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VOL. 113 JUNE 30, 1961 No. 2915 Pat for the 111.31.B.

T HE example of the Milk Marketing Board in their dealings with hauliers engaged in the bulk collection of milk from farms...

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Men Who Make Transport

Jame )errick Slater T ‘ 4 HE boy—what will he become?" that catchphrase of years ago has been echoing through my mind. though...

Premium on Road Safety

C ANNOT Mr. Marples put a bit of friendly pressure on k--ihis colleague, Mr. Peter Thorneycroft, who, as Minister of Aviation,...

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Mr. Marples an Awkward Problem

From our Parliamentary Correspondent E drafting of regulations controlling the movement of vehicles with long and projecting...

Awkward Loads Set Goods Vehicles Banned

From Going Through a City G DODS vehicles exceeding three tons unladen weight are now banned from using certain roads in...

Action Soon About Vehicle Noise ?

THERE was good reason to believe 1 that the Minister of Transport would act to bring into effect anti-noise legislation, Mr. D....

Edwards Vehicles Transferred

A N application by Contract Hire (Bath), Ltd., to take over five Alicensed vehicles from Edwards Transport (Frome), Ltd., who...

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British Conversion For German Makes

A FTER extensive investigations of York third-axle conversions three important German vehicle manufacturers —Krupp,...

The Passenger Insurance Bill is Dead

FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT T HE Motor Vehicles (Passenger Insurance) Bill met its expected end in the Commons last...

Vehicles Licensed in West Came Into South Wales, Tribunal Told

F OUR South Wales hauliers objected, on appeal to the Tribunal, to a decision of the Western Licensing Authority granting an...

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Men in The News

Mr. H. J. Northeast, general sales manager of Dunlop Chemical Products Division, Birmingham, has been elected chairman of the...

Nicholls of Brighton Taken Over

A FLEET of over 700 vehicles figured in a take-over bid last week. It was the haulage company of Nicholls and Co. (Brighton),...

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Perkins-Wankel Agreement

A N agreement has been signed under the terms of which F. Perkins, Ltd., may manufacture NSU-Wankel rotary engines under...

No Haulier Objections

LOYDS TRANSPORT AND WARE1 ---1 HOUSING (MANCHESTER), LTD., appealed to the Tribunal against a decision of the deputy North...

No Double-deckers for Express Service

A THIRD attempt to get permission to operate double-deck buses on express camp services by Silver Star Motor Services, Ltd., of...

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Flat Fares "Impracticable" Midland " Red " Increases

Granted A PROPOSAL that a flat rate per mile be introduced on bus routes as "the only answer " to increasing fares was put...

111.P.s Attack Decline in Rural Bus Services

From Our Political Correspondent IN an attempt to prod the Government 1 into helping country bus services, Mr. Rupert Speir...

M OST of the fares increases applied for by the Midland

" Red" company fast week have been granted by the East and West Midland Traffic Commissioners. The increases include a rise in...

York Introduce

Interchangeable Coupling THE York Trailer Co., Ltd., announced last week the intro' duction of a new Corm of interchangeable...

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Haulier Told He Must Begin Again

D EFUSING to grant an appeal by Taylor's Transport, of Bacup, Lancs, the chairman of the Transport Tribunal, Sir Hubert Hull,...

Transport Tribunal Decisions

London Fish Merchants Win 14-vehicle Appeal I N London on Monday, the 'transport Tribunal granted the London Wholesale Fish...

C-switch 'Fight Unsuccessful,

A N appeal by Griffiths Contractors. Ltd., against the refusal of the South Eastern Licensing Authority to grant A licences for...

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Two Big Coal Tippers for Western Concern

A N application by C. W. Jones (Fuel and Haulage), Ltd., of Sherborne, Dorset, to vary their A licence by adding four tippers...

April Registration Figures

O VER the past few months, the total registrations of new commercial vehicles in this country have fluctuated a great deal...

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Plastics in Haulage

THERE was little emphasis by I exhibitors at this week's International Plastics Exhibition on automobile applications of the...

Big Increase in Bulk Transport

rARMANS TRANSPORT, LTD.. Scholar Green, Stoke-on-Trent, were partially successful at Macclesfield last week when they asked the...

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"Air Transport Cannot Replace Road Transport"

T HERE is little prospect of air transport superseding road transport within the foreseeable future, according to Mr. J. H. H....

The Duke and Diesel Fumes

"THEN there is the question of diesel smoke, which I am sure is shortening my life." The Duke of Edinburgh said this at a lunch...

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THE Ministry of Transport is to see I what the

thinking of other countries is before it considers whether to enforce a reduction in the intensity of rear direction...

Taking the Sting Out False Economy to Cut Roads of Tail Lights Programme, say M.P.s

From our Parliamentary Correspondent I F the cuts in public spending implied during last week's speeches by the Chancellor of...

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BULK

Slow Progress Whose Fault? A Complex Mixture of Problems Involving Both Farmer and Merchant Appear to be Behind the...

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OLD ROUTINE

O NE important point may not receive even a reference during the deliberations of the Road Haulage Wages Council next week,...

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" E know most of our cus tomers by their

Christian names and are organized to accept their instructions from 7 a.m. to 10.30 p.m. daily." In these words Mr. W. L...

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Big Progress in Bulk Mil

1 ,ollection by P. A. C. Brockington, A.M.I.Mech.E. W HILST relatively few of the milk tankers seen on the roads today are...

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New Equipment and Publications

Wide Range of • Steel Buildings T HE range of standard steel framed buildings made by Sanders and Forster, Ltd., of Barking,...

Novel Adjustable Spanner rt A NEW adjustable spanner has been introduced

by Rupert and Co., Ltd., Demmings Road, Cheadle, Cheshire. The spanner works on a locking wedge principle, without either screw...

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Moving 709 Million Litt11 Lions

By Ashley Taylor, Assoc.Inst.T. F ROM thousands of farms in the six counties of Northern Ireland hundreds of millions of eggs...

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Cattle Truck Get a Quick Turn-round

By A. C. Brockington, S INCE the old Gloucester Corporation cattle market in Market Parade was closed down in October, 1958,...

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Some Interest for Hauliers at Royal Show

pRELIMINARY information on I exhibits at the Royal Show, which is to .be held at Cambridge from Tuesday to Friday next week,...

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Hot Competition at Southend

Holiday Crowds Watch Lorry Driver Heat nRGANIZATION was the secret of success at Southend last Sunday where, in almost...

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Giving the Farmer What He Wants

By C. S. Dunbar, M.Inst.T. W ORCESTERSHIRE FARMERS, LTD., exists primarily to supply its .members with all their business...

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Commer Van as Livestock Carrier

A NOTABLE example of a small r - k standard van being .successfully converted to the carriage of livestock is provided by a...

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Exacting but Expanding

A GRICULTURAL net output continues to increase—and with it the, demand for transport services. Although last year output...

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Power Steering Control Valve

IMPROVEMENTS in valves controlling I the pressure fluid in a powered steering system form the subject of patent No. 865,759....