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19th February 1971
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Time to plan for motorway trains

The prediction that intensive use of American-style road trains on British motorways could give road transport yet another big...

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US-style trunking could halve BR network

• A startling forecast of the effect of American road transport techniques on the future size of British Railways was made last...

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Govt may hand over some NBC rural services

• A big Government shake up of rural bus services, with the return of some to private operators, was foreshadowed in two...

Councils reject 'free' travel

• Any suggestion of "free" travel on London's buses and Underground trains has been rejected by the works committee of the...

Recorder clock row shuts Granary Haulage

• The haulage section of Granary Holdings Ltd., a Burton-on-Trent company employing 300, is to be shut down following a row...

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Haulage wages bandwagon

How long before the NNC is re-born? by John Darker • New pay agreements made between area groups of RHA hauliers and the trade...

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US-style

Continued from page 12 effort to be heavily' concentrated at the "light" end, Although road transport charges could be 10-15...

FTA meets LA

On February 22, members of the London and Home Counties Division of the Freight Transport Association have a chance to see the...

Trailers: add and delete

• To the trailer survey published in the February 5 issue should be added:— NEVILLE TRUCK EQUIPMENT Neville Truck Equipment...

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Peyton calls for FTA's tolerance evidence

• Mr John Peyton, Minister for Transport Industries, has told the Freight Transport Association that his refusal to allow...

Normandy's 1970 record

• Normandy Ferries Ltd carried 14,935 freight vehicles and trailers in 1970, plus 4052 manufacturers' cars and 895 export or...

Chas Poulter winding-up

• Transport contractors Charles Poulter Ltd, whose registered office is at 338, The Highway, London El, could no longer oppose...

Tippermen move to Blackpool

• Norbreck Hydro, North Shore, Blackpool, is to be the venue for the RHA Tipping Functional Group's fifth annual convention,...

No licence for Norway

• The bilateral road haulage agreement between the UK and Norway, signed last June, came into force yesterday. No licence is...

Dodging Shap saves an hour

• On test this week by CM, a Dennis Defiant tractive unit hauling a York single-axle semitrailer and running at 24 tons gross...

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Now it's Hilton International

• A new international road transport company commences operations on Monday with 500 semi-trailers and containers immediately...

Two more for TDG

• Transport Development Group Ltd has acquired the entire issued share capital of H. Evers Ltd, of Ancoats, Manchester, and of...

BRSL lose high-load appeal

• The conviction of British Road Services Ltd, and one of its drivers, Mr David Patrick Hopper, of causing danger by using a...

Carmichael pressure tank

• Carmichael and Sons (Worcester) Ltd, Worcester, point out that the Cravens Homalloy skeletal version of its Jumbo tipping...

Tipper, not tanker

• As readers will have realized, a caption on page 89 of CM's Artics and Trailers number did not make readable sense; through a...

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European dangers for British psv operators

• If Britain joins the EEC the balance will, for British transport, be a debit one, the director and secretary of the Passenger...

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Seddon

bodied Bristols for Runcorn's Busway • 'I'he special reserved track for buses which will form the basis of Runcorn New Town's...

Inquiry into Midland Red urged by MP

• The need for an inquiry into the Midland Red Omnibus Company is to bc urged on the Government by Mr Leslie Huckfield, Labour...

44 new County Authorities

• Responsibility for transport, traffic and highways is to be vested in the new County Authorities to be set up under the...

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New coaches for BOAC

Novel design from Sparshatt • A new type of bus to permit quicker and safer transit for passengers at major airports is being...

cam loan to help NBC

• The National Bus Company is taking action to restore viability after adverse factors which led to an operating loss of not...

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New manufacturing directorfor Chrysler UK

C. R. Smith, 46, has been appointed director, manufacturing division, Chrysler UK Ltd, taking up his duties immediately, in...

Obituary

We record with regret the death of Stanley Ellison. Mr Ellison, 50, in 1968 became general manager of Locomotors Ltd, the...

Was there a 'kangaroo' court?

• Thirteen employees of the 70-strong vehicle fleet of J. Brevitt Ltd, haulage contractor of Willenhall, Staffs, claimed this...

LA shows leniency

• Mr 1. A. T. Hanlon, the Northern LA, decided to take no action in respect of Tyneside Plant and Spares Ltd, of Newcastle,...

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NBC operator on verge of bankruptcy

• A fares increase granted to Crosville Motor Services Ltd, an NBC subsidiary, by Mr C. R. Hodgson, chairman of the North...

Air freighters lose to Road haulier

• Inability of air freight services to cope with the traffic, and their frequent unreliability, are given by Sayer and - Co...

'0' licence fees

• The fees for an operator's licence granted by an LA on a temporary basis pending the outcome of the normal applications...

RHA objects to application

• An application, objected to by the RHA, was adjourned by Western LA, Mr J. R. C. Samuel - Gibbon, in Bristol this week to...

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Builders build up fleet

• A Newcastle building company was granted an 0 licence by the Northern LA, Mr J. A. T. Hanlon, last week after he had been...

Licence granted after appeal abandoned

• An applicant who had been refused a licence for five vehicles last year was partially successful when a licence for two...

SBG short of cash

• Fares increases throughout Scottish Bus Group companies became operative on Sunday. following authorization by the Traffic...

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Ribble to increase fares

• At a joint public sitting of the North Western, Northern and Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners in Lancaster on Monday Ribble...

Seminar dates changed

• The CM-sponsored seminar "Managing and controlling drivers" scheduled for March 9 and 10 in London has had to be moved to...

Biffa launches heavy machinery moving service

• The Biffa Group, Loudwater, High Wycombe, is now operating a service for the transport and storage of heavy-duty plant and...

Men of many parts

• The really successful transport engineer in a few years' time will have been trained to manage road, air and sea engineering...

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'A very happy position to be in'

say Rolls-Royce diesel men by Paul Brockington • "We aim to be the pace-setter in the heavy truck engine field", Mr N. Parry,...