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13th June 1969
13th June 1969
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Load Lugger versatility

The Load Lugger system in a word. Load Lugger handles bulk or high density materials efficiently and quickly. Models are...

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The new Scania U380

Gives you a new, higher standard for the medium sized truck. Up till now, only the largest of the legendary Scanias have been...

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Some trailers are assembled Dyson trailers are built.

Dyson are trailer engineers. Not trailer manufacturers you notice. Trailer engineers. There's a difference. And it's not just...

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ommercial

otor VOLUME 129 No 3326 June 13 1969 There are still far too few professional transport men in local government circles. For a...

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Shake-up for municipal bus transport in Royal Commission plan

PTAs SHOULD BE TAKEN OVER, SAYS LOCAL GOVERNMENT REPORT from our political correspondent • Road passenger transport services...

TML proposals will cover

14 main subjects from a special correspondent • Basic knowledge of 14 categories of information essential to the safe...

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'Eyesores' costing Elm, a year

• Forty hauliers in the North East will be faced with a bill for £500,000 per year if the Inland Revenue continues to...

Still no Dennis m.d.

• No managing director has yet been appointed by Dennis Bros. Ltd. to replace Mr. B. G. Stacey. Mr. Alan R. Stewart, in his...

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Row over roads

• A battle between the Minister of Transport and the British Road Federation has been raging over trunk road schemes. It...

Woman finalist at Perkins' Day

• The winner of the Perkins Drivers Club "Member of The Year" competition, held at the Perkins Eastfield factory,...

Diff with a difference?

• A new type of controlled-Slip differential known as the B-T (balanced-traction} unit will, in due course, be produced in...

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Overnight Express Route 2

• Just four months after beginning operations, Birmingham based Overnight Express Ltd., now an individual company within the...

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Europe's biggest oil depot opened at Haydock

• A fleet of 100 road tankers will carry out distribution from the new .£3m Shell-Mex and BP oil terminal opened this week...

European motorway link

• The world's widest tunnel, taking the Stockholm-Paris-Lisbon E3 motorway under the Scheldt River in Antwerp. was officially...

Tests of snow clearance equipment

• Trials of Atkinson, Bedford and Mack snow ploughing vehicles were carried out during the winter of 1967/68 for the MoT...

Al RSO open meeting

• An open meeting of the Association of Industrial Road Safety Officers was held in Birmingham on Wednesday. The proposed...

Quay Trailers moving

• The Wimborne, Dorset, firm Quay Trailers Ltd. is in process of moving to a new factory located at Junction Works, Dawkins...

FTDoY 1969

• The seventh annual Fork Truck Driver of the Year Competition, organized and sponsored by the British Industrial Truck...

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Timber haulage in the future

• The probable pattern of timber haulage within the United Kingdom forests over the next 25 years was outlined at the jubilee...

High loads and bridges

• Representatives of the road haulage and civil engineering industries met Mr. J. L. Paisley, chief highway engineer....

1 5cwt saved

• A saving of 15cwt has been achieved in two new refrigerated vehicles recently supplied by Blox Refrigeration Services Ltd....

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Lords clash on London

bus Bill from our Parliamentary correspondent • A clash over the competition which London Transport might bring against...

Royal Commission report

the heading 'transportation' and should be controlled by the same authority as are all the other services in that group."...

New post for K. G. Jones

K. G. Jones, 46, has been appointed general service manager for ERF Ltd. Before joining ERF, Mr. Jones spent three years as...

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CIE under the microscope

• The problems and activities of Coras Iompair Eireann are comprehensively surveyed in a review that virtually fills the...

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Professor under fire

• Thursday's business session of the Public Transport Association's annual conference at Brighton last week saw Professor J....

University study of o-m-o

• A useful report for students in public transport has been published by the department of civil engineering, University of...

New Red Arrow routes

• Changes to London's 6d flat-fare Red Arrow bus services, including the introduction of two new routes in place of one...

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New legal argument at Transport Tribunal

• The Transport Tribunal in London on Tuesday heard an appeal against the refusal of the Northern LA, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, to...

Heavy work no excuse

• At a 178 inquiry in Edinburgh on Monday the Scottish (Southern) LA, Mr. A. B. Birnie, suspended one vehicle for one month,...

Forger fined 50

• The secretary /manager of a C-licensee was fined £50 for forging two records with intent to deceive at Leyland...

Penalty must be imposed LA

• It was the duty of a Licensing Authority not to deal harshly on the spot with a company whose vehicle maintenance was in a...

Indefinite suspension

• Abercrombie and Co. Ltd., of Maryhill, Glasgow, scrap merchant, had its C licence suspended indefinitely in Glasgow on...

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Wide normal user A granted

• A former 0-licensed haulier was granted a new A licence with a wide normal user in Chester last week when he applied to the...

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LA disgusted by applicant's rudeness

• Although a number of objectors were present, an applicant for an A licence, Mr. E. C. Thompson, of Diana Borth,...

Ruling on 'due diligence'

• At a rehearing in Leeds magistrates court on Tuesday W. G. A. Robinson (Express Haulage) Ltd. was fined £2 on each of two...

More pick-ups needed

• John Smith and Sons, of Dalton. Thirsk, applied to the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners in Leeds on Tuesday for four...

Spokesman required

• An application by D. E. Hines (Transport). Ltd., Birmingham, to delete a 24--ton flat trailer from its B licence and add a...

London haulier fined

• At Watford magistrates court on Friday, W. W. Drinkwater (Willesden) Ltd., was fined £20 for causing a 20 ton g.v.w. lorry...

Six vehicles suspended by S. Wales LA

• "This is one of the most deplorable states we have had in this traffic area for a long time and previous restrictions have...

LA recommends RHA help

• A Cannock operator who tried to "tidy up" his licensing by putting 20 vehicles on A licence was told by the West Midland...

No hope causes withdrawal

• It was decided that there was not really a case for the application by Mardy Transport Co., Ltd., of Kingswinford, to put...

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Ryland expands tanker show

by Paul Brockington • Some 30 vehicles are being exhibited at the tanker show organized by the Ryland Vehicle Group Ltd.,...

Mastiff six-wheeler by Primrose

• Six-wheeler versions of the BMC Mastiff 16-ton range of trucks are now available and can be ordered through British...

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Road and workshop

Loads and forces (4) • In slowing down for a roundabout it is necessary—as this series has previously demonstrated—to...

Versatile self-contained bulk feed transporter

• Up to 19 tons of animal feeds, ranging in density from 35 to 38Ib cu.ft., can legally be carried within the 30 tens g.v.w....

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Much improved

by Carolyn Hyams • Everything seemed improved this year at the Newcastle under Lyme LDoY round on Sunday, the driving, the...

Entries up standards down

by John Darker • Although entries were up on last year at the Newcastle LDOY round at the Team Valley Trading Estate on...

Four wins on the trot

by David Lowe • Not only did Sunday's North Midlands LDoY round at Desford, near Leicester, have its first woman entrant in...

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The champ is back

• "Thank ye ma'am, oi'll drop ye off a dizen." That was how smiling Sam Gray of Associated Egg Packers, Lisburn, acknowledged...

Neate's repeat wins at Manchester

by Ashley Taylor • Repeating his last year's success, in Class E(1), S. G. Neate (ABM Industrial Products Ltd., Dodge)...

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eaueingwe

vad s!uuaa ONE of the most important developments in ambulance design in recent years was the introduction at the last...

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More efficient appliances on show

IN GENERAL, ceansing vehicle design appears to have entered upon a period of stability with few marked trends towards change....

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Clean Sweep In Wandsworth

ably possible. Constantly, of course, his efforts were offset by a public who in general terms were apathetic to his task. In...

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Container Transport

Container overhang A RECENT prosecution has brought to light the need for displaying an approved end marker board if a...

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Bird's eye view

by the Hawk * Newest profession? Haulier-neighbours of Harris Haulage (Grays) Ltd., Essex, have grim faces after seeing...

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Time for protest?

Janus comments NOT ONLY in the world of sport is the amateur tending to disappear. The situation is coming in road transport...

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Maintaining the Motorways

by Ashley Taylor, AMIRTE Assoc InstT THE IDEA that the Ministry of Transport can finish off a motorway and then just forget it...

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Scope of the elevating platform

WHEN the hydraulic platform was first produced in this country some 15 years ago it was seen to have the obvious advantage of...

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Councils will need licences and named managers

"LOCAL AUTHORITIES and public utilities are not bound by the Act and drivers do not require to keep journey records sheets."...

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Codifying road transport practice

THE SCOTTISH GAS BOARD POINTS THE WAY MANY large road transport organizations find it helpful, indeed essential, to codify the...

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Q am an owner-driver with a large company on Contract A licence.

I am being charged 6s a gallon for fuel supplied from this company's tanks; they do not allow me to buy anywhere else. I can...

Q I am hoping to succeed where Atkin' son Vehicles Ltd.

has so far failed and find the remains of an Atkinson steamwagon. They were built in Preston by the first Atkinson and Co., and...

Q We have a large fleet-owner customer, who has obtained a contract for carrying containers.

He has asked us to quote for the service contract and wishes to know at what figure we can supply this service contract per...

Ci Could you tell me if the law allows recut tyres to be fitted to commercial vehicles?

A The answer to your question is contained on page 8 note 2 of the Goods Vehicle Testers' Manual which says "recut tyres are...

Q I believe there is a fork-lift truck sold under the

name of Ewar, andl am trying to locate the name and address of the manufacturer. I believe the truck is of German manufacture....

Q I am very interested in coaches and

buses and in addition to reading your magazine I want to get copies of another which I believe is called the "Coaching...

Q We operate six truck-mixers in a 15mile radius from the

plant. Due to the nature of the work trucks sometimes get held up on the site waiting to unload. This is causing us some...

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Co-ordination the only answer to plight of transport evening classes

THE imminent cut-back of evening transport classes, about which I wrote last week. has wide repercussions. With much greater...

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Clearways BY LES OLDRIDGE, A.I.R.T.E, A.M.I.M.I, THE USE of clearways is controlled by the Various Trunk Roads fProhibition...

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Tail lift With its latest option of a retractable-post tail-lift,

announced this week, E. J. Ratcliff (Mechanical Engineers) Ltd., completes a range of three types of tail-lift designed to suit...