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16th May 1969
16th May 1969
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Delayed message

Welcome as is the publication by the RHA of "Productivity in the road haulage industry" it would have been more appropriately...

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The RHA's recipe for productivity

• A new statement on productivity in the road haulage industry, issued by the Road Haulage Association this week, calls for...

New-style milk float

• Elimination of cab doors, thus reducing complexity and providing very safe entry and egress for the driver, is the most...

Engineers to widen their scope?

The Institute of Road Transport Engineers is thinking of dropping the word "road" from its title and widening its activities to...

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French maker takes top

place at Nice by Tony Wilding • One of the most important coaching events in Europe is undoubtedly the International Semaine...

Yorks LA resigns

II Major-General Sir John Potter, who was appointed chairman of Traffic Commissioners and Licensing Authority for the Yorkshire...

Devon management course

• A six-day course in transport management opened last Friday in Exeter. Organized by the Exeter Technical College, it covers...

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No rail freight subsidies

• There will be no subsidies for rail freight services, the Minister of Transport assured members and guests at the Road...

RHA re-elects Noel Wynn

• At the RHA national executive council meeting in London on Wednesday Mr. Noel R. Wynn was re-elected national chairman....

Driver contest for NCL

• As well as encouraging all its drivers to enter for the national Lorry Driver of the Year competition, sponsored by...

Opportunities with CM

Commercial Motor has vacancies for a senior and a junior shorthand typist in its London editorial office. The senior shorthand...

They can join us

• If any other professional body wished to join the Institute of Traffic Administration, it would be welcomed, said the loTA...

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On show in Glasgow next week

• This year sees the third Scottish International Materials Handling Exhibition, to be held in the Kelvin Hall, Glasgow, from...

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Portable weighing system demonstrated

• A light, transportable weighbridge was demonstrated by Weighwrite Ltd., of Falcon House, Perimeter Road, Woodley Aerodrome,...

No future for amateurs

• The Transport Act 1968 will have two divergent effects on traders who run vehicles to carry their own goods. Their fleet...

Dynair for Bedfords

• The Dynair thermostatic fan-drive system is now offered on Bedford diesel engines as an option. With this equipment there is...

Ombudsman versus MoT

• The Ombudsman, Sir Edmund Compton, has criticized in a report published last week, the MoT's handling of the case of the...

NCL staff get new negotiating machinery

• National Carriers Ltd. has concluded a new agreement with the NUR, the TSSA and the Confederation of Shipbuilding and...

Transport in Southern Africa

• "Transport in the Southern African economy" is the theme of the Institute of Transport's second overseas lecture, to be...

Bodybuilders' guide

• To the directory of bodybuilders published in CM on May 2 should be added the following:— Arlington Bodybuilders Ltd., High...

Bulk handling

• A three-day exhibition of bulk handling and bulk storage equipment, pneumatic conveying systems and ancillary equipment for...

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NCTMA CONFERENCE

Economy via wheels and workshops • With annual taxation on heavy vehicles rising by £13 10s. with every increasing step of ....

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Welcome to Wales

by lain Sherriff • The Lorry Driver of the Year competition welcomes its newest recruit from the Principality. The professional...

Whip-cracker

by Bob Holliday • It was a real whip-cracking wagon train that went through the Torbay eliminator on Sunday for, faced with a...

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New Midlands HQ for NBC

• "The operation of bus services is essentially a local matter. Most of the problems are local problems differing from one...

PI B approval for London zonal fares

from our political correspondent • A new round of London bus and Underground fare increases were up for approval yesterday by...

89-passenger double-deckers for LTB

• The widely reported 17 experimental o-m-o double-deckers to be introduced by London Transport will seat 44 passengers in the...

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IOTA ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Towards AD 2,000 by David Lowe • "One of the most precious achievements of modem civilization is mobility. It enriches social...

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'Public transport will expand'

by Derek Moses, reporting the opening stages of the UITP Congress • "Today I believe we stand on the threshold of a phase of...

Plea for stronger urban transport research

• Governments can ill afford to make hasty intuitive decisions about urban transport. which involves massive investment and has...

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South Wales

kPPLICATIONS Slay 7 1969 I . Cullen and Son. Newport. New 8 lic., 1 T1410. All goods within 25 miles. Short Bros. (Plant)...

Morrison gets more time

• There was something in the matter that needed investigation and when the company applied for its substantive licence he would...

Spare-time service

• G. H. Pearse and Sons Ltd., building contractors of Bolton, were granted a new B licence for two tippers to carry waste...

West Midland

APPLICATIONS May 8 1969 Stubbs Transport, Helesowen. New A fir. 1 veh. 1401. Castings, sheet metal, drums of paint. London,...

Western

APPLICATIONS May 6 1969 G. L. Baker (Transport) Ltd., Bristol, A var.. add. 2 art. (19t 10c). G.g. Within 250 miles. Link...

Northern

APPLICATIONS May 7 1969 J. R. Snowdon, Bishop Auckland. New B lie, 1 T (Si). Road and building and site preparation mats, and...

Yorkshire

APPLICATIONS May 7 1969 Humber Warehousing Co. Ltd., Scarborough. New A lie., 4 art. (560. Mainly frozen foods and other goods...

Metropolitan

APPLICATIONS Nlay 81968 A. T. Campling, Harrow. New B lic. 21 1140. Coal and scrap iron within I 50 miles. A. W. Cheshire, Ni....

North-Western

APPLICATIONS May 9 1969 V. A. D. Webb, Ardwick New B lit.. 1 T (40. Coal and smokeless fuel (coke) within 25 miles. P. D....

East Midland

APPLICATIONS May7 1969 S. W. Wreford and Sons Ltd., Far Cotton. A var.. add. 1 veh 15t 10c), 0,9 within 140 miles. Derbyshire...

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Ten vehicle C-to-B switch

• A man who 18 months ago took over a one-vehicle A licence applied in Liverpool on Friday to add another van to that licence...

Tour duration can be varied

• C. Wright and Son, Penycae, Wrexham, will be permitted to vary the duration of the eight London excursions granted to the...

Wales Travel Master Ticket

• A scheme whereby unlimited travel for seven days on all Crosville Motor Services Ltd.'s stage carriage services and on...

Essential operators

• The specialist service provided by Norman's Removal and Transport Services Ltd., of Manchester, earned the company an...

Advertising was illegal

• John Glyn Jones, of Bodhygest. Podmadoc, was refused a new excursion and tours licence by the North Western Traffic...

Whinstone work

• There is a continuing shortage of tipper vehicles in Lanarkshire to handle the expanding volume of road and building material...

Long-distance day tours granted

• Additional day excursions have been granted to A. and J. R. Davison Ltd„ Brighouse, and its subsidiary Charles Wood Ltd.,...

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Road and workshop by Handyman

Combustibles and spontaneous heating Safe and unsafe storage (6) • Earlier in this series I mentioned the heterogeneous...

PEOPLE

Gi Dennis Bros. m.d. resigns B. Stacey resigned last Friday as managing director and from the board of Dennis Brothers Ltd.,...

Handling materials quickly and economically

N ext week's issue of Commefical Motor will be a large special number devoted largely to materials handling systems and...

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*Champs

Even this early in the season, the lists for the National Final of the Lorry Driver of the Year competition are filling with...

*Feather in our cap

Dear old Britain gets sneered at so often for its shortcomings that it's nice to be able to report on an activity where we seem...

*In fuel cells?

At the IRTE conference reception the president, G. E. Liardet, revealing plans to change "institute" into "institution", said...

*Jubilee

Another anniversary: the Institute of Traffic Administration is celebrating its silver jubilee this year. And celebrating with...

*Shifting

I was interested to learn from George Wardle, who is public relations officer for IoTA's London centre when he is not immersed...

*LTB 'adamant'

I hear that when Marshall of Cambridge received an order from the London Transport Board for 50 single-deck bus bodies to be...

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HELSINKI MO

from a special correspondent HELSINKI is not one of the European cities normally found in international motor show records....

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Service and Spares

I was extremely perturbed to read Lord Stokes' statement in the Press that his group was to release to the market a new or...

CM invited British Leyland to comment. We have received this letter from LordStokes. -

Our plans to introduce a new or modified car every six months are confined to the AustinMorris and Specialist Car Divisions of...

Contract Maintenance

The cost of road transport is being pushed right into the background, and it would seem that the higher the cost, the better...

Transport photos wanted

We are planning to start a photographic library. One section of the proposed library will contain photographs taken by...

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Delegates get down to basics

by P. A. C. Brockington, MIMechE THE OBJECTIVES of the Transport Act 1968, planning a do-it-yourself maintenance scheme with...

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TACHOGRAPHS

a golden opportunity missed? by David Lowe SINCE the Government first introduced the Transport Bill in December 1967, the...

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Have the technical difficulties been fully appreciated?

by Roger Howell JUST what type of equipment is the Minister of Transport likely to specify if he ever decides to implement the...

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Leyland) ark Royal Atlantean double-deck bus

REPORT BY R. D. CATER, AMInstBE PICTURES BY HARRY ROBERS TO MEET the severe competition from the private car, a fair degree of...

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HELSINKI SHOW ... continued from page 47

kins V8. The vehicle was all British but the Finnish importer had added an extension to the air inlet of the air cleaner...

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Janus comments

Status symbol ONCE AGAIN a transport study provides involuntary evidence that the subject has only a superficial resemblance...

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John Darker AMBIM on Management Matters

Flow line accounting for road transport operators MUCH INTEREST was aroused in January when Mr. Reg. Block announced his...

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a I have a question concerning the law on the limitation

of drivers hours and how it affects mechanics. Suppose a couple of men had been working eight hours in the vehicle repair shop...

Q Could you explain the form and purpose

of a pulse-converter? I understand that an experiment with such a system has been conducted by the Sulzer company on fourstroke...

Q I have always assumed that blue

smoke is produced by lubricating oil being discharged as a mist with the exhaust gases. A colleague states that it can be...

a Can you tell me if it is legally possible

to fit side windows in the body of a vehicle which was purchased free of tax after a period of three years from the original...

Q I am considering the use of a

molybdenum-disulphide-based lubricant additive in the diesel engines of a number of light-delivery vehicles. Could you give any...

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THE COMMON ROOM

These confusing entrance requirements for examinations

by George Wilmot University of London. EACH of the various organizations —professional, university, local college —offering...

Ekl a

D efective eyesight BY LES OLDRIDGE, A.LR.T.E., A.M. LM.I.

ONE of the lesser-known traffic offences is contained in Section 42 of the Road Traffic Act 1962 which provides a maximum...

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Lifting slings

'IN" Ribbons Ltd: is producing a range of nylon webbing for lifting slings, which are claimed to have greater resistance to...

Strong MoT plates

Esterglass Ltd„ which specia.. lizes in making high-clarity glassreinforced polyester sheet, has developed a process, known as...

Adapts-Charts Ltd. has designed a special charting for use by

haulage operators, engineering contractors and others as an aid to planning vehicle and machine maintenance and testing. Two...

A booklet published by Rubery Owen contains 27 pages of

information about its service organization in Britain and the Continent. Maps of each country show the main-road routes and are...

Inspection instruments

A range of optical inspection in struments—the Endoprobe Series II—from Inspection Instruments (NDT) Ltd., permits brightly lit...

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Wash pump

A high-pressure wash pump (the P 400) capable of delivering a 2.1/2 gal/min jet of water at 1,000 p.s.i. has been developed by...

Splitter control unit

Clayton Dewandre Co. Ltd.'s air-operated splitter gearbox control for heavy vehicles is now in production. The design was...

Metric spanners

Tipco Tools have brought out a range of metric open-ended spanners made of high-quality chrome steel and designed to provide...

Cantilever racking

Dexion Cantilever Racking, an addition to the Dexion range of storage and materials handling equipment, permits greater space...

Adhesive

The 1.S.-12 adhesive, produce( by the Intercontinental Chemica Co. Ltd., is claimed to effort 50 per cent of its maximurr bond...

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Security equipment

The Key-Lock security recording system announced by VeederRoot Ltd. permits unsupervised, individually recorded 24-hoursa-day...

KEEPING \ THEM RUNNING

with Ron Cater „ The subject of driving mirrors is one that is often thrown at me both by drivers and operators. Operators...

Sealing agent A new aerosol-packed sealing .agent for high vacuum

and laboratory work has been announced by DCMC I ndustrial Aerosols Ltd. The Spray contains MS 4 Silicone grease which is...

Polish/sander

Wolf Electric Tools Ltd. has introduced an additional modal into its Wolf Sapphire electric tool range, the Model 5160, which...

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Ratchet hoist A small ratchet hoist that is claimed to

be ideal for use in the garage has been added to the range of lifting and pulling machines produced by Tic - for Ltd. Called...

Fork-lift truck

In response to a demand for a small fork-lift truck to operate in very congested areas, Kelvin Engineering (Basingstoke) Ltd,...

Cleaning paper

A disposable-cleaning-paper dispenser suitable for use out of doors as made by the Wyperoll Paper Co., is particularly suitable...

Corrosion detector

A compact, easy-to use instrument which gives a quick and accurate detection of corrosive elements in cooling systems is now...

Micro filter

A range of micro filters with flows up to 40 gal/min (182 litres/min) has been announced by UCC Hydraulics Ltd. The filters...