W HETHER one personally regards it as fact, fiction or mere pie-in-the-sky is, in a sense, not important; the fact remains that...

O NLY 35 road haulage workers were still on strike this week over the claim for a "Birmingham differential" in basic rates of...

"E'EARS about disruption of business in Edinburgh as a result of the Corporation's loading-ban proposals on main radial streets...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT l‘AR. GEORGE BROWN'S National Plan reveals that fixed investment by the 'VI Transport Holding...

regulations for post - 1966 vehicles were among the topics discussed at the vehicles committee meeting of the Traders Road...

Ltd. execuI – I fives, headed by Mr. Trevor Webster, assistant managing director, flew to Cardiff on Tuesday to attend the...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT L INER trains will be running before 1 –+ the end of the year, the Minister of Transport....

OBER 4 is the date on which the w Yorkshire division of the Traders rransport AssociatiOn will come into Olt As announced...

Mills as retary of the TRTA's Northern a has now been named. He is Mr. Richards. 28, who joined the secrem Monday and will...

JLIERS in Derby are taking the id in a plan to protect goods carried ad in the city and its immediate iourhood. From October 1...

tEGULAR weekly freight service etween Holland and Spain is to ence in October when Pakhuis:ren NV, of Rotterdam, in colon with...

--rHE chairman of the National Board for Prices and Incomes, Mr. Aubrey Jones, I will open the discussion on productivity at...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT 1101 EFUSAL this week of the pay claim for an extra it a week for 75.000 bread distribution...

"TRANSPORT policy in the post-Geddes -IL era" is the title of the first major paper to be given in the Institute of Transport's...

Q o Tuesday. Mr. E. Redhead, Minister of State (Overseas) at the Board of Trade, officially launched for Vauxhall Motors Ltd....

were highlighted this week when delivery drivers refused to lift their ban on cars destined for a new car train service from...

the height of British vehicles operating in Switzerland not to exceed twice the distance measured between the outer walls of...

A DRAFT regulation for adoption by I – % member States of the EEC will, when it comes into effect, bring to an end the double...

BY A. J. P. WILDING THE standard of driving at the Express Dairy Co.'s Driver of the Year competition on Sunday was excellent,...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT TOM FRASER, the Minister of Transport, is likely to come under tire vhen transport is...

British Road Federation claimed Friday that the road programme ed in the National Plan had made sastrous start " because of the...

W ILE the conveyor-belt method of discharging meat from ships into insulated vans was welcomed by road hauliers, they...

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT DIG rises in the number of industrial accidents in all major sectors of industry have been...

Y ET another commercial vehicle roll-on/ off ferry service to the Continent is now in operation between Harwich and Zeebrugge....

railborne exports and imports. He is Mr. T. V. Nicholson, charged with developing export traffic suitable for rail. Pollard...

ORE one-man operated buses will be introduced into central area serwith London Transport starting from )ber 3; on two of the...

WHAT must obviously be the first step in rationalizing production following the VI' recent Leyland-THC shares " swop " Ile...

L ICENCE conditions for many • .coach operators using Victoria Coach. Station have had to be varied by the Metropolitan Traffic...

'HE October 1 i ss ue of "The Commercial Motor" will be the annual Passenger Vehicle Number, containing not only the...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT T ONDON TRANSPORT hit back last 1-d week at some 800 drivers and conductors at three...

T HE latest BET group operator to switch to Daimler Fleetline rearengined double-deckers is East Yorkshire Motor Services Ltd.,...

F OR years conjecture has existed as to the exact price of a London Transport Routemaster bus. No one has ever seemed able to...

one-man buses on the joint service operated by the Hartlepool and West Hartlepool Corporations between the two towns. Tenders...

NEW A licence for 22 vehicles was granted by the North Western ity Licensing Authority on Monday Ir. M. J. Woodhouse, of St...

T HEavailability figures produced by objectors at Norwich on Tuesday were stringently examined by Mr. M. H. Jackson-Lipkin,...

T HE Scottish deputy Licensing Authority. Mr. L. A. Welts, expressed his mind forcibly at Kirkcaldy last week, during the...

C. R. I-lodgson, the North Western Licensing Authority. Mr. D. Hart. of Oliver Hart and Sons Ltd., Coppull, near Chorley, was...

Green at Cambridge last week. He was speaking for Knowles Transport Ltd., Wimblington, one of eight objectors to a two-vehicle,...

IN Manchester last week. M. and M. 1 Hauliers Ltd., of Manchester, were granted a new B licence, as applied for, by Mr. A. H....

A N improvement of 100 per cent in brake lining life on the Bedford VAL twin-steer p.s,v, is claimed by the makers following...

AA TKINSON Lorries (Holdings) Ltd. has entered into a contract for the acquisition of that part of the issued share capital...

- G‘OLLOWING the recent announcement that Perkins had signed a manufacturing agreement with the Toyo Kogyo Co. Ltd., of Japan,...

T HE existing range of Vanguard vans manufactured by Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd. has been increased by the introduction of...

ation for Fridge Vans r 0 levels of insulation have been i v ntroduced by Crane Fruehauf Trailers Ltd. for use with their...

!Alecto's ulverizer NEW conception of refuse collection so far as Britain is concerned is )(lied in the Danish-manufactured...

Leylands in Cardiff : At their new Cardiff branch. Arlington Motor Co. lid. this week are holding a Leyland-in-Cardiff week at...

ROSPECTS for British heavy commercial vehicles in South Africa were never better. All that we needed now was the backing of our...

Grinding Equipment Part 3 IN reclaiming vehicle components, more and more use can be made of grinding equipment, and speed of...

and Publications r Goodyear Tyre EW tyre developed for use on light commercial vehicles tgaged on delivery work is being...

By The Hawk Stokes Hall The Prime Minister, I feel sure, must have enjoyed Sir Donald Stokes' speech at the opening ceremony...

Spark ignition for starting might enable the compression-ignition engine to rival petrol performance By P. A. C. BROCKINGTON, A...

By A. J. P. WILDING, A M 1 Mech E, MIRTE D ETAILS are now known of the particular models of German Magirus goods chassis...

O VERRIDING the interest at the Frankfurt Show in tilt cabs (now offered by five German heavy-vehicle makers) and changes in...

MORE POWER FOR COMMER 1500 AND 2500 MODELS rFIANGES to the petrol and diesel engines specified in the Commer 1500 and 2500,...

Past and Present Progress: and Eye on the Future THE PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS S PEAKING at the 64th Annual Conference of the...

IN introducing his paper, "Planned I Progress ", Aid. A. Logan, a member of the Manchester Corporation transport committee,...

THE main purpose of the paper pre sented by Mr. G. G. Harding, general manager of Wallasey Corporation Transport, was to...

t EACTION to the Government's National Plan depends upon the point of entry into the formidable document which attempts to set...

M ORE than ever this year, with the advent of the National Board for Prices and Incomes, and in particular its inquiry into...

A reader notes a recent statement that to run a vehicle on bald tyres is an offence tender the Road Traffic Act and asks for...

Atkinson Lorries' Potential IN his latest annual report to shareholders the chairman of ATKINSON LORRIES refers optimistically...

Customers Turning Elsewhere 'FUDGING by the recent correspondence in your columns on the lack of a rear-engined double-decker...

F. H. Whittle Ltd. Cap. £2,000. Objects: To carry on the bushiest of haulage and transport contractors, etc. Dirs.: F. H...

By George Wilmot Lecturer in Transport Studies, University of London Economic Geography in Transport Studies IN the more...