALS by Hebble Motor I Services, Ltd., for ending two bus services in the Halifax aretv, were considered by the Yorkshire...

More Villages Will Lose Their Buses

M ANY more villages, and even some towns, will be deprived of bus services to and from shopping centres because of rising...

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Corn Dealers Propose Standards for Bulk Grain Handling

M OVEMENT of grain and animal feeding stuffs in bulk has been considered by a special sub-committee of the National Association...

U.S. Ford Improve Performance

F OUR headlights, arranged in pairs. are distinctive features of the 1958 range of American Ford commercial vehicles. These,...

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Compact New 10-ton Mobile Crane

‘"HIEF assets of the latest 10-tonner, the KL 10-6, to be added to the range of cranes produced by K. and L. Steelfounders and...

New Dodge 5-tonner : Models Uprated

A NEW economy 5-ton model has been added to the normal control range of trucks produced by Dodge Brothers (Britain), Ltd.....

Leyland Group Service Under One Roof

THE first sales and service depot deal ing with Leyland, Albion and Scammell vehicles was opened last week in the Midlands, on...

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Hauliers Look to Extende( [nterworking

Rate-cutting by Clearing Houses and B.R.S. Worries Operators in the Gloucester-Bristol-Bridgwater Area : Standard of Vehicles...

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FILLING LONDON'S LARDER

Efficient Fleet Maintains Daily Delivery to 146 Butchers' and Provision Shops in City, Town and Country N EITHER traffic...

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Where Angels Fear to Tread

VOUR political commentary of November 29 on the 1 Derek Wiscombe ,case makes pne or `two significant points which I appreciate...

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B.R.S. Chairman Warns Railways Against Rate War

Railways Should Concentrate on Traffics to he Carried in Large Quantities Over Long Distances i lthe railways began a...

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Legendary Figures

C URRENCY has receratly been given on two or three occasions to an interesting set of figures. They purport to be the result of...

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NEW "FOUR" OIN "RIAL

By John F. Moon, A.M.I.R.T.E. A LTHOUGH nominally a 3-tonner, the standard Bedford oil-engined drop-sided truck can carry a...

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Punner's Folly

Bird's Eye View By The Hawk " P futyl to make butyl." Americans used_ to say. But Dr. W. J. Sparks, the American scientific...

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Don't Minimize Maintenance

Personal Control of Maintenance May Give Benefits, but it Demands Administrative as Well as Capital Resources O NE of the...

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Extended Chassis for Furniture Van

A PRACTICAL approach to the prob lem of providing adequate body space for light, bulky loads and mounting the floor as close...

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A Novel Valve Layout P ATENT No. 784,945 discloses an engine

in which semi-rotary valves are used, and these can be arranged so as to give a longer expansion stroke than the inlet and...