AT THE HEART OF THE ROAD TRANSPORT INDUSTRY.

Call our Sales Team on 0208 912 2120

25th July 1958
25th July 1958
Page 1
Page 1, 25th July 1958
Close

Page 37

Alternative Forms of Energy

S OME 18 months after the Suez crisis, the overthrow of the legitimate regime in an oil-producing country has created an...

Page 38

A Change of Heart ?

H AVE the Socialists undergone a change of heart on the matter of C-licence transport? This question is prompted by a statement...

Passing Comments

In Recessions Prepare for Booms A S the result of their annual survey of the plans made by business concerns for new plant and...

Page 39

One Hears

Of somebody saying that he is glad that he has no shares in nationalized undertakings. That he evidently forgets that, as...

Page 40

Labour Confirms Plans for Renationalization

THE Labour Party's annual conference at Scarborough in October will I be asked to ratify the party's decision to renationalize...

Tribunal Hear "Mitigation" Plea

A HAULAGE company which delayed telliBg the West Midland Licensing Authority that the base and normal user of three A-licence...

No Progress on Meat Drivers' Claim N O progress has been

made in the negotiations by the London Meat Carriers' Joint Industrial Council on the demand of the unions for a 15-per-cent....

Page 41

Authority Revokes Two Special-A Licences: Weight Discrepancies

THREE hauliers appeared before the Northern Licensin g Authority, Mr. 1 J. A. T. Hanlon, at Carlisle, on Tuesday, to show...

Experimental Rules for Motorways

XPERIMENTAL rules coverin g the use of motorways will be tried out this year on Preston By-pass if the Minister of Transport's...

Page 42

Men in the News

DR. J. D. ARMIT has become a director of Triplex holdings, Ltd. MR. T. H. C. RAIKES has been appointed to the export...

Page 43

One-vehicle Haulier Pays £52,000 a Year to Sub-contractors

.A HAULIER who had 28 A-licence and one B , licence vehicles on nationalization said at Leeds, on Tuesday, that he now earned...

Camp Operator Not to Lose Licence

A LTHOUGH Traffic Commissioners were bound to avoid wasteful competition and co-ordinate transport, they were not required to...

Substitution Appeal Before Tribunal

T " hearing of an appeal by J. Stamper (Farms), Ltd., Woodside, Dearham. Cumberland, against a decision by the Northern...

Page 44

Growth of Private Transport Cannot be Stopped-Mr. E. Davies A

N admission that the growth of private transport, including C-licence r - k fleets, could not be halted, was made from the...

Loss Becomes Profit by Tram Replacement

THE replacement of trams by buses has I paid dividends for Edinburgh Corporation. In the first full year of operating buses...

Page 47

No More Co-operation —London Busmen

A RESOLUTION statin g that future co-operation with the London Transport Executive would be "virtually impossible" was passed...

New On Off Road Tyre is Introduced

F OLLOWING the introduction by the North British Rubber Co., Ltd., of the U.S. Royal Fleetway with safety steel shield, the...

Coal Hauliers Went Outside Radius

A FINE of £39, with £4 4s. advocate's rA fee, was imposed at Heanor, last week, on C. Clower and Sons, Ltd., Marshall Street,...

Page 48

More Hide Traffic from Scotland

A N increase in traffic for tanneries was reported to Mr. W. F. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, last week, when he heard an...

Micrograms

Unic Output Up : Production of Unic vehicles rose from 5,177 in 1956 to 7,613 last year. P.T.A. Dinn.v: The annual dinner of...

Page 49

Paid £500: Refused Take-over Grant

A MAN who had paid £500 for a PAS-licensed vehicle and coal merchant's business was last week refused permission to take over...

Hauliers Not Reliable, Says T.R.T.A, Official

NAANY C-licence operators would use VI hired transport, leaving their capital for business needs, if only they could be sure of...

"Dangerous Principle Commissioners

T " granting of excursions and tours to coach operators who could not get full loads in the private party field would be a...

Page 50

More Picking Up Points Sought by Rival Excursion Operators

S HOULD excursion operators be allowed to go round country districts picking up their passengers, or should people have to make...

Decline in Day Trips Reported

A STEADY decline in the demand for day trips was mentioned by Mr. J. Malcolm Barr, assistant managing "director of Wallace...

Chesterfield to Have £710,000 Bus Depot

A NEW bus depot., costing £710,274, is to be built by Chesterfield Corporation for their vehicles. The site, in Sheffield Road,...

Page 51

Hauliers Lured Away by Road Project

-‘ 1VORK.on widening the Great North Road between Boroughbridge and Scotch Corner has created a shortage of tippers over a wide...

Bantam Hauls Mobile Research Clinic

Pl. A MOBILE X-ray and laboratory unit, designed for research work, has been supplied to Manchester University by Rootes, Ltd.,...

Contract-A Vehicles Are Struck Off .

A HAULIER who had a number of convictions against him was last week refused a new contract-A licence by the East Midland...

Page 52

SPACE-SAVING -TONNER

conditions, together with such creature comforts as low engine noise, ample ventilation, and provision for fitting a heater and...

Page 55

Milk Haulage Rates Too Low

T OUR issue of June 27 contained an article on milk transport rates. My company do a large amount of this work under C licence...

Page 59

Unprovoked Aggression

U P to last week, attacks by the British Transport Commission C-licence holders had been purely yerbal. They have now become...

Page 60

INTERNATIONAL SERVICE THE BELGIAN WAY

A NTWERP port authorities claim that Belgian hauliers can give British operators a better tractor service than can be provided...

Page 62

Inexpensive Vacuum Loader

Q RIGINALLY developed for raising and. conveying milk churns, a hoist produced by , Middleton. Motors, Ltd., Coopers Lane,...

Page 67

Barn-door Politics

S LOW-MOVING, large and unwilling to retaliate. This is a fair definition of the ideal target, and the creatures it describes...

Page 68

New 150 b.h.p.

Engine from Gardner A MAXIMUM power output of 150 b.h.p. at 1,700 r.p.m. is the rating of the new Gardner 6LX six-cylindered...

Page 69

Fast Work with Latest Straddle Carrier

T HE British Straddle Carrier Co., recently taken over by Short Bros. and Harland, htd. (The Commercial Motor, June 20), last...

Page 70

Multi-purpose Vehicles Cause Problems

T HE ever-increasing range of vehicles constructed to permit their use for various purposes has created problems for...

Page 73

R.H.A. Run Drivers' Contest

S TAGED by the Road Haulage Assoelation's York Sub-area, a competition for lorry drivers last Sunday attracted 51 entrants, of...

Page 74

Air-Pressure Brake Return

A CCORDING to patent No. 794,866 it is a matter of some difficulty to incorporate a return spring in disc brakes of the " spot"...