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More expertise, please

T rTHERE are still far too few professional transport 1 men in local government circles. For a field which normally sets great...

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Forecast : 2 p.c. training levy

N . interim Road Transport Industry Training Board levy of 0.5 per cent of a firm's payroll by the end of the year was forecast...

Townsend fleet grows to meet freight demand

By IA/IV SHERRIFF TOWNSEND Ferries Ltd. augments its I existing fleet of three vessels at the end of July when the Royal...

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BATTLE IS JOINED: UNIT LOADS OR CONTAINERS?

D ELEGATES from all parts of the world attended the eighth technical conference of the International Cargo Handling...

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m FREIGHTLINER CONTRACT

FIVE - YEAR contract worth ffm. was signed this week between British Railways and William Donald and Son Ltd., of Aberdeen,...

Public utilities men triumph

B y lain Sherriff F we had "rigged" the LDOY results at the Edinburgh round last Sunday they could we have been more...

BIG TANKERS FOR SHELL

F IVE 32-ton-gross spirit/kerosene tankers measuring 40ft. 3in. long and 10ft. 10in, high have been ordered by Shell-Mex and...

CM LOOKS BACK ON THE ROAD TEST YEAR

J T'S time for reflection.. .. " Time to look back on 12 months of road tests and to make comparisons. Which is exactly what...

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Mobile warehouses for crisps

CINE million packets of crisps can be handled by 12 York Freightmaster trailer vans introduced by the Golden Wonder Crisp Co....

HELP HAULIERS, URGES HIGHLANDS BOARD

R OAD haulage holds the key to better and more economic freight services in the Highlands of Scotland—but already the industry...

LORRY PARKS EXPERIMENT

A NEW company, Stockport Lorry Parks Ltd., has been formed by RHA members in Manchester. Its secretary is Mr. W. H. Farnorth,...

Foreign hauliers complain

SECTION II of IRU has agreed that the TIR should be made available to containers travelling road/sea/road from Great Britain to...

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'DANGER? NOT IN MY POSITION'

POLICE CONSTABLE N. Routledge told Perth magistrates that a load of hay on a lorry was distributed in such a way that danger...

A CONFERENCE NOT TO BE MISSED!

HE THEME of Efficiency in Transport chosen for COMMERCIAL MOTOR'S Fleet Management Conference in Harrogate I on September 21...

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Tipper men assured of more business from big limeworks

B LENCOWE Lime Co. Ltd., Penrith, was granted 15 new B licences in Carlisle on Tuesday for tippers to carry concrete products...

CARRIAGE FOR SUBSIDIARIES REASONABLE WITHIN LIMITS

RE was no reason why the vehicles of a parent company should not carry traffic of r associated businesses within limits, even...

B RS vehicles available

AT the end of a resumed hearing in Shef field last week the deputy Yorkshire LA, Mr. A. Gosnay, refused to allow five vehicles...

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'BUSINESS HAS SNOWBALLED'

M PIERRE GOLIEZ, director • general of the company, came from Paris to support an application by Cawthorn and Sinclair (France)...

A MATTER OF MINUTES

G. HOWLETT AND SON (QUORN) last week asked the East Midland Traffic Commissioners to vary the times of a bus on its...

20 Miles Becomes Any Destination

AN application by Bullens Organization Ltd. to consolidate on renewal two A licences covering 41 vehicles and a B licence...

Council fights Midland Red cuts

AN application by Midland Red to "marry" "two services on its Leicester to Branstone routes, and to reduce their frequency, was...

WALLACE ARNOLD APPEAL FAILS

THE MINISTER of Transport has turned down an appeal by Wallace Arnold Tours Ltd., Leeds, against a decision of the Traffic C...

WEIGHBRIDGE PROBE

A MINISTRY probe instigated by Northern LA Mr. John Hanlon has begun into hauliers' complaints that six Cumberland weighbridges...

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BASES: FRANKNESS PAYS

But what exactly IS an 'operating centre'? B RITISH Railways, like the British Government, have discovered that it is easier...

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'Tell the public about threat

of Transport Authorities' By Derek Moses A N admission that the passenger transport industry failed to get its message over to...

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FLEET OF NEW SEDDONS

A FLEET of 23 Seddon Pennine buses is being built for the Corporation of Hamilton, Bermuda. The chassis is the Mk III 13 ft....

FARES BID LEADS TO TALKS

rri E Yorkshire Traffic Commissioners at Leeds last week adjourned an application for a i fares increase by Yorkshire Woollen...

Banners wave —but Ribble gets increase

DESPITE banner-waving pickets demonstrating outside the courts in Carlisle on Wednesday morning, the Northern Traffic...

TOO SHORT OR TOO LONG, SO...

W. ALEXANDER AND SONS was last week. in Glasgow granted permission by the Scottish Traffic Commissioners to improve its holiday...

AIRPORT BUS PLEA

LIVERPOOL Chamber of Commerce air transport committee is to ask the Ribble and Crosville bus companies if they are interested...

PTA 1968 CONFERENCE

THE 23rd annual conference of the Public Transport Association will be held in Harrogate on May 21-23, 1968.

FARE CUTS IN EXPERIMENT

THE Western National Omnibus Co. Ltd. and the Southern National have undertaken to reduce fares on a selected route in an...

'HOW TO LOSE PASSENGERS'

NCREASED bus fares and poor service were forcing people to buy cars, declared Mr. John Rumble at Devizes (Wilts.) Trades...

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Coach tours bring £2m. a year to Scotland, survey reveals

OACH tours are now worth £2m. a year to the Scottish tourist trade, according to a survey conducted by the Scottish Tourist...

D. Lloyd Jones has been appointed chairman of United Transport

Overseas Ltd., a subsidiary of United Transport Co. Ltd., in succession to John H. Watts who remains on the board in the...

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Now—a trenching unit for Mercedes-Benz Unimog

Y ET another application for the versatile Mercedes-Benz Unimog range was demonstrated on the site of the new St. Paul's School...

VARIOMATIC VANS FOR SWEDEN

A THOUSAND mail vans like this are being built for the Swedish Post Office by the Swedish company Kalmar Verkstads Ab. They...

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IT'S BRITAIN'S BIGGEST

New bulk refuse' compaction trailer T TIRE largest bulk refuse compaction trailer in Britain will be shown publicly for the...

DUSTLESS LOADING APPROVED

POLES PICK PERKINS POLISH-MADE buses and lorries shown at the International Poznan Fair in July will be powered by Perkins...

BR EXTENDS CONTAINER GRID

By John Darker ft Container brochure British Rail and the Marine Container Revolution stresses that containerization will...

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Commer 8-tonners plated for 18 tons gross

C OMMER 8-tonner models converted to twin steer chassis by Primrose Third Axle Co. Ltd. are now being plated for 18 tons gross...

SMMT EXTENDS ITS MATCHING SCHEME

THE SMMT has extended its proposed scheme for the ready identification of matched tractive units and semi-trailers, The...

10 p.c. DROP IN PRODUCTION

PRODUCTION of commercial vehicles averaged 8,162 a week in April, almost 10 per cent lower than in April 1966. Allowing for...

Know-how 27: Preventive maintenance (12) 'Shift of manpower'

TITTLE mention has really been made of 1–d the application of labour to the changing pattern of the maintenance and repair...

CUT-BACK IN DEMAND FOR CONVERSIONS

VICKERS-ARMSTRONGS ONIONS, Bilston, built up its rate of all-wheel-drive vehicle conversions during the first nine months of...

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`I believe that the whole concept of CTAs as subsidized

operating organizations is really the result of escapism, the wish to avoid the politically unpopular action of controlling the...

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Water trap

A LARGER version of the Hardwood water trap made by Plough (Contracts) Ltd. is now available, specially designed for diesel...

Powered landing gear

° ERATING on the air-over-hydraulic principle, a powered landing gear known as Power Gear has been developed by Highway...

Multigrade oils

DETAINING 10W/30 grade and replacing 10W/40 with Havoline 10W/50 oil, Regent Oil claims to have a full range of multigrade oils...

Electro-hydraulic jack

AMONG the many items of tyre servicing I - 1 equipment distributed by Grantham Machinery Co. Ltd. is an electro-hydraulic jack...

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Bird's Eye

v levy BY THE HAWK Working Showpiece B ACK went the clock at a spankin g trot in Leeds when thi s newly built horse-drawn...

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NEW PATTERNS IN PUBLIC CLEANSING

ALTHOUGH there are unlikely to be any ri signs of a revolution in public cleansing at the IPC Conference in Blackpool next...

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Advanced thinking in Paris

Reflections on the Mechanical Handling Exhibition by John Darker, AMBIN T HE Paris Mechanical Handling exhibition last week...

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20th-CENTURY HIGHWAYMAN

W HETHER Dick Turpin and Claud Duval were held in esteem in their lifetime is not certain. Since their death they have become...

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Sped! -purpose Land-Rovers

N O fewer than 14 Electricity Boards in addition to the GPO and many regions of the Central Electricity Generating Board were...

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EMERGENCY BRIGADE

T HERE was a time when fire brigade duties were confined almost entirely to fire-fighting. This, of course, is still the...

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SIMPLICITY .

1111 THE SEGAS SYSTEM T HE South Eastern Gas Board operates a fleet of more than 1,400 licensed vehicles over an area of...

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NEW PATTERNS IN PUBLIC CLEANSING . . . continued from page 63

SHELVOKE AND DREWRY LTD. A 60 CU. YD. Pakamatic collector will be available, also 35 cu. yd. and 50 cu. yd. models in the same...

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Can we afford our cleansing and fire services?

BY IAIN SHERRIFF, MITA vOLLOWING the recent swing of the political pendulum in the local authority elections there is little...

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CLEANER THAN CLEAN

ALTHOUGH refuse collection vehicles start with something of a handicap so far as cleanliness is concerned the City of...

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AEC Mercury/Scammel

!4-ton-gross artic O NE of the things that caught most people in the transport industry by surprise when the latest...

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WHAT' ONE MORE PROBLEM?

How teamwork solved the task of coping with the mammonth GLC fleet R OAD transport engineers, like other normal individuals,...

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Q What is the correct driving procedure at roundabouts?

A The Ministry of Transport advises that;- Unless the approach road and the roundabout itself are clear, or local conditions or...

Q How long in advance can I apply to my local council for renewal of my motor vehicle licence?

A As from May 18 the period has now been limited to 14 days before the renewed licence is to have effect. This, incidentally,...

n am one of about 120 people who

make the same journey to work of around 28 miles by car at considerable expense in total operating costs. As an alternative...

Q Although I operate only a small fleet of vehicles would

it be worth my while to buy and store my diesel oil in bulk? A However small the daily or weekly con sumption of fuel might...

Q What is the International Road Faders' don and where is it situated?

A This federation was founded in 1948 to encourage the development and improvement of highways and highway transportation and...

Q Can you provide information as to the cost of operating p.s. vehicles when fitted with either petrol or diesel engine?

A In Tables 7 and 8 of the COMMERCIAL MOTOR Tables of Operating Costs, details of the operating costs of 15 differing types of...

n How will the new regulations affect my Thames Trader

tipper? It is a 1964 7i-tonner with an unladen weight of 4 tons 5 cwt., 6 cu yd body, eight-stud wheels with 900 x 20 tyres and...

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Public service and transport cost

With the widening scope of public services must inevitably be linked greater demands for road transport in many forms. S...

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THE COMMON ROOM Combined operations in road transport education : How?

rr HE desirability of combination between the various providers I of road transport education and training has been strongly...

MONEY MATTERS by Martin Younger

Interim profit reflects continued progress by Dennis Bros. D ENNIS Bros. Ltd. continued to make progress during the first six...