as a whole, and certainlY road transport in particular, tends to spend its time • finding . solutions to immediate problems....

THREE months ago (as reported in I The Commercial Motor of August 21) the Minister of Transport announced that he was...

IT is understood that a sub-committee of the S.M.M.T. meeting in London this week I had the specific task of arriving at...

G EAR drive for the mixer drum is used in a range of truck-mounted concrete mixers now being made by Davies Brothers (Denton)...

T Hornsea (East Riding, Yorks) Magistrates Court last week a fine of £20 was Imposed on Mobil Oil Co. Ltd., of London, for...

total of £489 I for 27 offences arising from the condition of nine of its fleet of 25 lorries, Mr. S. J. Hardy, presiding at...

has under consideration the objections, understood to total 156, which have been lodged against the City of London's proposals...

„,COTI.AND is to have six Lorry Driver of the Year eliminating centres next year. At a meeting last week in Edinburgh. the...

have efficiencies well above the legal requirement—this is the advice which the Traders Road Transport Association is giving to...

T HE 136-vehicle B-licence application for rail-replacement fish distribution services by Hull Fish Transport Ltd. has been ....

N EX1' Friday's issue of " The Commercial Motor" will deal exhaustively with the subject of bulk movement of loads by road....

F OLLOWING from the result of the two-day " blitz" check on commercial vehicles 1 in Newcastle in September, an important road...

MEETING of the Central London rt area of the Traders Road Transport Association last week to discuss maintenance problems was...

O NE of the prominent features of recent developments in the Swedish transport industry is the growth of road haulage traffic....

\ ailable as compared with those marketed in 1962-63. No such improvement was quoted for the more important pour point figure,...

S INFRE criticism of the state of the roads on both the Swiss and Italian sides of the Great St. Bernard road tunnel is being...

ADIC.AL, rethinking on refuse dis posal was necessary if cleansing authorities were to deal successfully with conditions that...

Association has approved the increased rates of subscription for group membership and in the maxim urn subscription payable....

A T an executive committee meeting of the Road Haulage Association a resolution from the Metropolitan and South Eastern area of...

T O be known as Bonallack Scottish Ltd., with offices in Prestwick and Glasgow, a new company has been formed by Bonallack and...

IN a hard-hitting talk to the Potteries i area of the Traders Road Transport Association in Stoke-on-Trent on Wednesday, Mr. R....

nUICk action to improve the safety of lorries was hoped for by Lord Lindgren, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of...

Servicing plays a vital role in keeping your whole transport system efficient. Reason enough then that the servicing should be...

A FTER a 15-minute discussion, M.P.s last week gave their final approval to the Travel Concessions Bill. The measure now goes...

WE regret to records the deaths of NV Mr. E. Y. Caswell, Mr. E. Coton, Mr. N. Flux, Mr. H. J. Nixon and Mr. E. H. Revell. Mr....

G LASGOW'S bus and underground crews are to operate reduced services, work to rule and ban overtime. This decision was taken...

QUBJECT to the consent of the West Midland Traffic Commissioners, coach operators in the Birmingham area will introduce a 5 per...

FROM MR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT . THERE are to be early talks at the Ministry of Labour over the threepoint pay claim by...

A NEW bus and coach station was opened on Tuesday in the centre of Newark-on-Trent, Notts, to replace a smaller station nearby...

DINHURGH bus crews agreed to Start a one-day strike at midnight yesterday (Thursday) and to repeat this every Friday until the...

T 'rumpus over London Trans'port's bus schedules appears to be fizzling out—at least for the time being. The last attempt to...

TN a written decision, the West Midland Traffic Commissioners have made a limited grant to an application by K.W. Coaches...

T. Fraser, Aberdeen, for 23 vehicles of 94-1 tons on A licence, was granted by the Scottish deputy Licensing Authority on...

L AST week, at Nottingham, the East Midland Traffic Commissioners refused a licence for a proposed express bus service from...

by Barton Transport Ltd., of Chilwell, Notts, to vary their backing licences for tours and excursions from their base to...

judges were asked I on Wednesday to uphold the conviction of Mr. Ralph Charles Frederick Cropper a transport consultant, of...

ik N application by Inverdon Transport Co. Ltd., Nigg, Aberdeen, to add three vehicles of 27 tons and three refrigerated...

W. Motors ri of Bexleyheath,. Kent, to switch a vehicle from Contract A to B licence and to add one vehicle to their licence...

-in London next week. Appeals listed for hearing are as follows:— Tuesday, December. 1: British Railways Board against a...

A T a public inquiry held under Section 178 of the Road Traffic Act 1960, at Leeds last week, Phoenix Haulage (Hull) Ltd. had...

A N application by Mr. J. R. Cotton, of Brighton, owner of Pleasure •Way Tours, for a licence to run tours in a 12-seater...

THIS week's batch of Applications and Decisions brought no information of outstandingly big applications; there was, however,...

IS AT WORK FOR YOU 24 HOURS A DAY, EVERY DAY When your trailer's a York trailer you can take this allround-the-clock service...

SCAMMELLS FOR GUINNESS: Two Seamme11 Highwayman tractive units and four 26-ft. tandem axle semi-trailers have been supplied to...

T HE air-pressure braking system which will be used on A.E.C. tractive units designed for the higher gross weights . permitted...

T HE Leyland Motor Corporation and its associated companies are planning to form an Australian company with a capital of...

T TUNNY CRANES LTD.. manufacturers of hydraulically operated mobile, lorry mounted and crawler mounted cranes, have been...

the ri ma intenance of refuse-collecting vehicles has been organized by Dennis Bros. Ltd. The course is available, free of...

A N associate company of E.R.F. Ltd. has been formed in Johannesburg to assemble and market E.R.F. vehicles. In addition to the...

By A. J. P. Wilding The Nubian Major was introduced at the Commercial Motor Show and the design was fully described in The...

completed as effectively if the high ratio had been in use because at no time was first gear employed. Following the...

T HE first c.k.d. bus kits to be supplied by Metal Sections Ltd., Oldbury. near Birmingham, to the Sudan are now being...

BY F. K. MOSES A COMPANY which operates about 1,900 buses and coaches, built 85 per cent of them in its own workshops,...

and Publications Industrial Fire Extinguisher NJOW being produced by Graviner (Colnbrook) Ltd., a corn' M pany formed...

Unwise Souping-up I N earlier years it was generally accepted that most working parts of a large vehicle would wear at an...

in secondary braking E intention of the requirements in the amended Construction and Use Regulations is to improve the...

HAVING considered a report on studies carried out by management consultants, the Liverpool Corporation highways and works...

W ITH ever-increasing road speeds, gross vehicle weights and congested highways, the need to apply strict control on the...

p EST control is big business. Likewise, loss to the nation through pests is high, whether reckoned in terms of food destroyed...

three-man team with the necessary vehicle and equipment can effectively deal with such vermin by baiting at the rate of 100...

By The Hawk VIEW Managers Relaxing "This enjoyable evening is not to be taken by our customers as the reason for a rates...

E VEN before his propaganda campaign against drinking before driving is fairly launched the Minister of Transport, Mr. Tom...

A N operator in the West Country has a 7-ton tipping lorry on permanent hire to his local county council during the course of...

Setback for Dennis Bros. D ISAPPOINTING news from DENNIS BROTHERS. The company announced that pre-tax profits for the year to...

Transport Engineering a Vocation? I READ with interest and some sympathy Mr. T. K. I Dobson's letter in last week's issue of...