Revolutionary new engines Beaver, Bison, Lynx. Three great new truck ranges from Leyland covering the entire heavy-duty...

0 VOLUME 128 No. 3296 November 15, 1968 The excellent no-pass, no-fee vehicle servicing scheme for BMC vehicles announced this...

by Roger Howell • There was a good turn out of smalltipper operators on Friday evening to an open meeting at the Alexandra...

• Mr Richard Marsh, Minister of Transport, has written to Clir. Neville Trotter, chairman of Newcastle upon Tyne traffic,...

• Questions about the cost of the Merseyside Passenger Transport Authority were posed by Mr. A.F.R. Carling, president of the...

from our industrial correspondent • A major political row is brewing over the threat of 10 to 15 per cent fare rises on...

• Artie drivers' training courses run by York Trailer Co. Ltd., as a customer service, have been approved by the R.T.I.T.B., so...

• Continental shows • Commercial vehicles will be exhibited • at six international motor shows on the ; Continent next year,...

• Roads in England 1967/68 (House of Commons Paper No. 1) is now available from HM Stationery Office priced 15s. The report...

• The best hope for the future lies in the fact that although successive waves of legislation have swept over the road haulage...

• "A guarantee that your BMC commercial vehicle will pass the MoT test" is the bold claim made i by the British Leyland BMC...

• The Road Traffic Act 1960 Section 253 defines a trailer as a vehicle drawn by a motor vehicle, and this definition expressly...

• A rise of 10 per cent in haulage rates was announced by the Bradford and District Hauliers' Federation this week, to take...

Release of up-to-30cwt goods vehicles from carriers' licensing 1 has focused attention on this category. The November 22 issue...

• A rigid six-wheeler having a self-tracking axle immediately in front of the driving axle is being tried for urban delivery...

• Repair work on vehicles belonging to the Lancashire County Council might now begin to trickle through to private garages. The...

• On the eve of the Public Works Exhibition • at which the company is displaying several models, Fodens Ltd, announced that in...

• "We are now examining the potential clash between freight and passenger demands and the claims of a minimum track network...

• Procedure for keeping members informed promptly of developments resulting from the Transport Act 1968 was agreed at the first...

• The Minister of Transport last week laid before Parliament regulations increasing the annual vehicle test fee for cars and...

• Greater London Council has issued the following advice to goods vehicle drivers working in London over the Christmas period:—...

by Roger Howell f8.5m Eire/UK freight plan A DAILY high-capacity two-vessel container service between Dublin and...

PLANS to develop Singapore as a container port have resulted in Highway Trailers (GB) Ltd., Southampton, receiving an initial...

• Last Friday the UK signed new UNO Conventions on Traffic Rules and on Road Signs and Signals, at a world conference of road...

• Mason L. Crathem, Heathlands Drive, Maidenhead, was fined a total of L20 and 25 guineas costs on two counts of obstructing...

• On the opening day of the Public Works Exhibition, British Leyland announced orders totalling £2m from local authorities and...

• Thousands of vehicles, private, commercial, large and small, were being reported for deliberate evasion of road fund licence...

• Mr. Richard Marsh's claim that he expected the Transport Act to show a net benefit to the nation's trade and industry was at...

John Dennis, 42. has been appointed publicity manager of the newly formed Truck and Bus Division of British Leyland Motor...

• It has not been thought necessary to keep a separate record of accidents involving articulated vehicles, said Mr. Bob Brown,...

• Mr. Richard Marsh said in the Commons this week that he hopes to make a statement in the very near future about the chairman...

• After an "interesting discussion" with the British Road Federation on its study of road finance and administration, the...

• London Transport has applied to the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioners for a licence to operate something in the nature of a...

• An application to change its entire fleet's normal user and to add seven vehicles was made by Gilbraith Tankers Ltd.,...

• Taylor Bros. (Transport) Lilleshall Ltd, applied in Birmingham last week for a new three-vehicle A licence but agreed to...

• In a written decision, the Transport Tribunal has allowed the appeal of R. S. Pirnie (CM October 25). The appeal arose from...

• The Transport Tribunal granted the appeal of Kenneth F. King (Transport) Ltd., of Littleport, after the respondents Knowles...

• A Welsh coach operator was already, illegally, picking-up passengers at a point for which he was applying and had been for a...

. AND WE NEED NEW C AND U REGULATIONS' SAYS LIVERPOOL'S F.H. CL4YFON • The vital relationship between the use of public...

• A new zonal fares system, replacing Sunderland Corporation's flat-fare scheme, was given the go-ahead by the Northern Area...

• Black and White Motorways Ltd., Cheltenham, which already operates a fleet of 18 Daimler Roadliner coaches, has ordered a...

• The Central London bus committee of the TGWU has accepted a resolution from the Southall garage branch accepting the...

station has been broken. The Ministry of Transport has fixed a rate of 4d for every bus departing from the station, ba: -...

by Ron Cater • A new self-centiing demountable body has been announced this week by Ronway Engineering, an offshoot of Ronway...

• A pamphlet giving operating-speed recommendations for goods and public service vehicles has been issued by the British Rubber...

• British Leyland Motor Corporation and Shell Research have signed an agreement to co-operate on an intensive research...

• Prestal is the name given to a superplastic zinc aluminium alloy sheet that could prove to have advantages over steel sheet...

by Tony Wilding • The news that Cravens Industries Ltd. has reached an agreement to purchase Taskers Trailers Ltd. heralds the...

• During the course of heavy goods vehicle plating and testing an identification problem has arisen concerning Ford Trader...

• The first overland coach to be co-produced by Austrian and Hungarian firms has been completed and is undergoing tests in...

• The second part of the residential Transport Managers' Conference, arranged by the Luton, Watford and district sub-area of...

• Instruments were a main topic at a meeting of the Transport Association in London on Tuesday. First, concern was expressed by...

a g ry i n e o e f r t s h e e x l n a s m t n u e t e s a topical problem MEMBERS tell me—frequently--of their concern about...

Manpower, maintenance and the MoT( 1 7) • With today's larger range of tyres there is nOw more than ever a need to extract...

by A. J. P. Wilding, MIMechE, MIRTE, PICTURES BY HARRY ROBERTS DURING the past couple of years Dennis Bros. Ltd. has cut down...

* Oh no! How is your crystal ball? More to the point, how are your nerves? If they're strong, read on:— "Past experience...

WHEN Harry Grindle says that the people on his coach tours "look after themselves" he is obviously being modest. It patently...

Looking at the evidence It is difficult to get a clear picture from the table apart from the admission in the report that a...

by Ashley Taylor, AI RTE, Assoc lnst T. ALTHOUGH they could hardly be classed as surprises, a number of new body designs...

LAST WEEK I summarized the main findings of the PIB reports on the Rochdale and Dundee undertakings. In both reports the...

manager, I spoke to Mr. E. K. Mellor., rolling stock engineer and he expressed the department's view lucidly. "We find the...

are faced with the constant difficulty of reversing vehicles off this road to our loading bay. We have had several near-misses...

basis and would appreciate your comments. Do you think it would be profitable? A Anyone proposing to regroove tyres should...

A After some research, a large operator has informed us that hydrochloric acid can be used for day-to-day use to prevent a...

ing in light van and special types work. One of our customers tells us that in addition to vehicles not exceeding 30cwt unladen...

trailers for the storage of hydrogen for use in the manufacture of our products. These are basically flat trailers with three...

THE study of economics is virtually inescapable for those in road transport taking professional examination courses. It is the...

POLICEMEN, under certain circumstances, can demand the production of driving licences, certificates of insurance, test...

HeIla Automobile Equipment Ltd. has produced a red fog-light for rear mounting on commercial vehicles that is designed to be...

A portable fork-lift type of garage hoist, applicable to light vehicles, has been developed by Dahl Brothers Ltd. with which...

The latest electrical contact lubricant produced by Electrolube Ltd., is Electrolube 2 GA-X, a grease in aerosol form. It has...

A drill grinder by Z. Brierley Ltd. has been designed to overcome the difficulty of avoiding damage to a subland drill when the...

A voltage reducer announced by Hells Automobile Equipment Ltd. is called the SRG1 and is designed for installation in prime...

A special design department has been opened by Instant Plastic Ltd. to provide container operators with a sign-letter and...

In the third addition of BS 330, Stranded wire ropes for haulage purposes, metric sizes are basic, although dimensions,...

unambiguous setting is claimed for the Accuread range of micrometer height gauges, riser blocks and associated dial-indicator...

Designed to facilitate wheel changing, a geared commercial vehicle wheel brace has been announced by Stenor Ltd. that...

Coin-operated wash-and-wax self-service equipment has been added to the range of cleaners and washers produced by Wickham...

A MIG short arc-welding machine with a 60 per cent duty cycle at 150amp is now being marketed by Suffolk Iron Foundry (1920)...

An electrode tip trimmer that can be used to clean and reshape tips while they are in the welding gun has been produced by ARO...

Laycock Engineering Ltd. has announced a fast battery charger having silicon rectifiers that can be used for charging 6V, 12V...

A multi-grade engine lubricant having a property that reduces oil consumption of engines that normally have a high consumption...

A pallet-lifting attachment and a big-capacity grain bucket for use with the heavy-duty Western Fermirear loader, have been...

A range of pipeline strainers introduced by Samuel Birkett Ltd. are suitable for pipelines carrying steam, water, oil, as or...

A range of Porto-Power body repair sets has been lately introduced by Applied Power (UK) Ltd. Air-operated hydraulic pumps are...

From the practical and fertile brain of Fred (anti jack-knife) Hope has stemmed another device which if properly used could...

A range of pallet walls, made by the Transhandling Division of the Greenman-Berger Co. are easily attached to existing timber...

The Express 2000, a portable electric soldering iron powered by a rechargeable nickelcadmium cell produced by Henri Picard and...

Following the introduction of spring brake and lock actuator Idts, Clayton Dewandre Co. Ltd. has produced two new illustrated...