Earls Court opens its doors today on a Show of tremendous promise. The promise of excellent new vehicles ready for higher...

by John Darker • The National Freight Corporation's plans to bring National Carriers Ltd and BRS Parcels Ltd into closer...

double deckers in vogue again by Derek Moses • Revealed at Earls Court today are two Park Royal-bodied Daimler Fleetlines for...

by David Lowe • A futuristic distribution and vehicle maintenance complex has been planned by RMC Properties Ltd, a member of...

• In a policy statement to the new Minister of Transport this week the Freight Transport Association has suggested simplifying...

• The remnants of carriers' licensing should be abolished. • An early opportunity should be taken to amend certain provisions...

• It was announced on Tuesday that DAF Motors (GB) Ltd will be appointing nine agents throughout the UK to handle sales of DAF...

• ,Key Warehousing and Transport Cc Ltd, Hull, has acquired the Hull depot and fleet of vehicles and trailers of Lovelis...

CM conference hears CBI chief • "What this country desperately needs at the moment is higher growth and productivity," said...

• Claimed to operate at a higher speed than comparable competitors' vehicles with a load of 28 milk crates, a new...

• As the result of opposition by the RHA, the Ministry of Transport is to modify the form of the new rear markings on heavy...

• As Fodens Ltd announced that its offer for Atkinson Lorries had lapsed last Friday, an increased bid from ERF (Holdings) was...

• All RHA areas are being strongly advised by the national executive council to set up a licensing and legal aid scheme. The...

• When an operator with wide experience of own-account and professional haulage turns journalist and later produces a guide for...

• Daimler-Benz and MAN of Germany, already equal partners in a company engaged on gas turbine development, have now agreed to...

• A group of 45 RHA members will leave Gatwick next Friday morning at 7.20 bound for a three-week tour of the United States and...

• The Ministry of Transport on Wednesday discounted rumours that an announcement about higher gross weights for commercial...

• Lord Stokes, chairman and managing director of British Leyland, said on Wednesday that although he believed that the ordinary...

• Highway Trailers (Great Britain) Ltd., Southampton, announces a 5 per cent increase on the price of all its semi-trailers,...

• The National Bus Company yesterday announced that it was now compelled to reduce the burden of its loss-making routes....

• Dislocation of provincial bus services is being caused in many parts of the country as 162,000 company and municipal busmen...

• London busmen have rejected their leaders' recommendation to allow women to drive buses. At Tuesday's delegate meeting the...

• British Leyland announced today that it has received an order worth more than £4m from the National Bus Company for 500...

As foreshadowed in CM last week, the control of Duple Motor Bodies Ltd has passed to Capitarium Ltd, a private investment...

The new Park Royal Fleetlines for London Transport have an angular, though not unpleasant., profile and the livery is notable...

• A traffic management scheme to relieve congestion and improve pedestrian facilities in the Victoria Coach Station area, has...

• Although D for Decimal Currency Day generally is February 15, 1971, the bus industry is to have its own D-Day on Sunday...

• Employees of Gateshead and District Omnibus Co Ltd have banned services across the Tyne into Newcastle on Sundays. The...

• The Transport Minister has decided to carry out a "before and after" survey of passenger travel on the Barnstaple—Ilfracombe...

• Five courses for public service vehicle inspectors are being run by the Poole Technical College, Dorset. With a duration of...

• The Northern LA, Mr J. A. T. Hanlon. on Monday, heard an application by Larrow Transport (Northern) Ltd for 0 licences for...

• A Horwich-based haulage partnership was granted a full-term 0 licence for four vehicles with a margin of eight and a...

• The formula given at the foot of page 263 of this issue is incorrectly stated. It should read: 2''(n-1)

• An application to increase fares was granted to Bradford City Transport by the Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners in Leeds on...

• John R McKenna, a Glasgow coal merchant, applied before the Scottish deputy LA, Mr H. Aylmer, at Glasgow on Friday for an 0...

• Mr Michael HeseRine, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, on Wednesday met Mr A. E. Elvin, chairman, and Mr...

• Mr H. E. Biscoe, who is at present employed as a tanker driver, was granted an operator's licence to run his own haulage...

• Mr W. M. Levitt. Metropolitan deputy LA, granted on Tuesday interim B licences for two trailers to D. L. Haulage Ltd, of...

• The Western LA on Wednesday granted an application to Mr L. E. Simmons, of Cheltenham, for a B licence to enable him to carry...

• All applicants for new operators' licences in the South-Eastern traffic area will in future be subjected to a fleet...

J. T. Brown, managing director of Atlas Express Ltd. was honoured this week by the Automotive Transport Association of Toronto...

• The appointment was announced last week of Mr Alexander D. Rhea as managing director of Vauxhall Motors Ltd. Mr Rhea, an...

• Last week in Paris, Renault signed a 700m francs contract providing for its participation in the building and modernization...

• After three years of development, Smiths Industries Ltd, Cricklewood, has produced a built-in axle-loading indicator which is...

• For truck cabs, a new roof-mounted air conditioner is being shown at Earls Court by Delanair Ltd, Abbey Road, Barking, Essex....

• Coachwork Conversions Ltd has entered the insulated van field with a vehicle primarily designed to meet the requirements of...

• Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co (Great Britain) Ltd has designed a new tyre to meet the requirements of the Leyland National...

• Now in its Diamond Jubilee year, our associated journal Automobile Engineer is to be relaunched with the November issue with...

• The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders 25th Commercial Motor Show opens today. Last week the president. Mr J. D....

Many of your readers who saw the BBC 2 Wheelbase programme on Tuesday night must have found it difficult to believe they were...

We would like to draw your attention to pages 108 and 109 of Commercial Motor dated September 11 covering our new 38-ton...

THIS ISSUE of Commercial Motor is devoted largely to describing and illustrating the exhibits at the Commercial Motor Show...

immediately following the Show. For instance, the October 2 number will see the start of a new and timely series on...

by Handyman Benchwise: lathe sense (31) THIS WEEK I will deal with one or two of the screwcutting technicalities which must...

When hostages from the hijacked VC-10 arrived at Heathrow, one man who had been in the thick of' things arrived with them. Bill...

Frank B. Ford's move into the chair at Duple is particularly interesting at a time when labour relations figure so strongly...

president Douglas Richards for this week's "Meet" column in CM was fascinated by the family's engineering background, which has...

Every year the vehicles at the Lorry Driver of the Year national finals grow more immaculate, and this year the entrants really...

OFF the secret list today comes the Leyland National single-deck bus, an example of which has been unveiled and put on public...

crt to the show IF, as is expected, about 20,000 people visit Earls Court each day until next Saturday, the attendance at the...

court /U WHERE TO EAT AROUND EARLS COURT by Bob Holliday drawings by Charles Mislaid "IT'S HIGH TIME we had something to...

WHATEVER particular interest in vehicles a visitor to Earls Court holds, he is bound to find something worthy of inspection on...

straightforward money-earning models. After the major changes in vehicle weights and configurations which followed the...

but the exhibits also include a large number of models that are of more importance because of their structural merits. Making...

BODYWORK ONE of the most interesting Commercial Motor Shows for some time must Surely be the verdict from psv operators...

109 ATKINSON'S Atkinson's of C//theme Ltd. Kendal Street, Clitheroe, Lao Cs. THE Atkinson MiniTug is being shown in...

EARLS COURT this year reveals the continued spread of radial-ply tyres for commercial vehicle applications, though there are...

by D. F. C. Hill, MIRTE, AMInstT, and J. Greenhalgh, B.Sc(Tech), MIMechE 1. Maintenance productivity by D. F. C. Hill FEW...

by J. Greenhalgh The two remaining subjects, the choice of vehicle and replacement policy, are not the province of the fleet...

by L. H. Smith, TD, DL, MinstT The theme of this Conference is "Decision-making for a decade"—the Seventies. I would have been...

by K. P. H. Fielding, TD, MIOM, AITA, AMORS, MOMS It is the purpose of this paper to review the current position in the field...

M ORE and more frequently, when the planners turn their attention to transport, they come up with the idea that conurbation...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Minimum power-to-weight the pros and cons examined ATTEMPTS to quantify the benefits to the...

by Les Oldricige AIRTE, AMIMI IN RESPONSE to several requests, I shall endeavour to explain the position of the fitter who...

are considering specializing in heavy recovery. The points I would like you to clear up for me are.— (1) We use a Scammell...

for me? (1) If a man drives a goods vehicle for over 4 hours per day and then drives a goods vehicle or psv for another...

carrying goods for reward for one hour per day, six days per week The rest of the time it will be for private use only. If I...

snow-ploughing exempt from road tax, plating and testing and also can it be run on red diesel? Is the driver bound by the new...

described as an alternative to the mechanically operated type of flashing beacon, but it was my understanding that beacons...

by George Wilmot Senior Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London. Haulage training groups have an educational...

Brief Deliveries Lad. Cap: £100. Objects: To carry cya the business of providers of a delivery and collection servIce, etc....

The next seven days from Sept. 18-Sept. 24 FRIDAY Start of 25th International Commercial 'Motor Show. Earls Court London, Ends...

by Inspector K. W. Norman, Crime Prevention Section, New Scotland Yard. • Most new models of light vans which are derivatives...