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27th June 1969
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Breaking down the barriers

Suddenly international road transport is offered the prospect of a big new freedom: the abolition of carnets and the...

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Streamlined Customs procedures soon

by John Darker • If new proposals for Customs simplification are ratified international road hauliers and container service...

W. Midlands PTE director-general

• F. J. Lloyd, chief commercial and planning officer, London Transport Board, was appointed director-general of the West...

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MoT testing —6 weeks' notice

• Now that pre-registration of vehicles due for plating and testing at Ministry stations has been abandoned, the Goods Vehicle...

US-German transport liaison

• The West German and United States governments have agreed to draw up lists of transport projects which they feel are ripe for...

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Examining the Transport Act

• More than 220 directors and senior managers attended the three one-day seminars presented in London and Manchester by...

Driver test onus on US operators

• Heavy goods vehicle driving tests are to be re-introduced in Britain in the near future and now the American Federal Highways...

ITA presidency changes

• Lord Wakefield of Kendal is to accept honorary membership of the Industrial Transport Association having been invited to do...

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TM L proposals are delayed

• The Transport Manager's Licence Committee proposals to the Ministry of Transport are now likely to be delayed for a further...

'Plain English' policy from Sun

• The Sun Alliance and London Insurance Group is to introduce a new Commercial Vehicle Policy on July 1. This "plain English"...

Birmingham ban on night parking?

• An allegation that lorry drivers were charging their employers parking fees and then leaving their vehicles in the streets...

Northern Ireland training centre opened

• The first phase of the new Northern Ireland RTITB Centre began on Wednesday at Nutts Corner, near Belfast, the opening...

Lorry park appeal upheld

• The Minister of Housing and Local Government has upheld an appeal by Kelway and Sons (Haulage) Ltd., Manchester Road,...

Re-check on Manchester rapid transit

• Further consideration is to be given to the proposed rapid transit system sought by Manchester. At a joint meeting of five...

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Community's tough sanctions for quota rule violations

• Serious violations by international road hauliers of the "Community Quota" regulations for goods transport by road may lead...

Edbro's bigger bucket loaders

• Models for both sixand eight-wheel trucks have been added to the range of bucket loader hydraulic skip-handling equipment...

Chunnel activity

• Reports that an announcement is imminent about the locations of the three main sites at the British end of the Channel Tunnel...

Death of H. F. Button

Commercial Motor regrets to record the death. on June 17 after a short illness, of H. F. Button, 89, who was for 43 years head...

Mr Marsh in Scotland

• Mr. Richard Marsh visited the Freightliners Ltd. terminal at Glasgow yesterday; today he is meeting the Clyde Port Authority,...

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• When a man gets a drive-over because he is

the sole competitor in his class there is usually a nagging suspicion that without a slice of luck he would have been nowhere....

UK-Rumanian transport agreement

• An agreement between the United Kingdom and the Socialist Republic of Rumania to facilitate road transport between the two...

FTA Potteries area open meeting

• Mr. R. G. Lewis. MoT engineer in charge of goods vehicle testing in the West Midlands area, will speak on Testing and Plating...

ECE approves German bracket rate plans

• Draft German plans for bracket rates to be applied for international road transport movements have been approved by the...

Charity cheque a 'shady precedent', says MP

• A Conservative MP has expressed - astonishment at Employment Secretary Mrs. Castle's refusal to refer to the Prices and...

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Ulsterbus plans £2.5m expansion

Mr. Heubeck tells CM about 300 new buses, new buildings, and, perhaps, amalgamation with Belfast Transport • Ulsterbus Ltd.,...

Belfast bonus deal outstanding, says PI B

• The recently introduced, fully measured incentive bonus scheme of Belfast Corporation Transport has been cited by the PIB as...

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New 9-metre double-decker from British Leyland

• Delivery is currently being made to the East Kent Road Car Co. Ltd. of 20 Daimler Fleetline double-deckers with the new...

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'Madness' to swallow PTAs

• The suggestion that the new metropolitan areas proposed by the Royal Commission on Local Government should merely swallow up...

New busesfor Londonderry • A fleet of new buses, 20

in ail, each costing about £7,500, is being introduced by Ulsterbus on the Londonderry City services. About half of all the...

Minibuses for Chichester town centre • A service of 10-seater

minibuses powered by fuel cells and with a top speed of about 7 mph is planned to serve shoppers in Chichester city centre....

• Cumberland County Council has offered a subsidy of £20

per week to Blair and Palmer Ltd., Carlisle, towards the running of the Carlisle to Kirkbride service (CM May 301. The company...

New chief engineer for NBC

E. G. Hardy, 63. chief maintenance engineer of the National Bus Company, has been appointed chief engineer as from July 1 in...

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Scottish A-licensed vehicles transferred

• Carriers Agency Ltd., Glasgow, which recently acquired a portion of David Maxwell Ltd., Glasgow, a haulage business, had the...

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Ski party objectors become applicants

• The North Western Traffic Commissioners reserved their judgment in Manchester on Thursday of last week when the application...

Purle Bros think ahead

• The application by Purle Bros. (Holdings) Ltd. under Section 180 of the Road Traffic Act 1960, for 84 vehicles belonging to...

Applicants to ensure it's legal

• An attempt by C.T.H. Transport (Macclesfield) Ltd., to chande a vehicle from Contract A to B licence failed when a shortened...

'Reign of terror'

• At a Section 178 inquiry in Aberdeen last week Mr. A. B. Birnie, the Scottish LA, suspended one vehicle belonging to Gordon,...

Six at-tics unopposed

• Duncan, Barbour and Son Ltd., Glasgow, was granted six additional attics. on A licence for carrying coiled steel throughout...

Northern overloading prosecutions adjourned

• Three overloading prosecutions (CM, June 6) brought by the MoT Northern area enforcement section, which were to be heard On...

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Possible danger— vehicle suspended

• Thomas Mitchell (Hauliers) Ltd., Ettrickbridge, had one vehicle suspended by the Scottish LA, Mr. A. B. Birnie, for three...

Exceeded conditions of licence

• Mr. A. B. Birnie, the Scottish LA, refused an application by Thomas Rae and Sons, Coldstream, for a variation of its...

Ferrymasters ask for eight A artics

• An application by Ferrymasters Ltd. for eight new articulated vehicles on A licence was adjourned by Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, the...

14 GV9s in two years

• At a Section 174 inquiry in Leeds on Wednesday, Peter Slater Ltd, Leeds, was granted a continuation of two A-licences in...

Only two out of eight

• Mr. F. J. Lennon, of Leeds, had six vehicles removed from his B licence when he appeared at a Section 174 inquiry in Leeds on...

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York model for 26-ton outfits

• A new tandem axle platform semitrailer designed to match up with the latest quantity-produced two-axle tractive units to form...

Salisbury test centre

• A new commercial vehicle test and servicing centre to be opened in Salisbury next month is claimed to be better equipped than...

Ford £1 Om expansion in South Wales

• Ford of Britain has announced a £10m expansion programme for its four-year-old factory in Swansea -involving an additional...

Seven Dyson detachable goose-neck models

• Seven different models of low-loader semi-trailers with detachable front-end goosenecks for loading and unloading purposes...

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Plastics reinforced with carbon fibres

• A weight saving of 20 per cent, improved stiffness and other advantages are claimed for a carbon-fibre-reinforced glass-fibre...

Overseas demand for Land-Rovers

• Outstanding orders from overseas markets for Land-Rovers are 120 per cent up on the figure at the end of June last year, the...

Mistaken identities

• In order to help alleviate anomalies which are occurring, we are asked to point out that Neville Industries (Mansfield) Ltd.,...

For mechanics

• Following the report published by the National Economic Development Office— "Motor Vehicle Distribution and Repair"-the...

Nose-lift aircraft loading van

• An aircraft-loading vehicle costing about £2,000 less than the traditional elevatedloading types used at airports has been...

Purle gets strong in Scotland

• Purle Bros. TrIoldings Ltd., the waste disposal company, announced plans on Tuesday to develop its business in Scotland in a...

Telehoist sales to Iran

• An export order for 50 heavy-duty underbody Telelever gears and 6 Cu. yd. capacity steel tipper bodies fitted to Bedford J55...

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Loads and forces (6)

• The factor responsible for any artic actually over-turning towards the centre of a roundabout—a less common occurrence than...

Mack turbine truck

• Another American vehicle manufacturer has entered the gas-turbine "league - . Mack Trucks unveiled a prototype...

More room for HWP

• HWP Engineering Co. Ltd„ of Doncaster, trailer manufacturer, held a reception for suppliers and customers last week to mark...

Ford to expand engine production

• A total of f 18m is to be spent by Ford on extensions to its engine manufacturing plant at Dagenham. In announcing this plan,...

New Liverpool test centre

• A total of £30,000 has been spent by Thomas S. Whitney and Co. Ltd., Great Howard Street, Liverpool 3, on a goods vehicle...

Open meetings on brakes

• Two open meetings on commercial vehicle air brake systems were held last week in Nottingham They were jointly organized by...

Doncaster display

• Comrner and Dodge commercials, and the products of some specialist manufacturers, are being displayed this week by Allisons...

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Bird's eye view

by the Hawk * Top turnout? I have a feeling that this year's Newcastle upon Tyne round of the Lorry Driver of the Year...

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"DON'T say brown—say . ., and everyone knows which bread

they're talking about. - What we want is . ." and everyone knows which beer they're talking-about. Just two examples of brand...

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A contract-hire view of publicity

HOW does a large contract-hire company regard the importance of livery? The Blox Group, headquartered in south west London, has...

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Lisbon enters container field

ADDITIONAL investment in the region of only £40,000—in a mobile handling machine —has, virtually overnight, turned the port of...

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External combustion on way in?

The need to reduce air pollution could stimulate the development of power units having a separate burner in which the fuel and...

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- 10 11 IL L I

MIkfiR FREIGHT TAANSPORT systems in the UK have not developed through selling but throtigh servicing. The road haulier has...

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Forward view from Edbro

by Ashley Taylor, AMIRTE, Assoc InstT Seven brothers living in Bolton. Lanes, in the 1920-1930s made their mark on the road...

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The new world of road transport

THE "customer-oriented" attitude of the Transport Development Group was clearly illustrated in last week's article reporting on...

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Q Reference has been made in articles on braking to

the advantage of rapidly "pumping" the brake pedal on wet or icy roads to prevent wheel locking. I have heard that a device has...

• / operate a fleet of light diesel-engined vehicles on

deliveries involving fairly long runs as well as stop-start work. I obtain a considerably greater mileage between engine...

a , am considering the possibilities

of starting a haulage business with two 30cwt vans and building up from there. Could you tell me if I would need any special...

Q I run a fleet of 8-ton tipping vehicles, most

of which are at least five years old, and in the case of two of the tippers I have been unable to find a cure for clutch...

• / am employed by a haulage contractor and he

wants to transfer me to a depot —to do this 1 would have to sell my house and move. I know some firms pay some of the expenses...

Q Could you give me an approximate breakdown-service scale of

charges for medium and heavy commercial vehicles, something similar to the AA and RAC scales for cars? I have just added a...

Q A new item in your June 6 issue (page

40) could be read to mean that light vans registered before April 1967 require seat belts to meet legal requirements. This is...

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Use and abuse of statistics in road transport

WE are daily bombarded with figures and statistics from almost every possible source about almost every conceivable topic. It...

ERICY 77N

BY LES OLORIDGE, A.LR.T.E„ AM/MI. Highway Code IN the new edition of the Highway Code the Ministry of Transport, in a...

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Trailers for liquids

RM Trailers Ltd. has introduced a two-wheeled liquid transporting trailer (in three sizes, 250ga1, 350ga1 and 500gal...

Ladder rack

Following the introduction of its van top poster holder. Martin Katz Display Ltd. has now brought out a combined ladder...

Vacuum load-bearer

A vacuum load-bearing device— the AABA-VAC—for moving, lifting and loading slabs and sheets of most materials with sealed...

Adjustable wrench

Details of its new range of adjustable wrenches are listed in a leaflet by Britool Ltd. All sizes are obtainable from stock in...

Spray guns

Three spray guns added to the Broom and Wade range have been designed for operator comfort and to meet the exacting...

Safety Waistcoat

A luminous safety waistcoat in bright orange or red is available from Lewis Leathers. It is a strong garment made of PVC and at...

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PAYE system

A quick. PAYE system suitable for firms with four to 400 employees introduced by Matrix Systems, consists of a loose-leaf...

Tyre inflation

The Wymark Tyremaster GA130 tyre inflator has its own air reservoir of sufficient capacity to top up about 30 car-size tyres...

Trolley unit

A two-wheeled trolley unit has been designed by W. C. Youngman Ltd. to simplify the safe handling of plywood, hardboard....

Topping up

Battery topping-up is a timeconsuming. frequently difficult, but, of course, essential part of maintenance routine. So...

Wiper control

From Implex Controls and Systems Ltd., a windscreen wiper control which provides a timed, single wipe, readily adjustable to...

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Stop valve

A iin. stop valve suitable for working pressures of 6,000 psi. has been introduced by Hale, Hamilton (Valves). It is suitable...

Starting aid

Latest addition to the range of engine starting aids made by Start Pilot Ltd., the VISO-F has been thoroughly tested and...

KEEPING THEM RUNNING

with Ron Cater, A better deal for its customers is the main object of the Copartnership Scheme recently announced by Kismet...

Calling system

A twin-tone selective calling system made by Pye Telecommunications Ltd. for large fleets of vehicles using radio' telephones...

Load-sensing valve

Clayton Dewandre has now begun the manufacture on a production basis of its G-matic Mk.2 load-sensing valve which was...

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(for use with trailer or semitrailer). The latter model can also be provided with an overriding device for use when a trailer...

Internal light

An internal light for commercial vehicles which, it is claimed, gives greatly increased illumination over other types with less...

Spray gun

From Volspray Ltd,—an air/ water spray gun designed to remove dirt from all types of industrial and agricultural equipment and...

Lettering

A method of self-adhesive letter ing marketed by De corettes Kwik-Space Instant Lettering—can be applied to any surface with a...

Battery-electric

A pedestrian-controlled and articulated battery-electric truck with low-loading facilities from Bactric Ltd., consists of the...

Vinyl labels

Two tools developed by Dymo for making Vinyl labels print with a new typeface called Dymostyle, designed for greater...