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26th December 1969
26th December 1969
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Whether or not Britain gets new vehicle weight limits of

44 tons for artics and 56 tons for road trains, events are shaping up for major operational and technical changes in road...

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Operators' licensing a warning

• If holders of A, B, and Contract A licences have not applied for their operator's licence by next Monday they may be denied...

BRSL sets up H enry Spurrier Municipal research unit lecture vehicle

leasing • British . Road Services Ltd. has set up a research unit at Sheffield University. Headed by W. A. L. Swift, a lecturer...

Costing and accounts

• At approximately four-weekly intervals, the Road Transport Industry Training Board will be holding costing and accounts...

SR PTA conference

• At the 1970 Scottish Road Passenger Transport Association conference which is being held at Aviemore from April 21-24, Mr. G....

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'Call off strike' plea to LT busmen

• Leaders of the TGWU, who met the Minister of Transport on Friday to discuss the "serious crisis" in London's transport, are...

loT Congress plans

• The 1970 Congress of the Institute of Transport will be held at the Waldorf Hotel, London, from May 19 to 22. On the 19th...

FTA Act courses

• Demand for places on the Freight Transport Association's one-day Transport Act training courses has been so great that a...

'Shamrock Express' in New Year

• "Shamrock Express" is the name given to a new fast freight service between the UK and Northern Ireland, to be introduced...

Move to amend tyre-care law

• "Drivers who are given a different vehicle every day cannot be expected to carry out exhaustive tests on the tyres each...

Trailer disc regs

• On Monday the Minister of Transport laid before Parliament the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Use) (Amendment) (No. 41...

Scots tipper rates up

• Dumfriesshire and Galloway tipper operators within the 1 , 11-1A have announced an increase of 15 per cent in rates as from...

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SCMU test fee statement refuted by operators

• There was swift reaction to the statement by the Scottish Commercial Motormen's Union (CM December 19) that the majority of...

Tybum's time trial

• A time trial to Italy and back with a Volvo F.88 tractive unit and 5,300-gal pressure tanktrailer has been completed by...

Transport, the Industrial Transport Association, or the Institute of Traffic

Administration, Elements of Transport, by R. W. Faulks is essential reading. When the student of goods vehicle operation comes...

• A recent publication dealing with the control of distribution

systems is entitled Industrial Logistics, by J. E. Sussams. The reader who is not deterred by simple statistics and...

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Bulker for Dublin flour millers

• A pressurized bulk flour transporter, type STF1 28 CS, has been manufactured by Interconsult (London) Ltd. of Slough, for...

Management training

• "Corporate planning for the 1970s" is the title of a high-level course for senior transport management, which is to be held...

Toxic routes

• As a result of discussions between representatives of Teesside fire brigade. Teesside police, the borough engineer and...

Irish trailer contract

• An order for 172 tandem-axle semi-trailers has been placed with Dennison Trailers Ltd., of Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland, by...

Weather warnings

• Radio messages may be used to ask artic drivers to avoid certain areas, or pull off the road, when passing through the West...

Transport Managers Guild

• The National Guild of Transport Managers has issued its first newsletter this month. Contents include details of the aims of...

Purle buys more companies

• Purle Brothers Holdings Ltd. has acquired the entire issued share capital of G. W. Green (Contractors) Ltd. J. Nicholls...

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Delivering the bread

• The latest development in the field of oven-fresh bread delivery is the adoption of continuous hot-air heating of the vehicle...

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Changes in British Railways structure

by John Darker • An outline of the new management structure of British Railways, called for by the 1968 Transport Act, has...

by David Lowe

Bulk grain economically THE George Bell Group is now moving bulk grain commercially—as opposed to experimentally—in standard...

£100,000 order

AN ORDER for insulated containers worth £100,000 has been received by ConCargo Ltd. Placed by the Dutch VNS Company and the...

North America— Australia service

A NEW three-weekly container service between the West Coast of North America and Australia is to be jointly operated by...

MAFI—made in Britain

THE roll-on/roll-off tractor-trailer system patented by MAFI is now in production at the company's Mansfield factory. The...

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Low-loader, E20perweek?

• An application for a low-loader by J. Wilkinson Plant Hire Ltd., of Birkenhead, was refused in Liverpool last week. The...

Granted without inquiry

• An application by M. Monkton Motors Ltd., of Uxbridge, for a new B licence for four artics was granted in chambers last week...

Tipper refused

• An application by Mr M. 0. Maher, of Chorley for a new B licence for an 84--ton tipper was refused in Preston last week....

Delayed by SET

• At Barton-on-Humber (Lines) magistrates' court, Wilbur John Phillips, haulage contractor, of the Elms, Abbey Road, Ulceby,...

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Stiller appeal allowed in part:

FURTHER APPEAL LIKELY • Recourse to the Court of Appeal is being considered by G. Stiller (Transport) Ltd. after its five-day...

Ameys pay lower rate to newcomers

• - It appears that war is about to begin; there seems to be nothing we can do - , said Mr. M. G, Seviour speaking on behalf of...

PEOPLE

H. L. Ellis has been appointed a dIrector and B. T. Hancock, chief engineer of the Devon General Omnibus and Touring Co. Ltd.,...

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New deal for drivers

• The South Western (Provincial) Joint Industrial Council of passenger service vehicle operators, under the chairmanship of Mr....

Tokens for Belfast buses

• Belfast is to be the second municipal bus operator in Great Britain to Introduce a token system, following a decision by the...

Canadian bus experiment

• Faced with unacceptable expansion costs for its GO (Government of Ontario) rail transit system, the Ontario Government has...

Seddon enters British coach market

• Four Seddon Pennine IV chassis with Plaxton Panorama Elite 11-metre bodies have been placed in service by Hanworth Acorn...

Bristol fare card

• Bristol Omnibus Company has introduced a fare card for passengers paying an adult single fare of 1s 2d and above which is...

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Metrication in transport

• The Metrication Board's Steering Committee for the Transport and Communication Industries held its first meeting last month,...

Biffa's biggest tipper

• When the Hy-Spill tipping semi-trailer —claimed to be Britain's biggest with a 65 cu.yd. capacity—was recently introduced by...

makes repair plan

• Atkey's of Nottingham are launching a warranty repair scheme which, even though the company is an Austin distributor, applies...

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Road and workshop by Handyman

Loads and forces (31) • In this final article of the "Loads and forces" series I want to take a close look at the aspect of...

Boxer with Rear-a-Steer

• Addition of a Primrose Rear-a-Steer thirdaxle assembly just ahead of the driving axle on the BMC Boxer two-axle truck raises...

Cuav Trailers' new-name Celebration

• Quay Trailers Ltd., has changed its name to Doughty Trailers Ltd. and to mark the move the company has introduced a...

Primrose in the South

• The southern-area distributor of Primrose trailers and third-axle conversions, Truck Services at Feltham, Middx. has been...

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ERnim 111

BY LES OLDRIDGE, A,I,R,T.E., A.M.I,M,1 SECTION 62 of the Transport Act 1968 and the Goods Vehicle (Operator's Licences)...

Operators' licences

that an l.A can refuse a licence if he thinks this is the case. Finally, where the applicant is a company the names of the...

Into the Seventies with CM

New regular items make their appearance in CM next week, in a journal which, for 1970, has been given clearer, brighter...

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Bird's eye view

* Hop on a bus! There's a moral about the travelling public's view of bus design in the happenings which accompanied Ron...

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AEC 1922 S.-type LGOC double-decker

WHEN the AEC S-type double-decker was the cream of London buses, a driver was paid £4 a week, his conductor £3 15s and the full...

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Tiny Tim the transport manager

TIM LITTLE looked round the traffic office and thought how sparsely furnished it was. Most of the furniture, he recollected,...

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What price Freud.

Psychology and the driver by Anthony Curtis FOR YEARS psychologists have been preying on motorcars and motorists—as well as...

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costing for maximum profit

A SPECIAL SERIES BY R. P. C. BLOCK 19. The daily report on utilization, costs and revenue WITH so much information available...

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What price workers' participation?

What are the acceptable limits of the now fashionable trend towards workers' participation? Some guide-lines for managers are...

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Q I am an apprentice mechanic and the

person I work with has to test commercial vehicles after repairs have been carried out. He took a heavy goads vehicle driving...

From time to time a leading technician has forecast in

the technical press that the petrol engine will make a comeback for long-haul work. I have followed with special interest the...

/ am involved in the operation and

maintenance of preserved commercial vehicles and buses which are taxed privately. Could you explain how their drivers will be...

n I have been told that many years ago a

two-wheeled car was run experimentally fitted with a gyroscope to provide stability when it was travelling slowly. A friend has...

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The open University opportunity or disappointment for transport education

I HAVE OFTEN referred to the loneliness of students in road transport tackling examinations for institute awards by private...

NEW COMPANIES

A. S. Gibson (Transport) Ltd. Cap.: £100. Object: To carry on the business of haulage and transport contractors, etc. Subs.: A....

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-/ KEEPING THEM RUNNING ,

with Ron Cater / While car-hire has forged ahead in recent years as has growth in such fields as TV rental, with their obvious...