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28th January 1955
28th January 1955
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New Spheres for "Artics"

Quickly Detachable Semitrailers for 14-tonners Yield New Scope in Trunk Haulage H AUL1ERS returning to trunk work are becoming...

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To Competition £1,240m.

T HE scheme for modernizing the railways, announced on Monday, should serve as a stimulant to hauliers. It sets out a design...

Passing Comments

Big ,Interest in Small Shows N OT everyone, however interested, can visit the biennial Commercial Motor Show at Earls Court,...

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One Hears

That the most valuable opinion is not always the most voluble one. That this year's Motor Show at Geneva will be specially...

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Haulage Workers Want Extra 13s.: B.R.S. Settle for 7$. to 10s.

IT has been revealed that the Transport and General Workers Union I have demanded from the National Joint Industrial Council...

Road Scheme to be Released Next Week?

T HE Ministry of Transport has completed the plans for road modernization under the Government's new, extended scheme, and the...

DEPOT SALE BRINGS LICENCE APPLICATION 'THE news that the Penrith

depot I of British Road Services, with 11 vehicles, had been sold to Mr. J. Hodgson, Melkinthorpe, a long-distance operator...

U.K. TO LEAD AT AMSTERDAM MAIN will exhibit the largest

number of makes of commercial vehicle at the Amsterdam Show, to be held from February 3-12. There will be 18 makes from the...

B.R.S. MAKING NEW CONTRACTS IT is understood that British Road

I Services are terminating hire contracts and offering customers new agreements at higher rates, subject to the introduction of...

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788 Vehicles in New List -for Small Buyers

WITH an average of two vehicles per unit, list R.5 of transport units, VT published on Wednesday, again caters almost...

No Road-Rail Fight—B.T.c. Chief T HE idea of the railways fighting

road transport Tor traffic was to be deplored, stated Sir Brian Robertson, chairman of the British Transport Commission, when...

Exeter Not to Sell Buses

MEGOTIATIONS between Exeter Corporation and the Devon General Omnibus Co., Ltd., over the proposed sale of the city's transport...

LONDON CONGESTION: NO CURE?

" S OME people think that it is impossible to cure London's traffic problem. It certainly is by adding to the enormous, irksome...

£250,000 ORDERS FOLLOWING FAIRS

F OLLOWING the Baghdad and Damascus Fairs, orders worth £250,000 have so far been placed with Leyland Motors, Ltd., and...

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B.R.S. Merge Five Divisions in Three

O N Wednesday, British Road Services announced that they had decided to reorganize the South Eastern, Midland, Eastern,...

AT LEAST £64.m. NEEDED FOR . ROADS QIXTY county councils have esti

mated that it will cost at least £64m. to construct essential new roads and put their classified roads in a fit state to deal...

Remover's Radius Raised to 60 Miles

nESPITE objections by the British Transport Commission and five independent operators, the Transport Tribunal on Tuesday...

RUNNING SMALL OPERATORS OFF ROAD?

A N allegation that Wessex Coaches, Ltd., were co-operating with Bristol Co-operative Society, Ltd., and the Bristol Tramways...

Change in Acquired Tours Too Great

T 'Minister of Transport has allowed an appeal by four tour operator's against a decision of the North Western Licensing...

L.T.E. MAKE NEW PAY OFFER

/ -1 A NEW and higher pay offer has been made to their bus workers by the London Transport Executive. A delegate conference of...

NORTH WESTERN SEEK HIGHER FARES

A S foreshadowed in The Commercial Motor , on January 14, the North Weste?n Road Car Co., Ltd., have applied to the North...

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£22 Continental Tours Granted

T HE Eastern Licensing Authority last week granted Mr. H. A. Harvey, of Cottenham, permission to run three Continental tours...

73 PER CENT. OF LIST 8 LORRIES SOLD

F INAL results of list 8 of transport units, given to The Commercial' Motor on Wednesday, show that 73 per cent, of the...

CONFERENCE PAPERS T RAFFIC problems and their effect 1 on

fares will he the subject of a paper to be read by Mr. T. G. Davies, general manager of . the Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd.,...

MR. GRESHAM COOKE, M.P.

A T the by-election at Twickenham an Tuesday, The Conservative candidate, Mr. R. Gresham Cooke, director of the Society of...

Leylonds Used by Gold Dredgers

L EYLAND Comet lorries and a 1 —J Super Hippo tractor are being used by the Bremang Gold Dredging Co. to carry dismantled...

Stock-car Racing Tours Uncertain

WHEN the West Midland Licensing VI' Authority granted M. and M. Coaches, Ltd., Kidderminster, and Messrs. Yarrington Bros.,...

"ENORMOUS COST" OF HEARINGS

T HE enormous financial cost" entailed in traffic-court hearings was mentioned by Mr. L. W. A. White before the East Midland...

ALL-NIGHT QUEUE FOR COACH SEATS

P EOPLE queued over 15 hours to book summer coach seats at the Pond Street office of Sheffield United Tours, Ltd.., when...

SHAFT BREAKS AND TRAPS CONDUCTOR

W HEN the propeller shaft of a burs of the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., sheared at the front coupling, the...

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Teething Troubles in A.E.C.s Overcome

'TEETHING troubles arising from the I introduction of the new Reliance and Mercury medium-weight models had now been overcome,...

300-MILE RUNS WITH . CHOCOLATE TWO Leyland Super Beavers, with locally built drop-sided bodies, are being run by Chocolates Elgorriaga,

trun, Spain, on twice-weekly journeys to Madrid and Barcelona with 10-ton loads of chocolate. . The 300-mile trip to the...

Call for Separation of U.T.A.'s Finances

QEPARATION of the finances of the Ulster. Transport Authority'S passenger and freight services, so that fares are not inflated...

SEVERN BRIDGE NOW WANTED

G LOUCESTER no longer objects to the buildidg of the Severn bridge.. Mr. L. 0. Need, Gloucester's town clerk, told the South...

TYRE RATE CUT

R EPRESENTING a saving to the undertaking of about £210 a year, a reduction from 0.64d. to 0.62d. in the tyre mileage rate has...

Motor Agents Lose Rating Appeal

A N appeal against an assessment by the rating valuation officer in respect of their premises at Attercliffe Road, Sheffield,...

CHROMIUM-PLATED ALLOY CYLINDERS

THE advantages of using an 1 aluminium cylinder block with wear properties superior to the normal untreated cast-iron block...

FUTURE FOR TROLLEYBUS THE trolleybus had a place in transport

for many years to come, stated Mr. J. R. Hanchett, assistant. rolling stock engineer of Bradford Transport Department, when he...

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Yorks Cattle Case Adjourned Again

H EARING was resumed before the "Yorkshire Licensing Authority last week of the block application by 31 East Yorkshire cattle...

," FAMILY MAN" FAILED TO TAKE REST

A DRIVER who was summoned at Wimbledon lastweek for failing to take 10 hours' rest in a working period of 24 hours told the...

Master Cutler Attacks Slow Transport

WITH all manufacturing centres less 1 ' 1c ... than 90 miles from the coast, it was not reasonable that goods should sometimes...

Court Award Against C-Licensees

THE Industrial Court have decided that wages paid to drivers by G. H. Kime and Co., Ltd., Wrangle, Boston, Lines, were unfair....

15-30-DAY TOURS IN EUROPE

E IGHT luxury tours on the Continent, ranging in duration from 15 to 30 days, have been arranged by Red Line Continental...

CHECK LED TO SUMMONSES

A CHECK on arrival and departure times of lorries bringing milk to a Driflield factory led to four men being summoned at...

FIRE AT B.R.S. DEPOT WHEN fire broke out at the

British i r l f Road Services depot at North Bridge, Doncaster, last week, about 20 lorries, some fully laden, were moved away...

CONFERENCE TO PRESS FOR FORTH ROAD BRIDGE INVITATIONS have been

sent out by 1 Edinburgh Corporation to various bodies to attend a conference at which a demand will be made for an immediate...

GLASGOW INTRODUCES Id. FARE

A T their meeting last week, Glasgow Corporation unanimously approved the introduction of a Id. fare for oldage pensioners on...

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12-ft. "Cake" Carried 535 • Miles By Road

L - OR the past seven days, a Dodge 6-tonner operated by Jack Coates and Son, Ltd., 40 Chiswick Common Road, London, WA, has...

Perkins Production Up 30.7 Per Cent.

nELIVER1ES of Perkins multi eylindered oil engines were 30.7 per cent., greater last year than in 1953, comparative figures...

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A COUNTER DECLINING BLAST TO TRAFFIC

Auckland Fighting Traffic Decline with Clever Publicity : British Trolleybuses and Motorbuses Popular by D. J. O'Neill I T is...

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TORQUE versus Horse-power

By BRYAN A. PARKER B RITISH oil-engine manufacturers and vehicle builders generally favour engines of high torqueoutput at a...

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Is a Skid an Excuse?

The Courts' Attitude Towards Skidding Seems Greatly to Depend on Whether or Not the Act of Skidding Was Something Which the...

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Converting to Oil Without a Kit

Non-standard Conversions are Not to be Feared by John Savage, A.I.R.T.E. S OUND .engineering practice, common sense and...

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New Dual-purpose Grain Carrier

A NEW bulk grain carrier has been placed in service by Messrs. C. Young and Sons, Spring Gardens, Alresford, Hants. It is being...

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Tubeless Tyres for Heavy Vehicles Coming

Says P. D. Patterson, Dunlop Research Centre T HE general acceptance of tubeless tyres for private cars, both in this country...

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Higher Fares to Follow Rise in Fuel Costs?

B.M.M.O. Review Fares Again: How Birmingham Corporation, Scottish Omnibuses, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol Tramways,...

E.Y.M.S. Appeal for Double Fares on Christmas Day

O BJECTIONS were again made by two local authorities when East Yorkshire Motor Services, Ltd., appealed at Hull, last week,...

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In Search of Knowledge I N an article appearinwin one of

the British Transport Commission's publications, an employee of British Road Services has claimed that the concentration of...

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Tyre User Wants a Square Deal

T HE reply by "Technical Representative " (your issue dated January 14) to my letter concerning T.M.C. Panels, WhiCh you kindly...

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Scotland Wants ction on Transi rt Problems

ys, Ashley Taylor, A.M.I.R.T.E. C HANGES in transport come closer home to the Scotsman-in-the-street than they do to his...

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Road Accidents—Causes and Prevention

A PANEL of experts was invited by . 1--1 the Institute of Road Transport Engineers to answer questions oh road ia fe t y and...

No Need to License Conductors

B ECAUSE there is "an enormous turnover" of conductors, there is no need for any form of licensing for them, say the...

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Maintenance What It Costs

/ N the early days of the road haulage industry, most of the haulage businesses were of the owner-driver type: rhese men not...

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A Flywheel-assisted Transmission

A TRANSMISSION system in which a fast-running flywheel is used to absorb energy when braking and return it for acceleration is...