PTEs, State and London Transport to form a new authoritative body • Mystery and confusion surround the announcement this week...

• Hundreds of owner-drivers are mounting a campaign to get themselves a better deal. Many of them feel they are being taken for...

• The Greater Glasgow Passenger Transport Authority was formally constituted on April 19 in terms of the 1972 Order and...

• Perkins announce today a new 8.8-litre V8 — the V8.540 which will first be installed in Ford chassis. Although similar to the...

fictitious invoices totalled £68,000 • The Ralph Hilton Group accounts for the period ended July 29 1972 were published...

• There would be an advantage in licensing goods vehicles on the basis of maximum permitted laden weight, Mr John Peyton, the...

• MPs annoyed because they were not able to debate the European proposal to raise the driving licence age from 17 to 18 had to...

• It was announced at the Hanover Trade Fair on Wednesday that the German engineering company Faunwerk and Fodens have agreed...

• Mr John Peyton, the Minister for Transport Industries, has told MPs that he is satisfied with the workings of the Road...

• After consideration of recommendations from members all over the country, the highways and traffic committee of the Road...

• Tables giving fuller details of goods vehicles on 0 licences have now been published by. the DoE. The new statistics have...

• The Government wants to make certain that heavy commercial vehicles are hired out only to those entitled to use and drive...

• For the first time a range of British-built Ford D Series trucks is to be available on the Italian market. Apart from the...

• Envec, standing for "environmental vehicles," is the new corporate name for the group comprising Dennis Brothers Ltd, Eagle...

• People who damned progress for the sake of it and who claimed, for example, that motorways destroyed the area through which...

• A vehicle's 365-mile round trip in a day from Bedford to Wales transporting a refrigeration unit which had to be fitted into...

• Robert Dalgleish, trading as Bobbies' Coaches, of Greenock is to give local disco dancers their own 2am bus service. Mr...

• For this month's World Theatre Season at London's A ldwych Theatre the Austrian company brought its own scenery and props in...

• Three overloading offences — two on the same day with the same vehicle — brought a 27-vehicle fleet company before the...

• A defective trailer tyre and the need to use an old tractive unit landed David West and Sons of Dunfermline, Fife, before the...

R. I. Cooper i Coopers Road Services (1972) Ltd, Wednesbury Staffs) has been elected area chairman of the West Midland area of...

Training busmen for a better future reported by Martin Hayes • A varied approach to the problems of training busmen for the...

• Experience gained during the Christmas period has led to a resumption of a "park and ride" scheme in Norwich. The scheme,...

• The first three coach versions of Seddon's midi passenger chassis have now been built. There are substantial changes from the...

• Two contracts are being negotiated by the Department of the Environment for year-long feasibility studies of the Minitram...

• The NBC is buying British Leyland's Super Commuter bus for a sum in excess of £20,000. The deal was confirmed at last week's...

• Eastern Counties Omnibus Company is planning to increase bus fares next month by a penny to pay for increased wages. The...

• The results included in last week's report of the Brighton Coach Rally omitted to state that R.C. Lockwood, of Hyltone...

Staff shortage and traffic congestion hits bus routes • A £2.6m revenue surplus for the year is revealed in the 1972 annual...

• A number of Mercedes-Benz lightweight chassis/cabs equipped with bodies built by local bodybuilders were shown last week at...

• Dorman Diesels' &IT V8-turbocharged automative engine has now been certified to BS AU 14 la1971, developing 330 bhp at 2200...

• In the article "Dobson demountables for Continental deliveries," published in the March 23 issue of Commercial Motor, it was...

• The seventh annual tipper convention, organized by the North Western area of the Road Haulage Association, opens today in...

design and uses a Gardner 6LX 150 bhp engine, a David Brown 06-600 six-speed gearbox and a David Brown D320 doubledrive rear...

• Pills Drivers who are on pills are just as dangerous to driving safety as those who are on whisky. This warning came from Dr...

form of lunacy, and a pernicious form at that. I have met literally hundreds of otherwise sane and reasonable men who have been...

THESE DAYS we are all to a greater or lesser degree the victims of Progress: which of us has not suffered at the hands of that...

THE National Association of Warehouse Keepers announces that the International Federation of Public Warehousing Associations...

Smaller firms in the Market ALTHOUGH this is a world of industrial giants and some observers think no more than 100 huge...

Peter Hicks • Peter Hicks, managing director of Winsway Ltd, the Accrington-based coaching firm whose Van Hool Grand Tourer...

Willowbrook 002/Bedford YRT appraisal by Martin Hayes WHEN I took a trip to Paris last year (CM, December 1) on an operator's...

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Hope for stratification WHEN FUEL is injected into the combustion chamber of a diesel engine the droplets are ignited by the...

by Trevor Longcroft Pictures by Dick Ross IN 1972 Ford offered a factory-fitted body and the choice of its own sixor...

matters by John Darker, AMBIM Drivers' pay in the EEC Trade union officials in the Common Market are striving for agreements...

by Les Oldridge, TEng (CEI), MIMI, AM1RTE Noise (3) THE CONDITIONS to be met if offences under Regulation 108 of the Motor...

Getting round the table NEXT TIME if it ever happens that the Minister for Transport Industries is rash enough to call...

continued from page 51 Vehicles first used before November 1 1970 are exempt when an exhaust brake fitted to them is in...

Q I propose to use my 517cwt delivery X van on a Continental holiday this year. I am aware that there are special regulations...

workshop by Handyman Details to save down-time (19) If a pressed-steel radiator cap has been over-tightened it may have bent...

LEX SERVICE GROUP Lex Service Group results for the first quarter of 1973 are well ahead of those for the same period last...

Longinus Transport Ltd. Cap: £100. Objects: To carry on the business of haulage contractors. etc. Subs: M. J. Hope. B....

by Trevor Longcroft Clutch cables Mintex has arranged with the Automotive Products to distribute the full range of AP clutch...