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ommercial

otor VOLUME 128 No. 3306 January 24 1969 In the midst of all the regional strife about pay, it makes a welcome change to see...

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'Rescue' bid for Allisons

AMALGAMATED RUBBER OFFER WILL LINK DUNDEE HAULIER WITH SPINKS TRANSPORT • Allisons Freightlines was saved from possible...

Quarter fail the test

• In the first three months of compulsory testing of goods vehicles at Ministry stations the failure rate was a fraction short...

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:P.s.v. fees up

• Despite objections from operators, • • p.s.v. licence fees and charges for • • certificates of fitness are to be increased •...

Turbine cost competes at 2,500 units a year

• With a normal amount of luck. the optimum life of the Leyland 2S /350 /R gas turbine would be I 2,000hr., Mr. Noel Penny told...

One forum for bus pay?

From Our Industrial Correspondent • Union leaders representing 170,000 municipal and company busmen met in London last week to...

Leeds deadlock

• Following rejection by Transport and General Workers Union members of a 6d an hour pay rise, the Leeds and District Hauliers...

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'Plated' containers avoid re-approval

• Under new arrangements which came into operation on January 21, containers approved by design type (under the ,type approval...

Better roadside facilities sought for lorry drivers

• The Ministry of Transport has been asked to convene a meeting of interested parties to 'consider the growing problem of...

No need for dock delays

• At a conference organized by the Merseyside Productivity Association, the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board and the Merseyside...

Training courses for warehousemen, removers

• Details of two courses have been announced by the Institute of the Furniture Warehousing and Removing Industry. The first is...

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Scottish operators shy of testing

• According to Mr. C. C. Toyne, superintending engineer, Ministry of Transport, Scotland has not a good record in the MoT...

Pre-booking extended

• The Port of London Authority's lorry prebooking scheme is to be extended to cover cargoes for vessels of the Australian...

Lowestoft bridge plans

• Having visited the site at the week-end, Mr, Richard Marsh, Minister of Transport, has written at length to Mr. J. Prior, MP,...

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• A new truck transmission announced in the USA by

the Borg Warner Corporation is a four speed automatic unit, said to be the firs: to cover a full range of trucks in the 5.3 to...

TA fault-finding

• The 80 members of the Transport Association are being asked to complete a questionnaire, covering the first quarter of 1969,...

Nearly El Om for training

• The Road Transport Industry Training Board announced on Wednesday that it had paid £9.75m in the form of training grants for...

Could you write about transport?

Have you a sound knowledge of road goods transport and an interest in writing? Then you may be just the person Commercial Motor...

Murfitt boost trailers

• A trailer division has been set up by R. Murfitt in a new 4,000 sq.ft factory on the trading estate at Marwick Road, Marsh,...

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Container Transport

by Roger Howell Container operation on short sea routes ROLL-ON/roll-off or cellular operation on short sea routes? The...

TIR carnets for all modes

CONTAINERS may now be carried under TIR carnets even when the whole journey does not take place on a road vehicle. This follows...

Handling with a static gantry

THE Matterson static gantry crane illustrated has recently been installed at Hull Docks and is designed particularly for...

BR's Brum depot is open

BRITISH Rail's London Midland Region opened its new international container depot at Montague St., Birmingham on January 20....

• • : Risefor BRS . • • white-collar staff • • •

• A 3+ per cent increase for British Road •• • • Services clerical and supervisory staff • • was agreed last week with...

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Clippies press driving claims

From our industrial correspondent • About 20 London Transport bus Conductresses invaded the Transport and General Workers'...

Bus experiments in Tyne-Wear study

• Experiments to improve bus services are to be made as a short-term measure as part of a £350,000, five-year Tyne-Wear study...

:PTA dates sooni

• Mr. Marsh, Transport Minister, is shortly to announce the dates for the setting up of the first four Passenger Transport...

First Pennine bodies for Rochdale

• The first bodies built for Rochdale Corporation Transport by Pennine Coachcraft Ltd. were handed over this month to Mr. J. P....

Van Hool coaches for Britain

• The range of choice for British coach operators is to be widened by the introduction to the UK of luxury touring coaches with...

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Yorkshire Traction buys County Motors

• The Yorkshire Traction Co. Ltd. has recently acquired the shares in County Motors (Lepton) Ltd., previously owned by the West...

Manchester's swift o-m-o progress

• Extensive operational research into oneman working, which has been carried out by Manchester City Transport, was described by...

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Tribunal alters Hanson order

• By consent of the appellants and the 24 respondents, Wednesday's hearing of an appeal by R. Hanson and Sons Ltd., of...

Two-man fares may rise

• Manchester transport committee is proposing to increase fares on the traditional two-man operated buses while those on o-m-o...

Three vie for bankrupt's traffic

• Three applicants, Clark's Coaches of Easingwold, Hutchinson Bros. of Husthwaite and E. and G. Brown of Helperby applied for...

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Excursion operators object to stage fares

• Halifax Joint Omnibus Committee applied in Leeds on Tuesday to increase all stage carriage fares by Id, while retaining the...

Millichamp grant deferred

• The grant of an additional B-licensed vehicle to K. Millichamp of Atherstone was deferred until February 1 by the West...

Liverpool buses on 'short term'

• Liverpool Corporation applied in Manchester this week to renew a stage carriage service between Huyton and the city centre...

Ferrymasters' seven

• Following an amendment to its application, Ferrymasters Ltd., of Felixstowe, was granted a new A licence in Bridlington on...

Three-tier fares

• Following the rejection by the Traffic Commissioners of an application by Aberdeen Corporation for a fares increase, a...

Vandals hit fares

• As an anti-vandalism measure, children's fare concessions on football excursions are to be withdrawn by the Trent Motor...

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Licence 'resurrection' wrong LA

• The West Midland LA, Mr. J. Else, granting an A and B-licence application by Jones Transport Services (Midlands) Ltd. in...

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_Milk gets 'a tingle at the top'

Hugh Browning moves over from Corona The growth of the Milk Marketing Board's transport fleet has led to the separation of its...

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Low-priced two-speed landing legs

• Two-speed landing legs which are only £2 lOs dearer than single-speed models are now being introduced by Intertruck Ltd....

Accidents: new opinions

"Forty per cent of British road casualties are pedestrians. These people are injured by striking the front of vehicles". This...

Optimism at Dennis

• Continued recovery of the company, despite disappointing results last year, is forecast by the chairman of Dennis Bros. Ltd.,...

Awards in transport

• Scholarships totalling £2,100 are being offered in 1969 by the Institute of Transport. They give opportunities for travel and...

Aldenham re-named

• It seems that the description used for British Leyland's commercial vehicle service centre on the southern leg of M1 motorway...

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Loughborough on technicalities

41 Braking distribution and anti-locking devices, aerodynamic drag of light and heavy vehicles, a survey of infinitely variable...

. . . and on maintenance

• Co-operation between the Road Transport Industry Training Board, manufacturers, management within the industry and the...

Road and workshop

Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (28) by Handyman • Not only is nothing more unsightly than a platform side rave which has...

Reliant-made crew cab for new fire engine

41 A Reliant-designed and developed crew cab has been supplied to Merryweather and Sons Ltd., for their prototype Marksman...

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the Brussels show

THE Brussels Show is always given a lot of attention by British vehicle makers as Belgium is one of the Common Market countries...

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* Trying them all

Manchester Corporation is trying out all possible ways of making omo as efficient as possible. There have been turnstile...

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Prof. Timoney the diesel puts a case for

Experimental work at University College Dublin gives promise of outstanding four-stroke diesel developments as well as a super...

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The establishment and powers of the NFC

BY virtue of Commencement Order No. 1, Section 1 of the Transport Act 1968 was among the sections that became effective on...

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Janus comments

Time alone will tell All over the country the Transport Act is being made the subject of discussion at meetings variously...

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The key role of the shop steward

A VERY experienced transport manager said to me once, as we were discussing labour relations: "If my shop steward and I had had...

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" Please state the tolerance "if any" that 1 61. may be allowed for wear on a trailer king-pin.

Does visible to and fro movement call for immediate action? A In our opinion the maximum wear that can be tolerated at a...

n Being employed on 24-hour recovery of ILL heavy goods

vehicles, 1 have just been informed by my employer that an "all groups" licence issued eight years ago does not now cover me to...

a believe that the Construction and Use Regulations referring to projecting

loads carried by articulated vehicles have been amended. Can you confirm this point and also give details of the general...

We run a 1960 Ford D van, which is taxed

privately and used as a horsebox to carry our ponies. Being over 30cwt unladen weight the vehicle is exempt from the Ministry...

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What type of examination?

WHY is it that written examinations with a certain number of questions to be answered in a set time take precedence over any...

MEM 741E BY LES OLDRIDGE, A.I.R.T.E., A.M.I.M.I.

Lighting (2) TO continue the discussion on lighting I am turning, this week, to reflectors. All threeand four-wheeled motor...

NEW COMPANIES

Wings and Wheels Lid. Cap.: £100. Object: To act as agents and brokers for airplane, steamship and railroad carriers and...

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(re gauge

tyre depth gauge from the )1 Clock Company (PoIco) a large, easily decipherable are dial reading 0-22mm. as a danger curve...

nned tube

veil and Co. Ltd.. of Sheffield, extended its range of mechally attached finned tubes to ude Howco-Crimp-Fin. As name implies,...

Taper-ferrule

Blacks Equipment Ltd. is announcing the addition of an entirely new taper-ferrule to its range of existing wire rope splicing...

Electrostatic spraying

The electrostatic spraying of nylon powder is achieved by the Model 3002 unit, produced by Controsion Ltd., with a system...

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Infra-ray heating

Nor Ray Vac Ltd. has recently produced a special version of the company's infra-ray gas heating system for a new factory...

Test unit

The latest version of a multipurpose test unit produced by Power (UK) Ltd, measures the speed in rpm of any revolving surface...

Noise reduction

The Department of Employme and Productivity has issued booklet on how noise affects t1 worker, the dangers to hi caused by...

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'extured finish

ixatei is an air-drying textured tish announced by Sonneborn td Rieck Ltd., which simulates atherette and can be applied at...

Many transport vehicles spend more time being loaded or unloaded

than actually running from A to B. In some cases they must negotiate extremely bad surfaces before reaching their loading...

Brake leaflets

Following the introduction of spring-brake and lock-actuator kits, Clayton Dewandre Co. Ltd. has produced two illustrated...

Cleaning compound

Pennsalt Ltd. has announced a highly concentrated jelly-type cleaning compound, formulated to clean, deodorize and disinfect in...

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ydraulic atform

m the newly formed company, iger Engineering Ltd. of Wark, comes a 12 metre hydraulic tform—the Eagle Skyrig ich is the first...

Pipe protection A leaflet issued by Isoead Ltd. gives details Of

the applications of lsotapes electric heating tapes that are used for protecting pipework against frost. A sevenminute film,...

Heavy-duty slings

A wide range of specialized heavy-duty slings for lifting tasks in the construction, maintenance and transport industries is...

Compact exhauster

An exhauster having an overall length of 7in., a diameter of and a weight of 81-lb has been introduced by Feeny and Johnson...

Polyurethane finish

The Atlas Preservative Co. Ltd (a Burmah company) has developed a polyurethane vehicle finish, the Epidura PU. for the...