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30th September 1966
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Computerized maintenance

Ti! E use of computers having been accepted—even only occasionally—for some transport administrative tasks such as scheduling...

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folvos on sale ;oon

JOLVO trucks are to be sold in this V country from next January. A new corn my, based in Glasgow, has been set up to :t as...

Ilaxaret trial iy Shell-Mex

HELL-MEX AND 13P LTD. are to apply the Dunlop Maxaret braking control to 12 of air Scammell tractors for operation through...

Lnti-hi-jack tips y police

EARLY one million pounds worth of goods were stolen in London last year from mmercial vehicles in nearly 50 cases of hi:king...

New breakdown aid scheme for C-licensees

Joint TRTA/MAA credit cards By S. Buckley, AssocInstT THE delay incurred through a breakdown is itself a serious matter for an...

TRTA wants A6 danger curb

THE Carlisle area committee of the TRTA northern division has written to Cumberland County Council expressing concern over the...

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Alan Law to fight BRS redundancies

T4JEGOTIATIONS are taking place this week between BRS and the Transport and General Workers' Union following the BRS...

Drivers' strike threatens transporter firms' existence

FROM A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT r E official strike of 649 transporter c i lrivers, ferry men and yard workers of the Longbridge...

50-vehicle takeover

BRMSH Vita Co. Ltd., of Middleton, chester, has acquired the balance of shams of the two transport companies of Vi Noble and...

Milk haulage charges raised

THE Scottish Milk Marketing Board increased the standard haulage charges gallon of' milk to meet general increase: transport...

Bridge brings congestion

TRANSFER of a substantial volume of trE• from A40 to A4 since the opening of Severn Bridge is blamed by hauliers for groN...

Shap Fell warning

A WARNING on the difficulties eneount on Shap Fell during the winter has gone from the Road Haulage Association to members....

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aymond to speak t RHA conference

KR. I. E. RAYMOND, chairman, FL British Railways Board, and Sir ginald Wilson, deputy chairman and maging director, Transport...

:arnets endangered y GV60 changes

'HE attention of the Ministry of Transport and the RHA has been drawn by Belgian Customs the full implications of Annex 4(t) of...

It cabs safety poll

CCIDENTS when tilt cabs have tilted while lorries were in motion have led the IA highways and vehicles committee to lect...

TRANSPORT DEBATE WILL LAUNCH TORY CONFERENCE

FROM OUR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT T HE Conservative Party is to open its 84th annual conference at Blackpool on October 12 with...

Makers blamed for GV9s

N EWS was given at the Transport Association luncheon in London on Tuesday by the chairman, Mr. F. L. lolly of Ackworth...

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Outwitting the weather for Twin aims of England's Mountain CBI inquiry

FROM OUR POLITICAL M otorway CORRESPONDENT A S revealed by Mr. John Davies, C D ELEGATES at the world meeting of the...

Probe may widen TRTA inspection

M ARKET research for the TRTA maintenance inspection scheme has started within a 25-mile radius of both Leeds and Manchester....

H Q move for

Normandy Ferries NORMANDY FERRIES is moving its Southampton headquarters to a new building, Queen's Park House, 2 Queen's...

£45,000 exhibit spearheads camparg

BRITAIN'S biggest-yet national camp against all accidents—" Stop Accidi Year"—will be launched on October 4 by Royal Society...

Driver gets £91 redundancy pay

ACOCKERMOUTH (Cumberland) man this week awarded .f91 10s. redunch payment at an Industrial Tribunal in Carl Mr. George Wharton,...

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ET provides problem

IR. J. ROSTRON, manager and engineer of Grimsby Cleethorpes Transport, has oiled to the Joint Transport Committee I the...

Ires increase sought

T a sitting of the Northern Area Traffic ' Commissioners, West Hartlepool Town 1ncil last week sought an all round increase a...

:andee ban r NJIC

LDERMAN John Rafferty, chairman of Leeds City Transport Committee, has losed that Leeds Corporation Transport iartment is to...

LICENCES REFUSED FOR TIPPERS, LOW LOADER

A RAPIDLY growing Basingstoke (Hants) plant hire firm would be unable to carry on business if it could not license its own...

r. Applicant fails to appear N TER a brief hearing in

London the deputy Metropolitan Licensing Authority last week dismissed an application in the absence of the applicant, Mr. J....

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Miles Druce Group supports A application

B EFORE the North Western deputy LA, Mr. A. H. Jolliffe, at Manchester last week, G. Sweeney Transport Ltd.. Rochdale, sought a...

Road haulage firm on 'trial'

A ROAD haulage firm was put on "trial" for three months by the Licensing Authority in Carlisle last week to see if it could...

'No such language' says LA

A N application from a Pakistani resident in London, which caused some confusion, and ended with the hearing being adjourned,...

LTB ONE-MAN DOUBLE-DECKERS

e t NE-MAN operation of double-deck buses will be introduced experimentally on London Transport's route 424...

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LA talks of 'pleasant interlude'

THE West Midlands Licensing Authority, Mr. John Else, made a grant in a takeover application heard in Birmingham on Tuesday...

Warders back bus service

MEMBERS of the staff of Gartree Prison, Leicestershire, gave evidence at a traffic court at Nottingham last week in support of...

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Mrs. Castle to push new policies for public transp

I T was no use regulating traffic flow and limiting car use unless there was something positive to put in its place, the...

1155,298 surplus

LEICESTER'S municipal bus undertaking showed a trading surplus of £155,298 for the year ended March 31 1966 according to the...

BET chiefs to study EYMS dispute

U NION officials and the management of East Yorkshire Motor Services met last week in an effort to settle the dispute over...

LTB tubeless experiments

AN interesting experiment now being staged by London Transport is the operation of 100 buses equipped with Firestone tubeless...

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Could you say that of your commercial vehicles?

The quote above is from Mr. T. Hewitt of Taunton Meat Haulage Limited. He goes on to say that the maintenance cost for his...

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FIRST HALIFAX FLEETLINES

J)ELIVERY was made recently to Halifax Passenger Transport of the first of seven Daimler Fleetline double-deckers—the first...

Big Belgian operator buys British

O NE of the most interesting passenger vehicle orders to be placed on the opening day of the Commercial Motor Show was for four...

Mini-show for coaches

A CHANCE to see the latest luxury coach ./ - 1. bodies from Duple and Plaxton and take them out on demonstration is once again...

SEEING HOW THE FRENCH DO IT

British engineers think Paris transport authorities could learn a lot from UK "T BELIEVE that the Regie Autonomes des...

Buses for Afghanistan

D UPLE MOTOR BODIES LTD. has received an order from Afghanistan for five 51 - seat service buses—the first from that province...

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IDEAS EXCHANGE

gEDDON Diesel Vehicles Ltd. of Oldham, Lancashire, manufacturers of Seddon commercial vehicles, and Klockner-HumbohDeutz. A.G.,...

Heavier Fords in 1967

NEXT year the Ford Motor Co. Ltd. will be 1 1 introducing goods chassis for operation at the latest maximum gross weights....

BTC SPEED DELIVERIES

A DDMONAL factory space amounting to 30,000 sq. ft. has been acquired by the British Trailer Co. Ltd. opposite its existing...

New brake units from Clayton Dewandre

A NEW triple-diaphragm lock actuator brake chamber and spring-brake actuator are being exhibited for the first time at Earls...

Minister impatient over braking standards delay

66T AM still not satisfied. We know the 1. public is expecting action on such vital matters as improved braking standards for...

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BRITISH VEHICLES: Opinions of Show visitors

By lain Sherriff, MITA C RMCAL comment on some aspects of the British motor industry is becoming a hardy annual at the...

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Moving Heaven and Earth

M ANY of the older school of hauliers prided themselves that they could move anything offered, quite often advertising the fact...

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Planning transportmen

must think anew By S. BUCKLEY, Assoc lust T T RANSPORT is an integral and vital part of urban planning. It is a key factor in...

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Wheel alignment

A N addition to the Hunter range of wheel alignment equipment marketed by Hill Equipment Ltd. is the Lite-a-Line 906-BTC, a...

Aluminium welding

A BOOK which exemplifies the most recent practices in the welding of aluminium is Alcan's Welding Aluminium— Manual TIG and...

Radio telephone

A MOBILE radio offering up to 12 channels has been introduced by Stomo Ltd. Known as the Stomophone 600, the new set is fully...

Quartz iodine lamps

Ar l additional range of quartz iodine fog and spot lamps has been introduced by Bosch Ltd., to meet market demand. The lamps...

Barrel transporter K NOWN as the Drum Master, a new barrel

transporter is offered by Powell and Co. which also acts as a lifter and mobile drain stand. One man can load and lift drums...

Electronic thermometer

T HE type T 105M Telemax electronic thermometer, made by Telemechanics Ltd., is a multi-position reading instrument intended...

Wheel balancer

APABLE of balancing wheels withi two minutes is the Bada M-60 who balancer from Grantham Rubber Machiner Co. Ltd. The accuracy...

Cartridge-loading grease gun

A CARTRIDGE-LOADING side-lev grease gun with an operating pressu of 8,000 lb. per sq. in. has been added the Swematic grease...

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n international flavour for 650 delegates at CM'S third conference, on September 22

NELEGATES and speakers at the third Fleet Management Conference, organized by COMMERCIAL MOTOR and held at London Hilton last...

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echnical interest s mainly nder the surface

THERE are four main sectors of interest on the chassis makers' stands at this year's Commercial Motor Show—new models, lew...

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without touching the ground

It's all done with Atkinsons—Bulk Fuel Transporters. You fill up at the Depot, drive off direct to your customer. Your...

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How to get free fuel for 4400 miles

a mockery of the whole braking regulations because if a chassis has an efficiency of only 50 per cent when empty it is going to...

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Competition Brings Quality

['TALKING around Earls Court after V V spending the weeks before the opening Ting to evaluate the standards of the equiplent...

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Emphasis on through transport

T ° quote the cost per ton mile of operating a vehicle only tells part of the transport story. The yardstick of transport...

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Era of the one-man bus

F OLLOWING the tentative foothold it gained at the last Commercial Motor Show, the single-decker bus designed for oneman...

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In Your Opinion

remendous gain' ?EEL I cannot leave this opportunity of thanking you for a most ellent Fleet Management Conference. I,...

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Testing equipment promineni

TRANSPORT SERVICE EQUIPMENT ON SHOW D URING the 24 months since the last Commercial Motor Show there has been a great deal of...

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Stocktaking time in the accessories field

LRC 50 air brake tester and the JAR rporter mobile tyre inflater. Boscombe Precision Engineering Co has wide range of space...

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THE CRUMBLING END

UCCESS stories are plentiful in the road transport industry. Unfortunately there are also some failures. The Board of 'rade's...

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Effective Planning

D ELEGATES attending another successful conference organized by the Institute of Transport at Oxford last weekend learnt of at...

Where's the Fire?

G OING a bit farther than from Pudding Corner to Pie Lane, or vice versa, a 1934 Dennis fire engine from P. A. Adorian's...

Light Lapping

N O expert in electrickery, I tend to lag behind in appreciation of the technical developments in vehicle lighting, and I...

Convincing the Hawk

T TRIED two cars in which four 51 in. quartz iodine headlamps 1. with sharp (European) cut-off were compared with (a) standard...

Bird's Eye View BY THE HAWK

scatter, the rectangular 80/60w. headlamps which Luc showed also looked more suitable for Continental than for systems....

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Effect of usage on cost

UFFICIENCY and productivity have been repeatedly stressed Li as necessary objectives in transport as in other industries if n...

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r"MONEY MATTERS',

Victory repeats 17i% VICTORY TRANSPORT announced that pre-tax profits for the year that terminated on June 30 amounted to...

REGIONAL STUDIES-NORTH SEA GAS AND THE LINCOLNSHIRE COAST

r HE economic finds of natural gas in the North Sea will have L a number of challenging repercussions. First, the country ill...