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28th July 1972
28th July 1972
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Has unofficial action gone?

Wednesday proved to be a momentous day in the history of British industrial relations. The Law Lords reversed the Appeal Court...

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Drivers' licences by gross weight from 1973

Move to line up with Common Market requirements • From November 1 1973 the minimum age limits for drivers of certain classes...

Whitehall tightens grip on transport grant

• A totally new system of Government grants for local transport projects, with Whitehall and county authorities together...

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[& G is responsible

or its shop stewards I The TGWU is responsible for actions its shop stewards, the House of Lords iled on Wednesday. This...

Hilton shares dealing suspended

• The board of the Ralph Hilton Group has asked for a temporary suspension of the Stock Exchange quotation until such time as...

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AA defends its 10 pc overload claim

• The FTA's protest at the AA's claims that 10 per cent of all lorries are overloaded has been answered this week in a letter...

What Manchester does impresses Germans

• Officials from the West German commercial vehicle industry visited the headquarters of Manchester Transport Training Group at...

Portstewart LDoY goes ahead

• The Portstew art Lorry Driver of the Year competition will take place despite the troubles in Ulster. This was announced this...

FTA 'reluctantly' accepts fee change need

• The FTA has accepted "reluctantly" the need to revise heavy goods vehicle testing and re-testing fees as proposed by the...

THC: final dissolution

• * The Transport Holding Company's annual report for the year ended October 31 1971 says that "since all interests have now...

To Russia with a model factory

• An articulated lorry left its depot i Longport, Newcastle-under-Lyme, fc Russia on Monday. It is taking a model of £30m...

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MC's NATIONAL STRIKE VOTE

Also on Wednesday, when Londoners were facing a 24-hour stoppage by LT bus crews, the general council of the TUC voted by a 2...

The container 'revolution'

by a special correspondent • With the committal last Friday to Pentonville jail of the five London docks men who were held to...

Dockers freed

• NIRC President, Sir John Donaldson, on Wednesday evening released the five dock workers he had earlier imprisoned for...

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Transport and storage — a total approach needed

• A total approach to transport and warehousing was essential, according to Mr R. V. Baird-Parker, dispatch and transport...

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Cambs to Herts via Stuttgart

• Transporting a machine which generates a beam so intense that it can boil tungsten in 10- 8 second might pose a problem to...

100,000 overload cases a year 'if police tried'

• A police campaign to curb the overloading of lorries is being called for by Mr Joseph Ashton, Labour MP for Basset Law. He...

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Weight laws explained

• A wall chart and an eight-page leaflet explaining the legislation on goods vehicle weights which became effective on June 27...

120-mile factory move cost £300,000

• Bullens Transport Group Ltd has completed one of the largest factory removal projects ever undertaken in this country. It...

COURSES AND CONFERENCES

CIT Oxford conference • The annual week-end conference of the Chartered Institute of Transport will be held at New College,...

If you have big problems . . .

. . . Commercial Motor may be able to help you. As well as your regular reader information service in the 0 and A page, which...

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Government acts on lemocratic control of PTEs

rom our Parliamentary correspondent 1 The control which Passenger Transport .uthorities will exercise over PTEs when 'cal...

Plaxton luxury home

• What is claimed to be the most luxurious nobile home ever produced in the UK left :,ondon last week bound for the Continent....

Little Red Book updated

D This year's edition of The Little Red nook, published this week by Ian Allen Ltd, Terminal House, Shepperton, Middx, price...

Psv driver's licence change

• New regulations, which take effect on August 11, require an applicant for a licence to drive a public service vehicle to...

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South Wales NBC shake-up

• A further shake-up of the operations of its subsidiary companies in South Wales was announced this week by the National Bus...

No vacancy for transport officer•

• A call for the appointment of a transport officer to concentrate on the problems of rural bus services in Cumberland was...

Optional second door anticipates new town development

• A 73-seat Leyland Atlantean has entered service with J. Fishwick and Sons Ltd, a 43-vehicle operator in the Leyland, Lanes,...

Antilok brakes on US buses

• The Fiat Antilok brake system, whicl the company has been working on for sorni years, has recently been adopted by thi...

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b1BC case for grant-aided 'than services

The introduction of grant-aid for unmunerative urban bus services is called in a memorandum prepared by the itional Bus Company...

3ELNEC's standard bus

The first example of a new design of auble-deck bus — which may well become ie standard in the SELNEC Passenger ransport...

Help for 'park 'n ride' urged

• An experimental scheme to rebate fuel oil duty and provide grants for the purchase of new vehicles for transport undertakings...

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Tribunal dismisses two out of three appeals

• Two out of three appeals were unsuccessful when they were heard by the Transport Tribunal this week. The one successful...

Chickens took wing

• Lorry driver Ronald Meredith, of C a stl eri Drive, Langley, Manchester, was foul guilty at Manchester Crown Court last we of...

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ZIITS's attitude lisgraceful, says judge

The attitude of the RTITB in briefing 11 representation only shortly before the [ring and failing to provide the necessary...

iicence suspension for iccident prevention' councillor

Mr Thomas 0. Gunn, an East Lothian anty councillor and a JP, who operates a vate coal mine, had his one vehicle upended for two...

;ompany and rivers face 178 harges

A total of 178 charges, involving hours d records offences, against Gardner etals Ltd and eight of its drivers, were journed by...

GV9 for council after driver's complaint

• Midlothian county council, which operates a fleet of 76 vehicles on roads and cleansing work, appeared before Mr A. B....

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'Chauffeur coaches' allowed for Harrogate

• Despite strong opposition from local taxi drivers, Harrogate is to get an experimental minibus shopping service using the...

PEOPLE

G. Hands (Hamilton Transport Ltd, London SE1 6) has been re-elected chairman of the Road Haulage Association public relations...

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Small Mercedes vans are very quiet

Gibb Grace I After an introduction at the :ommercial Motor Show, two light vans re to be marketed in the UK by elercedes-Benz...

Leaded petrol no ban yet

• Further regulations regarding lead in petrol will be announced before the Commons rise for the Summer Recess early in...

New seat and less noise from Guy

• New seats and noise insulation materials are being fitted to the complete range of Guy trucks. The new driver's seat is of...

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Bushwhacker go-anywhere 1-ton tip-trailer

• Intended for long-life service on long or short-haul operations, with a minimum of maintenance, is a new two-wheel,...

Long life `super tippers for quarrywork

• Three 'super' tippers, specially designed to outlive conventional types in the bodybreaking stone carrying business, have...

Air cooling analysed

• The Tatra company of Prague has produced efficient diesel and petrol engines of the air-cooled type for lorries and cars for...

More than 20 tom

• Seadyke Freight Systems Ltd, Wisbech Cambs, says that the Foden 30-ton-gron eight-wheeler pictured on page 15 of C.k, July 21...

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bird's eye

view hytheHawk I Exportabus le letter in CM on June 23 about bus larding times in the Far East achieved the China Motor Bus...

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Telma for trucks -the pros and cons

By Gibb Grace, DAuE, CEng. MIMechE MOST COACH OPERATORS are familiar with Telma electric retarders bin it is probably true to...

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No go on NOX?

WHY should California dominate diesel-engine design on a global scale? More precisely, why should legislation that is necessary...

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pinks Interfreight's appeal

. efer to the report (CM July 1) in connection th Spinks I nterfreig ht's appeal. The QC representing Spinks Interfreight akes...

Lorry 'bullies'

In Commercial Motor June 30 I read an article in which Mr J. Hanlon warned lorry "bullies". I can readily imagine that Mr...

Continental v British vehicles

I was very interested to read Mr A, J. P. Wilding's article (CM June 30) on current and future vehicle designs. I was most...

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TO SWEDEN WITH A SWEDE

by Gibb Grace, DAuE CEng, MIMechE SWEDEN is effectively cut off from the European mainland and trucks have to enter the...

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the costing column True comparisons

• Ten years ago it cost £40 19s — thi equivalent of £40.95 in today's decima currency — to average 600 miles a weel with a...

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road and workshop

3reakdown call-out by Handyman WOMAN'S WORK is never done — id neither is that of the transport foreman. s one problem is...

cropper's column Why hauliers must resist dockers

• The haulage industry has been compelled to stand its ground against the dockers. After their success at Chobham Farm, dockers...

NEXT WEEK

Text week is CM's annual Continental and Ferries number. We have been looking at how nanufacturers' shipping and forwarding...

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TRANSPORT IN EUROPE

Swing to road transport for Europe's farm produce by Robert Richards ROAD HAULAGE will soon be asked to carry a much bigger...

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meet

David Philip • The loose-limbed figure with the boyish smile who has just been 'made general manager of Reynolds big new truck...

topic

Weakest link SINCE the White Paper on a Channel link was published 10 years ago the estimated cost of the tunnel has gone up...

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-% I recently had to strip a relatively new I

diesel engine in the 2.5 1 category ?cause of a premature bearing faililre, and !though the piston rings appeared to be in 2od...

Q I have been carrying out a study for my company

on the value which it might obtain from the use of containers and the most effective means of container loading. I believe...

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management

matters by John Darker AM B Industrial relations in the North West (2) ON a recent trip to the North West I was given some...

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know the law

by Les Oldridge, AMIRTE, MIMI Disqualification of driving licences FOR CERTAIN traffic offences the court must disqualify a...

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Checking up on qualifications

HAVE YOU come across any organization "awarding" transport certificates and diplomas or even "degrees" in transport simply on...