The Transport Holding Company annual report published this week echoes and amplifies the fears that we have expressed before...

TH C warns against 'civil war' and the effects of external pressures on profitability • The Transport Holding Company earned a...

The transport and associated industries were well represented in this year's Birthday Honours list:— Baron: Sir William...

• On Tuesday the Road Haulage Wages Council decided to submit the RH (87 proposals to the Secretary of State for Employment and...

I The Transport Development Group Ltd. has made an offer for the £21rn Bain and Hodge haulage and wharfinger group. It was...

• Cash grants for management and supervisory training are to be doubled and grants for craft and apprentice training are to be...

test snags by Ron Cater • Fines imposed for faulty tyres apply to each and every tyre, making a big artic with 14 rolling...

• The first use of fully automatic transmission on a refuse collection vehicle in the UK was announced at the IPC Conference...

• The Shipowners' Refrigerated Cargo Research Association of 140 Newmarket Road, Cambridge. has been appointed as the competent...

A productivity scheme introduced • by A. Peckham and Co. Ltd. barely • three months ago has yielded re• markable results. All...

• A new BRS parcels depot for Hull and district at 240, Leads Road, Hull, was opened on Monday. It replaces the former depot at...

• A Dutch competitor is entering the North Sea container service rivalry. The HSM (Holland Steamship Company} is this month...

• Rises of 22 per cent—about £3 a week —on the basic rate are to be paid out to drivers at a Birmingham haulage company this...

ON Monday (June 17). the South Wales maintenance advisory committee is holding an open meeting for operators, to give advice on...

• An announcement from Southern Counties Car Auctions Ltd. confirms an earlier notification that the disposal of a large part...

from a special correspondent • The strength of the pro-railway lobby may be revealed more clearly during the Lords' debates on...

• This year, Vauxhall Motors in conjunction with local dealers and bodybuilders has arranged three "Cavalcades". The first was...

postmen's bag by lain Sherriff • 'The sixth, the biggest and the best": this was the general opinion of the competitors at the...

by John Durant • Dip into LDOY scoresheets and it's surprising what's to be learned. At Maidstone on Sunday I found that six...

by John Darker • Perfect weather and • first-class organization made the North Midlands Area eliminating round at Desford last...

by lain Sherriff • A bull which broke loose at Georgie Market, Edinburgh, on Sunday almost wrecked the LDOY event. But before...

by C. Hyams • Newcastle's LDOY organizers start with an advantage because of their excellent site at the Team Valley Trading...

• Witnesses from Antwerp, Mainz, Rotterdam and London went to Manchester on Wednesday to support an application by Transitex...

• An appeal by British Railways Board against the granting of an A licence for two vehicles in the fleet of George McLennan...

• An appeal by Marlin's Transport against the decision of the Scottish LA not to grant a variation of the company's B licence...

• In a written judgment, the Transport Tribunal has allowed an appeal made by William McKeehan Ltd. against a decision of the...

• An appeal by Mr. R. F. Dearsley, of Northampton, was turned down by the Transport Tribunal in London on Tuesday. It arose...

• Because one of its main customers wished to reduce its C-licence fleet, Parkers Transport Ltd., of Bolton, applied to the...

• The Transport Tribunal on Wednesday reserved its decision on an appeal by F. C. Targett and Sons Ltd., Southampton, against...

from our Parliamentary correspondent • Opposition ideas about the Transport Bill will be most carefully considered by the...

A. Craig MacDonald, formerly director and general manager of Albion Motors Ltd.. has been appointed chairman. Mr. MacDonald's...

Union, is to be chairman of the Central Training Council from June 17 in succession to Sir John Hunter, chairman of the Swan...

How does the feedback of operators' experience reach the engineering and servicing sections of a major commercial vehicle...

Story and pictures by Harry Roberts • One of the UK pioneers of one-man operation, Reading Corporation Transport is taking...

• The Municipal Passenger Transport Association has told the Ministry of Transport that it considers the cost of fitting and...

• Glasgow Corporation bus and Underground train services are losing about £25,000 a week. This is disclosed in a report to the...

• • Massachusetts Bay • : • A Ministry of Transport statisti • cian is taking another look at the • • • • • • Massachusetts...

• The threat of guerilla strikes by 35,000 London Transport busmen was discussed by management and union leaders in London last...

• The 15s. a-week pay increase for Glasgow's 4,200 municipal bus drivers and conductors is to be back-dated to November 19, the...

• The North West should be planned as a single area for passenger transport services and an early start should be made on major...

• An Edinburgh Corporation bus conductor who sustained head injuries when he was thrown from the platform of a bus as it...

• Burnley, Cohie and Nelson has become the first area in Lancashire to have its own comprehensive timetable covering all public...

• Four West Midlands hauliers were successful in converting Contract A licences held with quarry firms into B licences at...

• The Scottish Traffic Commissioners last week granted an application by Highland Omnibuses Ltd. for a new Forres-Newtonmore...

• Crosville announces that this summer the Monday to Friday journeys on its Caernarvon-Aberystwyth Express Service will be...

• The North Western Traffic Commissioners have granted through express services between the North West and South East coastal...

• Mechanically steered semi-trailer axles which increase manoeuvrability and reduce tyre scrub are featured on a new...

Improved Hinges (Warwick) Ltd., Stratford Road, Warwick, has obtained an option on the manufacturing rights in this country of...

• Mr. Raymond Birch, a founder member of the National Committee on Road Transport Education, has resigned as chairman following...

by R. D. Cater • From the operator's point of view, the most important item of interest to be highlighted at the Ryland Vehicle...

Free for tyre checks fyre distributors and g ara g es throu g hout the JK have been issued with a total of a50,000 Pirelli...

itt? Ron Cater/ Reclaimin g movin g parts is not a job that can conveniently be undertaken in every vehicle workshop because...

Industrial bucket Kabi (Electrical and Plastics) Ltd, is now marketin g as part of its ran g e of stora g e e q uipment the...

Tyre depth gauge The Capstan Gauge Division of MB Metals Ltd. has designed and is producing a precision instrument for...

by Handyman Vehicle recovery: tricks, trucks and tactics (20) • We have now discussed a number of recovery situations, but...

public • by ASH LEY TAYLOR cleansing AM I RTE, ASSOC. METHODS of securing the best return from depots and from vehicle...

Bishop Auckland? by Derek Moses WHAT is the future of public transport in the Bishop Auckland area? This is a problem worrying...

The period immediately after World War I was a critical one for the development of powered road transport and by today's...

Talking of Pickfords reminds me that the Glasgow end of the business is having a doit-yourself session, or a sort of busman's...

Whether or not a radio in the cab is a dangerous distraction or an aid to safer travel probably depends on the driver's...

Before Richard Marsh gets down to final negotiation of the Channel Tunnel arrangements with French Railways and the French...

If you had about thirty-five million pounds to invest where would you place it? It may sound an enviable position to be in, but...

MY FIRST TASTE of the Volvo F88 was just before the Scottish Show last year when I shared the driving of the six-wheeled...

MODEL Volvo F88 loft Bin. wheelbase four-wheel forwardcontrol tractive unit with standard all steel tilt cab and Hands ISO...

I would like to refer and reply to some of the comments made in "Common Room" (CM May 17 and 24). It was kind of Mr. Wilmot to...

The article by Tony Wilding under the heading "Noise regulations not enforceable" (CM May 24), says that "scepticism exists on...

Since the publication of the proposed new symbol for the Road Haulage Association (CM May 3), I have waited in vain to learn of...

I wish to draw attention to the great danger to children caused by fairly high-loading vehicles, especially six-wheelers and...

I have read Mr. L. Davies' letter (CM June 7), in which he asked for news of the 100-ton Scammell unit BLH21, formerly operated...

Janus comments • Taking TOWARDS the end of his new pamphlet on transport policy, published by the Conservative Political...

course examined (1) I REPORTED in last week's issue of CM on the reactions of the eight students as they completed the first...

chase or property in conjunction with other London area fleet users to provide a co-operative maintenance scheme and possibly...

to squeal on corners and tyre wear seems to be unduly high; a business acquaintance who runs a similar vehicle says he has not...

which appears to be a four-wheeler converted to a six-wheeler, the third axle of which is located ahead of the driving axle....

published recently I understand there was a reference to the revenue raised by UK road users in the year 1965/66. What did this...

14-seater p.s.v. operating about 10,000 miles a year and with only a part-time driver? A As the driver would only be employed...

A Assuming that you are already engaged in the construction industry, we suggest you write to the Construction Industry...

THE PROPOSALS of the Transport Bill will, when approved, cause a greater revolution in road haulage and passenger operations...

REGULATION 79 (i) requires that the steering gear fitted to a vehicle shall be maintained in good and efficient working order...