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The total burden

T RANSPORT operators everywhere will echo the .I. plea by the TRTA president (page 28) to the Minister of Transport to...

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TRTA chief's plea to Mrs. C: 'Co-ordinate action on costs'

66 C O-ORDINATE all Government action which affects road transport costs and intercede with your colleagues at the Treasury,...

New range of heavies in CM next week

of Britain's quan tity producers of commercial vehicles is about to move up into the heavier weight classes with goods...

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Drivers' hours: Cousins slates stand taken by operators

r a characteristically forthright speech, Mr. Frank Cousins last week castigated transport employers for consistently refusing...

218 per cent pay rise in 18 years

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT A VERAGE weekly earnings of transport and communications workers have gone up 218.6 per...

Fourth Annual Fleet Management Conference:

TRANSPORT EFFICIENCY IS THE THEME THIS YEAR A DATE for your dairy: September 21. This is the day on which four distinguished...

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Haulier to pay £3,775 in case of the bogus sub-contractor

ARTHUR W. ELLIS (Transport) .M.Ltd., of New Bridge Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, was ordered in the High Court last week to pay...

42 SCOTS FIRMS FINED FOR OVERLOADING

O N more than 1,400 occasions, lorries which had just left Grangemouth Docks after loading up with bauxite were found to be...

SWEET CONTRACT

HALF the delivery work previously undertaken for the Melds confectionery organization in Bedford and associated companies by...

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Militant for its members . . . RHA report reveals wide activity .

BY JOHN DARKER rill; 22nd annual report of the Road Haulage Association published this week presents an encouraging picture...

REGENT APPOINTS 'GV9 MEN'

REGENT OIL CO. LTD.—which had 12 of its tankers suspended for four months from March 1 as a penalty for collecting 123 GV9s...

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One big transport education question: Why so little university support?

By S. BUCKLEY A THOUGH it was claimed that training never ceases, because of limitations in the natural desire to learn and...

Lower profits for Yorkshire haulier

yoRK SHIRE short-distance haulage firm R. Hanson and Son found its expansion restricted in 1966, reports Mr. Geoffrey Eley,...

ETim. LOST BY STRIKE-HIT BMH

BRMSI-I MOTOR HOLDINGS last week announced a half year loss of £7,520,000 before tax, incurred entirely in the BMC side of the...

UNMARKED LAY-BY 'PART OF HIGHWAY'

APPLEBY (Westmorland) magistrates decided last week that an unmarked lay-by on the A66 Penrith to Appleby road was part of the...

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Mrs. Castle tells of White Papers for NFO and CTAs

D ETAILS of the National Freight Organization will be given in a White Paper Mrs. Castle plans to issue later this year. She...

Traffic Bill goes to Lords

rr Road Traffic (Amendment) Bill, vi,ich tightens up the control over operators with defective lorries, was approved by the...

TORIES STEER CLEAR OF LONDON'S BUSES

From our Political Correspondent 'THERE will be no GLC takeover of I. London's buses, and there will be no rush to appoint a...

Liberals plump for tolls

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT LIBERAL policy-makers went overboard for road tolls at a special conference, "Guidelines for...

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The big Wallace Arnold Tours battle starts all over again

T HE rehearing of strongly contested applications by Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd., of Leeds, for continuations and modifications...

Tribunal agree: One dump truck not enough

"A GRANT of one dump truck is of little use", said Mr. J. B. T. Louden this week to the Transport Tribunal when he appealed...

ILLEGAL OPERATION BY BR ALLEGED IN APPEAL

B RITISH Railways, Scottish Region, had been operating vehicles on a licence although an appeal against the grant of that...

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'Dangerous power for LAs' so Tribunal quashes suspension

A N application for an A licence which was refused and caused another A licence to be suspended for six months was the subject...

Suspension for wilful neglect

MR. C. J. MacDONALD, Metropolitan deputy LA, last week suspended one vehicle belonging to Southern Laundries (1946) Ltd. for...

AFTER A YEAR-BUS FIRM APPEAL UPHELD

THE MINISTER of Transport has upheld an appeal by Hutchison's Coaches Ltd., of Overtown, Lanarkshire, against a decision of the...

LONDON APPEAL ADJOURNED

THE hearing of the appeal by 18 private road hauliers (COMMERCIAL MOTOR, April 14) against a 12 1.ehiele grant by the North...

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Newcomer in bus body field: Hazlemere Longlife

By DEREK MOSES NE W entrants into the field of bus body building are indeed rare these days, but one company which has turned...

NORTH WESTERN SEEKS FARES INCREASE

T HE Stockport-based North Western Road Car Co., which runs a fleet of nearly 600 vehicles in Cheshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire...

NEW IPC DIVISION

THE TRADE anil technical publishing interests of the International Publishing Corporation have been merged into a new division...

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Welsh valleys pool will save two companies £155,000 a year

T South Wales Traffic Com- n E issioners in Cardiff last week granted applications for 62 and 66 new licences to the Red and...

SOWERBY'S TAKES OVER MID-TYNE

MID-TYNE Transport Co. Ltd., Hexham, Northumberland has been taken over by Sowerby's Tours, of Gilsland, who are to maintain...

Ayr firm plans 'commuter special'

A "COMMUTER SPECIAL" express bus service between Ayr and Glasgow which would reduce the time of the existing bus journey by 20...

CTA threat to operators grows By DEREK MOSES QLOWLY but

surely Mrs. Barbara 1 . - 7 Castle is unveiling her proposals with regard to the future of the road passenger transport...

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Sir Reginald, Sir William and Sir Donald quit Bristol board

CIR REGINALD WILSON has resigned from the position of chairman and 1 - 7 director of Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd., and Sir...

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HOPE DEVICE PASSES TOUGH US ARMY TEST

Report and pictures by Dick Ross L AST Saturday at the invitation of 37th Transport Group US Army, commanded by Col. John E....

£500,000 TO CUTSKIDDING

THE Ministry of Transport has set aside £500,000 towards cutting down accidents caused by skidding. A major campaign is being...

GOOD COMBUSTION CUTS OIL CONTAMINATION

better the combustion of petrol and diesel engines the lower will be the level of insoluble matter in the lubricating oil; for...

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VAL-BASED PALLETAINER BOOSTS BOX DELIVERIES

K NOWN as the Palletainer delivery vehicle, a Bedford VAL-based pantechnicon is being operated by Clarkes Boxes Ltd.,...

MAXIM UPRATED TO 30 TONS

B Y employing a Perkins 510 V8 diesel engine for the Maxim tractive unit, the makers Dennis Bros. Ltd., Guildford, have been...

Condenser for air-braking systems

A COMBINED condenser and automatic' drain-valve unit introduced by Clayton Dewandre Co. Ltd., Lincoln, filters the air of...

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Know-how 21: Preventive maintenance (6) 'Working together'

HA VING selected your inspectors according to fleet size, there are one or two further points to consider. These chaps are...

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Revolutionary seal

M ANY attempts have been made at positively sealing rotating shafts without oil seepage, and a revolutionary design of oil seal...

'Stork' range addition

DD ED to their ranges of hand-drills, arron Machines Ltd, is a double'n sulated-percussion drill. The "Super Stork" P.C. 14...

Magnesium dockboards

M AGNESIUM dockboards offer many advanta g es in lorry loadin g from depot platforms because of their high stren g th/ weight...

King-pin lock

vOR immobilizing a trailer when parked S. Norrish Ltd. have introduced a kin g -pin lock. The "Norisk" lock comprises a yoke of...

Belco polyester stopper

ICI paints division has developed a new two-pack polyester stopper (P551-1042) for use in refinish paint shops. It is packed in...

Positive-displacement blowers Portable steam cleaner

M ARKETED as the Wedgo G.65 by W. C. Youn g man Ltd. is a portable steam cleaning unit which produces hi g hpressure steam from...

Alkaline remover

TENOLITE LTD. has introduced an eightmember range of li q uid alkaline solutions for use by hot immersion, which it claims are...

Fork-lift handbook

AN operator's handbook for safe working of fork-lift trucks has been published by Lansin g Bagnall Ltd. It describes fully the...

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Bird's Eye

View BY THE HAWK Joe Cox's Secret N OEL WYNN, national vice-chairman, was on g ood form at the RHA's Western area dinner on...

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Specialist's approach by East Anglin Carriers

T HERE is no glib formula for success in road haulage, but there would be general agreement on two vital principles: the...

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One-sided TV view

BBC 's PROGRAMME "Tomorrow's World" and Raymond Baxter presented a one-sided report on the reluctance of the transport industry...

Statutory instruments and officialese

THE LATEST representations which are being made for some effort to introduce simplicity in our Acts and statutory instruments...

Section error

THANK YOU for publishing my letter in your issue of March 31. It is noted an error has crept in and where I referred to...

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Volkswagen 1-ton van

T HE fact that VW have made few major modifications to their delivery vans may be one reason why this vehicle has a high sales...

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Maximum service minimum responsibility

BY S. BUCKLEY Assoc Inst T E VERY week 25,000 requests from house' wives are received at the 60 call offices of British...

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Off with the old: on with

DEVELOPMENTS in vehicle-body refinishing materials over the past few years have been many. A considerable amount of work on...

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TESTERS' REPORT

A N impressively spacious car for a saloon less than 14 ft. long overall, the Morris 1800 tested by COMMERCIAL MOTOR is...

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TESTERS' REPORT

A NYONE who wants luxury in a small package will fi nd the answer in the Triumph 1300. At a basic price including tax of £835...

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TESTERS' REPORT

THE latest Vauxhall Viva incorporates many improvements over the model it replaced in September 1966. With a price structure...

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Vehicle Sale

by Tender by Ashley Taylor, Assoc lnst T, AMIRTE C OMPARED with the methods of direct sale, part-exchange and auction, the...

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I N spite of the shrewd and imaginative analysis by Mr.

A. F. Beckenham (CM, last week) of the shortcomings of transport education in Britain and the consequent harmful effect on the...

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DAIMLER AND PLAXTON MAKE IT 'THE DOUBLE'

TWO COACH DRIVERS OF THE YEAR T\ 0 Plaxton-bodied Daimler Roadliner e N c r iaches ran away with the honours in the 13th...

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GROUP TRAINING

W 1TH the appointment of a director of training by the Road Transport Industry Training Board earlier this month following...

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a 1 understand from the Construction and

Use Regulations that all vehicles registered on or after January 1 1968 must have the parking brake completely separate from...

Is it permissible for a lorry driver to rest while parking his vehicle on the hard shoulder of a motorway?

A Vehicles must not park on the motorway and if they have to stop they must be driven on the grass verge or hard shoulder only...

Q Are any figures available concerning the growth in the movement of goods by road?

Increases in road haulage can be expressed in terms either of tonnage or ton-mile, although both figures need to be treated...

G Could you give me the address of a manufacturer of expanding tilt frames for vehicles?

A A patented expanding tilt is available r-1 from John Smith and Co. (London) Ltd., Hainault Works, Hainault Road, Chaciwell...

Q How does the centre of gravity of a vehicle affect braking efficiencies?

A The Higher the centre of gravity, the greater the transfer of weight from the rear axle TO the front axle when the vehicle...

I wish to become the holder of a British

p.s.v. driving licence. I already hold a British Forces (German) p.s.v. licence and would be glad of information as to how I go...

Cl I was present at a conference at which reference was

made to ram-air supercharging. Have you details of such a system? A The speaker was probably referring to the FiamAire...

n Can I collect vehicles for hire or reward with

general trade plates but without a carrier's licence, such as the towing of caravans and trailers? A General trade plates...

Q Do road hauliers, when recruiting drivers, pay enough attention to physical fitness?

A Drivers are already recruited with diffi culty and many hauliers are more concerned when engaging them to check references...

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Transport examiner's notebook: Final run-in to May examinations

ON LY a month remains before the Institute of Transport examinations and the other professional transport examinations take...