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20th June 1969
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This is British Leyland truck and bus division

With 17 factories producing six different makes of commercial and passenger vehicle and a host of power units, components and...

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The complex challenge

British Leyland's truck and bus division empire, run from Leyland by Mr. Ron Ellis, former general manager of Leyland Motors...

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1101000 is

only31years away In an exclusive interview, British Leyland chiefs take a long look into the future Lord Stokes: chairman and...

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Selective diesel develop

meet to GI level British Leyland Motor Corporation has advised Commercial Motor that at some date in the future the truck and...

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Turbine set for take-off

by A. J. P. Wilding MIMechE, MIRTE There can be no doubt that the work done in the past 25 years and that currently being...

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The operators' view

[ 1The L long-distance runner by lain Sherriff, MITA When the man who claims to be the longest long-distance haulier in...

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60 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE YEARS OF PROGRESS

and now it's full throttle into the seventies! FRIENDLY FIRST RATE SERVICE • The Marshall Group straddles the eastern region...

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Testing to breaking point

by R. D. Cater, AMInstBE Do makers really do enough to ensure that their new models will prove reliable? They certainly...

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Weighty smalls

The importance which the National Freight Corporation attaches to co-ordination of its activities in the carriage of parcels...

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NFC ties up its parcels activities

• The National Freight Corporation has this week detailed the people and the organization by which it intends to co-ordinate...

PIB may probe TGWU's £5,000

'charity' cheque from our political correspondent • Mrs. Barbara Castle, Minister of Employment and Productivity, is to be...

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Transport men honoured

Transport and its associated industries were well represented in the Queen's Birthday Honours List published on Saturday. Of...

Boost for apprentice training

• The Road Transport Industry Training Board has amplified its proposals to Mrs, Barbara Castle, Minister for Employment and...

Age and experience

• Most of the inspectors appointed to hold public inquiries into traffic regulation orders are between 67 and 72 years of age....

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RHA demurrage scale proposals

• The RHA's agricultural hauliers group has recommended a scale of demurrage charges to become effective as from June 1, 1969:...

Tax

saving special Bedford • Vauxhall Motors Ltd. special installation division and the Scottish Gas Board have co-operated to...

Yorkshire hauliers open training centre

• The first Yorkshire RTITB centre, which was officially opened in Bradford on Thursday of last week, is being run by the...

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Less onerous probing in operators' licensing

• Applicants for operators' licences may not have to supply details of their past record of convictions and GV9s extending over...

Tories fail in fuel tax bid

• Tories and Liberals tried without success last week to reduce the increase in petrol duty brought in at the time of the...

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1969 Excitement at

Edinburgh by lain Sherriff • The excitement at the end of the Le Mans 24-hours race was almost equalled at the Edinburgh LDoY...

Derry tops on

H ighway Code by James Millen • Londonderry was a good, robust Irish round. At the end of the day all concerned were entitled...

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Close scoring at Yeading

by Ron Cater • After being held for a number of years at the AEC works at Southall, the London round Sunday to the MoT testing...

«t4ste4) Bonus for winner

• Chris Hope of Kraft Foods Ltd., was the overall winner of the Fleetwood LDoY round held last Sunday. Mr. Hope was docked only...

Fines for rear axle overloading

• P. J. Ayres and Sons Ltd. was fined four guineas, with two guineas costs, at Watford magistrates' court on Tuesday. The...

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Container Transport

by David Lowe Prague conference THE organizing committee of KOMBITRANS (International Conference on Combined Transport)...

M-way ban in Germany

• To facilitate the movement of holiday traffic the Ministry of Transport of the Federal Republic of Germany has prohibited...

Blackfriars bridgehead • improvement

• The Minister of Transport has made a grant of £2,707,364 to the Corporation of London towards the estimated cost of...

Tilbury approval stage 3

• Work will start soon on building the third stage of the Tilbury Docks Approach Road. Mr. Marsh has authorized Essex county...

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Test exemptions

• Operators applying for vehicle tests at the Edmonton, London, test station find they have to wait longer than expected to get...

F. K. Pointon PTA chairman

F. K. Pointon has been elected chairman of the Public Transport Association in succession to T. W. H. Galley. Mr. Pointon is a...

PTA's pending • No decision has vet been taken on

whether to set up Passenger Transport Authorities in Scotland, said Mr. William Ross, the Scottish Secretary in the Commons...

No let-off for ancillary equipment

• A Tory bid to remove ancillary equipment from the unladen weight of commercial vehicles was not pressed to a vote this week...

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P.s.v. research unit at MIRA

• A unit is being established at MIRA, financially sponsored by the Public Transport Association and the Scottish Road...

Glasgow Transport sub-standard, says manager

• Glasgow Corporation transport—Scotland's largest municipal transport undertaking is sub-standard in its service to the...

London coach firm expands

• Nears Travel and Tours Ltd., Stanley Road, Teddington, has acquired Garner's Coaches Ltd., South Ealing Road, South Ealing,...

Scottish o-m-o buses agreement

• One-man operated buses will go into service in most parts of Dunbartonshire later this year after the acceptance on June 12...

Ulsterbus fire

• Eight 42-seater buses were destroyed in a fire which broke out at an Ulsterbus depot in Kilkeel, Co. Down, early on Saturday....

12-metre Re/lances for Premier Travel

• The first 12-metre coaches to be delivered in East Anglia are two AEC Reliance coaches which have gone to the Cambridge-based...

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'Gold-plated coaches?'

• At a Section 177 (1) inquiry in Birmingham last week, the West Midland LA, Mr. J. Else, accepted the surrender of eight...

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New destination now possible

• Altrincham Coachways Ltd. was granted its application for 40 additional excursions less three taken out to meet an objection...

Hot pins foil tachographs

• Mr. James Ronald Henderson, managing director of J. R. Henderson (Transport and Storage) Ltd.. Newburn, Northumberland, said...

Midlands lacks mechanics

• A.G. Horton (Transport) Ltd. of Tipton, formerly registered in the West Midlands, was granted a transfer of base to Fife by...

Kirkcaldy tipper shortage

• John Montgomery of Menstrie was granted a transfer of four tippers from C to B licence at Kirkcaldy on Tuesday. For the firm...

Vehicle prohibition —new scheme

• The new vehicle prohibition scheme is to be introduced at the end of this year. the MoT told CM on Wednesday. Under Section...

Monthly inspections inadequate

• The West Midland LA, Mr. J. Else, granted only eight out of the 10 vehicles applied for when the B licence held by Mr. B....

Used unlicensed vehicle

• Colin McCulloch Jnr. of Lochgelly. Fife, was granted one vehicle on B licence subject to surrender of five vehicles...

Type approval

• The Ministry of Transport states that there is now no likelihood of type approval—Ministry approval of design before...

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Coil carrier from Thompson Trailmobile

• A new coil carrier, designed for 5ft 6in. diameter coils, has been announced by Thompson Trailmobile. The standard welllength...

Eezion expansion

• The Ibbett Engineering Co. Ltd., Stanley Works, Kempston, Hardwick, Bedford, manufacturer and patentee of the Eezion range of...

Transit towing attachment

• Ford has introduced a towing attachment for long wheelbase versions of the Ford Transit. The attachment has been tailored for...

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Road and workshop by Handyman

Loads and forces (5) • Snow and icebound roads bring their own quota of lost loads, ditchings and overturnings. The wise...

Stepping up oil transport productivity

• Methods aimed at increasing road transport productivity were demonstrated by Shell-Mex and BP Ltd. prior to the opening by...

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Winds of change strike public cleansing services

• Development of refuse container systems had not been exploited by local authorities to the extent one might have expected,...

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Conspiracy and forgery charge

• Jos. Walsh (Darwen) Ltd., its director and two employees, were committed for trial when they appeared at Darwen magistrates'...

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Worlds

WHEN operators' licensing is introduced later this year the sharp division between own-account and hire and reward transport...

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SBS Lightweight and British Leyland Chassis ~perfect match!

A match which brings convenience and profit to British Leyland users everywhere. The SBS Lightweight, most popular on the 16...

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* Turbine tribute

There was a silver medal awaiting Lord Stokes when he attended the annual meeting of the Automobile Association last week. It...

* Be seen

They talk about justice being seen to be done: a speaker at the AA luncheon last week suggested that enforcement should be seen...

* Autonomy adieu?

Because this may be the last year that sonic municipalities will have autonomous control of their own bus fleets, the secretary...

*Not so good

Many brilliant driving performances at LDoY rounds are reported in CM throughout the summer but I've heard several people...

* Service

I'm told that the new LDoY secretary at Londonderry, T. A. Smallwoods, "picked up" this centre only a month ago, but did a fine...

* Full treatment

Gelligaer UDC has really gone gay for the investiture of the Prince of Wales. When its former AEC Swift demonstrator came up...

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AEC Mercury 16 ton-gross four-wheeler

COMPETITION among manufacturers in the maximum-gross four-wheeler field has increased in recent years particularly as a result...

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Janus comments

Road building tender REPORTS from royal commissions, unlike those from some other bodies, usually lead to legislation. But it...

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10 - 1-ACRE PITCH by David Lowe, MInstTA

IF a warehousing company was able to start again from scratch how would it set out its new pitch? Where would the warehouse be...

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The Transport Development Group philosophy

IN the transport world it would be difficult to point to any organization with such a spectacular growth record as that of the...

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Q Over the years I have been unfavour-• ably impressed

by the inadequacy of the conventional water cooling for controlling engine temperature. I have heard that successful...

Q In discussions with fellow operators, the view has bean

expressed that no system could be devised that eliminated the possibility of jack-knifing and that did not affect the steering...

Q A friend of mine remembers reading in CM some

time ago that a p.s.v. training scheme was being operated by a Birmingham (or Manchester) coach proprietor. As I intend Making...

Q Could you give me any information on the qualifications

needed for transport manager's licence and also could you tell me about courses for obtaining the licence? A The...

/ am interested in learning how to

drive heavy lorries. Do you know if there are such things as lorry-driving schools, or if some of the haulage companies are...

Q I am employed as a driver of a low

loader carrying earthmoving equipment. I do not know the weights of many of the machines I carry—so who is responsible if my...

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Educational organizations in road transport the IMI

AT first sight the Institute of the Motor Industry (IMI) appears to have little connection with commercial road transport...

New C and U Regulations

THE appearance of new Construction and Use Regulations is always of great interest to the transport operator. As new...