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28th November 1969
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Stop re-lining during the season

A simple electro-magnetic braking device has enabled Shearings Pleasureways Holidays Limited to streamline maintenance...

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Guiding hands

The guide to operators' licensing which is now ready to be sent to hauliers by the Ministry of Transport is a recognition of...

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Parcels deadlock

• A meeting held on Wednesday between ORS Parcels Ltd. management and the TGWU, SCMU and URTU in an attempt to end the strike...

Test cases on skips

from a special correspondent • Two appeals due to be heard within the next few weeks may provide rulings of considerable...

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Meat carriers may face flood of rivals

• "The testing time for our association will be when the licensing system allows newcomers to flood into the Royal Group of...

Easier '0' switch for big fleets

• Goods vehicle operators with fleets specified on centrally-held carrier's licences but physically dispersed throughout the...

Electric van for Royal Mail

• The Post Office, following experience with a battery-electric van used for parcels delivery and sorting in Leicester, has...

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Operators face continuous survey

• A continuous survey of the road transport of goods in Great Britain is to be undertaken by the Directorate of Statistics of...

Why gloom?

• Why had the prospect of the new operators' licensing system created so much gloom amongst C-licence operators, Mr. John Else,...

Training groups get eight vehicles

• In hand-overs this week by the directorgeneral of the RTITB, Mr. Eric Tindall, eight trucks were presented by the Training...

Full details by Dec 10 or delay hours rules FTA

• Unless the Ministry of Transport can issue final drivers' hours and records regulations and schedules in exact form by...

Essex may quit LDoY

• It is possible that the Essex centre of the Lorry Driver of the Year competition will not function in 1970. This was...

Lord Rootes next MIRA president

• When Mr. J. R. Edwards, president of the Motor Industry Research Association, proposed the toast to the guests at the...

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Not all convinced on TMLs at CM'S London Conference

• Support for the principle of transport managers licensing was expressed quite strongly on Tuesday at the first of three...

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Nine hauliers fined for overloading

• Nine transport companies pleaded guilty at Carlisle magistrates' court on Monday, to charges of using vehicles with loads in...

Changes in Scottish transport proposed

• Changes in the pattern of traditional transport to Islay were announced at a public inquiry in Glasgow on Monday, when David...

LA accepts explanation—then suspends three

• An Ipswich haulage firm had three vehicles suspended for three months on Wednesday by the deputy Licensing Authority for the...

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Unusual application for 25 vehicles

• In Glasgow on Monday an attempt was made to have a licence granted to a company which operated formerly in Glasgow, went into...

No confidence vote

• Delegates of about 40 North-East local authorities at a conference at Durham City, last week, passed a vote of no confidence"...

Thirty days for Essex haulier

• A sentence of 30 days' imprisonment was recently imposed by Harlow magistrates on a haulier because he was unable to pay...

LA writes on maintenance

• "The prime consideration will be the safe and sound mechanical condition of vehicles. This must be allied with and stem from...

D. E. Hinds transfer?

• G. and K. Haulage Ltd., of Tipton, have applied to take over the licences of 0. E. Hinds (Transport) Ltd., the...

Lower fares refused

• Timetable and fares revisions were granted to A. and C. McLennan Ltd., of Spittalfield, and A. C. McLennan (Blairgowrie) Ltd....

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M and D fares up

• Maidstone and District Motor Services Ltd. has been granted its second fares increase in a year. At the end of a two-day...

Agreement reached on Teesside

• A one-vehicle operator, Mr. K. Brown, of Normanby, Teesside, was granted a B licence in Middlesbrough on Friday after a...

Northern LA makes 12 month grant

• A solicitor alleged at a public inquiry in Durham on Monday that a small haulage firm had "canvassed" work away from other...

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London Country names its team for New Year start

• The NBC subsidiary that will operate the ex-London Transport green bus services, London Country Bus Services Ltd., announced...

Abbey Coachways appeal

• The facilities for passengers from Selby wishing to join Wallace Arnold's extended tours at Leeds were inadequate, it was...

Coaching questions answered

What's the future for school bus contracts? How does one get into Continental coaching? Are there any special snags to beware...

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MP wants debate on Glasgow PTA

• A statement will be made soon about proposals for setting up a Passenger Transport Authority in the Glasgow area. Dr. J....

LT bus fares up

• The increase of 3d on the 9c1 and 1s 3d fares on London Transport buses in the suburban and country districts within the...

Seasons to offset fares increase

• The bus fare increases recently approved by the Western Area Traffic Commissioners will be brought into operation by Devon...

Ulsterbus the lousiest, says boss

• Mr. Werner Heubeck, head of Ulsterbus Ltd., has advised employers in Northern Ireland to stop counting heads, so far as the...

Fresh research —revised forecasts

• The progress of the Greater London Council's traffic and transport activities against the everchanging social and economic...

New chief engineer for Midland Red

R. E. H. Braithwaite, 45, since 1965 chief engineer of the Northern General Transport Co. Ltd., has been appointed chief...

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Mark 3 Bulkflo and Corvette in production

• Dunnspencer Bulkflo Ltd., of Ilion, near Ilminster, Somerset, has announced that the latest versions of the Bulkflo Mk. 3 and...

New Yorks with 'two-way stretch'

• A new range of semi-trailers designed to permit operators to take immediate advantage of changes in weight limits which may...

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Road and workshop by Handyman

Loads and forces (28) • It may seem only a few short years since the "twenty plate" when it was a powerful eight-wheeler that...

D900 uprated

• UK plated gross weight rating of the new Fo D900 models has been raised to 14 tons ficv% achieving common ratings between...

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Driving the Metro-Scania

by A. J. P. Wilding, MIMechE, MIRTE • Within the next week or so the first two prototype Metro-Scania .single-deck buses will...

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How UTO keeps them running

. . . for half a million arduous African miles by P. A. C. BROCKINGTON, MIMechE "ALWAYS something new out of Africa' wrote...

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Simple sums on braking road transfer

OF ALL the phenomena relating to braking performance, load transfer during an emergency stop has assumed the greatest...

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Bird's eye view

*Mists of time Few Northern transport men would disagree with the description of the Irish Sea as the cradle of unitization in...

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Container Convolution

by Ashley Taylor, AMI RTE AssocinstT FOR some people the container revolution is an accepted fact, for others the container is...

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by David Lowe

Year Book updated A USEFUL book containing much valuable information for the container operator is published this month. The...

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15. First steps in budgetary control the vehicle budget

SO FAR we have been dealing with historical costs from which the cost analyst prepared a trading /profit forecast for a period...

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Battling with the Board

WE are in violent disagreement with the Road Transport Industry Training Board, which was set up under the Industrial Training...

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Janus comments

Keeping ahead of Jones PART of the lure of the Western lies in the • pursuit of the heroine or some other vulnerable character...

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Transport and warehousing: some current problems

Should warehousing associations combine? How disastrous has the Dock Labour Scheme been? Have warehousemen had a fair return...

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DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

For the next seven days from November 28— D ecember 4 FRIDAY: loTA (Devon and Cornwall) annual dinner and dance. Dingle's...

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/ have heard that there are some new regulations concerning level crossings. Could you tell me what they are?

A The regulation to which you refer is the one which will make it an offence (to be included in the totting up system leading...

Q / shall soon be carrying boats to the

Continent with a lorry and trailer outfit, using a long-wheelbase vehicle. From the rear of the cab to the drawbar is 25 ft....

Q In the past couple of months you have

featured in your pages a means of testing the weight of axles single-handed. Now! cannot trace this item. Could you supply me...

I sell greengrocery and some other foods from a van

on house-to-house delivery. I have been told that! must comply with the food hygiene rules. What are they and where can! find...

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The road passenger pause is only temporary

IN ALL the far-reaching developments in training and education for road haulage, especially management training, it is all too...

Speed limits (3)

VEHICLES being used for fire brigade, ambulance or police purposes are exempt from speed limits but only if the observance of...

NEW COMPANIES

Thomas Orton arid San Ltd. Cap.: /100. Objects: To carry on the business as haulage contractors, etc. Dirs.: T, Orion, J. T....

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Towing eyes

Towing eyes of all sizes and with all shank designs, are now being offered by Neate Brake Controls. This range has capacities...

Vehicle lift

From Gerni (Cleaning Equipment) comes a new, fully portable hydraulic vehicle lift. The Autolift will raise light vehicles on...

Portable space heaters

Two portable space heaters added to the Stenor range of garage equipment incorporate original features to give instant,...

Degreasant

An Alexander Duckham degreasant called Adkerner 99, to facilitate the thorough cleaning of engines and chassis, should be...

Gauge protection valve

A gauge protection valve introduced by Hale, Hamilton (Valves), provides adequate protection for expensive test gauges and...

Spray guns

A new range of spray guns from Motivair Compressors Ltd. covers four basic models. Model PSI is a pressure or syphon-feed gun...

Vehicle cleaner Smith Bros., and Webb Ltd., who introduced the

Britannia range of Vehicle Emaculators in July 1968 now — offer their Britannia "Up-and-Over machine for cleaning front, roof...

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Lighting switchboard

A 12 switch model p.s.v. lighting switchboard—type 482--being introduced by CAV will be fitted with thermal circuit breakers....

Hydraulic motor

Chamberlain Industries now have a larger model in the Staffa Range of hydraulic motors. Known as the B45, it follows the same...

Odour control

A note for hauliers shipping livestock to the Continent who have received complaints about the smell! Alamask 520 A-X. It is...

Adhesives

Six adhesives—between them suitable for bonding virtually every plastics materials in common use—have been introduced by the 3M...

Service tool

The Narco Revolver, a handy service tool with six tool stations, can be curried on the hip in its leather holster, can cope...

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Quite a number of years ago I was piloting a

then quite elderly sixwheeler mounted on 14.50-20 giant tyres over Trent Bridge, Nottingham, when there was an explosion and...

Blind fasteners

A versatile and reliable blind fastener, suitable for attaching metal to metal or wood, wood to wood or plastics and metal to...

Tyre retreading

From the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co comes a new material for the tyre retreading industry. It is a nail-hole repair material,...

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r service gauge

air-brake-service-line gauge n V. L. Churchill offers a ;k, simple means of testing pressures at the connections ween tractive...

utsert tool

and tool for placing kin. and diameter Nutsert threaded ,rts has been introduced by lel. Known as the Type 7481 id tool, it is...

Lorry loader

A high lorry loader with a modest price. the Telehoist Foco 150, is available in two models. The 150XX has a double extension...

Hand lamp

From Fisher Controls comes a new hand lamp which withstands hard knocks without breaking and has a rated tube life of 5,000hr....

Grease nipples

Metric grease nipples from Tecalemit supplement its existing range. The new nipples include straight, 90deg, 67 deg and 45deg...

Diesel injectors

Full injector component identification is a feature of the Red Plus injector application booklet issued by Globe and Simpson,...