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2nd May 1969
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Exclusive interview OR

P1 fR f. Landon Managing Director H , t11 01 Taunton Pleat Haulage Limited In a recent interview with Mr. Langdon, he...

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Rolls-Royce diesels V The rest

How do Eagle Diesels make out against the competition? Which diesels are the best buy? PERFORMANCE FIGURES for broadly...

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Time to call a halt

Just about every 10 miles that a heavy goods vehicle travels costs 4s bd in fuel tax alone, and the total fuel tax and excise...

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TML proposals to Minister next week?..

lain Sherriff • The Transport Managers' Licence Committee meets this afternoon (Friday) for the 15th and whq could be the last...

First plating and testing case in the North

• The first plating and testing prosecution in the Northern Traffic area was brought by the Ministry of Transport At Sunderland...

Only one Trade plate

• There will be only one Trade Vehicle licence from January 1 1970. The Finance Bill, which gives effect to the Budget...

Merger of the Institutes nearer

• There has been encouraging support for the proposal that the four professional bodies in road transport should adopt a common...

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Shocks in store, says Marsh

• It would be nonsense to pretend that Licensing Authorities would be able to make a thorough check on every operators' licence...

Tyneside Socialists boycott PTA protest

• All 34 Labour members boycotted a special meeting of Newcastle City Council on Monday which agreed to ask the Transport...

• • • • • : 'Dissolve this PTA', • • .• PVOA urges Marsh • •

•• A fetter of protest against the recent : developments in the Tyneside PTA was • sent to the Minister of Transport by the :...

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FTA Conference in Edinburgh

' Dropping tachographs will lead to nonsenses' • From questions put by some of the 260 delegates who attended in Edinburgh...

loW champion

• Mr. G. Cotton, of Hooper and Ashby, is the 1969 Isle of Wight Lorry Driving Champion. He won the title on Sunday at Newport...

Emergency link-up

• A bilingual staff began operating a 24hour repair service at Romford which was opened last week by R. Crawford Transport Ltd....

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The right brew

by Ron Cater • Overall winner at Sunday's St. Austell Lorry Driver of the Year eliminating round—C. Croft, driving a Ford...

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Towards a national pallet pool

• The background to the seminar, "the pallet pool and you," arranged by the Institute of Materials Handling in London on...

BR building up wagon loads

• British Railways are to pursue their policy of encouraging wagon load traffic. Sir Henry Johnson, the Board's chairman, gave...

GPO's batteryelectrics

• The GPO has placed contracts for 10 battery-electric vehicles to be used as mail vans, the first going into service in three...

Ground-level low-loader

• NCV of Nottingham Ltd. has adapted a ground-level-loading articulated trailer made by Becorit (Engineering) Ltd. to produce a...

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High Court directs haulier's conviction

• Three High Court judges ruled on Friday that there was no evidence sufficient for magistrates sitting at Leeds on May 7 of...

Perkins in Turkey

• A new plant in Turkey designed to produce 50,000 Perkins diesel engines a year is scheduled to start operations by the end of...

Exports to Sudan

• Rootes have signed a £2 !m contract with the government of Sudan to supply nearly 2,000 cars and commercial vehicles....

BLMC abroad

• BLMC has secured contracts worth £6m for the supply of nearly 2,000 Leyland trucks and buses to South Afica. This week B LMC...

Training in Wales

• A school for the training of drivers and mechanics employed by haulage firms in the mid-Glamorgan area is planned by the...

New ITA president

• The Industrial Transport Association has invited Lord St. Helens to become its new president. His Lordship was formerly Mr....

Italian frontier delays

• Prospects of an improvement in the licensing procedures for road haulage between Britain and Italy were held out by an...

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LTB plans new automatic fare collection experiments

• An impending experiment with new types of automatic fare collection is planned by London Transport,. revealed Mr. Roy D....

Skopje orders more Worldmasters

• Skopje Municipality placed an order at the Belgrade Show for 30 Leyland Worldmaster single-deck buses. The 100-passenger...

SR PTA Conference

• The 1970 annual conference of the Scottish Road Passenger Transport Association will be at Aviemore from April 21 - 24.

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Will GLC control its transport finances?

from our Parliamentary correspondent • Tory suggestions that the Greater London Council would not have control over its capital...

38th UITP Congress opens in London

• The management organization of metropolitan railways and a study of new systems of public transport, such as conveyor belts...

New g.m. appointment rejected

• The finance committee of the City and County of Newcastle upon Tyne rejected on Monday the recommendation of the highways,...

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No 'cramping conditions'

• The Metropolitan LA, Mr. D.I.R. Muir, has granted to Wright and Co. {Kings Cross) Ltd. a variation to its B licence for the...

More short-term licences for M-way work

• The North Western deputy LA held another public inquiry in Manchester last week to hear further short-term licence...

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Yorkshire

APPLICATIONS April 23 1969 Colder Bros. (Hauliers) Ltd., Leeds, New A. lic.. 3 veh. (1440. Mainly cattle foods, glass bottles,...

North-Western

APPLICATIONS April 25 1969 W. NunsII and Sons Ltd., Manchester. A var., add. 1 art. (100. Mainly batteries, accumulators, and...

Northern

APPLICATIONS April 23 1969 The following applications are all conditioned: Excavated mats. for the construction of roads and...

Western

APPLICATIONS April 22 1969 T. S. Thomas and Sons (Lydney) Ltd., Lydney. New B ic., 1 art. (61 18c). Building and engineering...

West Midland

APPLICATIONS April 24 1969 W. Page (Bilston) Ltd., Bilston, A var., add. 1 veh. (410. G.g. within 200 miles. Storage and...

East Midland

APPLICATIONS April 23 1969 Anglo Danish Food Transport Ltd., Grimsby. New A IC., 6 art. (61* 10c). Danish agric. products...

South Wales

APPLICATIONS April 23 1969 London Welsh Haulage Ltd., Cardiff. A var.. add. 2 art. (30t). Fresh, frozen and chilled meat,...

Metropolitan

APPLICATIONS April 24 1969 L. H. Barnes (Haulage) Ltd., SW18. New B lic., 3 veh, (16t Se). Fruit and vegetables, within 40...

Poor standard of Scots garages

• There has been criticism by haulage operators in Scotland of the standard of workmanship by service garages which, they...

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Tanker replaces churns

• Gavin Bertram, of Mid Calder, was granted an additional 2,000gal milk tanker on A licence to operate within 35 miles radius...

Two appeal against grant: both fail

• In a written decision. the Minister of Transport has dismissed appeals by the British Railways Board and the Yorkshire-Torbay...

Lever's new engineer

Stanley Eaton has been appointed vehicle engineer for the transport. storage and distribution department of Lever Brothers and...

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Fifth-wheel from new company

• A new company called Slaven Transport Products has been formed with a factory at Chadwick 103/104, Astmoor Industrial Estate,...

Hands lightweight machinery carrier

• A lightweight machinery carrier and an improved version of the Hands /Neway air suspension were demonstrated by Hands...

Waste disposal

• To its fleet of 70 vehicles, Contract Gully Cleansing Ltd., Welwyn Garden City, has just added two new high-speed machines—...

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Newcomer to the fridge field

• A compressor and a thermostatically controlled electro-magnetic clutch are features of a new range of transport refrigeration...

Bulk tankers for Greece

• Two 400 Series bulk-powder pressure discharge tanks being built at the Wisbech factory of R. Murfitt Ltd. are destined for a...

Road Research reports

• Reports have now been published by the Road Research Laboratory on the effect on fuel consumptions of road and traffic...

Uniform selling price

• Under an export sales agreement between the Eaton Yale and Towne (UK) Ltd. transmission division and its sister division in...

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Road and workshop by Handyman

Combustibles and spontaneous heating Safe and unsafe storage (4) • Quite apart from solids and liquids that generate heat...

Vehicle mounted load-sensing device

by Ron Cater • Several attempts have been made to equip vehicles with built-in weighing devices to enable operators to avoid...

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BRITISH-BUILT

DIESELS STRIDE AHEAD by P. A. C. Brockington, M1MechE Any engine is a design compromise and heavy diesel engine makers in...

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Meet the chairmen of the new PTAs

1-Harry Sharp An exclusive interview with Ashley Taylor With nearly 30 years' experience of municipal transport, wide...

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Container Transport

OCL return to UK ARRANGEMENTS have been made with the British Transport Docks Board for OCL /ACT consortium container ships...

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ERFs on the Lawrence c Irobia troll

In tension-packed Jordan ERF overcome animosity, prejudice and price to break into a jealously guarded market by IAIN SHERRIFF,...

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Revolution coming in spores ystems?

COMPUTERS have already made their mark in the spares organizations of vehicle and component makers and it now seems certain...

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OPERATIONAL TRIALS „IliwG,HLIGHTS OF TEST YEAR

CONSIDERING that the Commercial Motor Show takes a big chunk out of the staff time available in the year for road testing and...

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Bird's eye view

by the Hawk *First ladies Are we going to see new pressure for the acceptance of women bus drivers? The thought occurs to me...

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• The East is full of promise for British makers

While Russia and USA seek naval supremacy in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, Britain is quickly establishing a...

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What's in the Alusuisse `M' Series for you?

Aluminium the weightsaver Why waste precious fuel and pay more tax pulling unnecessary weight around? Aluminium, because of...

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by a special correspondent

BUSES IN BOXES WHEREAS the exporting of complete cars does not represent serious transport problems, this is not the case...

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Military government builds double-decker

ALTHOUGH there may be a trend to move away from the use of the double-decker bus in this country, elsewhere in the...

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Janus comments

Rates cacophony EVEN after the Prices and Incomes Board has done its worst a surprising number of traders when approached by a...

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Shrewd guidance on management training

THE STRESS laid upon management training by the Road Transport Industry Training Board is well known. The great pains taken by...

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n have been running a petrol-engined

generator but with the rising cost of petrol I have considered converting it to Calor Gas fuel. Could you give me a comparison...

O . I understand that when operators'

licensing is introduced later this year, vehicles over 5 tons unladen or 16 tons gross will, unlike lighter vehicles, continue...

Ct I operate a fleet of light-delivery

vehicles equipped with diesel engines and the bearings of the engines of three vehicles failed, in each case after the vehicle...

Would you tell me what the letters TIR and ISO stand for?

A The initials TIR stand for Transportes Internationale Routiers and ISO stand for International Standards Organisation. TIR is...

CI Could you please clarify for me the regulations about marker boards on rearward projecting loads and long articulated vehicles?

A The position respecting rearward pro. jecting loads is as follows:— Projection exceeding 10ft: Police to be in formed, an...

n How do you arrive at a figure of .9

per cent interest on capital in your 1968 Tables of Operating Costs? A The interest figure is obtained by taking the current...

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Need for recovery vehicles

How well Mr. Jackson writes his letter, "Lifting-tackle need" (CM January 3). How well he describes the situation confronting...

European freight exchange

I note the proposal for a European freight exchange (CM March 21) with interest. I feel that it should be a "closed shop" for...

The first I would like to comment on your photograph

(CM April 4) of a Tamplin tipper mounted on an articulated cl - lassis for Batley Flour Mills Ltd. In fact we have the first...

Coaches at Blackpool

Referring to the article (CM April 18) regarding the Blackpool Rally, I would like to draw your attention to the fact that...

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Open University plans are disappointing

THE initial plans for the Open University due to begin operations in 1971 must be regarded as disappointing from the point of...

MEM

BY LES OLDRIDGE A.I.R.T.E., A.M.I.M.I. Driving licence disqualification SECTION 5 (1) of the Road Traffic Act 1962 states...

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Coach screen

A temporary windscreen for coaches from Humphrey Thompson Enterprises Ltd. can be installed within 10 min, with heaters and...

Tappet adjuster

From SPQR Engineering comes an interesting new tappet adjuster. Essentially a practical precision instrument for the motorist...

Pressure regulators

Two pressure regulators of +in. BSP are available from Martonair Ltd.. which are known as the RP 15-002 and the R PG 15-002,...

High-pressure washer

Sunray (Birmingham) Ltd.. manufacturer of cleaning and degreasing equipment and chemicals, has added a new model (the Mark...

Sander head

An addition to the range of Power Tools (Patents) Ltd. accessories, a new Super Sander head, is made of tough PVC and will...

Strip-off filter backing Soil-and-Strip is the name given to a

filter-media backing developed by Vokes Ltd. that absorbs and disposes of overspray in paint booths. It is used in conjunction...

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Plastics mud wings

Three-section mud wings of semi-rigid plastics material, known as Featherwing, are being produced by Boydell and Jacks Ltd. The...

Watercheck With today's high performance engines, it is important to

maintain the correct level of cooling water. Yet how many drivers check water level regularly? However, this allimportant...

Metal-filled paste

Quentsplass Standard Steel for use in repairs to machinery. sealing porosity and cracks in castings, etc., is now supplied in...

Self feeding hopper

A range of self-feeding hoppers for batch processes from Lodematic Ltd., enables the contents of mobile bins, drums, sacks, box...

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Decimal converter

Britain goes over to decimal currency in less than two years' time, and to ease the problems associated with decimal...

Jacks

A comprehensive range of British-made single-acting hydraulic extension jacks, with a maximum working pressure of 3.000Ib per...

Spray gun

A recently introduced largecapacity paint spray gun is now available in Britain for less than £10 as a result of a price...

KEEPING \, THEM RUNNING

\ with Ron Cater ../ Recovery—what a picture of expense and trouble the word conjurs up for the fleet engineer! The vehicle...

Sheeting

Winterbottom Products have improved and extended their Topspan range of PVC-coated nylon sheeting materials with the...

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Paper fire barrier

A fire-resistant paper that is also a good thermal insulator is produced by W. and R. Balston (Industrial) Ltd. It will...

Air hydraulic ram

A wheel-mounted, air-powered hydraulic jack of 50 tons lifting capacity has been introduced by the automotive division of the...

Inspection lamp

The latest addition to the watertight and vapourproof ACE inspection lamp range has a strongly built wire guard made from 10and...

Continental driving guide

Trico-Folberth Ltd, has brought out its 1969 edition Continental driving guide. The foldout guide, in pocket format for...

Spray cleaner

An aerosol cold-cleaner containing the ICI solvent, Arklone P, is now marketed by Automation Facilities Ltd. of Slough....

Catalogue

A catalogue published by V. L Churchill and Co. Ltd. lists the complete range of special service tools which the firm makes for...

Pressure regulator

Aerostyle Ltd. has produced a balanced pressure regulator, The B2T/D, that is used in conjunction with a Drainam attic...