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28th July 1984
28th July 1984
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Editorial

Forgotten men WHERE WERE the trade union leaders during last week's ports dispute which brought hardship and discomfort to...

Next Week

• COACHING is always in the news and is still a changing scene. For our Coaching Special next week Noel Millier has been to the...

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Door-to-door ruling leaves doubts

BRITISH operators now have a clearer picture of what is meant by door-to-door deliveries, following a European Court judgment....

Read v NUM

THE BATTLE between Gloucestershire hauliers and the South Wales miners was due to take another twist this week. George and...

Lorry ban condemned

THE GREATER London Council's plans for a night and weekend lorry ban (see p6) would be disastrous and unworkable, Transport...

Tankmaster acquisition

THE TANKMASTERS division of container and specialist hauliers P&O Roadways has acquired Unilever's containerised tank powder...

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Back to normal but £3m lost: RHA

ROAD TRANSPORT operators heaved a sigh of relief this week, as the national docks strike was called off and blockades of Dover...

£7.9m by-pass

WORK has started on a new four-mile stretch of road to bypass the Greater Manchester towns of Leigh and Atherton. The road,...

Ad award

ENTRIES are now being accepted for the 1984 Commercial Motor advertisement awards. As well as the usual categories: best...

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Please don't do it

ONE of Britain's most successful self-employed businessmen has come up with a startling piece of advice for those about to...

USAF Daf

DAF SPECIAL products Division has won a contract to repair and overhaul the landing gear for over 500 United States Air Force...

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Odic warning

A FORETASTE of environmental operator licence hearings came last week when the West Midlands Licensing Authority considered an...

Tribunal rules 'OK'

THE FAILURE of St Vincent Plant to consult a driver it proposed to make redundant because the company feared possible sabotage...

GLC is unimpressed

FORMAL notice of a London ban on lorries over 16.5 tonnes has been approved by the Greater London Council transport committee....

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Career Opportunities in Distribution Management

c.£15,000 per annum Sainsbury is the UK's leading food retailer with more than 250 supermarkets and an outstanding record of...

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NFC's bigger board

THE EXECUTIVE board of the National Freight Consortium is to be expanded with the appointment of five new members. The aim is...

Eastern changes

IN ANTICIPATION of the restructuring of Eastern Counties Omnib u s Company into three separate companies, National Bus Company...

Manpower Moves

TA's SE chairman AFTER A GAP of many years, the South East is supplying a future chairman of the Transport Association. Victor...

MacBrayne's Lewis controller

MACBRAYNE HAULAGE has appointed John 'Dixie' MacDonald as vehicle controller at Stornoway. He takes over from Eoin MacLeod who...

Dutch designer for Ogle

FORMER HEAD of design with Netherlands Railways, Siep Wijsenbeek, has joined the management of Ogle Design, the...

Transport Tribunal changed

THE ACTING Registrar and Clerk to the Transport Tribunal, Miss Mary Rice, retired in mid-July. She has been replaced by two...

Michael Lewis

MICHAEL LEWIS, a director of the Hawker Siddeley Group and chairman of several of its subsidiaries, died on July 13 after a...

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Freight News

Haulier discharged on false document charges Taylor in court DURING 1980 Philip Leo Taylor, operating as Taylor's Transport...

Eastern promise

PICKFORDS Removals, part of the National Freight Consortium, has acquired a 70 per cent share of a freight forwarding firm in...

Down Under

DAF TRUCKS opened its Australian assembly operation earlier this month. Queensland Premier Sir John Bjelke-Peterson opened the...

Giltspur gain

GILTSPUR BULLENS, part of the Unigate group, has bought W. 0. Bradstreet and Sons, thereby consolidating and adding to...

W German tax

PROPOSALS by the West German authorities to introduce a road tax payable by drivers from other countries using German motorways...

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Lucas CAV plans

LUCAS CAV electrical component development projects are now nearing completion and the result will be new products over the...

Drive slip next year

WABCO'S ANTI-LOCK braking system will be equipped with a "drive slip" control from early next year. Using information from the...

Engineering News

No rest SCANIA (GREAT BRITAIN) has signed an agreement with Tuff Kote Dinol for corrosion protection retreatment of Scania...

Novel modular Polish cv

A NOVEL modular commercial vehicle design was discussed at last week's Institution of Mechanical Engineers conference on...

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Technical News

Quick change body A RETRACTABLE floor section over the rear axle is one of the key features of a quick change demountable body...

Fifth wheel choice

The pressed steel couplings have an 8mm (0.31in) thick top rubbing plate and have a design rating of 18.00 tonnes (17.71 tons)....

Belgian tippers

LAG UK has supplied three Belgian-built lightweight tipping trailers worth over 00,000 to Pauls Malt of Ipswich for bulk matt...

LR dealers

LAND ROVER is cutting its British dealer network from 330 to 300. The BL subsidiary is also taking over its parts distribution...

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Air conditioner

UK REFRIGERATION Engineers Hubbard has introduced a roofmounted air conditioning unit suitable for a wide range of commercial...

Laser's new semis

TIR OPERATOR Laser Transport has taken delivery of six 12m(39.37ft) triaxle semi-trailers equipped with Rubery OwenRockwell...

Technical News

Hydraulic timber loader A NEW Hiab-Jonsered 1000 hydraulic timber loader equipped with optional load-sensing (LC) valve system...

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Coach and Bus News

NBC market value STOCK EXCHANGE member Grieveson Grant and Company has published a report on the privatisation prospects of...

'LT, improve'

LONDON REGIONAL has been told to improve its bus services within the cash available to it. The instruction to LRT came last...

Ridley

LT to LRT improving the match between supply and demand so as to increase average bus loadings, and also for carrying forward...

Thamesdown passengers up

THAMESDOWN Transport, Swindon's municipal bus operator, has increased its passenger loadings since its services were revised...

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Govt pledge to end 'dead hand' regs

OF ALL the statements of road transport policy to have emerged from the present Government, none expresses so forcibly the...

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A Nobel convert

EVEN IF VAUXHALL MOTORS has "no plans to introduce a Nova van", one of its main dealers — Cowley and Wilson of Milton Keynes —...

Light Vehicle News Hire first, then buy

NISSAN EBRO, importer of the Perkins-powered Motor lberica (Spanish) built Ebro commercial vehicle, has launched an unusual 'No...

Mountain high

MOUNTAIN RANGE ambulances of Crewe has won a contract to supply 81 Bedfordbased ambulances fitted with its SRT-1 bodywork to...

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Light Vehicle News

ACL for vans INTERLUBE has introduced the MX Lubrication System, an automatic chassis lubrication (ACL) system for use on...

Portuguese UMM arrives in Britain

A REFINED VERSION of the original French-built Cournil 4x4 light vehicle (CM November 15, 1980) called the UMM has returned to...

Dodge rolls in

FACTORY-FITTED rear-roller shutter doors are now being offered as an on-line option on Dodge 50-Series models. A choice of...

Sitting pretty

DOR MOBILE has produced a range of fold-down, bench-type passenger seats that can be installed behind the normal driver and...

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Contract hire and leasing

WE REFER to a report headed "Contract hire will replace leasing" (CMJuly 7). While we appreciate that the report was compiled...

HGV: It's not fair

WITH reference to your editorial 'Act on report' (CMJ uly 7), 1 would like to put forward my point of view. First of all the...

FMC is a great event

AS I AM retiring at the beginning of August, I shall not be attending this year's Conference but I wish to put on record the...

Re-inventing the tram

TWO QUITE separate items in (CM, July 7) prompt me to write. First of all we had Mr P Baker's interesting letter regarding the...

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Hdr = 0 ) c c; ) 0 j i n_ r c) r ag

Bringing culture to London Transport CONTROL of London Transport has passed from the Greater London Council to a bard, reports...

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Super-economy Escort

WHEN FORD set out to develop its new 1600 diesel engine its main priorities were to match the best possible fuel economy with...

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Volvo consolidates its US market bridgehead

IT WAS probably just coincidence that while a large party of British commercial vehicle journalists were in Sweden for the...

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allff o mx fD mitt khL)Niro

Fume extraction equipment MTE Binzel (UK), of Wirksworth, Derbyshire, the sole UK distributor for Alexander Binzel welding...

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Atlas unshoulder its deliveries burden

THE SUPPLY and distribution systems of Scandinavian cornpanies have a reputation for being closely co-ordinated with other...

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London's traffic in the shadow of GLC abolition

WHEN WE LOOK at the problem of improving traffic flows and the quality of life in London, we soon become aware of another...

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A question of road use

TRANSPORTATION is the nervous system of our civilisation. Without it, we are paralysed. So say the authors of the Wheels Within...

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'Start Now'

for the next CPC Exam NOW is the time to begin your studies for the next Royal Society of Arts examinations for the...