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31st January 1969
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Ministry in hot water

Criticisms of the haste with which the plating and testing scheme was introduced are shown by the report of the House of...

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A TASC force for transport

RTITB ACCEPTS THE CHALLENGE OF THE SMALL OPERATOR by John Darker • Training assistance to small companies is to be provided by...

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Testing scheme short of £2m watchdog MPs rap MoT

from our political correspondent • The Transport Ministry is strongly criticized by the all-party MPs' Estimates Committee in a...

Does 11 hours include 30 min.

rest? The Ministry can't say • The courts may have to decide whether the transport driver's 11-hour working day specified in...

Spring-brake Atlanteans for Sheffield and Teesside

• Forty Atlanteans with power steering, spring brakes and an exhaust brake have been ordered by Sheffield Corporation...

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Question 16 is causing trouble

BUT TEST STATION MANAGERS CAN UPRATE PLATED WEIGHTS by lain Sherriff • Some operators are imposing a restriction on their...

Firefighters to merge

• There have recently been reports that talks were going on between Tecalemit and Dennis Bros. Ltd. - which could lead to a...

Immense potential for 'unlicensed' smalls traffic

• A new express parcels service which began in .London's East End on January 1 has doubled its output in the first four weeks...

Jameson acquired

• An offer to acquire the whole of the issued share capital of A. C. Jameson (Transport) Ltd. and its associated companies J....

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Hauliers costs scheme launched

• Yesterday, Thursday, a pamphlet describing the joint cost and productivity scheme (CAPS) to be carried out on behalf of the...

Built-in container lifter

• The Edibrac equipment that enables . a vehicle to load or off-load its own container (CM December 6) was launched on the UK...

Vehicles must be taxed for test

• Goods vehicles must be taxed before they are submitted for Ministry of Transport testing, the Freight Transport Association...

FTA link with B R F

• The Freight Transport Association has become a member/ of the British Road Federation. The FTA will continue to deal...

Unregistered vehicles—simpler regs

• • Unregistered vehicles or vehicles not registered for a long time after manufacture must now, when used on roads, comply...

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York standardizes on TS suspension

• As from tomorrow York Trailer Co. Ltd. is to replace its trailers' TA suspension by the TS suspension introduced at the Show...

Court remits salary/levy case

• The Road Transport Industrial Board on Wednesday won a High Court appeal against an Industrial Tribunal ruling that a...

New Hants—Sussex ITA division?

• The national council of the 2,300-strong Industrial Transport Association agreed at its meeting on Saturday to consider...

Scots removers bought

• Giltspur Investments Ltd. announced this week that it had acquired F.E.D.S. (Removers) Ltd. of Glasgow through its transport...

ITA exams

• The Industrial Transport Association this week issued its timetable for the 1969 examinations. They will be held from the...

Container partnership extended

• Containerway dnd Roadferry Ltd., which forms part of the Roadferry European partnership which was set up two years ago to...

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by Roger Howell and Carolyn Hyams

Caravans in containers DISCUSSION with manufacturers regarding the problems of exporting caravans led Peak Trailers Ltd. of...

Test on freight container docks in FinPly

PLYWOOD has been extensively employed in the manufacture of U.K. freight containers—in 6+ and 9mm thickness for linings and in...

New container ships for Irish Sea route

TWO new cellular container ships have been ordered by British Railways from the Verolme Cork Dockyard Ltd., Cobh, the first of...

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Bleak prospect for Hull transport

• Members of Hull's transport committee at their meeting on Friday (January 24) discussed the finances of the undertaking which...

Leeds extends o-m-o system

• On January 19 Leeds City Transport introduced one-man operation on five more bus services, employing dual-entrance...

North East strike threat

• Strike action is again threatened by bus inspectors and depot clerical staffs employed by four municipal bus undertakings in...

Good year for Bristol

• Two orders valued at over firn completed a successful year for Bristol Commercial Vehicles Ltd., whose sales in 1968 exceeded...

Joint brochure from NBC operators

• For the first time the Swansea-based South Wales Transport Co. Ltd. and United Welsh Services Ltd.—both now members of the...

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Business as usual says Devon General chairman

• Mr. J. T. E. Robinson, new chairman of the Devon General Omnibus and Touring Co. Ltd., has given an assurance that Devon...

New buses new depot

• Sixteen, 3611. single-deck bodies have been ordered from Eastern Coach Works by Leicester City Transport to fit chassis...

London independent introduces new service

• Golden Miller Services of Feltham, Middlesex, operating stage carriage services in the London Transport monopoly area,...

Daimlers for large o-m-o expansion

• Daimler Transport Vehicles Ltd, has announced bus chassis orders to a value of over £500,000. The largest individual order...

Higher p.s.v. fees Tories to act

• In a statement opposing the increased p.s.v. fees which come into effect tomorrow (February 1—CM last week), the Passenger...

Teesside cheap fares

• The Northern Area LA has approved the introduction of cheap fares for pensioners at off-peak periods on Teeside Corporation's...

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Orders made for first PTAs

• Orders designating the first four Passenger Transport Areas under the Transport Act 1968 have now been made by Mr. Richard...

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BR objections fail

• Despite objections by British Railways and BRS Ltd. before the Scottish LA at Aberdeen on Friday of last week, Mr. William W....

Hours convictions quashed

• Convictions against haulage contractors Cawthorn and Sinclair Ltd., of Birtley, Co. Durham, on three offences of permitting...

Extra licence for haulier

• An additional B licence was granted by Mr. L A. wells, the Scottish LA, to Robert W. Grant. a Blairgowrie haulage contractor,...

Could you write about transport?

Have you a sound knowledge of road goods transport and an interest in writing? Then you may be just the person Commercial Motor...

RHA annual dinner

• Principal guest at the Road Haulage Association's annual dinner at Grosvenor House on May 13 is to be the Minister of...

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Police persecution alleged

• Baulds Transport Ltd. of Gretna Junction, Cinnberland, applied unsuccessfully to the Northern LA, Mr. J. A. T. Hanlon, in...

Hanson: no revocation, High Court told

• The Yorkshire Licensing Authority will take no further action in revoking the B licence for 75 tippers granted to R. Hanson...

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Mr. S. L. Kohn, a director of Mouget, said that

with the nationalization of steel more inter-works traffic was required and he felt a B licence would put it completely within...

ITA president to retire

Lord Wakefield of Kendal who has been president of the Industrial Transport Association since 1952 has advised the...

Sir George Harriman, president of British Leyland Motor Corporation Ltd., is retiring from the British National Export Council.

I. Bramley has been elected chairman on the Mansfield sub-area of the RHA: G. R. Hill is vicechairman and A. H. Bradley...

Leeds retains 2d minimum

• Even though Leeds City Transport will have an estimated deficit of £559,000 at the end of the financial year on March 31,...

OBITUARY

We record with regret the deaths of Bill Clarke and Alexander Laidlaw. Mr. Clarke. 58. who lived in Rushden, Northants, a...

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Ducted saloon heating for new ambulance

• Ducted saloon heating by KL Automotive Products is featured in a new wheelchair/ general-purpose ambulance which has been...

Owen Organisation at Belgrade

• The Owen Organisation will be showing a range of its products for the first time at the Belgrade Show which opens on April...

Unladen weight

• In a news item on Page 31 of the January 17, 1969, issue of Commercia/Motor, "Propane cooling for palletized Loads", the...

Castors for containers

• Rubber-tyred 8in. diameter castors that can be attached to containers so that they can be moved around by one man without the...

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Ti/-Dyne British-built rotary engine

• Three inter-engaging rotors having parallel axes are a feature of a simple type of rotary gasoline engine developed and built...

Road noise conference

• Minister of Transport Mr. Richard Marsh is to open a four-day conference on road noise and environmental planning which...

IMI Summer School

• At Queens' College, Cambridge. the 23rd annual Summer School of the Institute of the Motor Industry will be held from August...

Road and workshop

Manpower, maintenance and the MoT (29) by Handyman It may be a little difficult to connect untidy sheeting and roping with...

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Bird's eye view

* Beneath the palms People in Britain might grouse about their passenger services, but where there are standards to be set up...

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roll-over can be caused by going too slowly

STARTLING RESEARCH ON HEAVY-TRUCK STABILITY ROLL-OVER of big trucks is not so often due to cornering at too high a speed as...

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roll-over can be caused by going too slowly

continued The front wheels of a truck usually bear a relatively small proportion of the load's weight, an,d so the front...

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Road transport, thy name is is

by Frank Burravoe versatility AN ANALYSIS of the 46 goods vehicle licensing appeals decided by the Transport Tribunal through...

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Veteran lorry parade

Janus comments NO REPORTS have so far been received of prohibitions on the use of vehicles following a visit to a testing...

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Mercedes-Benz LP 1923/

Eylert 38-ton-gross outfit test by A. J. P. Wilding, MIMechE, MIRTE SINCE MAJOR changes in regulations started taking place...

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Work Study the tool for the job

I referred in a recent Management Matters (CM January 17) to the contribution that work study could make across the whole field...

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Q We sometimes use a 15cwt Ford dual-purpose vehicle for

the carriage of goods.. wooden skips. Is there any regulation which states that the goods must not be stacked higher than the...

Q I run a num ber of petrol-engineddelivery vans, the

engines of which have a compression ratio of 8.5 to 7. Fora time operated two of the vehicles on commercial grade (91 octane)...

Now that the British Electric Traction group of bus companies

has been absorbed into the State-controlled National Bus Company, will this mean the end of the standard BET-style single-deck...

• Do you know of any publications or road maps

giving details of bridge clearance heights and bridge weight limits on a country-wide basis? As timber merchants our vehicles...

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Something definite in transport lecturer training

After presenting an optimistic picture about the progress of education and training in road transport—especially about...

ERA 7HE

BY LES OLDRIDGE, A.I.R.T.E„ Lighting (3) NO VEHICLE may show a red light to the front or any light to the rear except a red...