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24th December 1983
24th December 1983
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)pread the gospel

IN DER this over your Christmas pudding. Whatever you can see or touch around you veiled from its source the greatest part of...

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Santa feared lost in night ban campaign

THE INDUSTRY'S fight to stop the threat of London-wide lorry bans was being stepped up in the week before Christmas, but there...

Service aid

HAULIERS have been given chance to take advantage of Government's new regional policy. Trade and Industry Secre Norman...

Lorry costs

THE DEPARTMENT of Tra port's proposal for changes road tax allocation for lorries valiant first attempt, but di not take into...

Minister's muffled move

THE GOVERNMENT has agreed programme to develop the new ge Transport Minister Lynda Chalker told MPs last week that the...

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Mets lose TSG

NSPORT funds are being switched away from the metropolitan is under the Government's 1984/85 Transport Supplementary it...

RHA objection fails

rEMPTS by a company now receivership to get a new nce application heard in prie failed in Cambridge last ak. Objections also...

EKM changes

IZER. Kemsley and Mil!bourn bsidiary Cawthorn and Sin1r has become part of the ye Wood Group, another TKM bsidia ry. I - he...

Bridge code

THE EFFECTS of heavy vehicles on bridges will soon be gauged more accurately, when the Department of the Environment produces...

That bridge

THE CONTROVERSY over the accuracy of the dynamic axle weighbridge at Wall in Staffordshire (CM, December 17) is to be continued...

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Spanish Atkinson

ENASA (Empresa Nacional de Autocamiones SA) is now waiting for Spanish Government approval to complete its purchase of Seddon...

Dual roll

THE ARGYLL STOR supermarket group, which cludes Presto and Liptons, begun to use a novel duall pose York curtainsided se...

Bendix displays wares

BENDIX LTD, the Bristol based manufacturers of heavy goo vehicle air braking systems and equipment, has published a revis...

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Hughes licence revoked

THE NORTH WESTERN Traffic Commissioners have revoked the short term licence held by Les Hughes Transport Services (North Wales...

Cotter expands

COTTER'S TOURS has expanded further into the big league of coaching by taking over Bee Line Tours from the Ellerman Group....

End for LT

THE TIME has come to end the 14 year experiment with London Transport, Transport Secretary Nicholas Ridley said in defence of...

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MCW coaching

METRO-CAMMELL WEYMANN has unveiled the high-floor fullyintegral luxury Metroliner coach which spearheads its drive into the...

Plaxtons boom

AN 11 PER CENT leap in demand for new coaches has helped Plaxtons increase its turnover by 31 per cent and pre-tax profit by...

Strathclyde' rail victory

STRATHCLYDE'S rail lobby helped secure Regional Co approval for a £23m pla electrify more of the Glas commuter rail system and...

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Mood elevated at GM

BEDFORD'S interests may well be strengthened from January 1 when its parent group, the General Motors Worldwide Truck and Bus...

George bids farewell

GEORGE PEARSON, editor of Road Way, the Road Haulage Association's monthly magazine, retires next month after 14 years with the...

;econd guessing' the cv trends

iE END of the year always ings its host of manufacturers' id traders' predictions for the Lure trends of the commercial :hide...

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Scania restoration adds fuel to the flames

A curious hybrid, this 1927 fire engine became a petrol tanker fifty years later and although now a museum piece it's still up...

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n Vehicle 77a,)=(22 FE -- )? by Preceptor

Steering, 3 IN ORDER to understand the need for camber angle and kingpin inclination on vehicle steering systems, it is...

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Away in a workshop

CHRISTMAS EDITION of nmercial Motor usually cons a road test of a veteran imercial vehicle and takes a talgic look at what...

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An Englishman's home is his castle — and a lorry

delivered every brick, tile and piece of plasterboard. Housebuilding is said to be a barometer of the country's economy and if...

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The golden age of bussing

IF THERE is something absent from the great majority of books published about the bus or coach in Britain, it is a broader...

Midland Red — an exclusive line

SOMEONE who tells a busman that "all buses look the same" will probably be termed a philistine and might even be unfortunate...

Truck type approval — a practical guide

YOU MIGHT be of the opinion that more than enough words have been written already on the subject of goods vehicle national type...

Motorcycles since 1818

A SOURCE Book of Motorcycles and Sidecars (W, Lock; £3.95) is by Denis Miller who has written for many transport journals,...

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What's in store

• Christmas exciting? The the lights, the festive board, angover, the overdraft, and . not all, there are those ss gifts from...

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It's far better to give than receive!

ur Sherlock-Masher als the havoc ;ed on road and rail swain who heaped rue love with exotic highly unsuitable during the 12...

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Bravest of the brave

Dleon Bonaparte d it two o'clock in norning courage, :ourage of the oepared. And that's Anil( what these muming drivers layed...