T HE campaign against road transport continues. The latest attack came in a Lords debate (reported last week). Lord Lucas said...

U RGENT consultations were taking place within the Ministry of Transport in an endeavour to bring British standards into line...

S PEAKING at the Central London SubArea Banquet and Ball of the Road Haulage Association on Friday, Mr. G. K. Newman,...

T HE national chairman of the Road Haulage Association, Mr. D. 0. Good, speaking at the annual dinner of the Association's...

A GUARANTEED working week of I -1 40 hours, reduced from 42 hours, has been agreed by Schweppes Ltd. and Pease Transport Ltd.,...

QPEAKING on "Continental Opera tion " to a meeting of C-licensees in Birmingham on Wednesday, Mr. G. Turvey, assistant...

S 0 many factors influence the rate of deterioration of oil in an engine that it is not possible to quote mileages at which oil...

Community on Monday, in Paris, decided to suspend the application to transport of the regulation relating to notification of...

by the motor industry to the questions of noise and atmospheric pollution. Work was also being carried out on matters such as...

A JOINT oil pipeline project company is being formed by Esso, Mobil, Petrofina. Regent and Shell-Mex and B.P. which, subject to...

FROM OUR POLITiCAL. CORRESPONDENT T HE movement of dangerous goods by road, under consideration by the Ministry of Transport...

FEWER bus drivers were killed last year than any other type of driver, and only moped riders beat goods vehicle drivers in low...

whole of Greater London--the Greater London Council—is proposed by the Government in its Bill to reorganize the Metropolitan...

otiowiNG the appointments of Sir Philip Warter as part-time chairman of the Transport Holding Company and • Sir Reginald Wilson...

NfiR. MARPLES last week refused to 1 1 ' 1 give an assurance that the controversial lorry route into London from the north...

A TWO-MONTHS gap when no return I - 1 loads of grain from England to Scotland are available was the basis for an application...

he continued on a limited scate. Following two earlier hearings, when the liquidators asked for continuation of licences, to...

A LIVERPOOL man who claimed that he sold his haulage business to another firm was told by the Transport Tribunal in London on...

"flex-beam anti-crash barrier" are to go up on Ml. Mr. Marples said in the Commons last week that he hoped to authorize the...

HE Transport Tribunal on Wednesday upheld two appeals by the B.T.C. In the first, against the Western' deputy Licensing...

F . EARS that new Continental camping might eventually develop into an express service between Lancashire and Dover were given...

n i LDBURY TRANSPORT LTD. asked ‘.-th c West Midland Licensin g A t ithority • last Week for 12 new A licences. It was stated...

ik AR. W. QUIN, Scottish Licensin g 1V1. Authority, reserved decision in the John Russell (Gran g emouth) Ltd. application for...

A N application to the Metropolitan Licensin g Authority by Gava g an Transport Ltd., haulier -based at Greenford, was...

APPLICATION A FORETASTE OF THINGS TO COME T HE usual contest between British Railways and road operators, that has become such...

B y far the largest application from this week's " As and Ds" is published in the South Eastern area' in the form of a contract...

lkyr. RONALD JACKSON, South M Wales Licensing Authority, told the head of a Yorkshire haulier firm in Cardiff last week that he...

1 John L. Young, objected at Glasgow last Week to an application by B.R.S. (Pickfords). Ltd., London, to add one vehicle to...

B ARRHEAD Town Council objected. last week to applications by McGill's Bus Service Ltd. to continue without modification its...

Author' ity, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, has been quick to act on the recent High Court ruling, in the appeal of R. M. Hawksworth and...

ri A TWENTY years old Birmingham Corporation bus conductor with a talent for art was so fed up with being ribbed by his mates...

of the Traffic Commissioners and deputy Licensing Authority for the Scottish Traffic Area in succession to Mr. Ivo Townsend,...

AORE than 120 local authorities in IVI Lancashire, Westmorland, Cumberland and the West Riding of Yorkshire have been asked by...

FROM OUR INDUSTRIAL CORRESPONDENT TTIE executive of the Transport and I General Workers' Union will be asked next week to...

A T a meeting of the Bradford City Council held last week, queries were raised on the resolution of the transport committee to...

'THE Scottish Omnibuses Group fleet replacement programme for 1963 will involve the expenditure of £ the same figure as last...

QEVENTY-EIGHT bus drivers )--) employed by the North Western Road Car Co. at Altrincham, Biddulph, Buxton, Glossop,...

MITTEE, and the A.E.U. are at deadlock over a refusal by the Union to sign a bonus agreement covering terms of employment of...

bus and Underground workers was opened at Charing Cross Underground Station recently. The collection of oil paintings, water...

T HE net surplus from the operation of . bus services obtained by Halifax Corporation for the year ended March 31, 1962. was -...

THERE was a general drop in the 1 registration of new commercial vehicles in August as compared with the figure for the...

ra Monday at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, by the British Motor Corporation for the production of the Corporation's...

DY incorporating a number of altera. tions in the design, the Cram FruehaufS.2 Fleetleader 1,6/17-ton tandern-axie...

road users at six points in Edinburgh, giving the Highways Committee added information on the value of the device for wider...

YV months on a £4 m., 250,000 sq. fl . extension to Vauxhall Motors' new Elles mere Port factory, it was announced las week at...

mercial vehicles over the first half of the current year were of some 7,851, or -some 24.7 per cent more than the total of...

I - NETAILED stuyeys of transport availability, travel needs and actual travelling are to be carried out as soon as staff are...

T HE trading profit of Dennis Brothers Ltd. for the year ended September 30, 1962, was £205,134, an increase on last year's...

HELPING MUSHROOMS GROW: Twenty-six Albion Chieftain Super Six lorries. worth £50.000, have been ordered by Royal Ascot...

the Turin Motor Show two years ago, is being offered on the international market. Aerfer claims that its price is considerably...

Safety Belts: Glasgow Corporation Accident Prevention Committee is proposing that safety belts should be installed to the front...

Twickenham Borough Council invites tenders by December 11 for supply of one Dennis gullyemptier, one Thames Trader 3-ton...

A S a resplt of its appointment as U.K. selling agent for Graco Geneva S.A. (the parent company is Gray Company Inc.,...

T O OBTAIN soft springing in the unloaded condition is one of the aims of an all-rubber suspension scheme shown in patent No....

A: THOUGH designed specifically to discuss the problems involved in the transport of engineering goods to Europe t a conference...

REARING in mind the considerable care generally taken "in getting correct sound effects for television and radio items, some of...

"As From Tomorrow" B RISTOL INDUSTRIES LTD., explained Mr. Russell, managing director of Western Transport Ltd., was taken...

A FLEET of 20 special snowploughing and salt-spreading vehicles is now being produced by Atkinson Vehicles Ltd., for use on...

I T is interesting to compare problems associated with the transport of the main structure of a large press, weighing up tO 100...

Because the washers are 'finished in vitreous enamel, they. are very easily damaged, and internal fittings have been provided...

A GOOD example of the futility of any attempt to equate road and rail track costs was given by Lord Stonham in the House of...

T HE operation of a bus or lorry fleet is a down-to-earth business, and, whilst the private owner of a car can indulge his...

It is difficult to evaluate intangible benefits, but the aispension and brake systems are both features which Mr. 3tooke...

I N The Commercial Motor of November 2 I was very interested to read about the railway losses in Northern Ireland. You point...

Expansion of small and efficient haulage businesses can bring difficulties if adequate control is not maintained I NSUFFICIENT...