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27th September 1963
27th September 1963
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No Magnum Opus

A T the conference of the Institute of Transport held at Oxford last week-end, the academic surroundings were conducive to...

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No Magnum Opus

T the conference of the Institute of Transport held at Oxford last week-end, the academic surroundings were conducive to...

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ory Resolution Calls for ' Integration '

FROM OCR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT IE Tory Party conference, to be held in Blackpool next month, could proan uncomfortable...

Wage Agreements

N EW basic rates for British Road Services maintenance staff have now been agreed and arc effective from August 19 last. This...

'HAULIERS MUST DEFEND THEMSELVES'

"WE must defend ourselves against the If! allegations sometimes made that hauliers have a somewhat careless attitude towards...

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ontrol on Artics

FORDSH1RE county highways ommittee has authorized the :y surveyor to make arrangements injunction with the police for conag...

Express Dairy Driver of the Year

T HE Express Dairy Co. premises at South Ruislip, Middx, were again the scene of a lorry driver competition last Sunday, This...

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Tonnage Rate of 42s. Suggested for Channel Tunnel

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT HE Anglo-French working party has settled the Channel link argument isively in favour of a...

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S.M.M.T. Wants Noise Levels Altered

eST Friday, at a meeting initiated by the Traders Road Transport Associato discuss the proposed vehicle noise rlations (The...

One-cent Fares Not Far Off

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT DECIMAL coinage system based on the divided into 100 minor units has a recommended to the...

NEWS IN BRIEF ['sport Law: " Some aspects of the law

inland transport " will he the title of a to be given by Mr. T. H. Campbell rdlaw at a meeting organized by the Teesarea of the...

FORKED RATES T HE forked rates systems was the first of

the E.E.C. Commission's common transport policy proposals to be studied by a working committee of delegates from the six member...

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LUMINIUM TIPPERS CARRY FILLING

INKER. filling for the construction f M4 motorway is being carried V. W. Drinkwater (Willesden) Ltd.. ; a fleet of...

Struggle Over Miners' Concession Coal

NERS who were against the collectng, of concession coal by a haulier muted by the Mineworkers' Union advised, on Tuesday, by...

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The car transporter prosecution in detail

'If extensions are included in length, there would seem to be no limit as to length'—Police 'Minister expressly recognized...

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Large Application by Lancs Hauliers is Successful Switch to Hiring

A N application by Progressive Deliveries Ltd., of Coventry, involving the deletion of 40 vehicles of 3064 tons from their B...

Quicker Service Grant to Northern General

WHEN granting an application by the VV Northern General Transport Co. at a sitting of the Northern Traffic Commissioners at...

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Sleek, Peaked-roof Buses from &radians

1.P.T.A. President i speech at Edinburgh last week, • Reginald Wilson, deputy chairman nanaging director of the Transport Ing...

NEWS I N BRIEF Rotherham Results: Rotherham transport department transferred

£44 ; 916 to its net revenue account in the year ended March 31 last. Mileage covered at 5,709,333 and the number of passengers...

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'Restore Free Competition to P.s.v. Operating' Resolution Withdrawn?

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT T HE restoration of free competition in the bus industry by abandoning roadservice licensing...

From our Industrial Correspondent

L ONDON busmen have withdrawn their 1 —e resolution opposing the recruitment of employees from outside Britain, announced Mr....

DISPUTE OVER CHARGES

W EST HARTLEPOOL CORPORATION may discontinue the use of the bus station in the town centre as the terminus for its Port...

Men in. the News

Mr. H. Booker has been appointed director and general manager of Cravens Homalloy Ltd. The following appointments are...

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ROTARY ENGINE FROM RENAULT

ROTARY en g ine operatin g on the four-stroke cycle developed by the ich Renault concern is reported to !. reached an advanced...

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ROAD and WORKSHOP

Simple mechanical tuition for the new driver ARISING FROM a shorter working day in industry, there is a closing-in of the...

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NEW EQUIPMENT

and Publications Adequate Warning r E range of Italian-made Flamm horns is now being marketed in the U.K. by Autocar Marine...

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Bird's Eye View

orway Catering provision of separate cafes for transport men at the !harnock Richard service area on the M6 (and liket Keele...

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Facts and Figures about Engines

EVERAL years ago I was privileged to have repeated to me the concern expressed (not for sales purposes) by a director of a...

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JANUS • • . . . confidence tr ic k wh i ch the .

. . confidence tr ic k wh i ch the WRITES railways have been working with Gereat success' L UCKY JIM, in the novel named...

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Leyland Sets High Standard

THOUGH to many people it will still be a Standard. the van which was the subject of this road test is now officially called the...

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Electro-hydraulic Platform Offers Quicker Lamp Servicing

D EVELOPED by the Midlands Electricity Board, Mucklow Hill. Halesowen, a new street-lamp servicing vehicle enables the...

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osts, Charges and Control

i ascertaining costs so much more has yet to be done. Even after the costs ure known, considerable research will have to be...

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IN YOUR OPINION

suraging Road Travel regular reader of your journal for many years, and ing been employed in, and taking a keen interest...

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Questions Answered

operator states that an old 7-tonner which he has been sing on purely local work must now be replaced, so ether than demote one...