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Breakthrough

S C PACE fiction has become a reality in a decade. Yet concurrently road traffic congestion has increasingly become the most...

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Goods Transport

Fewer Prohibitions In August ik/fINISTRY OF TRANSPORT vehicle 1Y1 examiners carried out spot checks on 13,651 heavy goods...

Customs Hold Up TIR Carnets For Tax

BY NORMAN H. TILSLEY IF they gave away weekly prizes for the 1 best performance in red tape procedure, I am sure this week's...

Liner Trains : Where We All Came In. .

From our Industrial Correspondent N O sooner had the Minister of Transport made his confident forecast that liner trains would...

TA To Visit Scania

XTEXT Thursday (October 7) a small 1`11 party of members of the Transport Association, headed by their chairman, Mr. K....

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RHA International Group at Sea

(BY COURTESY OF THORESEN CAR FERRIES) -IE international group of the Road iaulage Association, under the chairship of Mr. J....

Observer Corps For Scunthorpe Hauliers

AU1.11:RS in Scunthorpe are to start a plan to protect goods carried by road in the city and its immediate neighbourhood. From...

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' Drivers Do Not Realize Jeopardy To Their Employers ORRY drivers

did not realize the 1 -4 jeopardy they put hauliers in by not reporting faults on their vehicles, commented Mr. J. A. T....

Departmental Reorga nization At Ministry

A REORGANIZATION of the headquarters of the Ministry of Transport will take effect from next Monday (October 4). The Ministry...

NEWS N BRIEF

Pointer's Expand Tanker Fleet: An order for six 5,000 gal.-capacity oil tankers has been placed by the Pointer Group of Norwich...

LABOUR UNREST OVER IRAN 3FORT POLICY?

From our Political Correspondent S IGNS of unrest over transport policy among the left wing of the Labour Party became evident...

R HA Seek Midlands Labour Inquiry

A T an executive committee meeting of the RI-IA on Wednesday, a resolution from the Birmingham sub-area requested that the...

Dennis Chairman Leaving 'THE chairman and managing director

of Dennis Bros. Ltd., Mr. T. H, Sharman. is relinquishing his appointment. Mr. Alan R. Stewart, a director, is to join shortly...

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ublished Rates: EEC Plans TIR IN SPAIN

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ITHIN the next week or so the EEC Commission is due to present to Council of Ministers its...

A A CERTAIN amount of confusion exists amongst international hauliers as

to the extent to which TIR operates in Spain. In some cases it is thought that, apart from Barcelona, TIR operates to and from...

Weighbridge Shortage becoming Acute in Perth

THE Perth area executive of the Scottish National Farmers' Union have been told that there arc no weighbridges available...

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Men in the News

Mr. H. E. Robson has been appointed chairman of the Traffic Commissioners and Licensing Authority for the Yorkshire area. He...

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smen Defer Overtime Ban Threat

LLOWING a meeting of a delegate onference of busmen, held in Seper, a show-down between the London sport Board and its busmen...

lidland Red Deny Rumours

E Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co. has denied rumours lating in Oxfordshire that " there is to he wholesale...

New Bristol Range for Passenger ' Vehicle Operators

D ETAILS can now be released of the passenger chassis being made available by Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd. for the open...

East Kent Reorganize Herne Bay Services

ri A MAJOR reorganization of services in the Herne Bay area of Kent was undertaken by the East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd. last...

NEWS IN BRIEF

Empress and Bella Venture: Under the heading Empress and Bella Venture " on page 85 of the guide to Touring Coach Bodies in...

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London's King's Cross Coach Station to Close

T HE final closure of King's Cross Coach Station is to take place on October 31. For several years now this station, used by...

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.angle Over )pping Places

3IDE street in Durham City is now ised as a terminal by four . local bus res and as either a picking-up or Ming-down point for...

EXTRAORDINARY STORY SAYS DEPUTY LICENSING AUTHORITY

'VII IS is an appalling state of affairs and I have never Seen anything like it ". said the Metropolitan deputy Licensing...

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When is Sand Not Considered A Building Material

T HE revocation or suspension of the licences of Joseph Kimberley and Sons Ltd., of Newcastle, Staffs, under Section 178 of the...

Grant—and A Warning

I AM g oin g to take a chance and say your application can be g ranted." This was said by Mr. J. R. C. SamuelGibbon, Western...

Contract Vehicles For Quarry Work

TAI 0 applicants for Contract A licences to carry for Derbyshire Stone Sales were successful at Hanley last week, after...

No Witness — No Grant

IN the absence of key witnesses. an 1 application by Mr. S. W. J. Ostle, of Kirkby Stephen, Westmorland, for a variation of an...

Two Tippers on B

A N application by Mr. T. E. Swainson, of Penrith, for B licences in respect of two tippers was g ranted last week by the...

Tribunal's New Rules

T HE Transport Tribunal has made new rules which are published as Statutory Instrument No 1687 (1965) and are available from...

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i]xplanation Called For CASEBOOK

lengths to which rival coach operators will go in their efforts to preserve their spective franchises was well illustrated in...

Mr. Else Gets Tough

monthly traffic courts instituted Mr. John Else to deal specifically action 178 inquiries are becoming dilution in the West...

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Technical and Industrial

Gresham Cooke Award For DDE Men 'HE Crompton Lanchester Medal and the Gresham Cooke Prize of the Institution of Mechanical...

Plastics Cab For Ford D

PTO facilitate the production of its 1 0 Series commercial vehicles in developing countries, Ford of Britain is now able to...

New Humberside Road Network

N EW and improved trunk routes costing between £40m. and £50m. are to be provided between Humberside and the Great North Road...

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FUEL-CELL BATTERY ELECTRIC?

By P. A. C. Brockington, LST an output of up to 20 h,p. is equired for negotiating gradients ■ r acceleration—taking the case...

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Eyes Right?

IT was alleged this week that 150,000 I of the 13+ m. driving licence holders in this country have poor vision and ought not to...

ROAD AND WORKSHOP by HANDYMAN

Grinding Equipment-Part 4 WHEREAS the small garage or vehicle VV repair shop may be content with the twin-wheel grinder or...

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NEW EQUIPMENT

and Publications ctric Bandsaw METER operation is a feature of a new model single-speed hree-wheeled handsaw, introduced by...

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BIRD'S EYE VIEW

Job n Watts Honoured That the celebration of a 55th birthday can be a forward-looking and a vital affair was demonstrated last...

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Export Services Exhibition

By Norman H. Tilsley MOST every facet of export handling, plus road haulage and ;upped services which are so vital speeding...

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Leave it to the Local Men

REGIONALIZATION REJECTED IN CONFERENCE DISCUSSION THE suggestion that the municipal bus I industry should " nationalize "...

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HE CRIME AGAINST THE LICENCE

) NLY a handful of licences were revoked and a few more suspended during the 12 months up to the end of September 1964,...

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British Passenger Chassis

AEC A.E.C. Ltd., Southall, Middlesex ALL AEC passenger chassis are now fitted with an AEC dry-liner engine. the A69I or 505....

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Market Survey BRITISH 101

IC COACH BODYWORK L ISTED and illustrated here in live main groups. arranged to permit comparison between vehicles of similar...

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THE VITAL DIVERSION By E. C. 0. PETRIE . .

. or how they brought the goods from Consett to Tomnavoulin O NE Saturday afternoon this summer a heavy articulated outfit...

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Titain's Bus Fleets Analysed

BY DEREK MOSES Rear engines gaining ground GROWING number of passenger vehicle operators are starting to comment on the...

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Leylands Storming Ahead in Municipal Field

T HE position in the municipal bus industry today so far as the composition of individual makes is concerned must be very...

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Strong Fleetline Challenge in Company Fleets

D ESP1TE the pruning of rural bus services, and the falling traffic generally, there were actually more company buses in...

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Automation in Transport

By S. BUCKLEY, Assoc lost T A PPLICATIONS, techniques and human aspects of automation when applied to transport were discussed...

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tomation in Transport (Continued :;0111

s most advanced form it meant the itic carrying out of operations with man intervention. But man had endeavoured to augment the...

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Ebbs and Flows i isenger Transport

f 358M. was spent in the UK during 1964 on travel by bus, coach and tram. From the same source as this information—the official...

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THE COMMON ROOM

By George Wilmot Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London Regional Studies—Merseyside MERSEYSIDE is at the...

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YOUR OPINION

The editor is always pleased to receive letters on all aspects of the road transport industry. Contributors must Include their...