D UR1NG the past four weeks The Commercial Mawr has published a series of articles relating to the various ways in which...

I N April, 1960, Leslie John Barnett came home. After a lifetime spent mostly in faraway places he was back, for good, in the...

P ROOF, if it were really needed, of how much the Road Haulage Association has the interests of hauliers at heart has been...

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT r - V A CONSIDERABLE amount of unrest continues among tipping vehicle owners and constructional...

A MENDMENTS have been made to the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) Regulations, which affect the rear overhang of goods...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT D ESPITE the Government's wages pause, a new pay claim on behalf of London's 40,000 busmen...

rl A COMPREHENSIVE code of safety regulations covering workers in the construction industry in Great Britain will go into...

A FTER a week of near-deadlock, owner/driver hauliers, working under contract A licence carrying pre-stressed concrete work...

T HE changes in administration at Standard-Triumph, Ltd., would have no effect on Albion Motors, Ltd., or on Leyland itself....

A DIRECTOR of a Hinckley haulage company was described as " the straightest haulage contractor we have dealt with" when his...

Mr. H. Wilson has been appointed home sales manager of J. C. Bamford (Excavators), Ltd. He was previously assistant sales...

THREE lorry drivers summoned under I the 1835 Highways Act were given absolute discharges by Ormskirk magistrates last Friday...

THE Minister of Transport has upheld an appeal by Wainfleet Motor Services, Ltd., who appealed against a revision by the West...

TH REE new tankers to carry "tar and like products" were granted by the North Western Deputy Licensing Authority, Mr. A. H....

F ARMERS in Isle of Axholme, Lines, may have to send their sugar beet crop to the Brigg factory of British Sugar Corporation by...

THE West Midland Traffic Corn' missioners last week approved fares increases for West Bromwich transport department. The...

THE Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners. 1 sittin g at Leeds last week, were told that the three Led g ard companies were bein g "...

T HE number of g oods vehicles on the road increased by 32 per cent. between 1956 and 1960. the Ministry of Transport announced...

N EARLY 10,000 more commercial vehicles were produced in June, 1961, than in the previous month. A total of 48,065 vehicles...

T HEpropeller shaft of a lorry was stated in Sheffield last week to have broken off, flown through the air, and struck a...

THE British Transport Commission I has set up a company to "advise coo and accelerate the development of major railway...

A DAIMLER bus, which first went into service in January, 1944, and was scheduled for disposal, has been modified by Burnley...

Time" on Weight Counts • FROM N. H. THSLEY D ESPITE the fact that the only eye-witness to a series of alleged offences—a...

T HE Argentine Government has placed contracts totalling £5.1m. with Leyland Motors, Ltd., and A.E.C, Ltd., for buses. A total...

A COMPANY designed to specialive IA in the large-scale leasing of capih:l equipment and vehicles to British industry and other...

T HE right of an applicant to treat a fresh application as a continuation of a previous partially successful application was...

Ft come The Mean Today This is the Experience of British Road Services in Pioneering their Continental Ferry Service with...

B ECAUSE Britain is coming late, if at all, into membership of the Common Market, it must make the best it can of the structure...

Semi-trailers With Twin Oscillating Rear . Axles are Currently Offered by Most Trailer Manufacturers. This Feature is Concerned...

by P. A. C. Brockington, A.M.I.Mech.E IN introducing measures to meet rising costs, the Urban District Council of Aberdare...

M OST substantial of the many contract A licence switches that appear this week is an application by heavy haulage specialists...

No "Pause" for Hauliers If the Chancellor's Aim of Greater Productivity is to be Realized, Road Transport Operators Will Soon...

F oLLowiNG the satisfactory performance obtained with two Deutz air-cooled diesel engines fitted in Guy Arab double-deckers in...

A SEMI-TRA1LER chassis that can be raised, lowered or tipped is shown in patents,No, e 869,641. Its primary purpose is for...