S now we know that, despite the Prime Minister's protestations at devaluation time, there is a sacred cow too valued to be...

MORE to our taste, in terms of large-scale developments, is this week's news of the BMH-LMC merger. If not exactly inevitable,...

T HE VITAL—but unknown—factor concerning the Transport Bill is: What instructions will the Minister of Transport give Licensing...

THE International Chamber of Commerce has decided to back the IRU's protests against new limitations on road goods transport,...

A PRELIMINARY public hearing into the Hixon level crossing accident (CM, January 12) is to be held by Mr. E. Brian Gibbons, QC,...

ON TUESDAY, government experts representing the Common Market states began the first of seven sets of meetings at which they...

h eavies smaller grants for others THIS YEAR the Road Transport Industry Trainin g Board will pay cash 1 g rants to companies...

A FIRST CONSIGNMENT of 20ft ISO freight containers has been delivered to Channel Road Services Ltd., the Hay's Wharf TIR ferry...

W. C. YOUNGMAN LTD. has decided to close two of its subsidiary companies, Redhill Bodybuilding Industries Ltd. and R.B.I....

ROAD Hauliers (Manchester) Ltd., the company formed by operators in the RHA North Western (Eastern) area for cooperative...

A MASSIVE EXTENSION of nationalization by compulsion—that was the end result of the Transport Bill foreseen by Mr. S. Marsh,...

Government welcomes move THE BRITISH Leyland Motor Corporation—that is the title of the new company which, it was announced on...

CAR transporter operations from Pressed Steel Fisher's Castle Bromwich works are to he handled by British Road Services. This...

DRIVERS and employers from 30 haulage firms in the North East met at Stockton last Friday to hear Shadow Transport Minister Mr....

THE RHA highways and traffic committee is to produce a comprehensive report on urgent necessary roadbuilding and improvements....

AN illustrated report on drum-handling problems has been published by the National Joint Council on Materials Handling. It is...

T. H. J. Field has been appointed group training officer, central training service, THC Freight Association. He was formerly...

THE Institute of the Furniture Warehousing and Removing Industry has decided that its schools and courses should be freely...

THE mechanical handling division of USI Engineering Ltd., Welwyn Garden City, has been acquired by Associated British Maltsters...

Will they risk prison to press their case? A PPROVAL by the Minister of Labour, Mr. Ray Gunter, for the payment of £1 a week...

1 - 1 A SIX-WEEK public inquiry into the £10m Chesterfield town centre development plan scheduled to end yesterday attracted...

T HE PROVISION of bus services to the central urban areas of Leicester by one undertaking (Leicester City Transport) and to the...

FARE increases of up to 4d a journey will be introduced by the Lincolnshire Road Car Co. from January 28. Approving the...

OBJECTIONS have been lodged by Roxburgh County Council to the proposal to withdraw the Monday to Friday bus service which has...

T HREE private bus companies have written to the Ministry of Transport offering to negotiate on the acquisition of their...

ROAD-BUILDING is to suffer under the Government's post-devaluation economy axe. In his statement on Tuesday, Mr. Wilson said...

THE RHA, in a statement on the Government cuts, said: "The substantial reduction the Government is making in the road programme...

FAILURE to agree tipping rates for work on the Mersey Tunnel has caused the cancellation of the month-long 20-vehicles-a-day...

AN APPLICATION by Plant Services (Tempsford) Ltd. was amended in court and granted by the Eastern area LA, Mr. W. P. S. Ormond,...

IN THE LIGHT of customers' complaints and evidence of day-and-night operating, the North Western LA, Mr. C. R. Hodgson, granted...

A r long last it's over: the written decision by Mr. D. I. R. Muir on the M. and S. Shipping Ltd. application (CM, January 12)...

IN AN APPEAL to the Transport Tribunal by the Transport Holding Co. on Tuesday, Mr. Richard Yorke said the assessment of an...

A 20-YEAR-OLD applicant who the previous day had admitted operating outside his Contract A licence conditions and running...

FOR USING a mini-bus without a public service licence Mr. Lucas Price of West Norwood was fined 10s. by Woking magistrates. It...

APPEALS by Margo's of Croydon Ltd., and Queenspark Coaches Ltd., against the decision by the Metropolitan Traffic Commissioners...

by the Technical Editor T WO NEW integral-design buses and a Beaver with fully automatic transmission will be the main...

A MAJOR replacement and modernization programme has been started by Union Cartage Co. Ltd., one of the biggest A-licensed...

THREE 20ft general-purpose freight containers built to a completely new design to give virtually unrestricted access along both...

TO rationalize gas turbine operations within the Leyland Motor Corporation, a new subsidiary called Leyland Gas Turbines has...

A 300 to 400 b.h.p. engine moving a 36to 45-ton combination on motorways at average speeds of about 50 m.p.h., the driver...

TO EASE problems associated with the disposal of trade refuse and domestic waste, an entirely new collection unitCompressload...

and publications Easy to read AN ACCURACY within 1.5 per cent is claimed for the Tyremaster tyre inflator introduced by the...

TWO recently introduced products from W. H. Brady Co. Ltd. are an embossing machine to print self-adhesive plastics labels and...

NUGEAR is the name of semi-trailer landing gear announced by Dowson and Mason Ltd. The units permit static loading of 40,000lb...

rr HE folding multi-blade feeler gauge can be found in every tool box and is in everyday use. Yet how often is it used more as...

By A. N. WILLIAMS, South Western area manager, Lombank Ltd. W ITH all forms of capital investment hampered by recent drastic...

and a comparison of net cost drawn at a three-year stage, at a five-year stage and in terms of final net cost. As the present...

"Our D600s are manoeuvrable, easy to load, and above all thoroughly reliable 99 says Mr. Alan Hoskins. "Our main job is the...

I OFFER no prize for those guessing one of the principal commodities carried on the first Freightliner out of the new Edinburgh...

I THINK the London boroughs must have been concentrating on praying for a quick thaw to get the snow away from the roads. There...

AMONG a group of distinguished people who will be presented with honorary degrees at the summer graduation ceremony at Aberdeen...

WHILE most of the transport industry was working to beat the chaos caused by the snow last week, engineers at BMC welcomed the...

IN DUNDEE, fitters in the repair shop of commercial vehicle distributors Oswald Tillotson Ltd. have joined the "I'm backing...

EVERY YEAR, BMC uses over 1,000 tons of paper in producing sales and service literature—equivalent in weight to 250 fully grown...

INSTITUTE of Transport immediate past president Dick Farmer, and secretary A. G. Griffiths, left London yesterday on a six-week...

I WAS PLEASED to learn that the Ratcliff tailboard loader (CM, last week) is to be produced in Canada. This represents a...

INSURANCE I A fleet's profitability can be increased by efficient insurance management BY R. W. ROOKE, BA, ACII, Insurance...

EHICLES bringing goods into Britain from abroad after the Transport Bill is passed will presumably not be subject to a railway...

By Derek Moses F OR SOME YEARS now it has been the policy of London Transport to allow private operators to take over some...

T HE NEXT 10 years will be a challenging period to vehicle engineers and manufacturers, says Mr. Dews. Current developments and...

inform me if I need to modify the brakes to comply with the C and U Regulations 1967: No. 1288 and what will be my permitted...

footbrake on December 1, 1967. The maximum percentage shown by the Police tester was 40 per cent and the average on five tests...

associated equipment in anticipation of operators' needs as a result of the new regulations. We intend offering service...

vehicles when I am 21. Will I then need a different type of driving licence? A As the law stands at the moment the only...

attic with two bodies on short-haul work involving the bodies being continually changed. Annual mileage would be around 20,000....

verges This involves arrapging the hauling of motor mowers around my district—at present by a tractor and low-loading trailer....

C OMMENDABLY GREATER EMPHASIS is now being given to accountability in road transport, partly due to the references made in...

ONE of the critical problems for those taking professional examinations in transport is the difficulty of knowing whether they...