[HIS IS our 75th anniversary. We were the first all road-transport )ublication, we have consistently been market leaders, and...

The report says that in the st 20 years the trunk road twork had improved drastilly, although gaps still need be filled if...

THERE has to be a far higher ealisation that in our integrated society, dependence on effec lye freight transport system is...

THE CHANNEL TUNNEL does not constitute a threat to cross-Channel ferries, according to British Rail chairman Sir Peter Parker....

COINCIDENTAL with CM's 75th anniversary is another 75 year celebration. In 1905 Commercial Cars Ltd began production at...

COMMERCIAL VEHICLE speed limits should be increased from 40mph to 50mph on derestricted dual carriageway roads where the...

THE GOVERNMENT tni take positive steps to int duce or amend legislation aid and encourage industry become more producti'...

AL GOVERNMENT plans to introe traffic controls are causing concern, there is a glimmer of hope in the , st move in the York...

,ULIERS are furious about ays at the Royal Seaforth ntainer Terminal at Liver and a meeting between Road Haulage Association El...

AN ATTEMPT by several EEC countries to exclude well over 20 per cent of the Common Market's transport fleet from tachograph...

in buses loaded with drink! How the Peers of the Realm must hope that they have seen the last of them! It is not that noble...

S A RESULT of the steel strike, too few loads are being chased too many lorries. The only remedy is to reduce the number of...

TO COINCIDE with British Leyland's 145 Roadtrain announcement, Lex Tillotson, Britain's largest distributor of Leyland...

A TRANSPORT MANA ER who was demoted to driver by A. & B. Wall & Company of South Elmsall had been entitled to resign. So said a...

FOR THE FIRST TIME the EEC Commission has decided to recommend spending money on building a new motorway which lies outside the...

BRITISH HAULIERS Dover Continental are now serving the whole of West Germany with road services for full and part loads. For...

OVER 30 separate exhibito will be showing their wares the forthcoming AVR Recovery Conference at Equipment Exhibition. The...

THE RAYNER REPORT ci Road Construction Units hi been published and, accordin to Minister of Transport No man Fowler, the main...

1E SAME professionally competent transport manager, ?.cified in an application for a licence by Dale Freight Services 1 of...

The seminar is being organised with IBM (UK) Ltd and will be held at Sandown Park race course. The syllabus will define the...

FIVE MEN who were involved in the theft of three Hiab lorry loaders, each worth £3278 and belonging to George Cowen Machinery...

OPERATORS of fleet cars and vans up to 3.25 tons gvw are now able to take fleet registration with the Car Recovery Service...

KENNING Car and Van H produced record profits for I year ended September 1979, but "this year will much more difficult", says i...

ROADLINE UK has esi blished its own operati company at Jersey Airpc following the steady growth traffic to the island in the IN...

[E Confederation of British Road Passenger Transport is gry over a Road Transport and Road Research Laboratory oort which, it...

MIDLAND RED's "Wandaward" bus system in rural areas around Hereford is to be extensively revised as a result of the local...

FURTHER bad news for London Transport came this week when it was announced that the operation lost £15.7m last year after...

in Dundee in the Tayside Regional Council CM vehicle evaluation were transferred to Dundee's busy routes 20 and 22 on February...

TAYSIDE Regional Transport Committee has unanimously decided to seek an early fares increase for city buses. This is to recover...

A NEW INCREASE in all hi fares in the city district *Iv been approved by Grampia Regional Council. The increase, opposed t the...

LEGAL parking and the resultant traffic congestion, together ith abuse from passengers, has caused London's busmen to ask or a...

PT (Confederation of British oad Passenger Transport) ce-president Ron Whittle iterated that the organisam considers the new...

HESTAIR-DENNIS is now seeking orders for its new rear underfloor engined single-deck bus chassis which is expected tobe...

TWO NEW FILMS were launched this week by Parliamentary Secretary of Transport Kenneth Clarke. The Bus Signals Go was made with...

LONDON'S Kings Cross coach station in Pentonville Road will close on March 31. From April 1, Wallace Arnold and its subsidiary...

WIER the failure of 0.03 per cent of steering joints fitted to Redford CF vans, Vauxhall Motors has decided to replace the...

DUNLOP has developed a new steel-braced tyre for light commercial vehicles. The new SP LT3, an 8 PR C-type tyre, replaces the...

THE electrical system on its Band M-series could become a fin hazard, says ERF, if rear lamps of too high a wattage are fitted....

k NEW distribution vehicle or the brewing and bottling ndustries has been announced py Renault Trucks and Buses. The basis of...

:.ASTROL has introduced a iew oil, Densal CR4 10W/40 or normally-aspirated diesel .ngines, as used in light comnercial vehicles...

HATCHER Components Ltd of Fromlingham, Woodbridge, Suffolk, has introduced _a one-piece, roof-mounted, reinforced-plastics...

OLDHAM is marketing a new range of high-performance low-maintenance batteries under the brand name of Easy Care. The battery...

THE TRANSPORT INDUSTRY has now had just aver a week to absorb details Roadtrain 16.28, the first of Leyland's T45 range...

U,MMAGING through the aimler-Benz archives, the 1ercedes-Benz Transport ConJltancy Service has found cost Dmparisons between...

SLATE as 1933 horses still far utnumbered motor vehicles on Dllection and delivery for the tilways in Britain. The LMS, NER and...

BEN is appealing for more active volunteers to promote its splendid charitable work, particularly on Merseyside, where...

SM LLS TRAFFIC was causing soyre problems for the railways ev n a century ago. A be utifully embossed memora dum on the subject...

REMEMBER my note (Grotesque number plates. February 23) about hard to read registration plates? What do you think of them? The...

Running on palm oil IN AN ATTEMPT to conserve conventional fuel, Seddon and the Nigerian Government collaborated in 1943 in...

John Durant profiles the men who have headed CIV's journalistic teams since 1905 VHAT do you call a number of )rmer editors?...

VHEN THE Great War broke , ut on Wednesday, August 4, 914, The Commercial Motor ias ready to see how it could elp the national...

stampeded by 3r - irs3r - ' Coffee no private interest would be placed at the disposal of the industry at large '')./Ve will...

:OMING from a family )ssociated with transport from :he early 1900s and regular . eaders of Commercial Motor, I :nust admit...

AS Mr B. G. W. Parnell's letter (CM, February 9) suggested, we at Harvey Frost do not much care for the term "mangle" used in a...

I WAS very interested in you' letter headed - The Saga of Olc Faithful" (CM, February 16) at I also have an "old faithful". It...

YEARS 1905 -1980 AMER IMOTOR 'LANS for our six study awards re well advanced and already ntries are coming in at an en...

The lntertruck award, which leads the field with entries at this early stage, will go to the person submitting the best thesis...

March 16, 1905 Editor: E. Shrapnell Smith. I T is a natural consequence to the increasing use of commercial motors, both at...

November, 1918 Editor: George F. Sharp W HAT looks very much like an inspired paragraph has recently appeared on the subject of...

/arch 16, 1926 ditor: George F. Sharp T HE amenities and business conditions of modern life are so bound p with the wonderful...

March 18, 1930 Editor: G. Mackenzie Airmen W E have for a long time been gravely concerned at the very unsatisfactory condition...

The figures given are truly remarkable and they show that the industry is shouldering a burden far greater than that imposed...

March 24, /933 Editor: G. Mackenzie Junner T HE Bill dealing with the licensing and regulation of goods vehicles is now in...

3eptember 1, /939 Fditor: G. Mackenzie Junner, " RSA MIAE, Mist MET C RASS stupidity, amounting almost to criminal folly,...

September, 8, 1939 Editor: G. Mackenzie Junner S O war has come; despite the opportunities afforded Herr Hitler of settling his...

June 9, 1944 Editor: G. Mackenzie Junner W E would have liked all those who are interested in the formation of the proposed...

August 2, 1946 Editor: G. Mackenzie Junner W HATEVER has been said to the contrary in some sections of the Press, the need for...

)ecember 31, 1954 (:/itor: G. Mackenzie Junner r OMORROW will be the greatest day in the history of modern road aulage. All...

March 18, 1955 Editor: G. Mackenzie Junner p ROUDLY we bring to the notice of our readers in all parts of the world this Golden...

1c to be r 9, 1959 :clitor: Arthur Sherlock lesher E VEN the vast expenditure envisaged in the current reappraisal of he...

October 2, 1964 Editor: Alan Havard R ARELY can there have been such a powerful expression of operators' views on vehicle...

August 16, 1968 Editor: Brian Cot tee R OAD transport has flourished by working on the assumption that, if the customer is not...

V THE LAST article (CM) ebruary 23) it was stated that 3rburettors consist of two basic arts, the float chamber and the sixing...

YEARS 1905 -1980 m T, mERcla OTOR OMEWHAT like old soldiers, x-editors never go away. They ark in the shadowy world of the...

by Alan Havard and even kid themselves that people regard them as experts when all the time it's their column-inches the...

Our past technical editors pull out some fascinating stories from eir store of roac-test memories WHEN I JOINED Commerc Motor...

ly Les Oldridge. T Eng (CEI), /IIMI VHEN Commercial Motor as first published 75 years go, the current legislation con erning...

P AND 0 Roadways Ltd, part of P and 0 European Transport Services, has promoted Frank Yeomans to commercial director. Mr...